Rob and Spydro's Top 5

[Spydro]

Have a couple of new combo contenders for a "top" list in a small package: a Pico paired with an Avo G and a Pico paired with a Serpent Mini 22. The Pico's won me over immediately for my wee hours of the night errand runs. So did the Avo G's on them and 24's on the dual batt mods. The Avo's are my favorite tanks for the TC mods. The SM22 was a fail at first due to leaking, but acquiring a stock of Cotton Bacon V2 fixed that.

The Pico/SM22 runs one of my favorite DIY's exceptionally well, maybe even well enough to unseat the Reos I normally run it in.

The king of the Pico/Avo G's is the black on black that runs quad coils at 0.15Ω. The ramp up is quite slow on the first pull or so, but my long slow lung hits gets it up to speed. It shines after that for a few pulls. The build uses up joose and VTC5A batts pretty fast, but not so fast that I can't use it for the shorter errand runs just tossed in a shirt pocket.

Made some pictures of the combo and build...



The Pico Squad on line...

 

[Rob Fisher]

Oh Wow... @kev mac asked me to name some of my top favourite vaping devices and I found this old thread and I see not one of my previous top 5 make the grade anymore!

Top RDA is the Hadaly both as a dripper and as a BF Atty on my Hellfire Shadow which is my favourite Squonker.

Top RTA is the Skyline.
Favourite Mod is the Hellfire Phantom.

Top RDTA is the NarTa but I think that is until I manage to get a NarBa which is very similar but with design changes that only make it better!

Favourite all around vaping device is the Billet Box with an Exocet RTA.

 

[kev mac]

Have a couple of new combo contenders for a "top" list in a small package: a Pico paired with an Avo G and a Pico paired with a Serpent Mini 22. The Pico's won me over immediately for my wee hours of the night errand runs. So did the Avo G's on them and 24's on the dual batt mods. The Avo's are my favorite tanks for the TC mods. The SM22 was a fail at first due to leaking, but acquiring a stock of Cotton Bacon V2 fixed that.

The Pico/SM22 runs one of my favorite DIY's exceptionally well, maybe even well enough to unseat the Reos I normally run it in.

The king of the Pico/Avo G's is the black on black that runs quad coils at 0.15Ω. The ramp up is quite slow on the first pull or so, but my long slow lung hits gets it up to speed. It shines after that for a few pulls. The build uses up joose and VTC5A batts pretty fast, but not so fast that I can't use it for the shorter errand runs just tossed in a shirt pocket.

Made some pictures of the combo and build...

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The Pico Squad on line...

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I guess you do love your Pico! Not to mention Avos

 

[kev mac]

Oh Wow... @kev mac asked me to name some of my top favourite vaping devices and I found this old thread and I see not one of my previous top 5 make the grade anymore!

Top RDA is the Hadaly both as a dripper and as a BF Atty on my Hellfire Shadow which is my favourite Squonker.
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Top RTA is the Skyline.
Favourite Mod is the Hellfire Phantom.
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Top RDTA is the NarTa but I think that is until I manage to get a NarBa which is very similar but with design changes that only make it better!
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Favourite all around vaping device is the Billet Box with an Exocet RTA.
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Thanks,that is an all star lineup in anyone's ball park!

 

[Rob Fisher]

I guess you do love your Pico!

I actually do love my Pico @kev mac! I have had a few Pico's and every-time I have had one a friend who needed a new mod or needed to be converted from Stinkies has taken it... The Pico still has to be one of the best value for money mods known to man!

 

[Silver]

Awesome @Rob Fisher !!!
Looks super -

Who would have thought the Reo would drop off the list!!! ?

 

[kev mac]

I actually do love my Pico @kev mac! I have had a few Pico's and every-time I have had one a friend who needed a new mod or needed to be converted from Stinkies has taken it... The Pico still has to be one of the best value for money mods known to man!

Right you are, I have all the single cell mods I need but if I ever need another or as you said wanted to help convert a friend trying to quit smoking the Pico is a no brainier all the way.

 

[Rob Fisher]

Awesome @Rob Fisher !!!
Looks super -

Who would have thought the Reo would drop off the list!!! ?

Yip... real sad... but I no longer MTL nor do I use Tropical Ice much anymore... it's pretty much XXX 24/7 and I never ever got XXX to taste right in a REO. The best vape I get out of XXX on a Squonker is the Hellfire Shadow with Hadaly on top!

 

[Christos]

My only complaint with a reo or any bf mod for that matter is squonking and driving at night.
Still can't do it and focus on the road without getting juice to come out the airhole.

This is why I own tanks and use them mostly for driving.

 

[Spydro]

My only complaint with a reo or any bf mod for that matter is squonking and driving at night.
Still can't do it and focus on the road without getting juice to come out the airhole.

This is why I own tanks and use them mostly for driving.

Yeah but squonking while driving at night is far easier than dripping at night.

Squonking on a Reo is a memory thing... acquiring the memory for how often and how much each different type of Bf atty you squonk on them wants. I have a hellofalotof different bf atty's, but once each is learned it's not forgotten. Was much easier for me I suppose when all I vaped for a long time was Reos.

 

[Petrus]

My only complaint with a reo or any bf mod for that matter is squonking and driving at night.
Still can't do it and focus on the road without getting juice to come out the airhole.

This is why I own tanks and use them mostly for driving.

At night you must squonk gentle @Christos

 

[kev mac]

Have a couple of new combo contenders for a "top" list in a small package: a Pico paired with an Avo G and a Pico paired with a Serpent Mini 22. The Pico's won me over immediately for my wee hours of the night errand runs. So did the Avo G's on them and 24's on the dual batt mods. The Avo's are my favorite tanks for the TC mods. The SM22 was a fail at first due to leaking, but acquiring a stock of Cotton Bacon V2 fixed that.

The Pico/SM22 runs one of my favorite DIY's exceptionally well, maybe even well enough to unseat the Reos I normally run it in.

The king of the Pico/Avo G's is the black on black that runs quad coils at 0.15Ω. The ramp up is quite slow on the first pull or so, but my long slow lung hits gets it up to speed. It shines after that for a few pulls. The build uses up joose and VTC5A batts pretty fast, but not so fast that I can't use it for the shorter errand runs just tossed in a shirt pocket.

Made some pictures of the combo and build...

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The Pico Squad on line...

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@Spydro , interesting build that quad ,how does it vape?Does it get warm?

 

[Spydro]

@Spydro , interesting build that quad ,how does it vape?Does it get warm?

The quad build vapes the DIY's I've use in it just fine. To me a warm or hot vape is mostly a product of the build & number of puff counts within a specific time margin (although the joose itself can also add a couple of factors). So yes the quad build could easily become a hot vape if chain vaped. But I usually don't chain vape more than 3 to 4 pulls on any of my setups (number of pulls depend on how fast the build gets up to speed and the intensity of my DIY being vaped). "Usually" because with some of my builds/DIY's I could "almost" chain vape them constantly without degrading the experience. For example, with how I have all four of my Reo P67's set up with dual coil built Kryten's for the DIY's I am running in them I can almost chain vape them constantly except to pause to squonk them as needed. Eventually even the Kryten's would get too warm and start to degrade the vape though. But these setups are the smoothest, most balanced flavor vapes I have ever enjoyed with these four DIY's on any gear. So nice that 2 or 3 of them are included in every one of my rotations of 4-5-6 setups vaped together now days. It is turning these 4 DIY's into true ADV DIY's, and the Reo P67's back to the true ADG again they used to be before the TC mod caused hiatus since I came to this forum. I do like most of my TC mods, but only a few specific ones of the RDA's, RDTA's, RTA's bought for them are still in service. They back up the Reos acceptably, so will stay in use. But I am also digging out old mech gear again that has not been used for years to try some of the newer tricks on that I've learned since the days they were my ADG. So there will be some old mods under newer atty's, and older atty's on newer mods tried out, and many with totally different builds than normally ran in them. It will add to my vaping knowledge data base, and that is always a win. I might also revive some of my old DIY's as well that had promise to try them on the newer gear. Some that didn't make the grade on gear 3-4 years ago might on the newer gear with the newer tricks learned. Something new to play around with anyway.

 

[kev mac]

The quad build vapes the DIY's I've use in it just fine. To me a warm or hot vape is mostly a product of the build & number of puff counts within a specific time margin (although the joose itself can also add a couple of factors). So yes the quad build could easily become a hot vape if chain vaped. But I usually don't chain vape more than 3 to 4 pulls on any of my setups (number of pulls depend on how fast the build gets up to speed and the intensity of my DIY being vaped). "Usually" because with some of my builds/DIY's I could "almost" chain vape them constantly without degrading the experience. For example, with how I have all four of my Reo P67's set up with dual coil built Kryten's for the DIY's I am running in them I can almost chain vape them constantly except to pause to squonk them as needed. Eventually even the Kryten's would get too warm and start to degrade the vape though. But these setups are the smoothest, most balanced flavor vapes I have ever enjoyed with these four DIY's on any gear. So nice that 2 or 3 of them are included in every one of my rotations of 4-5-6 setups vaped together now days. It is turning these 4 DIY's into true ADV DIY's, and the Reo P67's back to the true ADG again they used to be before the TC mod caused hiatus since I came to this forum. I do like most of my TC mods, but only a few specific ones of the RDA's, RDTA's, RTA's bought for them are still in service. They back up the Reos acceptably, so will stay in use. But I am also digging out old mech gear again that has not been used for years to try some of the newer tricks on that I've learned since the days they were my ADG. So there will be some old mods under newer atty's, and older atty's on newer mods tried out, and many with totally different builds than normally ran in them. It will add to my vaping knowledge data base, and that is always a win. I might also revive some of my old DIY's as well that had promise to try them on the newer gear. Some that didn't make the grade on gear 3-4 years ago might on the newer gear with the newer tricks learned. Something new to play around with anyway.

You certainly have thought these things through,and that's totally cool, I just thought the quad looked so bad ass! Happy vapeing!

 

[Spydro]

Oh Wow... @kev mac asked me to name some of my top favourite vaping devices and I found this old thread and I see not one of my previous top 5 make the grade anymore!

Top RDA is the Hadaly both as a dripper and as a BF Atty on my Hellfire Shadow which is my favourite Squonker.
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Top RTA is the Skyline.
Favourite Mod is the Hellfire Phantom.
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Top RDTA is the NarTa but I think that is until I manage to get a NarBa which is very similar but with design changes that only make it better!
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Favourite all around vaping device is the Billet Box with an Exocet RTA.
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My favorite of these is the Hellfire Shadow, but I'd have a Kryten on it instead. I do love my Hadaly's as drippers on the Pico's/reg mods, but they don't squonk my DIY VG joose worth a damn.

You've been so over taken by the BB's of late (favorites), and have way too much other HE gear on hand as well.

So me thinks you ought to let me help you out by selling the Shadow to me.

 

[Rob Fisher]

My favorite of these is the Hellfire Shadow, but I'd have a Kryten on it instead. I do love my Hadaly's as drippers on the Pico's/reg mods, but they don't squonk my DIY VG joose worth a damn.

You've been so over taken by the BB's of late (favorites), and have way too much other HE gear on hand as well.

So me thinks you ought to let me help you out by selling the Shadow to me.

Mmmmm will try the Kryten on it....

 

[Spydro]

Mmmmm will try the Kryten on it....

Inbound coming your way...