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Comment by Doctor Vapor on February 8, 2010 at 6:14pm

Dripping with a 510 is problematic to begin with. It’s not the SB that’s the problem, it’s the atty. To prevent spillage, I suggest limiting your drips to 3 drops. This should give you about the same time vaping as it takes to smoke an analog and you won’t get the spill. When your juice tastes hot or has an off flavor, drip another 3 drops and you’ll be ready to go again. Most people who drip (myself included) drip too much into the atty. I got the above info from some people who have been vaping much longer than I and it works great.

As for your flavor problem, flavor comes from the juice and the atty, not the battery pack. The SB is a tube, a battery, and a switch, it has nothing to do with flavor. If you’re making the move from a regular 510 battery to 3.7v or 6v vaping, you will notice a flavor difference because the atty performs differently at those voltages than it does with a 2.7 battery. You will find that some juices taste better at different voltages and you will need to use the right voltage to bring out the best in your juice and your atty.

Comment by The Amazing Sammy on February 8, 2010 at 5:38pm

Hey Doc,

I'm digging the silver bullet. It's a quirky little machine, but they all seem to be. Dripping with 510 attys on it is problematic though. The thinner juice I use goes everywhere. Using PTB or foam gets a harder hit, but it's not as full a flavor. Going to have to look into the 306, sounds like that's the ticket.

Comment by Doctor Vapor on February 8, 2010 at 3:07pm

Dude, you're gonna love that SB. Its my "goto" PV. I use mine about 99% of the time. Let me also suggest trying another atty, the "Joye 306". The 306 fits a 510 connector but vapes much better. It has a raised bridge like a 901 and it out performs a 510 atty hands down. However, only get these if you drip. There are carts you can get for them, but from what I hear they aren't worth getting. You can get them from Jason over at Electro-Nic-Stick. www dot electronicstick dot com (seems I can't post a link here)

there is very good video review of the 306 at Nu-Vapor dot com in the video review section. Check it out. I love these attys, I plan on replacing all my 510s with 306s.

Comment by The Amazing Sammy on February 5, 2010 at 10:16am

I know the feeling. Just got my silver bullet yesterday. It's consistently good. Very surprising vape.

Comment by Doctor Vapor on February 5, 2010 at 1:35am

yeah..it may be a couple weeks. I like to use something a while before i reveiw it.

Comment by The Amazing Sammy on February 4, 2010 at 4:41pm

Wow. That's pretty exciting. Can we look forward to another awesome review video on youtube?

Comment by Doctor Vapor on February 4, 2010 at 4:30pm

Good luck with that atty bro. I really hope you get it off the ground as the vaping community needs a new atty design desperatly. As for cleaning, well....I rarely clean mine..some I don't clean at all and they still work fine and I've found they last longer if i dont' clean them.

As for your atty being contained. Don't worry about it. If you make an atty that will last 6 months and delivers flavor, don't worry about it being contained. Just use it till it dies and replace it. I know lots of people who would jump all over an atty like that.

BTW, my Juice Box came in the mail today 2/4/2010. I ordered it on 12/1/2009 and it was worth the wait. I've never gotten more flavor out of any other PV and its all because of the custom atty that Carlos builds into the unit. Another thing, the Juice Box delivers more nic too. I got a head rush off 12mg juice. No Kidding. I may need to cut my nic content down to 6mg.

Comment by The Amazing Sammy on February 3, 2010 at 1:08pm

Doctor Vapor! This is indeed an honor. Your videos are awesome. I sincerely enjoy them. I've got really ugly concept piece on my desk that works. Tested it yesterday. It's a little harsh at 24mg because it rewrites the voltage table, but it's functional.

I don't know how long it'll hold up, but it should hold for quite awhile. Concept is painfully simple, but I need to work on airflow if I want to make it work on auto batteries. Might also have someone who can work as an OEM (yes, a domestic oem, heh heh, I was thinkin), if they don't think I'm crazy. They might.

Only problem with this thing that I've come up with is cleaning it. It's totally enclosed, capsule like. Some of the thicker juices will stick to the inside.

As for planned obsolescence, well, I work in computers for my day job. I see it all the time. In most other industries I would agree with you. But to borrow one of your metaphors and run it into the ground, Chevy made cars and trucks that were indestructible for decades and never had trouble selling them.

Even now, you can buy a 1973 GTO with all original parts, that runs as smoothly now as it did off the factory floor. I drove just such a vehicle the other day. My boss collects classic cars. Anyway, this one is built like a damn tank. I know atomizers are smaller, so obviously they're going to be easier to break than a GTO, but I think the same concept should hold true.

Vapers are a silly bunch. They don't buy just what they need with this stuff. They buy things for cool value. I've even seen people go so far as to buy one of every high end model they can find, not because they need it, but because it looks cool on the web. Can't blame them either. That's why I bought a 510, and now a silver bullet, soon a juicebox, then a chuck, and the list goes on. If somebody came up with something that had enough cool to it, the existing vapers would buy it. Furthermore, vapers are always proselatizing, bringing in converts, showing smokers the light. As it stands right now, it would take what, a year or so for total saturation of the market? I could build newer cooler stuff in a year, probably a lot of it.

It's all hypothetical, at the moment anyway.

Comment by Doctor Vapor on February 3, 2010 at 11:18am

Great post bro. There are many people who have been promoting the idea of a better atty for some time now. However, the only person to have put this into production has been Carlos with his "Juice Box". The prototype atty he built for that unit lasted a little over 6 months with constant everyday use. Now it would take someone with far more electrical knowledge than I to actually manufacture this, but I know enough to know it isn't rocket science either.
In the real world, there has to be some planned obsolescence or the product wouldn’t be worth bringing to market. If one made an atty that lasted forever and never burned out, the person that made it would have no business after the first few months. However, an atty that lasted 6 months or so has already been made and is available, but only in one product. The trick is to be able to mass produce something similar and get it to market in a from where it would work with most popular battery connectors such as an 801, 901 or 510.