Teleos Haul

On By michaelvaporsIn eLiquid
Teleos Haul @ 0mg

One of my favorite eLiquids, Teleos has always been a top tier player in the boutique eLiquid game. At their peak, they had the best Cereal and Milk flavors out there and today and they still do. Too bad they closed shop but not for us always looking for a bargain. Not sure about the Euro market, but all of the remaining stock I could find is being blown out by liquidation sales on the web. I found these 0mg delights quite by accident. All I can says is that I feel lucky. Go and find yourself some if you still can and good luck. It’s worth the hunt.

Teleos eLiquid Descriptions:

“Bits E-Juice by Teleos is an exceedingly mouthwatering cereal blend that is as well balanced as it is incredibly robust. This masterpiece very precisely delivers the familiar taste of your favorite “charmed” cereal. Complete with the various tiny marshmallows, this taste is then enhanced with a glass of ice-cold milk for a smooth and velvety finish.

Experiment Two E-Juice by Teleos takes their celebrated Experiment One profile to new heights. It begins with a bowl of your favorite sweetened puffed corn cereal, which is swimming in a bowl of ice-cold milk. It is then enhanced with a hint of creamy vanilla pudding before being graced with undertones of mango and lime.

Alpha E-Juice by Cloud Science is a smooth, sweet, and genuinely delicious blend that delivers various notes with every draw. Similar to cotton candy, this gem offers strawberry-infused sugar top-notes, while the undertones of berries and various rich creams rounds off the velvety exhale masterfully. You will be impressed with the multi-layered profile Alpha affords, making it a pure joy to vape throughout the day.

Boo E-Juice by Teleos flawlessly delivers the memorable taste of your favorite berry crunch cereal. This lip-smacking e-liquid affords a multifaceted flavor experience, with eat note perfectly complementing the others. Upon inhale, your tongue will be graced with the sweet and delectable taste of crunch berry cereal, enhanced with hints of marshmallow. The exhale reveals rich and creamy milk, topped off with the ideal amount of mountain-fresh blueberries.

Pound Cake E-Juice by Teleos is one of the most deliciously-flavorful blends on the market today. This jewel begins with a freshly-baked lemon pound cake that affords the ideal amount of sweetened lemon flavor. It is then coated with a generous portion of gooey frosting, providing for an unequivocally lip-smacking exhale that will have you begging for more.

Delta E-Juice by Cloud Science is a smooth, sweet, and absolutely mouthwatering flavor that is unlike anything you have ever tried. The best way to describe this exclusive concoction is a fruit cobbler, but without the pastry. Mountain-fresh blueberries are mixed with juicy acai berries and plump nectarines, then mixed with raw sugar. It is then reduced down to a delicious filling, tying all of the sweet notes together magnificently.”

Down The Boro Rabbit Hole

On By michaelvaporsIn Hardware
Mainstream Boro Box Collection

I decided to get into the boro game in January of this year with the VandyVape Pulse AIO but did not post, my bad. The AIO or All In One is a good thing and became popular with the invention of the Billet Box at the end of 2012. There are a few things I dont care for with an AIO set up. The atty’s are small and dont give a lot of airflow in general because they were initially designed for MTL draws. I prefer RDL or DL draws. Condensation… the atty is enclosed in a box and unless you draw out all the air after you take every normal draw there will be condensation created in the boro tank area and its can become a constant mess making you remove the tank and cleaning out the tank space, doors and inner space. In other words, they need constant cleaning. On the other had, flavor is generally good because of the small chambers that surround the coil. Most boro device dont give more than 80 watts. This is because most of the rba’s are built using small single coils. Accessories are king in this game sometimes costing more than the device itself. Everything beyond what you get from the manufacturer is custom made.

Things have changed, more airflow is trending. The tanks the rba’s fit in generally hold 2-4ml of eLiquid. The Stubby comes with a 9ml tank! The AIO Abyss mod (not pictured) is not only a boro mod but also a SBS or Side by Side mod. Search the blog for pics.

Dont get me wrong, the AIO is a good design but it is a niche design and not for everyone because of its fiddly nature.

Modern mainstream boro devices usually come with whats called a bridge. The bridge will adapt plug and play pre made coils, but not every one of them. Plug and play coils have been used by the masses for a long time in pods and pod mods and are very convenient if you dont want to build and install your own coils. I find them to be easier to work with and more consistent than RBA’s. They do cost more over time than building your own.

If you do decide to go down the boro rabbit hole, be ready for frustration and a learning curve. If you can get over those two things then you will be surprised how fun and good they can be.

Stubby In The House!

On By michaelvaporsIn Hand Check, Hardware
Stubby Tank 9ml !
The Purple People Eater

Wow! so stoked and surprised it #1480 came in 9/3. Kudos to Sam Bogen, Suicide and Orca for coming up with a game changing boro device and the tank ain’t bad either. I like the RDL draw and holding that/so much eLiquid is amazing although I change flavors a lot so I am only filling it up about half way. No dry hits so far and the the draw is perfect for me. I appreciate that the Bogan youtube video and availability deployed at the same time. There is nothing worse than watching a review video, deciding you want one and not being able to get the product right away. Bravo and Cheers!

VM 18 On The Way

On By michaelvaporsIn Hardware
VM 18

Acquired one of the last of the Vaporesso VM tanks available to me via Element Vape is on the way. Even Vaporesso itself was sold out. This tank uses the venerable EUC ceramic coils which are arguably one of the best pre-made sub-ohm coils out there for flavor and longevity. The decision was made because of the current cost, availability and selection of simple bridges for Boro style tanks. We will see how this goes. More later.

SXmini SL Class V2 In The House!

On By michaelvaporsIn Hand Check, Hardware, What I’m Vaping Today
SXmini SL Class V2 in Gunmetal Tang

Just in today! Temp control is spot on and the chip is SUPER fast as usual. Good materials and excellent build quality. Interesting temp control variations but I still don’t like the joystick navigation. The only thing the joystick does well is take up less space on the faceplate. Love the form factor. Glad to see YiHi is going back to their roots as they have not produced a new SL class in around six years. Highly recommended.

The Current Collection

Update: the interesting thing is that you cannot just adjust voltage like a “normal” voltage override mode without the chip doing its calculation on the resistance of the current coil, the battery level and the average room temperature setting. They call it “Intelligent VV”, It appears to always give you the safest setting it thinks is best by leveraging battery efficiency. You cannot override the coil resistance sensitivity and of course the chip sensing the battery level. You can manually adjust the resistance and lock the resistance. With the few atty’s I have tried, the chip takes over the computation of what it thinks is best. I have yet to see more than 6V applied. It will reach 100W shown but always adjusts voltage to achieve that setting. Also, it appears that the curves function is always on, there is no bypass for curves. You either run flat or pick the levels of heat they have picked for you. Where this chip shines is in TC and speed. In TC mode you can go in and adjust voltage and temp but you cannot override the sensing to go over what it thinks is safe for the coil read. It also has an average room temp adjustment which I think also adds to its equation on safety. In other words they have broken down the settings for manually tweaking into 5 presets making the choices easier for the “average” user. Making safety as the top priority. You can go into EQ mod and adjust each line in a graph for a percentage of temperature but I doubt anyone will tweak at this level as it takes so much time to do this which each coil you attach. One other thing is the manual says in the Menu Tweaks menu, there is a setting for Auto Watt when in fact the menu reads Auto Power. This would indicate to me that the manual was written and printed before they made a firmware update. The manual does not mention what Auto Watt/Power is for and what it does. Still trying to figure that out. If anyone knows, please let me know.

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Regulation Happens… To Synthetic Nicotine

On By michaelvaporsIn Vaping Industry

Newer Five Pawns synthetic nicotine flavors

I have never tried synthetic nic. I never wanted to, but for those who do, there is trouble ahead. Even Five Pawns switched to synthetic nic. Here is breakdown from the National Law Review by Azim Chowdhury.

“FDA Receives Authorization to Regulate Synthetic Nicotine
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
On March 15, President Joe Biden signed a $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill to fund the federal government through September. The bill, as passed, includes a provision amending the definition of “tobacco product” in Section 201(rr) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (“FDCA”) as “any product made or derived from tobacco, or containing nicotine from any source, that is intended for human consumption.” 21 U.S.C. 321(rr). Now that it is law, this provision closes the synthetic nicotine “loophole” and puts synthetic nicotine products under the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) tobacco regulatory authority.

The law will become effective 30 days after the bill’s enactment, i.e., on April 14, 2022 (“Effective Date”). Any synthetic nicotine product currently on the U.S. market as of April 14, 2022, can remain on the market for an additional 30 days until May 14, 2022 (the “Synthetic Nicotine PMTA Submission Deadline”). Manufacturers of synthetic nicotine products wishing to take advantage of FDA’s compliance policy and enforcement discretion after that date must submit a premarket tobacco product application (PMTA) to FDA by the enforcement date. If a PMTA is submitted in a timely manner, the product(s) may remain on the market for an additional 90 days after the effective date, i.e., until July 13, 2022. After July 13, 2022, any synthetic nicotine product not authorized by FDA must come off the market.

EVENT DATE NOTES
Bill Enactment March 15, 2022
Effective Date April 14, 2022
Deadline for any new* synthetic nicotine products to enter the market

Deadline for modified synthetic nicotine products to remain on the market

Synthetic Nicotine PMTA Submission Deadline May 14, 2022 (Saturday)
Deadline for submitting PMTAs for all synthetic nicotine products on the U.S. market as of the Effective Date
Final date July 13, 2022 (Wednesday) Deadline for unauthorized synthetic nicotine products to remain on the U.S. market
Notably, under the provision, a synthetic version of an existing nicotine product that went through the PMTA process and is now subject to a Refuse-to-Accept (RTA), Refuse-to-File (RTF), Marketing Denial Order (MDO), or withdrawal of a marketing order may not be marketed beyond the effective date, i.e., April 14, 2022. In other words, products originally formulated with tobacco-derived nicotine that were refused or denied authorization by FDA, then modified to use synthetic nicotine instead (and that is the only modification), will effectively be banned on April 13, 2022. Manufacturers of these products will not be given an opportunity to submit a new PMTA. This appears to be Congress’s way of doubling down on products that, in Congress’ view, switched to synthetic nicotine to get around the PMTA process.

Beyond the PMTA submission requirement, manufacturers of synthetic nicotine products will be subject to all requirements of regulations for tobacco products. This likely includes all other Tobacco Control Act requirements, including tobacco product establishment registration and product listing; ingredient listing; label compliance; and health document submissions, among others. We anticipate that FDA will provide guidance on deadlines for these requirements in the near future.”

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/fda-receives-authorization-to-regulate-synthetic-nicotine