The First Vape
There’s only a couple of other things you need to / should know before you start vaping :
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How to lock and unlock the Royal 30 : Fortunately, the same
method is used by all e-cig manufacturers everywhere, it’s one of the few things that is truly universal about them. So, 5 fast clicks on the fire button
locks or unlocks your e-cig. Each time you lock or unlock the e-cig, the fire button will flash to indicate that it has either locked or unlocked itself
[depending on which one you wanted to do].
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Another of those rare universal features is the “Low Atomiser / Check Atomiser / Short Circuit /
Wiring Short” warning. If the fire button flashes 3 times and any of those messages appears on your LED screen, you need to replace the coil. If your
e-cig doesn’t have an LED screen, the fire button will flash 3 times and the unit won’t work, indicating the same problem. It may be that you have just
put a new coil in the unit when this happens. Before you throw the offending coil away, check that the coil is screwed tightly into the base and then the
top cap : check it’s making a good connection with the battery. If that doesn’t fix it, you’ll most likely need to replace the coil. Unfortunately, there is
no way to tell if a coil is faulty just by looking at it, unless there’s some obvious major defect, like it’s got no organic cotton in it . . . I’ve only ever seen
that once . . . Hmmmmm
So that’s pretty much it . . . To crank her up, hold down the fire button as you begin to inhale, continue to hold the fire button down until you finish
inhaling, at which point, you release the fire button . . . . . . . Let’s thank Captain Obvious for that last enlightening statement . . .
Yeah . . . whether you are a mouth to lung vaper or a direct to lung vaper, even if you’re not sure yet what your style is [will be] the Royal 30 works
beautifully used either way. Generally speaking, sub ohm gear is normally reserved for direct to lung vapers, people with crap lungs like mine never
got to play with sub ohm toys because they’re just too powerful for our lungs. I end up coughing with every draw : it’s a crap way to vape.
But I’ve found my sub ohm soul mate in the Royal 30 : it understands my lungs and treats them with respect and enough power to bring out the hidden
notes in some of my favourite flavours without choking me . . . . . all the while throwing out
uber
clouds of vapor.
Adjusting the Air Flow
The Air Flow adjustment is located in the Top Cap : it controls the draw on your e-cig and how much vapor it produces.
Increasing the amount of air coming in [exposing more of the vent holes] will give you a light, easy draw and more vapor, whereas closing off the air
flow [covering the vent holes] will make the draw tighter and less vapor is produced.
To adjust the Air Flow, rotate the Air Flow Control Ring to expose more of the vent or less as suits you best.
Air flow also plays a part in the nicotine hit and flavour you experience when vaping.
More air flow, as we’ve already seen, produces more vapor. Taking it one step further, we can see that : more vapor = more nicotine carried in the
vapor produced = more nicotine available to be absorbed by the body = a larger nicotine hit. There’s probably some really long scientific reason why
this happens . . . I just think it’s a neat side effect. . . . And
‘No’
, the vapor you exhale contains nicotine particles which are unable to be inhaled by
another person, the particle size is incompatible, so the ’second-hand’ vapor thing is a myth.
So it follows, that if you wanted to drop the nicotine hit a little, you could start the process by restricting the air being fed into the mix . . . Maybe as a
precursor to dropping your liquid strength for the first time. I don’t think it’s an overly large drop in the nicotine strength but I couldn’t give you any
solid numbers, I’m only talking from personal experience while testing this unit. It is the first sub ohm unit I’ve actually been able to use, so I’m the
perfect crash test dummy.
Yeah, so I’m still vaping 16mg liquid in one of my new sub ohm toys, and 3 mg in the Royal 30 and I’m finding I’m hitting the Royal 30 with the 3mg liquid
more often than the other unit with the 16mg liquid and reduced air flow. So that tells me that I’m getting more nicotine from the other vape [YAY!
Captain Obvious is back] but it also tells me that it’s diluted [if that’s the right word] enough that I’m not getting the head spins, etc that
‘They’
say I
should be getting, vaping 16mg liquid through a sub ohm unit.
So I have come to the conclusion that
‘They’
are Knob Heads and that it’s a personal thing . . . some people can vape higher strength nicotine liquids
using sub ohm gear and [potentially] a restricted air flow.
I invite you to test the theory for yourself and report your own findings on our
page or
flick me an email
and I’ll get it up on the website.
