Stay away from the Blue tips…
November 22nd, 2009
It seems that anything related to e-cigs that have the Blue Led tip rather than red seem to carry some kind of curse for me. I ordered my E9 with 2 red and 2 blue batteries. Well the reds, while short lived for each charge, are working fine and are settling into the rotation that my use demands, while the blue – BOTH of them – died in less than a week. And I do mean dead! They appear to charge fine – with the charger showing red, then green as it should, and it even takes time to charge them, but then you pop on a fresh cartomizer, take a puff and NOTHING but blinking lights. Oddly enough though, they seem to work normally until they are asked to carry the load of the cartomizer. If you draw air through them or tap them they actually appear normal. Odd.
But the good news is that my vendor is going to replace both of them. The only costs I should bear are the shipping back to source. I will, of course, be asking for the RED tips after this experience, but that’s ok… the body is still black and distinct from an analog, so that’s not a big deal.
So… play it safe and don’t order blue tips – they cost extra anyway for some reason. Or… if you have blue tips and they’ve worked, please let me know. Maybe I just had a bad batch.
Happy Vaping.
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After 9 yrs of smoking , i have stop smoking w/o having to quit “smoking”! (ive seen no nic carts and e liquid available.
the lungs are self cleaning & i would preffer proplene glycol build up in my lungs than all the carcinogens you get in regular cigarettes
Steve:
In response to your (2) comments on my blog, there is a graphic link on the right hand side bar of my blog pages that shows the E9 kit. That will take you directly to the site I order my products from.
It is my understanding that they offer larger volume discounts and wholesale pricing as well, but you’ll have to make that inquiry through their site. I only buy for my own use, but even in smaller quantities, their products are very reasonable in price.
Good luck!
njw
Yes I would like to know where to buy the least expensive E9 batteries on the web? Or put another way “where did you buy your E9′s?”
Thanks
Steve
my first e9s were the greensmokes and i loved/still love the vapor but not the “real cigarette” look that gets too much attention in public so i went looking around and found the source of greensmokes being ecig.com and ordered a long and short e9 black with blue led.
its been two weeks now of solid use and mine are running fine. Even though the e9s give a LOT of vapor I find it odd that I don’t think any e9 is as good for throat hit as a vapor-thin kr808d-1 system (and of all the 808s the white cloud cirrus is by far the best i’ve tried, perhaps because of the little notch that they have in thier batteries that other 808s don’t have).
So in a nutshell, i haven’t had the issues with the blue led e9s from ecig.com… so far.
I also have to mention that ecig.com’s prices for cartomizers are great, but the taste just isn’t as good as the 12 dollar packs of carts from greensmoke. so now i use the ecig.com black/blue batteries but will stick with greensmoke for the carts.
Nice blog, by the way. Glad I came across it (was looking for reviews of the e8 and you had them… i want to try the little e8 but am afraid to get stuck having to buy carts only from ecig.com)