Electronic Cigarette Review – Vapor King eTank
Before we start, this E cigarette review is about the E Cigarettes Inc. Vapor King, not the Vapor King that is made by Vapor4Life. For some reason there are two companies selling two smokeless cigarettes with the same name. The E Cigs Inc. device that I am reviewing is a 3 piece E cigarette. This is actually the first 3 piece device that I’ve reviewed for this site. This is mainly because the 2 piece E cigarette is better (in my opinion) and is also a lot more popular with E smokers. But I thought for the sake of completeness I would get my hands on a 3 piece and see how they perform these days. I first heard about the Vapor King close to 2 years ago, but because it was 3 piece I just didn’t bother with it. When I thought about buying one this time round the Vapor King was the first one to spring to mind (actually the second behind Blu Cigs, but they don’t make 3 piece E cigarettes any more). Enough jibbering already!
eTank
The Vapor King features something called “eTank Technology” which is hyped up quite a bit on the website. This is a new design of cartridge, this design negates the need for cotton or wool inside the cartridge, instead it is just nicotine liquid and empty space. The carts are actually transparent so you can see inside them and see what they mean. This design is also meant to help give more consistent vapor production and flavor as well.
Because this is the first 3 piece I’ve used in a long time it was quite an odd experience at first when I opened up the box. You have all the usual things, batteries, cartridges, manuals, chargers and then you have the atomizers sitting as well. Anyway, I screwed the atomizer into the battery and then grabbed a cartridge, the first thing I noticed about the cartridges is that the wrappers are covered in E-liquid on the insides, in the past this has meant that I’m going to get a mouth full of foul tasting liquid at some point. Though thankfully this has not been the case at all so far. I did find it pretty hard to get the wrapper open to get the cartridge out though, thankfully I had scissors to hand to help me out, but I think this could be pretty annoying when you are out of the house. Also that liquid that was on the inside of the packaging ended up all over my hands, its pretty sticky and smells quite a bit, I was starting to remember why I don’t bother with 3 piece E cigarettes.
Using The Vapor King
Once I got past all of the messing around and actually get to use the Vapor King it still wasn’t great. The first thing that I noticed was the amount of effort I had to put in to get a decent drag out of the thing. There seems to be quite a lot of resistance. Even loosening off the atomizer from the battery doesn’t make any difference. Also, the tobacco flavor isn’t up to much, it has got a funny taste to it which isn’t really like tobacco, but the longer I used it the more I started to like it. On the upside it creates a really good amount of vapor, on par with the big vapor producers like Green Smoke, you don’t even have to give it a primer puff as you do with many automatic battery E cigarettes, but if you do throw in a little primer you are given even more vapor in return. Vapor King also offer a manual battery, in my experience these help create even more vapor, so I think it possible that it will surpass the vapor that most other brands create.
Cartridges/eLiquid
Sadly I only got tobacco flavored refills to try. If you opt for pre-filled cartridges you only have menthol or tobacco to choose from, but if you are willing to fill up the cartridges with E-liquid yourself there are many more options for you to choose from. Such as vanilla, chocolate, coffee, cherry, apple and strawberry. And of course you are not restricted to using Vapor King E-liquid you can fill empty carts up with your favorite brand, such as liquids from Titan Vapors or GoodEJuice.
If you go for the pre filled cartridges that Vapor King offers each one is going to give you about 12-14 cigarettes worth of smoking time depending on how you use them. So in a pack of 5 refills you get 3 packs worth of tobacco cigarettes. This is quite low compared to most other brands who claim at least 1 pack of tobacco cigarettes for a refill. However this short durability is reflected in the price, for 5 refills it costs just $9.95, which is quite a bit lower than many other brands, so it all evens out in the end.
One thing that I’ve noticed about these cartridges is that they start leak around the join between the cartridge and the atomizer, I’m not sure why this is but it’s not ideal, again you end up with E-liquid on your fingers. It doesn’t come out quickly though, so you do get time to notice it so that it doesn’t make its way into your mouth, if you’ve had this stuff in your mouth before you will know that its not very nice at all.
Batteries
The batteries too hold charge for less time than you would expect. Out of a fully charged battery I found that it would last only a little longer than a full cartridge, so you will no doubt need to carry 2 batteries around with you to last you the full day. Though Vapor King do also offer a portable charging case, that I didn’t buy, so you can charge your batteries when on the move and have somewhere to store spare cartridges as well.
Overall the Vapor King is OK, it’s not great nor is it poor, if you forget about all the messing around when you first set it up – which will be the same with any 3 piece E cigarette. If the tobacco flavor was improved I’d be pretty happy to use it all the time, you get a great throat hit from it all the time and the vapor that comes off it is up there with the best vapor producers such as Green Smoke. Would I give up using 2 piece E Cigarettes for this? Probably not, I’m not really a fan of the separate atomizer set up, I prefer the ease of use of 2 piece designs. But if you have a E-juice/E-liquid that you like to use and want another E cig to use it with then this is a great base product.
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