Innokin iclear 30 atomizer / clearomizer

The Innokin iclear 30 is a new addition to the clearomizer range available on the market today. It is larger than your standard CE4, eGo-C, eGo-T etc... atomizers so it fitsl and looks slightly better on a larger Mod or electronic cigarette. However you can have a plinth or adapter that hooks on to an ego battery that will make it look more streamlined.

Innokin iclear 30

The Innokin iclear 30 has a dual coil. 2 coils sitting almost on top of each other which gives a fantastic throat hit and vapour with a resistance of 2.2ohms which is more than adequate for all electronic cigarettes and mods.
Bear in mind that the amount of vapour is very dependant on the type of liquid you use and where you get it from but still with a dual coil you will get a very decent amount of vapour regardless. Having an inferior e-liquid will shorten the life of the atomizer no doubt and so will the VG content of the liquid. The more VG (Vegetable Glycerine) you have in the mixture, the more carbon will accumulate on the coils which will decrease its life.
Having said that, i personally use a 70/30 mix (70% PG to 30% VG). PG tends to give a better throat hit or kick while VG gives more vapour. The majority of liquids are 70/30 but some people prefer 50/50 and others due to an allergy to PG can only use VG only.

Innokin iclear 30 anatomy

Innokin are a very reputable company in the electronic cigarette business. They have been around for a number of years so you know when you buy an Innokin product, it will work very well. You will always get the odd one that will malfunction like any other. Even Joyetech with all their knowledge will still have the odd one that will not work or dead on arrival also know as (DOA).

The build quality of the iclear30 is of a high standard as you can see from the photos. The coil heads have 16 wicks so no way you will get a dry throat hit of an i30. There's plenty of wicks there to feed the 2 coils permanently even on low liquid in the tank.

Another feature is the swivel mouthpiece which helps sometimes depending on the vaping position so to speak.

The iclear 30 clearomizer has a 3ml e-liquid capacity which is plenty for a whole day vape for an average vaper. Incidentally the average consumption of e-liquid on a daily basis is around 3ml.

Innokin iclear 30 clearomizer

The Innokin iclear 30 has replacement heads as spares which means when the clearomizer dies, you do not have to buy a whole new unit. All you need is change the heads.

The heads last on average 3 weeks. Again that depends on how often it is being used. Persoanlly i change it every 3 weeks or thereabouts.

The replacement heads can be recoiled but it is not an easy thing to as a standard CE4 or even a Vivi or Mini Nova. One of the main reasons is that the bottom of the head is recessed so pulling it isn't so easy plus the fact that there are 2 coils doesn't make things any easier. If any of the wires touch, the i30 won't work.

The replacement heads aren't that expensive. At £3.99 from vapourettes is a good price. 

The Innokin iclear 30 is certainly a worthy option for a serious vaper or someone who is looking for a good amount of vapour, throat hit and above all no dreaded burnt taste and leakage.

The Vamo Electronic Vapor Cigarette Mod

The Vamo as mentioned in the introduction is a very versatile variable voltage, variable wattage / power electronic cigarette. Very affordable too compared to other mods in this league.

Other similar vapour cigarettes are more than twice its price and more complex to work with.
Where the Vamo wins is in its simplicity. 3 buttons in all to allow for far more logical operation of the standard settings that many people will use.

The Vamo

2 small buttons that are used to increase or decrease the voltage.In the meantime when you press and hold each of them, will give you a different reading.
Press and hold the right button for 3 seconds as you are looking at the screen which will give you the atomizer resistance. Very handy when you are re-wicking or rebuilding your own atomizers.
Press and hold the left button for 3 seconds and you will get a reading indicating how much power is left in the battery before it needs recharging.
Press and hold the 2 small buttons together for again 3 seconds and you can switch the device from variable volatge to variable wattage / power
Can't be any simpler for such an advanced device.

Vamo's clear LCD screen

The large button is used for your usual vaping and also to switch the device on/off through 5 click function.

Other devices in its league (well to me at least) are more complex and more tedious to work with such as the Vmax, Zmax and the much more expensive Provari which is way out of my budget. I personally cannot see myself paying over $200 for a vapour cigarette where others are far less. Yes, the Provari is very well made no doubt about it, functionality to me is a bit of a let down specially after the introduction of the Vamo. Why you may ask? I will explain.

The Zmax, Vmax and Provari all work with one button that does all the functions which means that you will be forever pressing the button on average about 7 or 8 times to just change a setting like voltage up by one notch or down.
First you have to press the button 3 times to get into the menu, then another time to reach the particular menu you want. So say you want to change power. 3 times to get to the menu, 3 times to get to the 4th menu then another few times to change the voltage up or down. Each press on the voltage menu will increase the voltage by 0.1v at a time. So if you want to increase the voltage by 0.1, you will have to press the button a further 4 times to reach it. You can do the maths and see what i mean.

The Zmax has i think around 8 menus while the Vmax has 6.
As opposed to the Vamo, all you have to do is press the small button and with each click you will increase the voltage by 0.1v or 0.5w at a time.

The Vamo has a 510 fitting which as many of you know will fit a host of atomizers such as a native 510, eGo, eGo-T, eGo-C, Vision eternity, Venus eternity, Cobra, Genesis, CE4, CE5, the list goes on and on.
It also has a deep drip well to catch any leakage that comes off some atomizers, cartomizers, etc...

Another big adavantage of the Vamo is you can configure it to 2 sizes. A standar size at 135mm and shorter version at 105mm.
At the standard size you can use the Vamo with 1x 18650 battery or 2x 18350. On the shorter version you can use 1x 18350 batteries. Another advantage that no other Mod will offer currently on the market today. I must admit the Vamo is a heavy piece of equipment but you will soon get used to it.

Vamo short version

The Vamo also works very well with the Vision or Venus eternity which are rebuildable atomizers. The fact that the Vamo has the facility to detect atomizer resistance which means you can build the atomizer and test the resistance and make changes before you finish the atomizer off.

The Vamo allows the user to alternate methods used internally to calculate the voltage output. The default and recommended setting is RMS. RMS provides a more accurate voltage output. The Vamo may also run in Average (or Mean) mode. Average mode may result in output voltages than displayed. To switch modes, hold either the power up or power down button for 10 seconds. The display screen will display N01 for AVG mode or N02 for RMS mode. To change the mode, release the adjustment button then press and hold for an additional 10 seconds to change to the alternate mode.

The downside of the Vamo i'ld say is its size. It is not a small item and neither it is light to carry around but soon you get used to it and makes an ego 900mAh ecig feel like  feather in your hand.

In conclusion i personally think the Vamo is excellent value for money given the facilities it offers and the 2 variety of sizes.

Vape on!

A standard Vamo kit comes with the device itself, 2x 18350 batteries and a twin charger that will charge either 2x 18650 or 2x 18350 batteries or a combination of both. Great value for money.
The Vamo is available at quite a few websites including vapourettes.com

Venus eternity rebuildable atomizer.

Venus Eternity rebuildable atomizer. (Also known as Vision eternity).

The Venus eternity is a rebuildable atomizer that you can build it the way you would like by choosing the thickness and type of the wick and the same for the wire.

There are many combinations you can use to get your so called sweet spot as you can decide what atomizer strength you want. High, low resistance etc...

Venus atomizer kit

The atomizer comes with 2 options. One for dripping and the other for using as a usual eGo type with a tank cartridge. The venus top part can accomodate a standard 1.1ml eGo tank cartridge. No 2ml adapter is available as of yet although you might find it on a different website.

The Venus Eternity has a standard 510 fitting which means you can use it with all sorts of batteries that have a 510 fitting. Most batteries have 510 fitting now, very few have an 808 fitting. It has become the norm that all batteries and atomizers to sell will have to be 510 compatible so to speak.

Venus Eternity anatomy

As you can see from the photo above from top to bottom there is:

1. The drip tip which can be substituted for a tank cartridge (1.1ml) eGo type.
2. The dripping body which accommodates the drip tip. The Venus comes with 2 bodies (dripping body and Tank body) The tank body is the one that accommodates the tank cartridge.
3. The changeable coil part is the part with the most fun you can have if you are into rebuilding atomizers. Get yourself some wick and wire (many websites do that) and experiment with different resistances and wick thicknesses.
4. The needle base which also acts as a reservoir for the liquid in dripping mode. Very well sealed. I've been using it for over 2 months now and not once it has leaked.
5. The Coil base is where you hook the wick and coil to it through the posts. These posts do not need clicking to place like other makes such as the Vision. The downside of the click is that if pulled too hard, might damage the post and you loose the whole thing.
6. The cone part is more of a decorative item specially if you use the Venus on an eGo type battery. It complements it looks by hiding the screw part of the battery and makes the whole ecig much more streamlined.

You can either make your own coils or buy them ready made from vapourettes. Prices for ready made ones are next to nothing (typically £1 each) with or without posts compared to what we usually pay for an atomizer which is at least £3 up to £10 if not more.

The kit comes in its own presentation tin like box with spare wicks and posts so you are ready to go straight away out of the box.

Using a vapourette electronic cigarette for the first few times.

It has come to my attention through the sales of electronic cigarette that quite a number of people give up on them fairly quickly and revert back to smoking due to the lack of knowledge/guidance of how to actually use them.

The majority of people tend to use them as a normal analogue cigarette, yet there is a slight difference between the 2 in the way it is used.
First of all, to produce the smoke (vapour in that case) the atomizer needs to be heated, yes it heats upon the first draw or whenever you draw on it but it does need a longer and slower draw to get the electronic cigarette working as close as the real analogue one. 
This is key to using an electronic cigarette. Longer and slower drags.
Once you start doing that, the electronic cigarette works perfect. So please bear in mind that switching from analogues to electronic / electric cigarettes or Vapourettes as they are also called does require a bit of getting use to and please do not give up.

There are 2 types fundamentally of ecigs. 

Automatic and manual (no its not a car!)

• The automatic ones are activated by the draw or drag. Once you start taking a draw / puff / drag, the atomizer is activated by the amount of air that is going through. The power from the battery heats up the coil of the atomizer which in turn starts vapourising the liquid that is contained in the cartridge. Then hey presto you got vapour and nicotine to satisfy your craving but without so many carcinogens that are in a real cigarette.

Electronic cigarette with automatic battery (no button)

• The manual one works in a slightly different way by way of a switch usually located on the battery. What happens with a manual ecig is that you press the button a second or so before you take a puff. What that does is dort of preheat the coil which means it delivers more consistent results.

Electronic cigarette with manual battery

The automatic type is fine to start with as it is very much like a real cigarette. It takes a bit of time to get use to a manual type of vapourette but the results are much better with a manual button.

The very main point to remember when using or switching to vapourettes electronic cigarettes is to take longer and slower drags / puffs or draws.

My first electronic cigarette.

3 years ago when my health took a turn to the worse, i decided to switch from smoking analogue cigarettes to using an electronic cigarette.


I ordered from a reputable company a kit that had 2 batteries, 2 atomizers, a charging case and spare filters. The idea of getting a charging case was so i can charge the batteries while i am out and about.

At the time, electronic cigarettes were and some of them still are looking like real cigarettes.

When i first started vaping, i needed something that looks like a cigarette rather than say an eGo type which is a lot bigger yet does the job more than excellent.


The drawback of having a cigarette look alike is battery life. Apart from that it does the job very well. Specially now they advanced a lot with the addition of cartomizers which are an atomizer and cartridge rolled into one plus now there are tank cartridges as well so you are spoilt for choice.

I was a heavy smoker before so i was very apprehensive about trying them as i had high hopes that with a vapourette i can ditch the analogue cigarette once and for all and switch to them (vapourettes).

After trying it for a few puffs, i realised that this is the one for me. So i put my rolling tobacco tin in a drawer in the bedroom and thought the big test will be in the morning when i wake up and would want a usual cigarette. So next day when i got up, i took the first puff from the ecig and i thought wow! That is doing the trick. 

Since then i never looked back and carried on using vapourettes ever since.

The reason a lot of vapers (people that use vapourettes electronic cigarettes) end to start with a look like type of ecig is the psychology of the whole thing. For me to make the switch to vapourettes, I had to have something that very much if not identical looked like a real cigarette.

I even tried the smallest one at 88mm long which is almost exactly the same size of the real thing. The big drawback to that size is that you will be charging the batteries more than you will be using it. I did however persevere with the small ones and they have certainly done the trick and I was analogue cigarettes free from then on.

A version of the small electronic cigarette which is made of  a battery,
an atomizer and the filter tip that holds the liquid nicotine.

I have to say this though. A lot of vapers, the more experienced ones say that the small ecigs are useless and a waste of money. I strongly disagree with them. Without the small type hat looks like an electronic cigarette, the majority would still be using analogues to this day. So the small ones have done the trick and when we were in safe waters so to speak, we moved on to something that lasts longer and performs better mainly due to a bigger size which in turn allows for a longer battery life and can accommodate more electronics in it.


 When i first started, i used 18mg strength which wasn't enough for me as i use to smoke Golden Virginia rolling tobacco which is quite strong. So i bought some e-liquid of 24mg and started refilling my cartridges with it. I even went higher and bought some 36mg to try but was too strong for me.

Now i settled on 18mg and if i happen to have a cold or flu i sometimes use 11mg which is weaker.


If you have the intention of quitting smoking altogether, you can try reducing the nicotine intake gradually over a number of weeks or even months. After that all you will have to get rid of is the habit of holding a cigarette or vapourette and of course the vapour itself. Can you do without both? I personally like the habit (hand to mouth) as it is called. The motion of holding a cigarette be it a vapourette or electronic cigarette as some people call it, then there is the vapour production which is a delight to many vapers.


So in conclusion vapourettes electronic cigarettes are certainly a much better alternative to analogue cigarettes and the coming months, years will prove that beyond any doubt.


There is talk that the big tobacco companies are developing an electronic cigarette which proves the point that they are a worthy alternative to the analogue cigarette.


A lot of research has been going on about electronic cigarettes of late and all the signs look like they are much better than patches, inhalers, pills, etc....

They cannot be called smoking cessation devices as they have to pass a lot of tests before they can be recognised as smoking cessation devices but all the signs are pointing that way.


Suffice to say that vapourettes electronic cigarettes or vapour cigarettes are certainly a much better alternative to the usual smoking. No smell, no passive smoking let alone the smell on the clothes.