Thank you, good sir! I am nothing short of honored to be a piece of the puzzle.
Like I said in my first post, I really had never even owned an ecig before beginning this project, so my knowledge of their operation, settings, and whathaveyou is largely beyond me.
But that's also the point of what I was most surprised by: it seems to work in every configuration I've tried. Mind you I haven't gotten a lot of use out of any of the tanks yet (it's hard to just experiment with spice over and over and over again to test the life of a tank--datz scary), they all seem to work without having to even tweak the recipe.
But to a set your question: I was looking for this setup:
[taken from my notes going into the store]
-variable voltage eGo battery (and charger)
-Kanger T3s clearomizer
I ended up buying several tanks, all generic variations of the "mini pro tank 3 (duel coil): clear atomizer series)" that were about $7-14 a piece. I got three of them. In one I had no spice, just so I could figure out how it works--it was my first one. The second tank was a generic one, but based on the Kanger one I described above, and that's the one I had the .5g to 1ml of medicine-tasting ecig juice. I had in total at least 20 puffs on that one so far and it seems to be working fine (20 puffs = about 1/3 ml). The third was another generic and it held exactly one ml, and I put the 1g of spice with the 15 drops of Fantasia brand "Ice." Off of that we have puffed around a dozen puffs and that's the one that blew my socks off last night. Not breakthrough, but just thresholding it was sort of intimidating. It was like having the secret of the universe in my hands in the shape of a pen. Felt biblical, or what the kids nowadays are callin' "Epic."
And the battery: I have actually used two, which further demonstrates my amazement at how easy this has been and how simple it seems to be. I've used the adjustable, generic brand one that I listed above, and it is set to "3.5." I don't know if that's volts, watts, inches, or alligators. Like I said, I don't know nearly enough about this for it to work as well as I've found.
And as a final note, I'd just like to say, "gee-golly, this is awesome. I feel like I'm working along side my own teachers."