Yes, you can use a dripper atomizer on there. Unless I'm mistaken, you got yourself a 50W machine there. Won't deliver enough power to handle a setup for making BIG clouds. AKA "cloud-chasing". But the airflow can be bigger than most tanks, and you can make
some clouds with 50W. A smaller dripper, a "flavor-chaser" should work. In any case, you want high, if not pure, VG.
Note that a dripper is NOT for using while you do other stuff. Think of enjoying a nice hookah or big old pipe. It will occupy most of yer dexterity while you use it. Conversation, watching TV and that sort of thing work. Office work gets tricky.
Important note: I am not aware of any cartomizer-drippers. A few months ago, I tried to find one, but couldn't. That may have changed. The market in vaping has a
crazy pace. Most devices I use today were declared "technologically impossible" only a year ago.
A dripper will involve the R in RDA. Rebuilding. You
can buy ready-made coils, so all you'd have to do is install, get the hotspots out and add a wick. But just so you know, it's a little bit of extra work.
Smaller drippers I've tried and that should work alright with 50W and dual coils, but can also be built single coil:
Aeolus
Derringer (very nice, actually).
Maquis (notorious flavor chaser).
The
Inoy is designed for single-coil only, airflow from below is tasty and this does look interesting.
There are drippers that come with a big sump, or reservoir. These let you vape for a while without dripping every few draws.
The
Mrs. Soaky is almost a tank.
The
Sherlock Holmes V2 doesn't have quite such a large reservoir, but is easier to build.
Or you can get a bottom-feeder with its own feed, like the
Fountain V2. I like that one a lot. Instead of dripping, you fill the plastic bottle and squeeze (or "squonk") any time the wick gets dry.
Note that, where it says "style", that means it's a clone. What vapers call the knock-offs.
Some are shoddily made crap. Others are almost (if not entirely) indistinguishable from the real thing. When the original is made in China, also, and by a small brand, a well made clone is not likely to be any less safe. If you have safety concerns, stick with big China brands (Kanger, eLeaf, iJoy, SMOKtech, Innokin, Wotofo, UD aka 'youdee', Unicig aka "Indulgence") or go "Made in USA" or "Made in Germany" etc., those exist. None are risk free, of course, but the large brands or domestic or European manufacture are less likely to practice inappropriate cost-cutting. Note that, apart from concerns about the use of copper, brass or bronze in combination with juice, that this might lead to excessive uptake of copper, I have not heard of any genuine concerns about materials seeping unhealthy things into the juice. Personally, I'm careful about chrome plating or any kind of color-coating.
Clones from Focalecig tend to be of the well made variety. I also like their customer service, after-sales care and reasonable time to process an order.
The other retailers I have linked I have no experience with. I googled those because I had acquired the devices in question from an outfit I do NOT recommend doing business with, "Fasttech".
As for juice:
Mail order is the place to go, indeed.
I do still buy things from my local store. But only aromas and cotton.
If I used only ready-made juice, my consumption would cost me double or so what it'd cost me to smoke.
I mix my own juice, so I get it just the way I like it and, in consequence, spend less than a third of what brand-name cigs would cost me. So, even while spending too-much money on vape gear, I end up ahead.
When buying juice, check where it is made. You
can get cheap juice made in China, tasty stuff even. But I, for one, don't trust their food-and-drug regulation.
Should you decide on mixing your own, you don't have to make such a great production out of it as I do. Click to read my little manual.
Once you have determined what PG/VG ratio you like, what aromas and nicotine strength, you need:
A 10cc syringe for measuring out your aroma.
A needle to to reach the bottom of the aroma bottle without making a mess. I prefer 1.5mm veterinary needles (humans are just sooo squeamish), about 14 gauge.
A calculator and basic maths skills.
Do it thus:
Buy a base in the PG/VG ratio and nicotine strength you like. Or pure VG or VG/H2O, whatever. In a 100ml or so bottle, so you don't have to mess around with a funnel.
Check the aroma bottle label, or google, to find the ratio of aroma you should use.
Work out how many cc of aroma you need for your volume of base. Use the syringe to measure it out and add to the base.
Close bottle and shake well.
Next, steep. Steeping is letting the bottle sit so all the liquids intermingle. This may take between a day and two weeks, depending on what aroma and brand. As a rule: simple and sweet is a day or two, fruity and creamy as much as two weeks, tobacco somewhere in between. Again, bottle label or google.
Heat helps (think "warm summer day" rather than "hotplate"). Sitting the bottle on the radiator (on medium) or next to the water heater works.
Letting a bottle of juice sit in sunlight is not recommended. Even if it's glass, absorbing the UV radiation, I wouldn't recommend it.
Give a good shake every day.
Once is has steeped long enough, enjoy.