A couple years back, I won a ton of Xicar fuel for cheap. Finally started to run out, so I went back to the Vector black cans. Noticed that I had to turn all my lighters up about half a turn. Came down to the RV a couple days ago, filled the lighters with Vector before leaving, but didn't bring any fuel as I had a can of Xicar at the RV. Lighters ran dry last night and I filled them with the Xikar. Both lighters instantly turned into blow tourches/jet engines. One burned so violently that the flame bases where trying to blow off of the noozles. Had to turn them down a full half turn each. Seems the Xikar fuel burns far hotter/intense then Vector. Curious if anyone else has noticed this?

I had some colibri before my vector can. I happened to have trouble with my lighters on the conversion to vector. I attributed it to heavy usage, pocket lint, dropping them. Still not having the best luck as I occasionally leave them in my pants and wash them. So, I may not be the best to rate vector. I was going to get Lava because of the glowing reviews, but it was so much more pricey that vector with the same specs. I may try xicar next time as I have xicar lighters and it will be better for warranty issues.

Been using Colibri fluid for years and have never had a problem.

I bought a few big cans of Xicar and it ruined my lighters right quick. I was always under the impression that it was a very high quality butane. Sadly, that was not my experience. I've switched back to Blazer Butane, which for some odd reason always works well for me. I guess it's the luck of the batch. These triple torch lighters are fickle too. I love these Perdomo Vector lighters, of my two, only one works now. I tried fixing it, using some method found on the net, somewhere. No worky. Oh well, there's always kitchen matches too. I gave up on buying the pocket torches from Blazer. After losing 10 or so, that was enough. :>) Happy weekend folks.

vector works as good as lava for me. 5x filtered. the xikar clogs most lighters pretty quickly in my experience

Been using Xikar fuel exclusively for a little over a year(IIRC) with no problems.