I pulled out the cotton from my rda and it appears to be redish-brown where it was in contact with the coils. I don't use any juice with dark colors, mostly just pure vg and lightly colored diy juice I make without any nicotine. Not sure what this could be coming from but it's not the post because no cotton is in contact with them. I'm currently using a twisted 28 guage macrocoil on my derringer RDA.