ok, watched a video. i don't have a fancy 510/ego connector ohmmeter like the video guy did, but i figure a 4-wire resistance measurement with one of my uber lab bench system dmm's should do. (unless, of course, the coil resistance must be measured with significant current going through it, in which case i plead newbie.) both the burnt tasting one and the replacement measure a hair under 2.4 ohms. took the burnt tasting one apart, and it ~looked~ a little burnt. took the new one, pulled out a thread from the wick, washed it in vodka, dried it a bit, filled and reassembled protank. the itaste says its 2.2 ohms after one draw at lowest setting possible of 6W. bring it up to 6.5W so i'm getting ~some~ vapor, and it tastes fine after 25 draws. put a pipe cleaner down the tube as a dip stick to check if any flooding was happening due to wickige removal, and its fine. so maybe this protank just needs wick and coil replaced much more often than the iclear 16's, along with a bit less wick than what is supplied. or i toasted the other wick with too much wattage when i was initially playing around. either way i'll know more after a couple hundred puffs. it's such a pretty tank...
on a really good note, though, now that i watched a video, i know just how stinkin easy it will be to rebuild this thing and play around with my own coil resistances. does 30AWG or 32AWG kanthal wire sound right? the guy on the vid was using 32AWG, and 2.5mm silica wick. 2.5mm? is that right? weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
thank you all fine peeps!