weird occurrence

[solipsistic xerophyte]

Today when I went to clean my coils my cotton wick was not in the coil. All that was left were the legs going into the rda. Did I burn through the cotton? I am currently vaping at 8 watts with a 1.5 coil. So I don't understand how I could've burned it out.

What alternative to cotton can I use and get good flavor? I started vapinng to stop inhaling combustible material. I really don't want to be vaping cotton.

 

[sonicbomb]

That is very weird. If you burned away the wick completely, you would have scorched lungs and the inside of the RDA would look like you had had a bonfire inside it. It didn't grow legs and walk away, so that's a bit of a mystery. When was the last time you checked if it was there? Is it possible you de-wicked it and forget that you had done so?
Can you show some pictures of your set up?

 

[Cullin Kin]

I've had this happen once and it was truly strange. The cotton didn't even burn, it just split in half inside the coil...

You would definitely know you were burning the cotton. Every hit would have been miserable.

 

[93gc40]

1.5ohms and 8 watts. is plenty to burn cotton.
It would take many minutse of SMOLDERING to burn a whole cotton wick away. AND you'd likely would set off every smoke alarm within a mile.

ARE you sure you had a wick in the coil? You might try using MORE juice before switching wick material. Cause a wet wick wont burn.

 

[Robert Cromwell]

Atty gremlins.

 

[DavidOck]

Generally that's from too much cotton. It pinches off the flow so starts to char the cotton inside the coil. Eventually enough is "gone" so it falls away when you take it apart to clean.

Rather than all burning off at once, I suspect that as the cause. And, while vaping that way, and depending on flavor, it may just seem unusually harsh, or downright bad.

IME, rayon holds up a bit better than cotton, so you may want to try that.

 

[Steelgirl]

It happened to me once. But I deserved it. I hadn't re-wicked in - I don't know how long. Month? Longer maybe. RM2 on a REO. I re-wick every week pretty much now.

 

[supertrunker]

i use RxW aka Readywick. I've used 4 inches of it in a year.

Blowtorch it and carry on.

You did well to get a week from cotton, i was changing my cotton wicks at least every 2 days.

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