Burn marks, or burnt juice?

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Andromendous

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I have an LE80 with a plume veil 1.5 clone on top. My coils are at .3 ohms. Im running them between 3.7-4v a few times at 4.2. I dunno if its just the juice im using, which is very dark and kinda old. But it just doesnt taste right, kinda burnt, but im not sure if its burnning the juice or the wick, well, im pretty sure its not the wick, cus you KNOW when it burns the wick. But, what do you think?


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I have an LE80 with a plume veil 1.5 clone on top. My coils are at .3 ohms. Im running them between 3.7-4v a few times at 4.2. I dunno if its just the juice im using, which is very dark and kinda old. But it just doesnt taste right, kinda burnt, but im not sure if its burnning the juice or the wick, well, im pretty sure its not the wick, cus you KNOW when it burns the wick. But, what do you think?


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Looks like burn marks to me..Could be caused by dry hits..wicks not wicking fast enough maybe.. Dunno for sure

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They are brand new coils and wicks. Takes maybe 10-20 hits to get like this. Not much...
Maybe too much or too tight of cotton? but this pic is of a 2 week old .3 ohm build on the dark horse.. Dripped 50ml of juice so far and its still going strong..
But I do take care to drip often avoiding a dry hit.. Just sayin
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Well i just started using ko gen do cotton, i notice that my wicks will become collapsed if i dont cram wick in there, i had that problem before these wicks and my coils were glowing red even with juice on them. Ive had this same problem for a while now, even on my kayfun. Out of about 10 builds ill have maybe 2 that work good.
 

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Feels tight, but still moves through the coil fairly easy
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Looks good ... To insure I dont get a dry hit I drip on the cotton while its just like that in your pic, especially on the coils rolling the wick and drip all the way around.. Then I cut the tag ends to length and tuck them in the deck.. Then drip on it some more, fire the coils with the cap off blowing on the build a few times. This gets rid of that new cotton taste for me.. Then I drip on it again replace the cap and take my first hit...and hang on! Lol Works good for me every time.. Hope this helps

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Like this[emoji6]
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I would drip some more on it getting both wicks completely saturated, leave the cap off and blow on your build firing the coils a few times..make sure it's lookin good, then drip some more and replace the cap to take your first hit..[emoji41]

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That is exactly what i did, and no burnt hit! I also cut the wicks a bit shorter and changed my juice to pumpkin spice. Vapin very well at 3.5v. I may have been pushin it a bit high aswell. Thanks for all the suggestions guys
Now post a cloud or two maybe! Lol

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Hey guys. Im kinda gettin the same results again, i vaped almost all night, i let my mod sit at home while at work and when i got back the wicks were blotchy and my coild was black again. Im starting to suspect the juices i use, but the guy above showed his after two weeks. Just to note, i kinda dried it out in purpose but thats pretty much how it looked when i got home
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These coils look like mine after vaping awhile. Mine are always black after all the

heat that is there as the natural sugars all carmalize and turn everything brown.

I used to think my coils should stay nice and clean all during my vapeing time.

But I finally settled on the idea that with the tremendous heat and carmalizing

sugars that this is what we have to expect---dark coils and brown wicks.
 
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