How often do you change your wicks?

[happytree]

I currently own a subtank mini and a uwell crown, both with different juices in them. My build is the same, 0.8-1.2 ohm single coil 28g 2.4mm diameter. I change my wick like after every tank, even if its the same juice or similar flavored ones. Thats because the wick looks yellow/orange with some parts of it black (my juice is transparent). I also didn't want to make the rest of the juice in my tank become dark when its not supposed to be. My wicking method is slightly different on the two tanks. Subtank mini i fold them down making them look somewhat like a n shape with the coil laying vertically right in the middle of the n. The uwell crown tank i make it into an S shape with the coil laying horizontally in the middle of the S since the space is so much smaller with the juice holes at the bottom.

Should I be bothered with the juice color in the tank changing and keep using the same wick until i get burnt/dry hits?
Am I changing the cotton wick too often? Using organic japanese cotton btw.
Is my wicking method suitable for chain vaping? If yes, why is my cotton turning black after only one tank? I vape between 8-11 mL a day.

 

[dhood]

I have a couple of juices that turn orange instead of brown/black. Don't know why that is (probably ingredients), but they seem to take a bit longer to go black. I generally will replace the wick after two tankfuls on my Kayfuns or my subtanks. I don't have a crown tank so I don't know a proper method to wick it (check youtube, there should be plenty of options there) but on the Kayfuns and the Subtank, I always have mine as an inverted "U". With just enough cotton to reach down and touch the deck - no more. On my older Subtank decks, I make sure the juice flow holes are not covered. On the newer deck, I make sure the top part of the wick covers the holes as the tails reach down to the deck. I don't over-stuff them.

 

[93gc40]

Should I be bothered with the juice color in the tank changing and keep using the same wick until i get burnt/dry hits? Depends on the source of the coloring, heat vs dirt. I change my wick before it gets so bad it's burning or giving dry hit because of being dirty. At this point my wick will be almost completly black and my coil will more resemble a lump of charcol than a coil.

Am I changing the cotton wick too often? Using organic japanese cotton btw. probably

Is my wicking method suitable for chain vaping? If it's not burning when clean its probably suitable for chain vaping.

If yes, why is my cotton turning black after only one tank? Because you are heating flavored glycerin juice on a 700degree or soo coil, tends to result in carmelized and burnt sugars.

I vape between 8-11 mL a day. Thats about how much I get per wick.

 

[MorpheusPA]

8-11 ml sounds about right for most heavily flavored liquids in cotton. I vape a DIY menthol/cinnamon, which is pretty clean (and lightly flavored) and get around 30 ml per silica wick.

At that point, I can detect the flavor change and I pull the wick and wire and replace both. By then, they're disgusting and like 93gc40's, the coils look rather like charcoal. I should probably change over more often, but I never do.

 

[Wruff]

Once every 7-8 days, typically. I vape about 70ml before re-wicking my TFV4.
DIY juice, very lightly flavored.
.3Ω @ 44W.

This is after 9 days...
NOM NOM!

 

[WharfRat1976]

I change when the hits start to get rancid pancho. 20mls or so.

 

[WillyZee]

everytime I refill one of these tanks... about 3ml.

 

[SpaceApe]

I know people personally that re-coil and re-wick every day.

 

[Frenchfry1942]

Depends a bit on flavor, but I change automatically when flavor changes or 30ml of vaping.

 

[ReigntheGamer]

I recoil and rewick every Sunday, and I vape about 12-15ml's a day. I probably should change them twice a week as easy as it is but I'm a lazy squonker.

 

[ismokeinbinary]

I change my wicks once a week, so around 70-90ml.

 

[MMW]

No set time. I have had the same wick in my MT for over two weeks. Japanese organic. Straight strawberry flavor, clear juice not very sweet, and a lot of ml's. When I was pulling on darker dessert juice, it was weekly.

 

[93gc40]

Once every 7-8 days, typically. I vape about 70ml before re-wicking my TFV4.
DIY juice, very lightly flavored.
.3Ω @ 44W.

This is after 9 days...
NOM NOM!

Thats about how my coils look after 1-2 days, but the wick would be almost black.. I vape NETs and flavored NETs, in the 10-15watt range on Unregulated Mods.

 

[tj99959]

About every 3 months or so in my RDAs, once a year in my kayFuns. Gawd I love silica wicks

 

[Jdurand]

I rewick my RTA about every 3 - 4 days, depending on how sweet my juices are. It can be a pain to keep mine and my wifes tanks clean, but I prefer the taste and vapor on a fresh as possible wick. I know there are those that do it every day.

 

[sorrynomore]

I have a Protank mini,Kayfun Lite + and a Subtank mini,I rewick all of these every Friday morning.

 

[Elizabeth Baldwin]

It really is dependent on the juice, wattage, how much you vape, and coil size. I vape really sweet, dessert type liquids so my wick on those tanks get changed daily. If I'm vaping a clear liquid with little sweetener it will last a couple of day or so. My wick turns black at the contact point with coil and the coil gets all clumped up into a black blob. I pull the cotton out and burn off the coil... good as new. I change my coils once per month. I'm a chain vaper and use about 25 or so ml a day... sometimes more.

I don't have to worry about "knowing when" to change mine... the flavor starts to mute, then if I don't change it right away it gets a yucky taste.

 

[shortdraw]

Really depends on the juice. Some burn pretty clean, some gunk coils really fast. Usually daily though.

 

[VHRB2014]

When they start to taste burnt.

Fortunately, my taste buds are much better now after vaping for 1.5 years, and I can taste that crap much sooner. LOL.

 

[Konari]

Depends on materials using in wicks.. xc116 for a month, muji, fiber freaks every two days.