I have done light wicking as well, its always upright, still leaks terribly.I know on my TFV4 deck, you don't want to "stuff it to the gills", it doesn't like that at all. I use a Scottish Roll wick, but I trim it down so the juice channel is full, but not stuffed tightly. You might try trimming them down a bit. Mine will still leak if it is on it's side for while but when it is standing, it rarely leaks.
The problem is that I have many other RDTAs and RTA's and none of them leak at whatever wattage I use. I am actually a coil builder, have been doing this for a very long time, so I dont suspect this to be a common error on my part. Thanks for the answer though.
This is how mine is wicked, I doubt that this would cause an issue. Or make it flood so badly, something else is going on. thanks for the post Ill try something else or throw them away.
If the juice is trapped, then it would simply cause dry hits, I dont think that this RDTA defies physics. To cause a flooding you either need way too little wick or something else going wrong not related to wicking. Try stuffing too much wick into any RDTA or RTA and you will see that it will cause dry hits, never flooding.
cause these tanks are pretty well known for not leaking. Only times i had bad leak was due to my own errors.
I do appreciate your suggestions, I will give them all a try. thank you.I was just offering my advice , and like i said i had the same leaking you did, and haven't had it since i changed how i wicked it. Was just trying to help and didn't mean to come off as questionioning your building/wicking method and blame it on that. I guess you must've just gotten a defective one
I don't think i'm ever taking this tank out on the road again though. You guys had to see my mod man..COVERED in juice.. Luckily it was the smok h-priv and just to be safe i took it apart ( thing is sooo easy to get apart, luckily) and suprisingly no juice got into the internals, some did find it's way inside a bit on the plastic, but was easily cleaned.
Im enjoying the flavor in my new Limitless Plus, with zero hustle and no leakslol i think i'm done with this tank guys. yesterday i was on a road trip with a friend and while he was driving i tried to fill it up. I've done it before only this time i forgot to close the damn JFC and airflow, i'm filling it up and noticing it's not filling. I check and see all the juice falling out the airflow holes all over my mod lol. Worst leak i ever experienced froma tank, hell i've left JFC, airflows open in many other tanks, but never a leak like this! the whole tank pretty much pilled out lol. I had no paper towels or anything and we couldn't stop as we were on the parkway so i had to use my shirt to clean it all up. What a nightmare. Also notice that silicone gasket thing is starting to get warped already and everytime i open and close the top swivel it's all distorted and i have to constantly press it back in. When i take it off though it looks fine and goes back to it's normal shape. I should just replace it with the spare.
Granted that was user error and 100% my fault, but sometimes you aren't paying as much attention as you should be. Sucks cause i love the flavor on this tank, Mine has a slight melting plastic flavor to it as well, probably that plastic insulator they put on it, but i think it adds to the flavor. I'll be fine, right?
Personally I have decided to stay away from all SMOK products. I have TFRDTA, G2, and G4, and they all leak horribly. I do have plenty RDA's although my favorite to this day is regular Velocity, I just bought slotted screws for it to replace hexagon.
