I'll say this in here as I've said it elsewhere
Once my coil/wick is set up, I fill the tank, hold the unit vertical, and fire the Provari for 15 second pulses at my desired wattage. If I see any red anywhere, that set up is a fail. If its truly wicking, and you have enough mesh/wick density for your desired wattage, nothing should glow. In fact you should be getting spatters of scalding hot juice all over your hand because the juice just won't stop flying to your coil
I think what happens when people (me) have used a wide open center hole and been impressed is basically, by tipping the PV and basically hurling their juice at the coil, they've masked coils that were causing shorts, seeing too much air, or both, hence 'improving flavor' and 'wicking'
As often happens, its not that people are entirely full of sh.. (well most of them are, by definition, the majority is always wrong
) but they jump to inappropriate conclusions based on positive results with a poorly understood method
The hardest part of setting these puppies up for me is to get a nice tight coil that's as tight as possible without shorting anything out. That usually requires a bit of "molding" the top and bottom runs to the posts so as to prevent too much coil dangling in the air. Once that's sorted, the 15 second vertical burst gauntlet is navigated successfully everytime
