RDA All I taste is wick

[Zombo]

Aren't RDAs considered to be better for flavor? I've never used one, But I thought I have seen people claiming that because your juice is freshly dripped and not sitting on your wick/in your tank for extended periods that it will taste more pure.

Maybe you have taken a slight step backwards, flavor-wise, and your tastes are sensitive enough to notice the difference.

 

[Mccannch]

What is the coil setup that you are trying to use as well as wattage you are running them at. tanks do run much differently in that area as well. I will also add that as someone who uses both some juices that I enjoy dripping with taste like garbage in tanks and some that I use in tanks taste awful dripped. Tanks for their connivence do tend to be finicky.

 

[dravell]

Aren't RDAs considered to be better for flavor? I've never used one, But I thought I have seen people claiming that because your juice is freshly dripped and not sitting on your wick/in your tank for extended periods that it will taste more pure.

Maybe you have taken a slight step backwards, flavor-wise, and your tastes are sensitive enough to notice the difference.

From when I first started vaping about a year and a half ago I used tanks, when I switched to drippers I did get the best flavor, I get great great flavor from dripping.
Im not switching back to tanks, I just want to start using them when I either cannot drip or dont want to. I have RDTAs which are the medium between the two but sometimes a tank is either a must or for just plain convenient.

It is possible maybe im just so used to the flavor from dripping that tanks just taste weird to me, but I occasionally puff on some friends tanks and I dont recall getting this taste, so it seems its something im doing.
Im going to run them all through the ultrasonic again and clean them really really really good and experiment until I figure out what my issue is.
Youre all the best.

 

[dravell]

Depends on the tank and juice. In the lemo I have a spaced 26g at 3mm that I run at 35ish watts for high VG juice. The ErlK is a 1.4ohm 28g 2mm at 17-20w, the Aqua V2 is a dual 24g .34ohm at I think 2.5mm that I run at 40-45ish watts

 

[Mccannch]

That all sounds good really. Your coils and wicking in the picture earlier look spot on, no idea really what else could cause it. Hope you figure it out. Lemo and Aqua v2 I use everyday and I love them both.

 

[Exchaner]

I am getting the same weird taste out of cotton as well, but it gets less noticeable as I increase my air flow.

 

[classwife]

Moved to RDA from Rebuildable Atomizer Systems

 

[EJAB]

Learn to genesis
SS mesh, whilst having an admittedly steep learning curve, give absolutely the best flavor.
Once you get it right, there is no leaking in single wick attys, no need to tilt, no dry hits.
Just the best flavor you will get out of any atty, drippers included, and way more vapor than you get out of bottom fed cotton atomisers.


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I know that MOST people refer to them as "genesis" style tanks, but the inventor called the style "Genisis." Vape history 101.

 

[Chelonian]

Yah, but autocorrect is a cast iron b&$ch


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[melodiousThunk]

Just another thought related to the "longshot" advice on the previous page...

Occasionally, I get that strong, unbearable off-taste from certain tanks: to my taste buds, "grassy-metallic" provides the best description. I always thought it was either my wicks, or mysteriously hidden or super-strong manufacturing oil. But that same wick material tasted great in dozens of other tanks and drippers.

The Tilemahos and the Flash-e-Vapor V3 have been the worst and most persistent culprits. They had been wicked with reliable batches of Koh Gen Do or rayon, and tested with the same max-VG/3mg e-liquid. Before I first built them, both of these tanks had been cleaned thoroughly multiple times with soap/brushes/hot water, dishwasher, and alcohol. To no avail.

Last week, however, when I was struggling with the Flash-e, I thought about the Tilemahos and Flash and the unusual length and ID/OD of those thick-walled chimneys/drip-tips. Just a hunch, but I took a bunch of pipe cleaners and Dawn dish soap to the Flash pieces and scrubbed the .... out of them, then rinsed them for about 10 min. with very hot water. Dried, re-built, vaped: about 30% of the taste remained. So I returned to the sink & repeated the process, scrubbing harder, using a mascara brush, and rinsing longer. Taste gone. Repeated on Tilemahos and, finally, I can thoroughly enjoy that atty.

I was thinking about how filling certain tanks is difficult because the VG forms air pockets with such high surface tension that fluid flows past them. So maybe, despite all the previous cleaning, the dimensions of the tubes (and probably the composition of the steel combined w/manufacturing residue, & even some e-liquid residue) might have caused stuff to remain on the walls of those long, narrow chimneys b/c air pockets were "protecting" the inner walls of the tubes. Either that or it took the uber-grease killing properties of Dawn + a lot of muscle to finally break down whatever was hanging out in those tubes.

I'd like to test the theory using the dripper body and super-long drip-tip for the Flash-e.

Just some thoughts... good luck...I know what you're talking about and when it affects an expensive atty that vapes super-well in every other regard, it's really frustrating to have to put it back on the shelf.