Aromamizer RTDA wicking issues

[grim]

ive been building my own coils on this thing for over 2 weeks now and want some input.

I've tried vertical coils on the velocity style deck but the tips of the wicks kept burning before anything and I abandoned the vertical set up.

On my horizontal build, 26 gauge kanthal 8 wrap dual cool for 0.5 ohms, I've been really enjoying but I cannot get certain juices to wick properly.

They are 80vg/20pg blends and I've tried less cotton, more cotton, and so on and these keep giving dry hits on the 2nd or 3rd pull. (Only vaping between 34-38 watts).

Is this just an issue with this RTDA and maybe I should just move to RDAs?

 

[bsidb]

if it were me i'd switch to Rayon, use dual coil, 5 wraps and 28-35watts

 

[grim]

Not to keen on rayon but I did turn the wattage down.

Seems to help at 31-32 watts but the sacrifice is less vapor. Flavor is still right on point so may just have to sacrifice clouds with less dry hits which I'm completely fine with

 

[Clydde26]

what is the inner diameter of your coil... i have never had a dry burnt hit on my aromamizer and I vape anything from regular kanthal coils to claptons all the way up to 90 watts. It is wicked exactly as you would a dripper tuck the tails under the coil and leave a pocket under the coil for air flow.

I wouldnt build anything smaller than a 2.0 inner diameter coil because then you will start to have choke issues.

 

[grim]

The inside diameter is 2.5 and I make sure the cotton is fluffed and very easily tucks in underneath with No effort and I make sure the cotton still has some spring and that it's not tightly packed.

Maybe I'm taking too long of a drag? I don't know. But it's less than 10'seacond maybe more than 5.

 

[Clydde26]

Yea perhaps you need to work on your draw technique to allow for you to take that long of a pull to alleviate your dry hits... I always take 3-4 seconds but I also vape at a lot higher temps.

 

[WharfRat1976]

On my dual vert builds I drop the wick straight down between the deck holes. I usually leave the holes exposed so the juice can percolate up to my wicks without being impeded. The biggest problem with most wicking is simply too much wick. Remove any wicking below your coils. You are probably just choking the thing out with too much wick. Make sure your wick shoulders are good and hearty on your horizontals. Try less wick and let us know. Post some build and wick pics.