Hi Nicole
I am also fairly new at this but what I've experienced is that usually bad taste comes back to my power settings, and it changes from one juice to the other. Now if I change juice I'll crank the wattage down to about something less than 10 and try it there. I don't expect much and don't usually get much at that power. Then I start cranking it up anywhere from 5 to 10 watts at a time. As I go up in power the vape starts giving vapor but it is very wet, gurgly, and spitty, the taste starts to come through though. Further up on power the wetness starts to diminish, the clouds get better and the taste improves. Keep going and the vapor starts to get dry and the taste seems to begin to diminish. Higher still and the vapor is dry, getting warm, and the taste starts to disappear. Any higher and the vapor is too hot and the taste is bad. So you try to find the sweet spot for best taste/vapor combo and it will change, at least for me, from juice to juice.
I've learned that with 1.0 ohms I'm usually aiming for 10 to 18 watts, 0.5 ohms 12 to 25 watts, .4 ohms 20 to 45 watts, and .2 ohms 40 to 60 watts, but these are just my guidelines and it always comes back to taste and clouds in deciding what's best.
Of course there is also a lot of other factors involved but I'm still a newbie and won't try and comment on those. I'm still trying to get consistency from tank to tank and juice to juice but experimenting is fun. The one thing I've found is I get better clouds and taste, generally, from higher resistance builds/coils (1.0 ohms) than I do from the sub-ohms. I thought maybe I was doing something wrong since all the experienced people seem to chase lower resistance set ups, that was until I read this which made it much more understandable, at least for me it did.
My thoughts about sub-ohm and latest VV/VW devices...
Cheers and good luck with it.
