Bad Tasting Vapes

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ndorling

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Hi There, I have been reading the forums trying to find possible solutions to my problem. I have been vaping for 3 weeks now. I started with a vaper empire vantage series vaporisor and loved it! I have just bought a Tesla Stealth with a shadow tank and .6ohm resistance and everything is tasting like crap now. My partner is saying that they taste fine and there is nothing wrong with them but to me they all taste pretty much the same (except for some strong flavours but they come through as bad too) and REALLY bad. It has pretty much been from day one. 60/40 PG/VG and 50/50 PG/VG juices from herbal tides so far. I have actually gone back to using the more subtle tasting vantage vaporiser and the same flavours are nice in that (so not vapors tongue?). I'm not sure what is going on. It can't be the atomizer or anything cause its brand new only 3 days old! Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Nicole
 
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The Empire looks to be a 3.7 volt to 4.2 volt battery with no adjustments for voltage or watts. The Tesla can be set up to 100 watts. What wattage are you using? You should always prime your coils and start out on a low wattage and work your way up till you get it tweaked to your desired setting. All juices will taste different in devices and on different settings. I am sure someone else will come along and can give you more answers. Only 3 weeks into vaping you need to learn all about ohms, voltage and wattage. Good luck and VAPE ON:vapor:
 

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Maybe Herbal Tides are not to your taste?
You could stick with what you like but having looked at the offering from your existing company I am depressed for you being stuck between a rock & a hard place. Unsurprisingly, Vaper Empire are following the tradition of making the most of nicotine laws to bump the prices up on hardware; which to the best of my knowledge has nothing to do with Aussie laws. I would join up on Aussie Vapers and save yourself from these thieves.
 

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Txaggiesaunt had some good suggestions. Taste can depend on the wattage/voltage setting of your device. Change those around and see if you can find the right spot to bring back the good flavor. Also, if you burned the wick, that can be a big influence on the taste.
 
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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. :)
 

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Wow, thanks everyone for the replies, wasn't expecting so much help so soon :) The Tesla Stealth is a one button function mod, it is 100W but this is not a setting I can change so, unfortunately, the comments suggesting changing my wattage is not an option. Thank you, Brother Bob I will take a look at those links today. My partner did suggest that maybe Herbal Tides just isn't for me so we have another juice on the way from a different place. I will admit I have tried a lot of juices in the Tesla in a short time so maybe that is why but the thing that gets me is my partner thinks they taste fine and likes them so can't be burned wick or too many flavours meshing together? He has a Target Mini on the way so I will try the ceramic coil in mine and see if its just something like I don't like the Shadow tank. The taste it leaves is sort of like a morning breath taste and the taste I get while actually vaping is hard to explain but it's not pleasant.
Thanks again for all the help, looking forward to hearing more suggestions
 
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