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been pretty happy with my protank. I have noticed that I will get a few dud coils that don't seem to taste well, maybe I will try some of these tricks on those. thanks
I can also vouch for rebuilding Protanks with cotton.
It was tricky for me at first, trying to find the right amount to roll into a wick.
There were times that i was impatient and tried pulling the cotton instead of threading it through..
and as you've guess it resulted in messing up the coil in the process. haha
I get great vapor production and flavor now that I've started rebuilding with 30 awg kanthal and cotton and I'm only currently using an ego twist!
As with certain liquids, i still do get a bit of leakage. But I have a feeling it's also because I bored out the airholes a bit.
It was tricky for me at first, trying to find the right amount to roll into a wick.
There were times that i was impatient and tried pulling the cotton instead of threading it through..
and as you've guess it resulted in messing up the coil in the process. haha
I get great vapor production and flavor now that I've started rebuilding with 30 awg kanthal and cotton and I'm only currently using an ego twist!
As with certain liquids, i still do get a bit of leakage. But I have a feeling it's also because I bored out the airholes a bit.
With cotton, less is more. I followed Rip Trippers video on YouTube about rebuilding micro coils and I'm using nothing but cotton and I love it. I replace the cotton about once every three to four days because it takes about a minute, and am getting great clouds and amazing vapor.
Quick and effective fix for me, just take the standard atomizers, remove the gasket and put some cotton from a cotton swab on there after rolling it into the shape of a wick. I saw another member post in a different thread about this idea and thus far it works great
Me too!! However I wasn't so successful haha I couldn't get mine to fire, tried 2 different coils. I think they kept shorting out, possibly from touching the sides. I dunno, it's really annoying though and I want it to work.
I'm going to try it again but maybe use 30g instead of 28 kanthal.
Wish me luck!!
**update** so I tried it again with 30g wire, it at least worked this time...firing up how it should, except I'm getting the gurgle and it's spitting (apparently no one taught this coil any manners! It's rude to spit! Hehe) any thoughts on fixing my issues??
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on my first attempt with micro coils I had the same problem, tons of spitting. I added a flavor wick and it got better. still unsure what I did wrong, but the following attempts gave me much much better results, and no spitting at all. yet I still had a bit of gurgling sometimes.
on the recent builds I haven't seen any leaking, it's not perfect yet, nor as consistent as I would hope, but it's getting better each time.
what are you using for wicks? I am still experimenting with cotton, didn't like the first attempts. Got good results with silica, currently I am using 4x 1mm inside the coil and 2x 1mm as flavor wick. working well for me for now. most of my juice is 70pg/30vg. I try to avoid leaving any spaces near the shaft/silicone grommet, while not over packing the coil (hope this makes sense).
one thing I have been trying to pay attention to is to adjust my inhale depending on how the vape sounds. if it starts to sound gurgly I try to adjust the way I vape to fix the issue, seems to help a lot.
My opinion, take it for what its worth, is that the nano coil is not a good route to go for the protank coils (awesome for rba dragon coil builds though!).
The reasoning is that you HAVE to use flavor wicks when you do, the internal diameter of the nano coil is so small that a single wick will leave gaps between the top seal and cup, leading to leaking, gurgling, etc.
My experience with flavor wicks is that they mute the flavor, and reduce vapor production significantly, so I now aim for builds that wont need them. Like many here on the ecf, I started out using riptrippers method, over time I tinkered with different builds and realized quickly that building to not use flavor wicks makes a HUGE difference to the whole experience.
IIRC riptrippers uses a 20 gauge needle to wrap his coils. Instead of doing this, use a small screwdriver or something similar to wrap on, making a comparatively much bigger coil. I wrap on a 1.5ish mm screwdriver. 10 wraps with 28 gauge hits about 1.6 ohms. this leaves you enough space to place a full cotton wick, which fills the holes enough to not require any flavor wicks.
Back to the OP.
My experiences with silica in protanks have not been wonderful. That said, I'm gonna give this a shot, maybe it will revive my faith!
The reasoning is that you HAVE to use flavor wicks when you do, the internal diameter of the nano coil is so small that a single wick will leave gaps between the top seal and cup, leading to leaking, gurgling, etc.
My experience with flavor wicks is that they mute the flavor, and reduce vapor production significantly, so I now aim for builds that wont need them. Like many here on the ecf, I started out using riptrippers method, over time I tinkered with different builds and realized quickly that building to not use flavor wicks makes a HUGE difference to the whole experience.
IIRC riptrippers uses a 20 gauge needle to wrap his coils. Instead of doing this, use a small screwdriver or something similar to wrap on, making a comparatively much bigger coil. I wrap on a 1.5ish mm screwdriver. 10 wraps with 28 gauge hits about 1.6 ohms. this leaves you enough space to place a full cotton wick, which fills the holes enough to not require any flavor wicks.
Back to the OP.
My experiences with silica in protanks have not been wonderful. That said, I'm gonna give this a shot, maybe it will revive my faith!
Easier to show you. Do a search on Youtube for "Kanger Protank 2 Rebuild", you'll get tons of results.
I can't do silica on my protanks anymore after turning to cotton. The only one I can still use silica is the PT 3. Maybe because there is so much juice hitting them it covers the silica taste. For me, it takes the cotton on my rebuilds some juice in period,( juice in instead of saying burn in.) before the cotton flavor goes away and it's either because I should boil them or it takes some time for the cotton to completely saturate which I'm leaning towards. The cotton wicks were ok right after making them and awesome the next day. The flavor has almost doubled and the th and vape cloud are about 25% better. This is a basic 5 winds on a 5/64 bit bringing a steady 2.4 to 2.5 ohm. Running on an Evod and MVP 2. I have some drip atos coming this week and can't wait to vape those.
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