Big Tanks Blow Unless You Like Vaping Boiled Out sludge Juice.

[WharfRat1976]

Great, I can pour over 5mls of my sacred juice into a tank but 2.5-3mls of it is burnt to a crisp by the time it gets to my wick and coil.

I would rather DRIP and vape clean juice than vape boiled out juice that has been cooking around my massive chimney at 200+ degrees or whatever.

These tanks are convenient. They are not very efficient.

My 3:00AM Rant

 

[juggalofisher88]

I always wonder since heat degrade nicotine. Like for example if you give your 24mg juice a hotbath it results in you having roughly 4mg nic juice.(i don't feel like sourcing my example but if you search around on the e liquid sub-forum you'll find documented text)
Anyways if you got a 5ml tank, by the time you got 2-2.5ml left wouldn't your nicotine be degraded drastically.

 

[zapped]

First, define tank.

Are you talking about a real tank or are you referring to an RBA or a clearomizer?

And as for your juice being burnt to a crisp that has nothing at all to do with the tank.

 

[mightymen]

What's the ohms of your coils and what volts/wattage setting are you using and are your wicks burnt or caked up with burnt juice also how frequently/when do you change or clean your wick and coils?

If my juice was burning that quick I would take it as some sort of warning sign and look at my wick and coils first and possible lower the voltage/wattage setting.

Heat is produced at the coil only and this is the only place that your juice can get burnt and contaminate the rest of the juice, burnt wick will contaminate your juice.

 

[Skunk!]

I use drippers exclusively, but I am not really too concerned about 5 ml of e liquid. . I just don't like drinking it...

 

[elenamylove]

I use drippers exclusively, but I am not really too concerned about 5 ml of e liquid. View attachment 389451. I just don't like drinking it...

Love the goggles Skunk!

 

[MattyTny]

Burnt to a crisp and cooking implies I'm throwing massive heat to a liquid that has enough sugar to match cola and I have a system that is heating up every drop of liquid to its gas phase at the same time.

I understand your post, you drip, you have more control. I wouldn't put cinnamon marshmallow chocolate tobacco in my KFL though, because I know it's going to look disgusting after a few ml. I've recently been vaping unflavored mic liquid out my KFL, the coil is clean as a whistle and the wick is white as can been after a week. I have the same wick going for two+ weeks right now because the vape has not dropped off the slightest bit.

I read you though, a dripper can handle it all. I vaped a dark liquid for a week out my KFL, tasted pretty good, took it apart to find an encrusted coil with some of that crust starting to get onto the wick tails. Nasty

 

[WattWick]

Are we certain we all agree on what is coil and what is wick... And which of them goes into the tank?

 

[Marc411]

I've moved away from the KF & R91 to tanks like the eXpromizer, Taifun and Rose and haven't had many issues with wicks and juice burning. All these have bigger channels and improved wicking and for my part I am getting the right amount of heat to my coils. I put 10mls of ACB through my eXpromizer and broke it down last night thinking I would have to rewick, it looked great.

I also think I was having impact by pushing the wattage up looking for more flavor and vapor. Problem is I already had what I was looking for but just trying to get more out of the topper. I've become more disciplined since going back to tanks and the results have been pretty damn good.

 

[roxynoodle]

The only cooked juice in a tank was due to the bad pos pin in my SqR clone, with resistances shooting up over 3ohms.

Not sure what's happening with yours. I have 6 rta's going right now. All the juice is clear and tasty.

 

[crxess]

Are we certain we all agree on what is coil and what is wick... And which of them goes into the tank?

Neither - at least not in my tanks. Wick and coil reside in the chimney and liquid comes to them.

Op, I'm concerned you are doing something wrong. My T3-mini's suffer your issue after a few refills - left over liquids mixing and getting nasty dark.
My Kayfuns can go 4-10+ tank fills depending on the chosen e-liquid before needing service.

 

[WattWick]

Neither - at least not in my tanks. Wick and coil reside in the chimney and liquid comes to them.

Op, I'm concerned you are doing something wrong. My T3-mini's suffer your issue after a few refills - left over liquids mixing and getting nasty dark.
My Kayfuns can go 4-10+ tank fills depending on the chosen e-liquid before needing service.

You may have a cool atty, but your generalization skills are lacking

I once used cotton in a dripper. Caught fire. Cotton and drippers are utter junk.

 

[greyknight]

I think the op is referring to the juice that is stored around the chimney not anything to do with the wick/coil. As the unit heats up (chain vaping?) the chimney would too. While I see the logic, I've never had mine get anywhere near hot enough to be a problem.

 

[wheelie]

my 30mm tank, I dry wash, burn and install new wick after every tank full. My 22mm tanks Iwash, dry burn and install new wick every second or third tank full. Just something we have to live with

 

[crxess]

You may have a cool atty, but your generalization skills are lacking

I once used cotton in a dripper. Caught fire. Cotton and drippers are utter junk.

Confused......... But at my age that's nothing unusual
You can't expect a lot from me. Like a young child, and old man's mind wanders easily.
If you Burn cotton, DO NOT TRY Rayon - it will disappear. Don't ask how I know.

I think the op is referring to the juice that is stored around the chimney not anything to do with the wick/coil. As the unit heats up (chain vaping?) the chimney would too. While I see the logic, I've never had mine get anywhere near hot enough to be a problem.

Yea, I think someone is either not taking a break or has way to hot/tight of a build. My Orchid runs .5ohm duals and never boils anything.
The Kayfuns barely get warm.

Haven't actually set any drippers on fire yet and kind of hope I don't.

 

[jersey_emt]

The only way cotton will catch on fire is if you have a huge hot spot and/or your wick is way too dry.

 

[WattWick]

Confused......... But at my age that's nothing unusual
You can't expect a lot from me. Like a young child, and old man's mind wanders easily.
If you Burn cotton, DO NOT TRY Rayon - it will disappear. Don't ask how I know.
(...)

It was just an example of my excellent generalization skills. I'm not really burning cotton. Got you good, tho. That's just how good I am at wild generalizations.

 

[roxynoodle]

I never burn juice running dual coils at high power either. I do tend to dry burn coils and rewick every 2-4 tanks though depending on how things look.

 

[elenamylove]

Yeah, would be nice to know what the OP was using as a "Big Tank"

 

[WharfRat1976]

I think the op is referring to the juice that is stored around the chimney not anything to do with the wick/coil. As the unit heats up (chain vaping?) the chimney would too. While I see the logic, I've never had mine get anywhere near hot enough to be a problem.

The guy with 26 posts gets it.

I'm talking about any rta, rba with a tank that has a larger chimney taking up almost the lower half of the tank, The Lemo, The Nautilus, Foggers, KFL+s...all of them...Aquas....It does not matter what's inside the chimney. It can be a 1.6 ohm build or a .6 ohm build. I do chain vape. Anything coming into contact with the chimney, ie; JUICE, is getting heated by the exterior layer of the chimney and heats. Then it cools then it heats then it cools, etc. By the time this boiled out juice reaches the wick and coil it is so degraded and nasty I end up pouring it out instead of letting it run into the chamber to be atomized. The hotter the build the more heat gets applied to the juice sitting in the tank wrapped around the chimney. It's a waste of juice to me. My wicks and coils are perfectly installed. I use KGD and Rayon and the wicks are always clean as when they went in after running 10mls through them. Yea the coils can get gunky depending on the juice I am running through it.

Everyone is all over these larger tank rba's and rta's but what good are they if all the juice is degraded by the time you vape it. The first half of the tank vapes perfect as the juice has not been exposed to all that heat for a longer duration. The 2nd half, not so much.