As a new vaper this was my very first hardware purchase. I opted for X2 batteries, 5 XL clearomizers and 10 blank XL cartos. I've been thoroughly impressed with the SI product line and customer service thus far. Having said that, I'm running into a few issues with the new XL cartos. I've had 3 clearos and several XL cartos on rotation duty over the last 11 days and must first state that the clearos and batteries have been exceptional for me.
On the other hand, 4 of the 8 XL cartos I've used so far seem to have issues:
2 of them would not absorb any juice and the few drops I've poured in the top just sat there and pooled; an hours later the 'pooling' was still there. The filler on these seemed extremely compacted when probed with a paper clip and appeared to have a 'skin' on the top that prevented entry of any liquid. When I attempted to fill these using the condom method from the bottom, as an alternate solution, they did not seem to 'absorb' the liquid very well despite overnight soaking and gave off a burnt taste from the get go.
The other 2 seem to have the opposite problem. Liquid would absorb from the top but almost immediately run out through the bottom despite careful application of the drops . No matter how long I let them sit trying to absorb the juice they just did not seem to want to take any in and peed it out the bottom. These also tasted burnt when attempting a few vapes.
I think I'm now very familiar with the filling process and in fact, the other 4 cartos work perfectly and when they do, they're great!
All my juices are 70/30 pg/vg and do not range significantly in color or thickness.
I'll be ordering the clearos again that's for certain but hesitate on the XL cartos even though I like them, need them for their portability, and when working properly....they rock. In fact I've put through around 10ml of juice on one of them thus far and it still performs like a champ.
I'm really not interested in replacements, refunds, etc., as the cost of these is hardly worth bothering about for me. What I'm after is any insight on the inconsistencies I've experienced with these as a 50% failure rate is not something I think SI would find acceptable. Each of the 2 failures are from different packs. I was thinking perhaps a bad initial batch? I'd like to order more of these if this is a comparatively rare problem or something that has been/will be corrected.
Anyone else with similar experiences with these? Is SI aware of any generic problem with the blank XL's?
On the other hand, 4 of the 8 XL cartos I've used so far seem to have issues:
2 of them would not absorb any juice and the few drops I've poured in the top just sat there and pooled; an hours later the 'pooling' was still there. The filler on these seemed extremely compacted when probed with a paper clip and appeared to have a 'skin' on the top that prevented entry of any liquid. When I attempted to fill these using the condom method from the bottom, as an alternate solution, they did not seem to 'absorb' the liquid very well despite overnight soaking and gave off a burnt taste from the get go.
The other 2 seem to have the opposite problem. Liquid would absorb from the top but almost immediately run out through the bottom despite careful application of the drops . No matter how long I let them sit trying to absorb the juice they just did not seem to want to take any in and peed it out the bottom. These also tasted burnt when attempting a few vapes.
I think I'm now very familiar with the filling process and in fact, the other 4 cartos work perfectly and when they do, they're great!
All my juices are 70/30 pg/vg and do not range significantly in color or thickness.
I'll be ordering the clearos again that's for certain but hesitate on the XL cartos even though I like them, need them for their portability, and when working properly....they rock. In fact I've put through around 10ml of juice on one of them thus far and it still performs like a champ.
I'm really not interested in replacements, refunds, etc., as the cost of these is hardly worth bothering about for me. What I'm after is any insight on the inconsistencies I've experienced with these as a 50% failure rate is not something I think SI would find acceptable. Each of the 2 failures are from different packs. I was thinking perhaps a bad initial batch? I'd like to order more of these if this is a comparatively rare problem or something that has been/will be corrected.
Anyone else with similar experiences with these? Is SI aware of any generic problem with the blank XL's?
I would recommend anyone having issues with these to contact CS even if you don't want to hassle with replacing them. The reason is because if people don't let them know that there is an issue they have no way to figure out exactly what the problem is and get it resolved.
