Burnt Flavor?

[P-Funk]

I just got my first e-cig: a Vapor King from Vapor 4 Life.

I have a question:

After about 10 minutes of use, one of my cartomizers started to produce what I can only describe as a "burnt flavor." Is this normal? The flavor was mint (an excellent flavor before this development, BTW) so I am fairly certain this is not an intended part of the juice flavor.

Does anyone have any idea why this happens?

 

[Scottbee]

There are a couple of things that come to mind:

1) You are vaping "too hard" on the unit.. not giving it a little time to cool down between "hits".

2) You received a cartomizer that was "underfilled" from the factory. Rare, but it can happen.

 

[mwa102464]

it's the wicking material around the wire on the atty, sometimes they cand give you a burnt taste, some people are removing it

 

[cappuccina]

But if you remove the wicking material, isn't the flavor going to, and also wouldn't there be more of a chance of it "burning out" faster as well?

 

[mwa102464]

people who drip use this method

 

[cappuccina]

....got it....I'm relatively new to all of this....sorry....;-)

 

[FadedLine]

Wow you can drip with cartomizers? Just pull the material out and drip? I will have to try that.

 

[Scottbee]

it's the wicking material around the wire on the atty, sometimes they cand give you a burnt taste, some people are removing it

Ummm... this is a 2-piece PV.... not a 3-piece. (It's a KR808D-1)

 

[quasimod]

But if you remove the wicking material, isn't the flavor going to, and also wouldn't there be more of a chance of it "burning out" faster as well?

It won't work at all if you pull out the filler, previous poster is thinking of a 3-piece. If you drip with a 2-piece unit, like the one you own, it is done directly onto the filler.

 

[mwa102464]

correct quasimod, but I have been using a kr808d-1 as one of my mods, and with my passthrough plugged into my computer and have one next to the bed and on both have been using the tailpipe technique which I have found to really be cool. pop off the white ring on the top, remove rubber inner grommit and put the factory condom cap over it with a tiny round hole puched threw the center, remove and dripp onto the filler, this technique has really produced for me and is a keeper, the cartos last quite a long time using this method, anyway just something cool to try for newbies that havent used this yet..!!!

 

[quasimod]

it's the wicking material [...] some people are removing it

And this works? I've dissected a couple of KR8's before, and destroyed the heating element while removing the filler material both times. I've got some to experiment with...