carto tank question

[melloyello]

i bought a carto tank today (3.5 ml) with a single 2.0 xl carto and prepunched hole on its side.

it doesnt wick fast enough for me, i have to take VERY hard pulls (without hitting the button) to get the juice feeding the filler in the carto. i did manually drip the carto full first.

im thinking of filing on top of the hole to make it slightly bigger. how much is too much?

is the hole too big if i see bubble while taking a normal vape? many of you are using this kind of setup, do you see bubbles as you are vaping?

(im sure this is gonna be nice once i get it dialed in)

 

[Killjoy1]

You should see bubbles, they are a visual indication of the air entering the tank to replace the juice that is feeding into the carto.

What type of carto? Making the hole a little bigger may work, punching a second one on the opposite side is also an option. Are you using thick VG juice? VG will wick fine in a carto tank, but you need to have suitable juice ingress into the carto, so either more/bigger holes or thinner juice would fix this. I primarily use Boge cartos with two holes punched roughly 1/16"-3/32", or occasionally dual coils with only one hole that same size. VG works fine with the first, but dual coils I haven't had as much luck with and punching a second hole in those usually gives me leaks

 

[melloyello]

thanks! i dont really know what cartos these are...they are from greatlakesvapor and 2ohm xl cartos.

 

[richham3]

I use 2 ohm XL prepunched cartos from Hoosierecigsupply in my DCT and had the same problem until I picked up a saddle valve from Home Depot for $7 and punched a second hole in the carto. Works like a champ now. I'm using 50pg/50vg juice and one hole wasn't cutting it for me.

 

[Duekster]

You should see bubbles, they are a visual indication of the air entering the tank to replace the juice that is feeding into the carto.

What type of carto? Making the hole a little bigger may work, punching a second one on the opposite side is also an option. Are you using thick VG juice? VG will wick fine in a carto tank, but you need to have suitable juice ingress into the carto, so either more/bigger holes or thinner juice would fix this. I primarily use Boge cartos with two holes punched roughly 1/16"-3/32", or occasionally dual coils with only one hole that same size. VG works fine with the first, but dual coils I haven't had as much luck with and punching a second hole in those usually gives me leaks

I have not tried dc's but I found this to be good info.


I agree with all of what you have been told by this and other responses. You can vape thicker liquids but I always liked the performance better with 2 holes. I find 40% VG performs really well.

 

[SpiderMo]

You should see bubbles, they are a visual indication of the air entering the tank to replace the juice that is feeding into the carto.

What type of carto? Making the hole a little bigger may work, punching a second one on the opposite side is also an option. Are you using thick VG juice? VG will wick fine in a carto tank, but you need to have suitable juice ingress into the carto, so either more/bigger holes or thinner juice would fix this. I primarily use Boge cartos with two holes punched roughly 1/16"-3/32", or occasionally dual coils with only one hole that same size. VG works fine with the first, but dual coils I haven't had as much luck with and punching a second hole in those usually gives me leaks

I had the same problem with my DC's leaking when punching a second hole and with the one hole just wasn't feeding properly, I decided to get a 3ml J-tank with std boge cartos and all is well in my vaping heaven.

 

[stephpd]

Dripping into a xl carto never seems to get them filled.
I always use a syringe first to make sure they are saturated.