Cartos and tanks

[Jpb364]

How often does a carto have to be replaced vs a clearo coil?

 

[serenity21899]

How often does a carto have to be replaced vs a clearo coil?

Results vary greatly, but I get about a week from high PG clear juice. High VG and dark juice will shorten the carto life.

 

[Krewlife]

well i'm sold i got my ibtanked (22m XL,Bold Black Swirl/with green caps) in the mail primed the carto and started vaping. i'm getting great flavor and some good vapor.

i'll try to get a pic up of this bad boy when i get a chance

 

[Krewlife]

Question: i know when you prime a carto it has to have a slushy type look on top when its ready... after taking quite a few puffs while in the ibtank i noticed the top of the carto doesnt have a slushy look anymore? is that normal? is the liquid not feedinto the carto well?

 

[Baditude]

Question: i know when you prime a carto it has to have a slushy type look on top when its ready... after taking quite a few puffs while in the ibtank i noticed the top of the carto doesnt have a slushy look anymore? is that normal? is the liquid not feedinto the carto well?

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What you are observing is normal and expected. Even after proper priming, after several puffs the top of the polyfill will have the appearance of being dry.

The above image is a cutaway diagram of a punched cartomizer. The red arrows represent juice flow and blue arrows air flow. Suction pulls the juice down to the bottom of the carto where the heating coil is, as well as pulling juice from the tank. Wicking from the tank will not keep up with keeping the top of the polyfill wet, but it doesn't have to.

As long as the polyfill around the heating coil stays wet, there will be no burning of the filler.

 

[ubercrow]

Do you change the carto if you want to vape a different juice?

 

[Baditude]

Do you change the carto if you want to vape a different juice?

Generally speaking, one flavor per cartomizer. If the "new" flavor is similar to the "first" flavor (fruit for a fruit), you could just refill the tank with the new flavor and not change the carto.

But if an entirely different flavor, say from a tobacco or coffee flavor to a fruit flavor, no that probably won't work. The polyfill tends to retain the flavoring of the initial flavor, even after boiling or whatever method one might use to recycle cartomizers.