Coil fowlers

[MotherNatural]

It's necessary for me to use high VG juices and I recently found one I love but it's a dark juice and a coil fowler. Two days and my coil is so gunked up it's not salvageable. I use cotton wick and change it daily. I've soaked coils in everclear which didn't help. Question is…would a higher or lower resistance coil make a difference with my high VG dark sweet juices?

 

[zahzoo]

I don't think changing resistance will help much at all. This just seems to be the nature of dark/sweet VG juices. Increasing the coil temperature will most likely result in burnt taste quicker.

You didn't mention dry burning the coil when changing the wicking... that helps a lot. But after a couple of times... you're just better off rebuilding or changing out the coil.

One thing that can help is adding a couple of drops of distilled water to your juice which will thin it out some. Be careful not to thin it too much or leakage may become your next challenge.

 

[marc42]

I have a couple of NET tobacco flavours that clag up coils really quickly , if left long enough the coil gets encased in gunk.
I usually clean by repeated dry burns [no wick, use cotton too] and brushing the coil free from the ash left from the burn using water or alcohol to help free up stubborn deposits.
I super fine wire brush is also good too.
My wire gauge is .25mm so the coils can stand a bit of a prod.
not found a a magic power or R solution to the issue as yet.
So far have not needed to junk a coil.
hope some of the above is of help.

 

[MotherNatural]

Coil burning. Duh. No, I don't. But starting this moment, I will. Thank you. And I do notice as the tank gets low the juice gets thick. I usually just add more juice to thin it out but a drop of water is a great idea for these times. Thank you so much

 

[kslice917]

Looking through all of the flavors that I usually like to vape, a majority of them are dark and will gunk up my coils. I was replacing coils left and right, almost 2-3 coils/week. Then; thanks to a suggestion from a friend, I used the spray-hose attached to my kitchen sink and sprayed a steady/strong stream through it. Now my coils look brand new, and (after the wicks dried out) work like new, too! I did have one coil that increased by about .2 ohms, but I'm going to chalk that one up to age - and besides, it still works perfectly.

But yeah, I would think (if anything) that lower resistance coils might gunk up faster due to more possibility for burning. Either way, I don't think changing the resistance will affect the amount/time it takes to get gunked up.

 

[MotherNatural]

I'll try the water spray, thanks. Anything else I've used to try to manually clean off the coil has just bent and ruined it.