I am using a cotton ball wick in my rebuilt PoTank but it seems to flood if it sits for a while. Like an hour or so. Anyone else have this problem? Any ideas on how to fix? Thanks!
Cotton flooding?
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You running just a single cotton main wick?
If so, add a tiny cotton flavor wick.
If so, add a tiny cotton flavor wick.
Just tried that after your suggestion and it seems to make it worse. Although it may seem obvious to some people, could someone explain to me the about wick size? In other words, what happens if your wick is too large or too small. I would assume that a wick that is too small would cause it to flood, but do I have this backwards? I know if I have too much wick it makes the draw really hard which I do not like. However, I don't like it too airy either.
Wait, you just took a piece of cotton and rolled another tiny wick and set it on top of your main wick, then reassembled the head correct?
Don't see how this could make flooding worse.
Too large of a wick and it will get choked by the head's slots or the coil, too small and it will flood constantly.
Also look closely at the head around the wicks and see if you see any obv open gaps or holes, and adjust the fw's and make wick accordingly.
Yes, this is what I did. I had experimented with making a flavor wick when I first learned to rebuild it a few days ago. It made the draw way too tight so I didn't try it again. However, I realized later that I was using entirely too much wick. I have since made my wick smaller. I problem I was having tonight was actually on a T3S tank which is essentially the same as a ProTank as far as the coil is concerned. What's odd is that after I tried the flavor wick and it didn't help things, I took it back out and put it back together and now it seems to be fine. I'm finding that the wick size is very finicky. There seems to be very little margin of error concerning wick size.
I have my first rebuildable on the way and I'm sure everything will be much different with that. But, at this point I have already learned a lot and am ready to dive in when it gets here. I can't imagine myself buying coils again now that I know how to build them.
Cotton ball is my absolute favorite wick. There is such a fine line that has to be mastered though. What PG/VG ratio are you using?
I have two tanks that I rebuilt both with cotton ball. In one I have a 50/50 and in the other it is a 65vg/35pg from Fuzion Vapor. Last night before I went to bed, I spent some time experimenting with trimming the "wings" on the wicks. This seems to have helped as they seem fine this morning after sitting all night. I also am finding that cotton is more sensitive to laying a tank on its side.
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