Sunday I put a new standard 2.2-2.4 coil in my tank that I use for Tribeca. It was set aside to wick for over an hour on it's side while I was cleaning, refilling etc my other tanks. When I went to draw on it, burnt juice taste. So I'm thinking it's not wicking well, I look and compare it to my other Tritons and the wicks look a little pinched when compared to my other ones. So I think I'll loosen the condom just a touch to allow it to wick better, now flooding. LOL I put the condom back down and now back to burnt juice. The only way I'm getting this coil to work right is to draw on it a couple of seconds to force pull more juice into the wick before firing the coil but I still have to be careful or I get a burnt taste. It's almost like it is just firing too hot. I don't have an ohm meter to test this though.
No way to say all this without sounding like constant innuendos. Honestly, none intended (this time
). First off, a big +1 for Dave's comment on being prudent and checking the coil spacing and it's placement in the chimney before filling. A couple of seconds with anything thin to arrange them "just-so" can't hurt....I've used everything from dental picks, to toothpicks to safety pins, to even the little thingys that you stab into the ends of an ear of corn on the cob to adjust my coils. I'm a bit ana...erm...Type-A about things like that! I like things to be the best they can!
As far as the condoms (you could've called it a silicone sleeve!!
)....I've found two things that could be the culprit of your problem. 1.
IF you pull it down from the bottom onto a dry chimney (yes, I know...) the sleeve can stretch and actually impinge on the flavor wick due to it being longer than intended. Solution: (again, Dave's): lube the chimney a little and only push it down from the top. 2.
IF the silicone sleeve still appears to be pinching the wick (I've seen this), take a pair of nail clippers or fine snips and cut very small reliefs into the sides of it where it contacts the wicks. Both have helped me resolve you mentioned problem. One other time it was simply operator error and the dang head wasn't tightened enough in the tank (they can back out
just enough sometimes when taking off the tip to fill/refill if there's ample friction between the two.
Man, that was
absolutely loaded with really dirty sounding things....and I even TRIED not to do that!
Again, all the seemingly blatant innuendos were not intentional (for once)!!
