DCT - should there be slush?

[nuggetz]

Whenever I'm done filling a carto, the top of the filler looks slushy. I picked up my first DCT (SmokTech) and I put as many drops as it would hold and then placed it into the tank and filled it up. Its working fine but I'm noticing that the filler doesn't look wet on the top. I'm using Boba's Bounty which is red and I can see that there is very little showing at the top under the drip tip. Is this normal? I did put a few notches into the carto as recommended by some folks here but I can't tell if its working correctly.

 

[Shortstuff116]

I'm not the most experienced with tanks, but I have quite a few of those and find that with any of my juices (which are all 50/50 PG/VG) the top of my cartos always look dry. Not bone dry, but not wet-looking either, yet they work just fine for me. I use the Boge 3.0 ohm cartos (I cut all my tanks down so they fit) and I also use a Dremel tool and give each one 2 good slots using the exact same procedure that Pbusardo shows in his video (here). Also, if you take a fairly strong dry vape (without pushing your vape button) you may see a bubble of air or two immediately coming out of the holes/slots in your carto. This shows that at least the juice is getting inside the carto, and you may have to do this dry vape every once in a while just to make sure your carto is wet enough.

 

[mwa102464]

You may want to poke a bigger hole in your cartos for thicker VG juices or slot them, you can also always drip from the top to get the carto wet again, if the carto is pure white on top your not getting enough juice to it plain and simple.

 

[Creniker]

You may want to poke a bigger hole in your cartos for thicker VG juices or slot them, you can also always drip from the top to get the carto wet again, if the carto is pure white on top your not getting enough juice to it plain and simple.

Not true necessarily. When ever I used tanks, the ratio seemed pretty close to perfect, as my top would always be white and dry, but the vapor heavy and flavorful. The tank was feeding exactly how much it needed to the coil.

 

[nuggetz]

Not true necessarily. When ever I used tanks, the ratio seemed pretty close to perfect, as my top would always be white and dry, but the vapor heavy and flavorful. The tank was feeding exactly how much it needed to the coil.

Thats what I was thinking too. On my 2nd carto I just left it as is with the super tiny hole it already had and it seemed to be working ok. What I think is more important is how much air is getting in from the battery end. I tried plugging the middle of the carto with a small piece of toothpick and the draw was much tighter and as a result more liquid was being pulled in.

I finally decided to just follow everyone's advice and notch a secondary hole on the other side of the existing hole to be sure and it still seems fine. One thing I haven't seen are the tiny bubbles I've read people describe that are supposed to come out of the hole.

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[Square1]

Boba's is my favorite vape as well, but it is so thick that it is hard to keep your tank filled. on the advice of a buddy I dilute my Boba's a little bit less than 10% with Vodka. It helps thin it out a bit, so the absorption rate is a little easier, otherwise I find myself every 10 minutes taking monster priming hits just to reload it. Example I buy the 100 ml bottles, I will throw 15 ml is a walk around bottle then add 1 ml of Vodka, that is the ratio that I use. Try not to thin it out more than that because you will start to mute your flavors. Hope that helps.
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[nuggetz]

Why vodka instead of distilled water or something?

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[washvap]

Whenever I'm done filling a carto, the top of the filler looks slushy. I picked up my first DCT (SmokTech) and I put as many drops as it would hold and then placed it into the tank and filled it up. Its working fine but I'm noticing that the filler doesn't look wet on the top. I'm using Boba's Bounty which is red and I can see that there is very little showing at the top under the drip tip. Is this normal? I did put a few notches into the carto as recommended by some folks here but I can't tell if its working correctly.

It's normal for the top of the filler material of the carto to look dry. This is true with both tanks and bottom feeders. As long as half or more of the carto is saturated then you should be fine. There are times where it can taste dry. All you need to do is either let it rest or do a few primer puffs to get the juice flowing. Although, if your noticing that this doesn't help then you need to either punch an extra hole or make the slot a little bigger. This is important with juices that are high in VG like Boba's.

 

[nuggetz]

Anyone ever try punching the hole near the top of the tank? I might try this as it would be a good way to let a little juice in near the top. Cartos taste so good when you top them off so I wonder if a hole on the top would help. I'm thinking that you wouldn't need to have the tank completely full as the liquid would be towards the top while you took a drag and get sucked in the hole as long as you held your pv up a little. At the very least you could control the wetness.

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[donnah]

Anyone ever try punching the hole near the top of the tank? I might try this as it would be a good way to let a little juice in near the top. Cartos taste so good when you top them off so I wonder if a hole on the top would help. I'm thinking that you wouldn't need to have the tank completely full as the liquid would be towards the top while you took a drag and get sucked in the hole as long as you held your pv up a little. At the very least you could control the wetness.

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I've read where people have tried that and it messes up the air pressure and will flood the carto and dump it's juice out the batt end. The top is not supposed to look wet or slushy. I use tanks with fill hole and a screw.. if my tank needs help wicking, I either take "dry puffs" or just take the screw out and let some air in for a couple seconds.

 

[Shortstuff116]

Anyone ever try punching the hole near the top of the tank? I might try this as it would be a good way to let a little juice in near the top. Cartos taste so good when you top them off so I wonder if a hole on the top would help. I'm thinking that you wouldn't need to have the tank completely full as the liquid would be towards the top while you took a drag and get sucked in the hole as long as you held your pv up a little. At the very least you could control the wetness.

I also wondered this same thing at one time and gave it a lot of thought. But the more I thought about it, the less I liked the idea. My thinking is that with each vape, juice is being consumed from the filler material. At the same time, a very slight vacuum is created between the inside of the carto to the inside of the tank. More like a lower pressure inside the carto, this means that the pressure inside the tank is slightly higher (extremely minuscule but it's there). Physics being what it is, now the higher pressure inside the tank will force juice through the hole(s) or slot(s) in the carto to equal it's pressure with that inside the carto.

I always carry my PV (Provari) upright and set it down standing up as well. This means that any juice inside the carto is affected by gravity and settles towards the bottom of the carto. If I look inside my cartos, they look somewhat dry at the top. If I had a hole at the bottom of the carto and another one near the top, I would only think that there would be a fairly equal equalizing of pressures (mentioned earlier) with each hole. But once the fluid level dropped below the top hole, then the process of equalizing pressures would seem to be easier via the top hole, which now has no fluid to draw in - only air inside the tank. Pretty much like following the path of least resistance, less fluid would be drawn in through the bottom hole.

This is just my thoughts on it and being that I know very little about such things, it's just a very uneducated guess on my part. So I could be totally wrong in my thinking here.