Hello. Long time Vapor, mostly a lurker here.
I'm got myself the Vaporshark rdna 40, and I am so happy! Ok, there's some issues with the chip, and nobody wants to tell me what is/isn't a known issue with it. But that's a different thread.
My question here is the coils. Mine keep getting gunky really quickly. I can wrap a kanthal 3mm 6/5 wrap, wick it with organic cotton, and run it on my mech mod for a week easy. I will re-wick if I need to change the flavor, and the previous flavor was really strong, but otherwise, I only re-wick every week or so to clean it up. I'll re-coil every other week.
With my nickel coils, I'm building a 3mm, 10/9 wrap, organic cotton in a Kayfun lite V2 clone set at 420 degrees and 14 to 16 watts. It's an awesome vape! But it will only last a day and a half give or take. The flavor first mutes, then turns foul. Kind of like a faint burnt taste even though nothing is supposed to be burning. One day, I pushed it too far, and the funky coil turned my clear juice a nasty tobacco brown. I took it apart, and the coil was so caked with gunk that you could scrape off the buildup. I didn't even try to re-wick that. I rebuilt it, and kept a better eye on it. And let's be honest, re-wicking a nickel coil is a giant pain in the posterior. It's too soft, and pulls out of shape so easy. It may be easier to defuse a bomb than to pull the cotton out of a nickel coil.
Now, I'm a data collector. I keep notes and track trends in performance and behavior of all my kit. I cannot find any sort of variable that affects how fast the coil gunks up. Basically, I'll give re-wicking a shot on a daily basis, but as often as not, I wind up with a rebuild.
So, the question is, can anyone think of anything I'm missing that's causing my coils to gunk so bad?
I want to compare notes on a few other things that seem to be altered by the temp limiting feature in the dna 40. But this is my priority at the moment if anyone can give me a clue.
Thanks!
I'm got myself the Vaporshark rdna 40, and I am so happy! Ok, there's some issues with the chip, and nobody wants to tell me what is/isn't a known issue with it. But that's a different thread.
My question here is the coils. Mine keep getting gunky really quickly. I can wrap a kanthal 3mm 6/5 wrap, wick it with organic cotton, and run it on my mech mod for a week easy. I will re-wick if I need to change the flavor, and the previous flavor was really strong, but otherwise, I only re-wick every week or so to clean it up. I'll re-coil every other week.
With my nickel coils, I'm building a 3mm, 10/9 wrap, organic cotton in a Kayfun lite V2 clone set at 420 degrees and 14 to 16 watts. It's an awesome vape! But it will only last a day and a half give or take. The flavor first mutes, then turns foul. Kind of like a faint burnt taste even though nothing is supposed to be burning. One day, I pushed it too far, and the funky coil turned my clear juice a nasty tobacco brown. I took it apart, and the coil was so caked with gunk that you could scrape off the buildup. I didn't even try to re-wick that. I rebuilt it, and kept a better eye on it. And let's be honest, re-wicking a nickel coil is a giant pain in the posterior. It's too soft, and pulls out of shape so easy. It may be easier to defuse a bomb than to pull the cotton out of a nickel coil.
Now, I'm a data collector. I keep notes and track trends in performance and behavior of all my kit. I cannot find any sort of variable that affects how fast the coil gunks up. Basically, I'll give re-wicking a shot on a daily basis, but as often as not, I wind up with a rebuild.
So, the question is, can anyone think of anything I'm missing that's causing my coils to gunk so bad?
I want to compare notes on a few other things that seem to be altered by the temp limiting feature in the dna 40. But this is my priority at the moment if anyone can give me a clue.
Thanks!
