Back when I had an eGo Twist and my first Protank 2, I would use 2.8 ohm heads on 4.0ish volts. Replaced my wicks with rolled cotton and the wick would normally last me 4-5 days, sometimes even a week off the same strand of rolled cotton. Used 70/30 juice of key lime menthol, never had much of a problem
Now with my new VV/VW mod, I'm using the same ohm head (2.8..and new coil head of course) on a Protank 2, and using cotton wicks with the stock silica flavor wicks. But this time, I'm having to change the flavor wicks and coil wick almost daily...they keep having black burn spots, and I can detect the taste from them on each draw.
Easy fix right..."you must be using more power than the coil can stand!" right?
Well...funny thing is, I really don't think I am. I've been alternating between the 4.0 voltage setting, and around 6.0-6.5 wattage setting (that's about equivalent to 4-4.1 volts I believe). I'll get a good vape for the first 20 or so pulls, than it just starts tasting funny. But when i go down to 3.7 volts, or about 5.0-5.5 wattage, the vape doesn't seem that good anymore, and my vape cloud and throat hit is much milder. It's like there is no happy medium; and the chip in the mod shows clear as day the coil is at 2.8 ohms. Could it be my mod is putting off more power than what my eGo was, even though im using the same voltage/power settings?
The user guide for the STM-1 states that the mod gives off more power than most other 18650 mods, but for a guy like me, that's a very vague statement. This is my first mod in general, let alone one that uses the big ... battery that is the 18650.
I'm kind of bummed i drop $80 on a nice mod just to find out my $22 Twist did it better. I feel like I'm just missing something!
Now with my new VV/VW mod, I'm using the same ohm head (2.8..and new coil head of course) on a Protank 2, and using cotton wicks with the stock silica flavor wicks. But this time, I'm having to change the flavor wicks and coil wick almost daily...they keep having black burn spots, and I can detect the taste from them on each draw.
Easy fix right..."you must be using more power than the coil can stand!" right?
Well...funny thing is, I really don't think I am. I've been alternating between the 4.0 voltage setting, and around 6.0-6.5 wattage setting (that's about equivalent to 4-4.1 volts I believe). I'll get a good vape for the first 20 or so pulls, than it just starts tasting funny. But when i go down to 3.7 volts, or about 5.0-5.5 wattage, the vape doesn't seem that good anymore, and my vape cloud and throat hit is much milder. It's like there is no happy medium; and the chip in the mod shows clear as day the coil is at 2.8 ohms. Could it be my mod is putting off more power than what my eGo was, even though im using the same voltage/power settings?
The user guide for the STM-1 states that the mod gives off more power than most other 18650 mods, but for a guy like me, that's a very vague statement. This is my first mod in general, let alone one that uses the big ... battery that is the 18650.
I'm kind of bummed i drop $80 on a nice mod just to find out my $22 Twist did it better. I feel like I'm just missing something!
