Do certain flavors gum up coils?

[Ren79]

I've never experienced this before, but this weekend I bought a Two Peas Caramel Coffee Bean bottle of juice. After using it for half a day, I noticed my draw and vape clouds were getting really thin. Making sure it wasnt the coils, I replaced it, and problem went away until another couple hours later, when it started becoming a little harder to draw, and the vape clouds were thinning out again.

The juice was really dark, so I'm assuming there may be more material in it that may cause gumming up? Is this the case? If so, then how do you enjoy such flavors when this keeps happening?

 

[Ren79]

FYI, I have a Kanger Protank Mini II and at the time I was running a 1.8 sized coil.

 

[xtwosm0kesx]

Yes.

Generally darker and/or heavily flavored juices will have a tendency to gunk coils up pretty quickly. Unfortunately theres not a lot you can do besides increase your maintenance to keep your heads working properly. If you use that juice you will likely need to regularly "dry burn" your heads to clean/de-gunk them.

This video gives you an overview of how to dry burn PT/EVOD/PT mini heads:

Vapor Lady Lounge Kanger eVod, Protank, MT3, Cleaning and Burning The Atomizer for Better Vaping - YouTube

 

[Baditude]

Darker, sweeter, and thicker flavors tend to gum up the heating coils. You will need to learn how to do dry burns of your coils and do primer puffs like a pipe smoker does.

 

[Ren79]

thanks all.

 

[emus]

I would dedicate at least one atty to unflavored e-liq. It burns very clean and will be there when your other coils are fouled with gunk.

 

[NicoHolic]

To use dark, gunky juices:

Step 1. Get a rebuildable dripping atomizer (RDA), a 100 foot spool of 30 AWG resistance wire for $8.00 from Temco, and some organic cotton balls. Learn how to wrap and install micro coils into the RDA, and wick them with cotton. Learn to drip. When they gunk, take about 60 seconds to pull and dispose of the old cotton, dry burn the coil, and rewick with clean cotton, and you're back in business.

Step 2. Get a REO Grand with bottom-fed Reomizer RDA and drip one-handed, all day long.

Hope this helps.

 

[Margate69]

Yup. Dark ones and banana flavors send my coils to the grave all the time. I have to swap them much more often than the other flavors I have.

 

[Cloudlife]

I completely agree with @nicoholic !!

 

[Subdivisions]

As soon as I saw caramel coffee my brain was yelling YES. I had some irish coffee that I got at a B&M that clogged up in 5 minutes. I use it in a dripper only

 

[emus]

As soon as I saw caramel coffee my brain was yelling YES. I had some irish coffee that I got at a B&M that clogged up in 5 minutes. I use it in a dripper only

Reminds me of a cinibon flavor I whipped up. Wow, it was rich and good tasting. My atty didn't approve. Maybe I'll look for that recipe and try it in my easy clean RDA.

 

[Aviationrich]

What about using a halo mini tank? I've been vaping midnight apple and it's gunking my coil to where I can't really get a Vape off it. Clean once a day?

 

[zoiDman]

Do certain flavors gum up coils?

Absolutely... ALL e-Liquids Gunk Up a coil sooner or later.

Sweet, Heavily Flavored, High VG e-Liquids just tend to do it Faster.