E-liquid help!

[zakkwaldo]

hey guys, so im not new to the ecig world but this one has me stumped... i have a kanger protank II (fat version), and a standard long ego battery, rocking a 2.3ohm coil (comes standard in the kangers), and the coil is dual wick (again standard)... well, my FAVORITE e-liquid flavor is viquid's "cherry lemon" mmmmm i mean damn it is good! i can hit it alllllll day haha. Anyways, viquid is 100%pg liquid and from my digging around pg is more viscous than vg. This means that it takes longer to wick up to the coil... which leads me to my issue... because it takes so long to wick, i constantly find myself burning out wicks SUPER fast and i hate it, it has caused so much unneeded maintenance... so here are my two questions;

1: has anyone else had this issue?
2: I know i could just buy some vg and mix it in with the viquid to thin it out and make it wick easier... but would that dilute the taste?(thats my main question)

so yeah, tl;dr could if i thin out pg with vg, will it dilute the flavor?

P.S. its obviously possible to to pg vg mixes as puff king and 777 are mixed glycerins...

anyways, any light on this topic would be wonderful

thanks,zakk

 

[Margate69]

Uhhhhh... 100% PG would be so thin I'm surprised you aren't drinking it lol.

And wouldn't that shorten the wicking time?

 

[zakkwaldo]

apparently its thicker than vg is haha... and thats what i want, i want the liquid to wick up faster, thus my wicks dont get burnt out

EDIT------------ pg is thinner than vg is so i apologize about that... however... i still dont understand why my wicks are burning so fast... i dont hit them over excessively... like my wicks will literally last me 2 maybe 3 days... what do.

 

[happydave]

apparently its thicker than vg is haha... and thats what i want, i want the liquid to wick up faster, thus my wicks dont get burnt out

Google "capillary action" you will see that the smaller molecules wick faster than bigger molecules PG is a smaller molecule than VG

 

[zakkwaldo]

i made an edit haha so might wanna reread my last post thankya though!

 

[Vash]

Try taking a hit without pressing button to wick it well and then press and take a few hits .

 

[happydave]

It has to do with the thermodynamic properties of PG and VG... VG has a higher boiling point than PG

 

[Wickeddeuce]

check the coil, when is the last time you replaced your coil? dual wick pro tank 2? do you mean dual coil? that is the pt 3... im not sure im following you...

 

[zakkwaldo]

I know bout dry hits, doesnt do crap. And yes dual wick, take off the head and there is two wicks stacked ontop of each other, thus dual wick. And i know bout the pt3 haha i know the differences, like i said im not new to ecigs im just stumped on why my wicks are burning out so fast. Ive tried all the usual help nonsense, dry hitting, letting it wick up for 20-30 min after fills. Etc etc. and i havent heard anything negative about viquids eliquid... Ive also tried buying new coils aswell only to have the same result. An no im not boosting voltage, i dotn havea variable battery

 

[Wickeddeuce]

my apologies didnt mean to offend, if i did, idk what to tell ya...

 

[zakkwaldo]

Naw man! No offense at all! Was just clarifying

 

[Wickeddeuce]

adding anything will dilute the flavor btw... not sure if that was answered before...

i suggest go to your local b&m if there is one... request to try a mod with your pt... see if that works... or... just ask them... more than likely they will try and make a simple sale... but there is a possibility of them helping you figure out whats wrong...

 

[Btsmokincat]

Zakkwaldo - Just a thought and I'm only going on what you've posted so far. If i'm understanding correctly you're using PT3 coils in a PT2?

From what i've read, PT3 coils supposedly do not fit into a PT2, so maybe the wicks are squished and preventing juice from getting in?

 

[Chas F.]

By dual wick I think he means the wick through the coil and the one on top, the flavor coil, which is standard for the PT II.

If you're burning through coils fast, try cleaning 'em every re-fill. Rinse with hot water and let 'em dry.
Is your battery variable voltage? If so, be careful how high you set it. Too high and you will burn your coils much faster.
You can rebuild your coils easily enough, just search utube.

 

[zakkwaldo]

so to answer questions;

im using the fat pt2, someone else brought up the pt3's not me haha.

as for the coils, the coils themselves arent burning its the wicks that are burning, and also with that... one of my set of wicks brand new didnt even last a full 3.5ml tank... i have a standard ego non variable battery (the long standard 3.6v kind)

 

[Vash]

Im stumped buddy ! Good luck

 

[zakkwaldo]

haha thanks i wish another company such as puff king made the same flavor but in their 30/70 pg/vg blend... OR is viquid had optional blends... that would be cool too... haha

 

[Crypto66]

Your issue lies within the ingredients used. If I were you I'd save this flavor for an every now and then thing or just drip it. I'd go to a website like mount Baker vapor and choose my liquid ingredients to make sure it didn't happen again.

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[zakkwaldo]

thankya crypto!!! gunna try a black cherry/lemonade mix of 70pg/30vg and see if that fairs me any better and tastes close or identical much appreciated man!