EVOD - gurgling and juice taste

[Jerry J]

Hi all,

I'm sure that this has been answered somewhere here on this board. I did a quick search but didn't find anything talking about my issues. Anyway I have to have 5 posts before I can post on the regular board so here goes.

I have a fairly new Kanger EVOD that seemed to work really well for the first few days. But now I get gurgling and the taste of un-vaped juice. Everything seems tight and the silicon o-ring is in place and not chewed up.

Am I doing something wrong or is my EVOD messed up?

 

[josho]

What helps me is every time I refill, I blow through the bottom (battery side) of the base (not screwed into the tank) a few times into a paper towel to collect the excess juice that accumulates.

 

[vapo jam]

sounds like it's leaking. what type of juice are you using? certain flavors will break down plastic tanks.

how hard do you tighten everything? you don't want it loose, but if you tighten too much, it could affect the seals (you wouldn't necessarily be able to see it - if an o-ring is over-compressed, for example, it won't create a seal anymore).

 

[Choc_Addic]

I have not have this problem. But here are a couple of things people do.
Rest the Ecig on the table (lying on its sides) and take a few hits and it stop gurgling.
Hold the Ecig from the battery and flick it quickly to the ground (don't drop it, do it outside) like you would an old thermometer.

You may consider RE-wicking. There are 2 big long threads on here about re-wicking with Cotton balls and also with cheese cloth. Which a lot of people are solving their end of life Coils and wicks and it seem to work great. I will post the links when I can find them.

Found them here we go:

Link 1 : This starts with t3 heads but the built and idea are the same. <--Click
Link 2 : EVOD re-wicking with cheese cloth (pictures). <--Click
The most important step in these is removing the old - dirty wick without de-forming the coil. Be patient and give it a try.
These re-wicking the coils will sove most of the problem with coils such as Burning taste, leaking, gurgling and draw (too airy, too tight etc).

Read thru these if the 2 simple things above did not help you.

Cheers.

 

[Refferehtom]

This...
I have the same problem with my Protanks.

What helps me is every time I refill, I blow through the bottom (battery side) of the base (not screwed into the tank) a few times into a paper towel to collect the excess juice that accumulates.

 

[alisa1970]

Here's a nice, short tutorial (with awesome step by step pics) on how to stop evods from gurgling:

How to prevent Kanger T3 and eVod gurgling and leaking

 

[Un-Loco]

Yall have some crazy ideas.

Its bottom feed, there are wicks which fill a gap for the liquid to travel into. Too much liquid flowing through? Gurgling.
Flip it upside down, tke off the head, run a qtip through. Vape on

If it hapens again add additional wicking

Shaking it and flipping it is going to make things worse, or have you end up with a broken mod.

 

[figment_oyi]

when I fill mine I twist a piece of toilet paper (clean of course)lol or paper towel and put it up the tube this seems to help that problem for me anyway

 

[Jerry J]

I am using a pineapple desert from NW Vapors, which is a 70 vg to 30 pg. I have been real cautious on over tightening so I am fairly certain that I haven't over torqued it but that is always a possibility.

Many great suggestions and links....thank you for that. I do see from the link to SunVapors that there have been issues regarding gurgling and leaking in the past. I do appreciate the help and I do want to make the EVOD work for me since I really like the concept, look and design.

 

[Bob Chill]

I think it happens to everybody from time to time. But not for the same reason. I had a head that I just couldn't figure out how to make it stop so I tossed it and the replacement worked fine. It would be reasonable to expect the occasional manufacturing flaw on a particular head.

Some juices seem to want to do it more than others too. If the tips in this thread don't work you might just have a flawed head. Good thing their cheap.

 

[vapo jam]

I am using a pineapple desert from NW Vapors

think that might be your problem - many citrus-flavored juices are known to break down plastic tanks. if you like the performance of the evod, you might want to try out a protank - it doesn't look as nice, but it's glass, and the coil heads are interchangeable.

ETA: sorry, that last sentence may be confusing, what i meant to say is that the protank and the evod use the same coil heads, so if you have a bunch of heads for the evod, you can use them on the protank, and vice-versa

 

[Huskysibe]

when I fill mine I twist a piece of toilet paper (clean of course)lol or paper towel and put it up the tube this seems to help that problem for me anyway

This is exactly how my local store fixed mine and my wifes gurgling Nova's today.

 

[Mike Sheda]

I love my protanks for their capacity. They have a looser draw than the evods, but both are nice. When I get they get a little juicy I just use a pipe cleaner down the middle and a paper towel to wipe them off. I put my main juices in the tanks, and alternates in the evods (for a change of taste from time to time)

 

[Steamboat Willy]

I had this same problem with mine,had it for a few days and it worked beautiful,eventually it wouldn't fire every time,I took it apart to try to clean it and found that the wicks were black,I was running a 70/30 juice so maybe it was to thick for the wicks? Maybe I just got a bad head.

 

[byrdman041708]

The Kanger bottom coil tanks will tend to vapor lock when they are down to about 1/3 capacity. The symptoms are gurgle and leaking. Take the tank off of your device, open the bottom to allow air to enter and reseal. Before reattaching to your device, swab down the drip tip and into the main tube. This should fix the problem. Their new generation of tanks is supposed to fix the issue. Seems to be exclusive to Kanger. I haven't had the issue with iSmoka BCC VapeOnly tanks, but the Kanger's still seem much better built.

 

[Hacker]

I think a drastic temperature change can cause leaking. I've never had a tank that didn't leak when they either got from hot to cool or cool to hot.

Where I work I have to be outside for a few hours then inside a truck with the AC going for a little bit, it never fails to develop a leak for a little while after a temp change. Just my opinion though.

 

[Susaz]

sounds like it's leaking. what type of juice are you using? certain flavors will break down plastic tanks.

how hard do you tighten everything? you don't want it loose, but if you tighten too much, it could affect the seals (you wouldn't necessarily be able to see it - if an o-ring is over-compressed, for example, it won't create a seal anymore).

No plastic tank on an eVod...

When is the gurgling? down the tank or in the middle?

Maybe your voltage is too low for your head. Pump it up as you go down the liquid in the tank.
Also helps to roll up a piece of tissue and put it down from the mouthpiece as far as it'll go. Turn the clearo upside down to collect any juice that may be trapped in the channel.

Concerning flavor, I find eVod heads to be hard to clean. Remove the gasket and run through the head some seriously hot water from all sides, for a long time. My heads seem dirty all the time, even when just removed from alcohol.

Another thing you can do is remove the post, remove the flavor wicks, and mount the head onto the base for a quick dry burn. If the head isn't too burned your flavor will come back for a while.

 

[Jerry J]

I think a drastic temperature change can cause leaking. I've never had a tank that didn't leak when they either got from hot to cool or cool to hot.

Where I work I have to be outside for a few hours then inside a truck with the AC going for a little bit, it never fails to develop a leak for a little while after a temp change. Just my opinion though.

I did notice the problem the day the temps started going up around here. It doesn't get all that hot around here in Portland but it did jump from the mid 70's to the mid 90's.

The EVOD was just out of the box 3 days earlier so it was still on it's first fill of juice. Actually the juice that was in there when the problem first occurred was peachy-peppermint now that I recall. 70vg/30pg and 32% nic.

I do/did have the Protank before the EVOD. I didn't like the Protank at first because of the airy draw. But since the weather has gotten warmer around here the vape doesn't get as warm as my clearos with the top coil.

BTW I just got the brand spankin' new Kanger Mini-Protank. It is just like the EVOD but with a glass tank and metal tip. So the vape isn't as airy as the mega-Protank. I'm liking so far.

 

[Un-Loco]

Did you check if the head is screwed down and fully seated? That would allow juice to flow to the connector and be drawn up the air channel when vaped.

Otherwise, if it is just a thin juice, in warm temps and heat from vaping it can thin up a bit more. You can add another small piece of wick to it

 

[thinhdle]

I have the same exact problem with my X9 protank. After trying all the techniques posted on this forum the problem persist. I think I have found the solution and so far so good.

Here is the trick that works for me:

Keep the head pointing down so the liquid is does not touch the coil when you vape. It will stop the gurgling.