first dry hit on kanger subtank

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curt6887

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Hello everyone, I've been using the kanger subtank for about 2 weeks now and yesterday make the rba with the coil that came in it and just put the cotton in it (had a friend do it as I didn't know how) everything has been fine with it until just now I had my battery (istick 50w) on charge and i took it off and put the tank back on and fired it up and boom it was horribly burnt tasting and hot. Is there a way to fix this so it doesn't happen or is it just plain bad luck when it happens, also should I redo the wick after a dry hit because it seems like it has make the taste a little burnt or maybe thats just me getting over the taste still.
 

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Hello everyone, I've been using the kanger subtank for about 2 weeks now and yesterday make the rba with the coil that came in it and just put the cotton in it (had a friend do it as I didn't know how) everything has been fine with it until just now I had my battery (istick 50w) on charge and i took it off and put the tank back on and fired it up and boom it was horribly burnt tasting and hot. Is there a way to fix this so it doesn't happen or is it just plain bad luck when it happens, also should I redo the wick after a dry hit because it seems like it has make the taste a little burnt or maybe thats just me getting over the taste still.
The problem with the rda is the juice flow, what I did was take it to a local vape shop and had them drill small holes above the juice flow areas and that solved my problems
 

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I used a Dremel to first increase the size of the juice channels. I then screwed on the barrel and notched it a bit for reference. I took off the barrel and finished it up. I get no dry hits or flooding
 

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The only time that I've gotten a dry or burnt hits on my subtank is from when one of the legs of the cotton wasn't actually pushed down far enough to suck up juice. One side was fine but the other side wasn't. It worked fine for about a day, and then all of a sudden one hit was extremely harsh. However, I vape very light, I don't chain vape much if at all anymore.

As to the OP's question, when you get a burnt / dry hit, Yes, you'll need to change the wick at the bare minimum if it was a strong enough hit and it continues into subsequent hits like you described. If you catch it really early in the hit and stop sometimes you can simply figure out why you're getting a dry hit and rectify it without rewicking although we're talking about less than a penny and a few bits of your time to pull out the wick and stick a new piece of cotton in there so might as well just rewick it.


As far as replacing the coil... I've had both. One that no dry burning and dowsing in water would get rid of the burnt acrid taste and the coil had to be replaced, and the other time where dry burning the coil and dowsing it in a cup of water got rid of the bad taste and smell. But then again, a coil is a few pennies to produce and only a little bit of your time to do so not a big deal at all if you do need to replace it. It's those pesky prebuilt $4.50 coils that might give you a burnt hit on the 3rd hit you use them that are a drag to have to throw away.
 
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I have three subtank mini's and all three of them I drilled 2 holes in the side and took a dremel and deepened the feed channels on the bottom and they feed great now. I can run max VG with no problems. With the new RBA decks coming out that modification wont be needed.

I am also using temp control on mine now with IPV4's and an Evic VT and I have vaped my tanks dry a few times without a single dry hit.
 
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