Flavor tasting weak?

[mavric]

Just trying to find out if this is an rba error or what they call "vapors tongue". I rebuilt my coil today with 30ga kanthal, 4/3 wrap that came out to a nice 1.1 ohms. Coil was good, wick was nice and oxidized and everything was glowing beautifully, no shorts or anything. Put in my favorite flavor and it tasted great for about an hour and then all the sudden it seems like the warmth fell off and the flavor got really flat. I took off the atty and checked on the DMM, still 1.1 with no shorts or hotspots.

Anybody experience this before?

 

[jcalis1394]

Could very well be vapor's tongue. You could try two things, either have a strong (menthol, cinnamon, etc.) flavor or something to reset your taste buds at hand or try different builds. You should definitely try micro coils as they do enhance flavor a lot. Along with micro coils you could also try using cotton.

 

[kazimir]

Also a tongue scraper and some mouthwash for 30 seconds does the trick.

 

[savagemann]

If it is vapers tongue, that can be a real beast.
I've had it 3 times now.
First time was about 3 weeks into vaping.
I didn't know what was going on. Thought my hardware was wearing out.
All my flavors tasted weak. About 20% of normal.
It passed after a few days.

Second time was a couple months after that.
I literally couldn't taste anything. That time, I had been vaping the same juice for over a week.
It was a strong juice.
I tried mouthwash, excessive brushing, tongue scraping etc.
It was so bad, I was chewing on lemon slices. They tasted like air.
I made a batch of unflavored juice and vaped that for a couple days, all the while drinking lots of water.
After it passed, my juice tasted better than it ever had before!

The last time around, was just last week.
I noticed my juice tasting a little weak. I knew what was going on.
I had been vaping the same flavor for several days.
It is a peppermint/chocolate flavor. It was weird because all of a sudden, I could no longer taste the chocolate, but the peppermint tasted fine.
I started drinking lots of water and switched away from that flavor.
I vaped very light flavors and even some unflavored.
It lingered for a few days and seemed to get better, but my favorite flavor still tasted a little weak.
It's been about 7 days, and all is back to normal.

 

[VaPreis]

Are your terminals tight on your coil? It may ohm out correctly, but if one of the terminals is not fully tightened, it is actually a high resistance with voltage applied to it. My AGA T2 is great for backing off at the top positive nut.....I've renamed it the AGA POS.

 

[mavric]

Are your terminals tight on your coil? It may ohm out correctly, but if one of the terminals is not fully tightened, it is actually a high resistance with voltage applied to it. My AGA T2 is great for backing off at the top positive nut.....I've renamed it the AGA POS.

I think that was the issue. The coils were just taking too long to get hot and I figured out that there was actually a hotspot it just needed to burn off the buildup of gunk on the coil before I could see it. Really tiny little sucker. I poked at it a few times and got the coil back to where it should be. The flavor I'm using is still tasting a bit weak though, but the warmth is back. I will have to clean my mouth out real good and switch flavors for a bit because this one is just too good to "let go".

Thanks guys.