Flooding/leaking
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You are going to have to experiment with your wicking. That is what leads to leaks and flooding. Try more wicking material. If you start getting dry hits, you added too much.
I use rayon as well. But just using rayon won't stop it from leaking. All RTAs have a learning curve as to how much wicking needs to be in the wicking channels. Rayon will shrink slightly over time when saturated, so you will need just a very little bit more in there to account for its shrinkage. Just rewick, trim less off the tails than you did last time, vape it until it leaks then try again. If it doesn't leak, then you nailed it.
Yeah, you are going to need to work on wicking also some atomizers just seem to want to flood but it can't be ONLY that, because some people seem to manage to make them not flood so it has to be SOMETHING.
Sometimes a judicious "flip upside down" as you are frantically screwing everything back in place will do the trick (think Berserker) but also, until such time as you figure out the deep secret, unless it is a top air atty, just you know gently blow out your flood onto a waiting napkin or whatever and imagine you are Moses parting the red sea, because it makes it more fun. A little flood when filling, well just address it by any means necessary until one day (when you aren't paying attention so often it is that way) you just magically don't flood it and you are like, "What did I do, okay what did I do, okay" and then you should pull the top back off IMMEDIATELY and study your wick closely. Etc.
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Sometimes a judicious "flip upside down" as you are frantically screwing everything back in place will do the trick (think Berserker) but also, until such time as you figure out the deep secret, unless it is a top air atty, just you know gently blow out your flood onto a waiting napkin or whatever and imagine you are Moses parting the red sea, because it makes it more fun. A little flood when filling, well just address it by any means necessary until one day (when you aren't paying attention so often it is that way) you just magically don't flood it and you are like, "What did I do, okay what did I do, okay" and then you should pull the top back off IMMEDIATELY and study your wick closely. Etc.
Anna
And make sure that you have the atty inverted (bottom up) before blowing it out into a napkin. Invert it and blow through the drip tip while holding the napkin around the air inlet holes. That should fix the common problem of leaking after a fill.
Some atomizers fill through a small hole. If you don't hold the bottle right when you fill it (so that air can escape around the bottle tip) it will fill the tank and then liquid will start to enter through the chimney holes and flood down into the air inlet. We've all done that.
Some atomizers fill through a small hole. If you don't hold the bottle right when you fill it (so that air can escape around the bottle tip) it will fill the tank and then liquid will start to enter through the chimney holes and flood down into the air inlet. We've all done that.
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Being a top air Zeus, it's most likely not enough wicking blocking the juice ports.
Also don't leave the cap off, any more than necessary to fill. Once the cap is off, it loses vacuum.
If it floods, turn up the watts until it clears.
Also don't leave the cap off, any more than necessary to fill. Once the cap is off, it loses vacuum.
If it floods, turn up the watts until it clears.
How long do you leave it open when you fill?
My syringe is ready to go before I take the tops off my top airs (or any tank for that matter). I want them on the verge of flooding when they're in use so naturally they will flood if I open them and then start fiddling around with everything.
I fill the syringe. Open the tank, fill the tank, close the tank. Then I dump whatever is left in the syringe back in the bottle.
I'm leery of saying to mess with the wicking if it's only flooding while open. That would depend on the build, if it's a liquid thirsty build you'll want it on the verge of flooding too.
My syringe is ready to go before I take the tops off my top airs (or any tank for that matter). I want them on the verge of flooding when they're in use so naturally they will flood if I open them and then start fiddling around with everything.
I fill the syringe. Open the tank, fill the tank, close the tank. Then I dump whatever is left in the syringe back in the bottle.
I'm leery of saying to mess with the wicking if it's only flooding while open. That would depend on the build, if it's a liquid thirsty build you'll want it on the verge of flooding too.
On tanks that are prone to leaking I find the ‘dam’ method useful - run a decent wick, thin it out into the juice channels but leave it thicker slightly above so that the thicker part essentially sits on top of the juice channels and prevents leakages.
It should look like WAY too much cotton, and it is, but it wicks well because of the thinning at the juice ports/channels. The other advantage is that the thicker part of the cotton almost feeds the coil during higher power/ longer toots
It should look like WAY too much cotton, and it is, but it wicks well because of the thinning at the juice ports/channels. The other advantage is that the thicker part of the cotton almost feeds the coil during higher power/ longer toots
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