Fluxomizer tastes issues?

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BobbyDidge

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Hey just got the new fluxomizers, I had the previous ones before the 4/19/2012 update and liked them but these new ones I get a nastyyyyyyyyy taste and ZERO juice flavor... WHAT'S THE DEAL?!?!?!
Tried it out of the box and it tasted nasty, flushed it with water then refilled still tasted nasty, emptied it dry burned it for a WHILE then refilled it, STILL TASTES NASTY :(
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USPS shows my latest order was delivered today and it includes some of the new(er) fluxomizers. I'll try them out and see if there are any issues.

Ok awesome, let me know if you have the same problem! I just realized it only happens with my halocigs juice (which is pretty much all I vape and is my favorite) with my bluemistvaping juice it works fine. I wonder why that is :/
 

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i just got a box of these today....
with the one i'm using i did the following first.
Not sure that i needed to or not, but besides time i didn't have anything to lose.
rinsed, dried, filled.. then let is sit....
dripped 2-3, gave it a few good primer inhales, and running with no issues.

Did you air dry or dry burn?
 

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Wow, I've never had luck with any of these, I keep trying the newest ones hoping they will be better. I never thought that the scorched taste could be from juice being too thin!! Hmmm. I still have a bunch of them around. Maybe I'll experiment! I get scorched taste constantly. I use backwoods brew, I don't remember if they are 80/20 or not.
 

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Wow, I've never had luck with any of these, I keep trying the newest ones hoping they will be better. I never thought that the scorched taste could be from juice being too thin!! Hmmm. I still have a bunch of them around. Maybe I'll experiment! I get scorched taste constantly. I use backwoods brew, I don't remember if they are 80/20 or not.

Bwb is 70/30 pg/vg

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I filled my first new style unit up yesterday and on my iPro the draw was way too tight for me but a shorty 510 to 510 adapter quickly fixed that.

Great flavor and vapor production with no burnt taste what so ever and I really enjoy that fact that I can lay it down with no leaks or flooding.

A winner in my book!

-Don
 

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I bought 5 packs of these shortly after they came out. Out of the 5 that I have tried, 2 worked well, and 3 had poorly-wound coils.

If your nasty taste is more like a 'dry hit' or 'burnt juice' taste than a 'burnt rubber' taste, I'd suspect that it may have a coil problem.

Of the 3 problematic ones I've had so far, one had the coil tightly wound and shoved to one side of the ceramic cup. I carefully spread the wires out with sharp tweezers, and it worked fine.

Two have had the last loop or two of the resistance wire too large in diameter on one side of the coil, so the wire arcs away from the wick instead of sitting against it as it should. That portion of the wire not in contact with the wick gets way too hot, because the boiling action of the fluid cannot limit the temperature if it's not touching the wick. I was able to manipulate one of these with tweezers so that it worked O.K., but the other I had to cut and strip the leads on both sides, unwind and re-coil, then twist back onto the leads again, being careful to avoid any short-circuits.

Even if it is a bit of a pain, it's cool that they can be fixed. Hopefully QC improves on these since that batch.
 
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After cutting out the bottom of the silicone sills I have only had one bad one and that one had the raised wire.
Good vapor and taste and one will last three weeks to a month cleaning and dry burning once a week only draw back is they last so long. And I have so many. As far as thin juice I use all pg and no burning taste till they get to 25 percent empty than just tip to wet wicks just like the old ce2 s but I don't chain vape so that helps
 

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that sounds odd, you can read the ce2 sticky thread to see if those tips help, what might be your issue is the inner plug, remove it and look at the side that was facing the coil, if it look like it had burn marks on it then its touching the coil, try to clip a little peace of then reinsert it and try that.

After reading this I took all of mine apart and found that 3 out of the 5 were burnning the plastic seal!

Did a little modding on the wick slots and clipped the burnt material off and no issues passed that.

For now! I'll have to see how long it lasts.
 

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So when do you retire a fluxomizer? I'm right at 3 weeks on one and this is actually my first carto that I may have ran to the end that I didn't tear up on my own. I'm that new. I do a hot water & dry burn clean on them every 2-3 fills and noticed a burnt taste. Could just need washing though, but I would hate to waste juice and fiddle with it a while and discover that it happens again quickly.

Do they get a burnt taste? Does flavor diminish? Less vapor? Can it be a various number of different things?

Does anyone throw these things away after 2-3 weeks or something so they don't start getting that "is my fluxomizer getting old question" lingering in their head? I hear people do this all the time with their boges cartos since their so cheap and don't want to mess with the issues.

TIA
 
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Sooooo... Too thick or too thin?

if you are getting a scorching taste, i dont think it has anything to do with the juice. maybe if you used bobas bounty, you wouldnt detect the scorching as much because its masked by the strong flavor of the juice. i think you are burning plastic (one of the seals). take all seals out and put a drip tip on it and see if you are still getting that foul taste. (at least then you can rule it out).

my guess is that its a coil/seal issue, not juice.
 
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