Ok, as I've owned my Aerotank for a few weeks I'm starting to notice a few things about it. Some that I really love and others that make me just want to chuck this thing.
Ok, so now for the stuff I love about the Aerotank:
Pyrex Glass - Wonderful
Glue Free Design - Says it all
Adjustable Airflow - Again - Says it all
Appearance - Not too shabby looking on a ProVari
Dual Coils - Need I say anything else
Now for the things I hate about it:
Flooding - This wasn't an issue until recently
Shorting - When mounted flush on my ProVari - I kept getting the E1 error - fixed by adding an O Ring to the 510 threads
Coil Head Quality - This is something I've experienced with previous Kanger Clearomizers and something they've heard about countless times
Portability - It's not a genesis - so why does it sometimes leak more than one after it's sat on its side for too long?
Airflow Control Ring - Could have made it a bit bigger than they did - The more material I can grab, the better off I am.
Now why did I post this? Because as I entered the vaping world I owned a Kanger. I STARTED on a Kanger Mini ProTank 2. I HATED IT! Always flooding, always gurgling, always drinking juice, and for the love of god, always having to attach a shop vac to the drip tip to get it primed with vapor so I could at least get SOMETHING out of it. Then I got a Kanger Evod VV Battery (1000MaH) and a Protank 3. The battery I loved but the Protank 3 - I had mixed feelings on. Just due to the fact that EVERY DAY and about every HOUR I would have to remove my tank to clean my battery contacts because for some unusual and god forsaken reason, my juice would POUR out onto the contacts from the air holes on the threading. Now for the Aerotank - I DON'T have the battery contact leakage - but it's gotten worse. The gurgle... I have YET to find a fix for that. DON'T BLOW INTO THE DEVICE! The juice will drain out of the air holes and all over you. I got it, you should hear a SMALL amount of popping and gurgling when you hit the fire button, but good god man... sometimes it sounds like I'm drowning in a bathtub. Popping - this tank did it so much I would drink 99% of what I was attempting to vape. I like to inhale my vapor not drink it. Added some extra wicking material to the top of the coil, problem seems to have diminished, but it's still present. The dreaded E1 error - If you're a ProVari user, you know what I'm talking about. I like to tighten my devices onto my ProVari. I don't like seeing an E1 error unless I'm dabbeling around with a coil or something and I'm trying to see how it'll work. With the Aerotank, I can't tighten it all the way down without an E1 error. Which is probably WHY I had to rebuild a Kanger head just 2 days after I got it (blown bottom coil). And now for the final piece of this whole thing - the leaking. I torque everything down - and I know on some devices - a light hand makes a heavy difference. But this thing is quirky. One moment you tighten it down, it works like a champ without leaking, 3 minutes later you go to take a pull off of it and you might as well lit a cigarette because it's burnt due to the fact your juice leaked all over the place. So you loosen it up a bit, refill it and it works again like a charm, and again, try to take another pull off it - BURN! So what's going on over there at Kanger? What are they doing? For Kanger being my first true step into the vaping world, I have a fond opinion of them. But this is getting obnoxious. Their batteries are pretty amazing as far as performance is concerned if you're not looking to purchase a higher end device and aren't going to be doing much on the rebuilding side of things, but it seems as if someone or something is getting in their way of producing a quality tank. PICK IT UP KANGER! You're driving me nuts!
Has anyone else had issues with their Kanger clearomizers? Or have I just stumbled on a bad batch or what?
Ok, so now for the stuff I love about the Aerotank:
Pyrex Glass - Wonderful
Glue Free Design - Says it all
Adjustable Airflow - Again - Says it all
Appearance - Not too shabby looking on a ProVari
Dual Coils - Need I say anything else
Now for the things I hate about it:
Flooding - This wasn't an issue until recently
Shorting - When mounted flush on my ProVari - I kept getting the E1 error - fixed by adding an O Ring to the 510 threads
Coil Head Quality - This is something I've experienced with previous Kanger Clearomizers and something they've heard about countless times
Portability - It's not a genesis - so why does it sometimes leak more than one after it's sat on its side for too long?
Airflow Control Ring - Could have made it a bit bigger than they did - The more material I can grab, the better off I am.
Now why did I post this? Because as I entered the vaping world I owned a Kanger. I STARTED on a Kanger Mini ProTank 2. I HATED IT! Always flooding, always gurgling, always drinking juice, and for the love of god, always having to attach a shop vac to the drip tip to get it primed with vapor so I could at least get SOMETHING out of it. Then I got a Kanger Evod VV Battery (1000MaH) and a Protank 3. The battery I loved but the Protank 3 - I had mixed feelings on. Just due to the fact that EVERY DAY and about every HOUR I would have to remove my tank to clean my battery contacts because for some unusual and god forsaken reason, my juice would POUR out onto the contacts from the air holes on the threading. Now for the Aerotank - I DON'T have the battery contact leakage - but it's gotten worse. The gurgle... I have YET to find a fix for that. DON'T BLOW INTO THE DEVICE! The juice will drain out of the air holes and all over you. I got it, you should hear a SMALL amount of popping and gurgling when you hit the fire button, but good god man... sometimes it sounds like I'm drowning in a bathtub. Popping - this tank did it so much I would drink 99% of what I was attempting to vape. I like to inhale my vapor not drink it. Added some extra wicking material to the top of the coil, problem seems to have diminished, but it's still present. The dreaded E1 error - If you're a ProVari user, you know what I'm talking about. I like to tighten my devices onto my ProVari. I don't like seeing an E1 error unless I'm dabbeling around with a coil or something and I'm trying to see how it'll work. With the Aerotank, I can't tighten it all the way down without an E1 error. Which is probably WHY I had to rebuild a Kanger head just 2 days after I got it (blown bottom coil). And now for the final piece of this whole thing - the leaking. I torque everything down - and I know on some devices - a light hand makes a heavy difference. But this thing is quirky. One moment you tighten it down, it works like a champ without leaking, 3 minutes later you go to take a pull off of it and you might as well lit a cigarette because it's burnt due to the fact your juice leaked all over the place. So you loosen it up a bit, refill it and it works again like a charm, and again, try to take another pull off it - BURN! So what's going on over there at Kanger? What are they doing? For Kanger being my first true step into the vaping world, I have a fond opinion of them. But this is getting obnoxious. Their batteries are pretty amazing as far as performance is concerned if you're not looking to purchase a higher end device and aren't going to be doing much on the rebuilding side of things, but it seems as if someone or something is getting in their way of producing a quality tank. PICK IT UP KANGER! You're driving me nuts!
Has anyone else had issues with their Kanger clearomizers? Or have I just stumbled on a bad batch or what?