The wicks cant be burnt, in my videos you can see you cant burn the wick no matter what you try, what your seeing is gunk build up from cooking your juice, that can be cleaned off as well with dry burns after you have cleaned them, that is normal. some juices gunk up more then others .
I disagree. I opened a brand new clearomizer and put it on my ego. Hit the button to dry burn it for 3 to 5 seconds and the wick got dark and smoked immediately. There was no juice in the carto at all. I added juice after that and it tastes burnt. My original post got buried so here it is below. If you can give me any information that may help me get these working correctly I would appreciate it.
My original post:
OK, I must be clearomizer challenged. If anyone can give me a little direction it would be much appreciated.
My issue is a burning filler taste. I know there is no filler but it tastes similar to when a filler carto gets too dry. I use boge cartos normally and I know that taste well from my first few tries using a carto.
Here is what I have done with these so far...
First one:
2.6 - 2.8 510 clearomizer on a standard ego
Removed white cap, used included plastic "needle" on a 3 ml syringe and filled about 3/4 full with a 50/50 PG/VG juice. After that, the juice started dripping out of the battery end so I just stopped filling. I let it sit for a while but the filling process was so slow that the wick was wet long before I was done filling. I fired it up and got the burnt taste with just a hint of the juice flavor.
Second one:
2.8 - 3.0 510 clearomizer on a standard ego
I read some posts here about dry burning these so I tried a dry burn of 3 to 5 seconds and immediately smelled the wick burning. It also turned dark but I thought that might be normal so I continued. Same filling process only this time I used a thinner liquid. 80/20 PG/VG. Again, I only got about 3/4 full before juice started dripping out. Again, I let it sit for a while and the wick was wet. The burning taste is even worse on this one probably due to the dry burn.
I really need these to work correctly for me. I know I am doing something wrong but I'm not sure what. So, before I ruin any more of them, I hope someone can give me some advice here.
TIA
Just to add to this, I think the leakage issue when filling is due to air pressure inside the carto building up while injecting the juice with the syringe. I think air is forcing the juice to travel to places other than just settling to the bottom. That is not a big issue for me. I am concerned with the burning taste.
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