Help with coil maybe battery?

[Pb2003]

Hello all. This a great website I go on here often. I am pretty new to vaping and am having some trouble. I am going to start off with my current set up and preferences....

I live in the US and have an eGo twist battery. My tank is a protank 2. I usually set the battery to 4.0 or just under that. I think that is watts but I'm not sure. I only usually vape "fruity" flavors and the bottle says 50/50 at a 12 nicotine level.

Problem:
My main problem is I have been getting a weird tasting hit. Sometimes it's burnt but sometimes it tastes almost rubbery. The woman at the vape shop recommended a 2.2 ohm coil. It is a kangertech coil. I've had to change wicks after like a day or two. What could possibly be causing this? I clean my tank before every refill. Am I hitting it too much? Should I change the amount of ohms for my coils? Please help because I'm not trying to smoke any real cigs cause they're nasty. Thanks for any help anyone can offer

 

[CreepyLady]

Well if you are on 4 volts as opposed to 4 watts that may be the problem - go to the lowest setting and take a puff at each tiny increment going upwards to find the spot where it tastes best.

The other factor is - it may just be the liquid. If its got certain sweeteners you will see it get dark and gooey inside the tank and it will taste pretty burned and different than when you first filled it. It could just as well be simply the flavors in the liquid.

You can determine the cause by this method:
Rinse and dry burn and rinse again or replace the coil if you have a spare new one
Fill with fresh juice and start low going up a notch each time
If there is no option that doesnt taste like rubber - its the juice.

PS - Hi and Welcome to ECF

 

[Miata GT]

The Twist's adjustment is in volts, and 4 volts isn't really high. Try 3.7 just as a test. I have a problem with a particular 50/50 e-juice from a local shop that doesn't seem to wick as well as everything else and ends up tasting like what you describe; that's the wick burning because it is dry. On my T3S's (which uses the same atomizer) I have solved the problem by removing one of the flavor wicks. This video talks about the problem and goes through the steps of wick removal: KANGER EVOD ATOMIZER DRY HIT FIX: TOP WICK REMOVAL - YouTube

It's super easy and knowing how to take them apart is the first step to knowing how to clean them properly. Don't throw away your old atomizers!

A caveat: my PT2 gurgles and spits like a mother to the point where I have stpped using it until I build a cotton wick setup. If yours does that now it may get worse with this mod, although since it's dry it doesn;t sound like this is your problem...

Vape on!

 

[Berylanna]

4.0 is volts

Watts (which is what REALLY counts) is #volts squared / ohms

A lot of commercial coils vary by one or more tenths of an ohm, which really really affects the outcome of the equation above.

So assuming your coils really ARE exactly 2.2 and not 2.1 or 1.8, you're vaping at 7.3 watts. I think that's a little high.
Some folks vape at 10 watts, most beginner setups are more like 5.2 watts, (3.7 volts squared / 2.6 ohms) and I always take that as the starting point to adjust from, up or down, until I like the taste.

After a number of years, I've found I NOW like about 6-7 watts (I'm setting a Gripper to somewhere between 3.9 and 4.1, depending on time of day and temperature, and using 2.4-volt coils) but for a long time, the flavors I used worked better under 6 watts.

Also, if you can't find your "sweet spot" by taste, you may find that vapers need an ohmmeter. You can get a little one cheap at Radio Shack, but they are a bit of a pain to use. There are devices such as the Gripper or other mods that have a built-in ohmmeter. Or maybe a vape shop could check the ohms on your "2.2"

Assuming they are 2.2, then (volts * volts)/2.2 gives your watts.

ALSO, and this is important, sugar burns coils faster. So RY4 (which has caramel) and lots of other flavors have sugar. You might want to vape those on the low end of your "sweet spot", i.e. if your vape is satisfying between 3.7 and 3.9 volts, keep it at 3.7 to slow down the sugar burn.

 

[JayEatsAirplane]

Definitely suggest removing one of the flavor wicks. I use 50/50 almost exclusively and with both flavor wicks on the coil I used to get a lot of dry/burnt hits. Not pleasurable at all. It's a simple step to start your troubleshooting and could potentially be your solution. Good luck and welcome to ECF!

 

[kmksubled]

great advice all around in the posts here ! Ill add to the idea pool for ya. I have found the silica wick that comes with the kanger coil is decent but with a ego twist @ 4 volts the silica has a hard time keeping enough juice flow through the side ports of the coil body , what you are tasting is the coil running a bit dry, and burning the incoming juice. if you are up for it take a new coil pop of the chimney tube exposing the wick and coil , remove all the silica from atop and inside the coil, thread a good amount of 100% pure cotton through the coil,replace the chimney and trim the excess cotton. what ever you do, do NOT fire the cotton wicked coil until it is in the tank with juice. the cotton has much greater "wickability" and will provide much better tasting vape in such a confined set up.

 

[Nataani]

The rubbery taste typically happens when you scorch the rubber grommet at the base of the atomizer head.

Replace the coil and you should hopefully get better results. Keep in mind that many of the coils have a break in time, so you may not get the vapor/flavor your after until you break in the coil.

 

[Higel3390]

When I was using a similar setup, after toying with replacing wicks/etc...I very swiftly bought some 1.8ohm coils for the Protank 2, and vaped mostly 50/50 around 3.8v-4.2v which seemed to solve most of the issues for me that you might be experiencing. From there I started rebuilding the stock protank coils using cotton/microcoil setup and now this thing vapes like a dream on an ego twist battery at 1.8ohms.

 

[Pb2003]

Thank you all for the information....

One question about the cotton. Can it be like regular cotton ball cotton? How much do I put in there? Will this cause leaking through the bottom of the coil?

 

[kmksubled]

as long as the cotton balls are 100% cotton (some are mixed with polyester don't use them) I am vaping a protank II (with a 2.2 kanger coil) with cotton right now while I type this and I never have leaks or floods , It is hard to measure how much cotton but I can tell you I usually put as much as I can pull through the coil. I don't think you could over do it as long as you can pull it through without using too much force. if you don't put enough or if you trim it too short it can flood.