Help with the Orchid, please

[Megan167]

Megan, the PG / VG ratios of the liquid you are using will be deterministic on how well your wicks will perform.

If you have too much cotton in the liquid channels and your juice is too thick, then you will encounter dry hits. This sounds like the problem you were encountering. Is the new juice higher in concentration of PG? This will cause it to have a lower viscosity and therefore wick better in denser cotton.

Just realized this (I'm vaping off of my ZampleBox from this month). The first juice I used is called "VG Heavy" (Liquid Sin - VG Heavy). The newer juice I'm vaping on ... well, I can't find the info for PG/VG ratio, so I can only assume it's higher PG than the first juice. (It's Fairy Blood - Good Life Vapor)

 

[Megan167]

The orchid (fasttech clone) is my adv and have had some trouble with wicking. I use 50/50 juice and deep lung hits at 25 watts though. I've messed with the tails a lot and it's been hit and miss until my last 2 most recent wickings. 1 on a 0.5 ohm dual build as well! I found that it wasn't just the tails, but I actually needed more wick on the deck/tighter in the coil, with just the tiniest sliver going down the channels. I use rayon btw which definitely works better for me.

The wick hasn't been juiced and manipulated here but make sure there is a bit of a thick tuft of wick sitting on the deck above the juice channels.

Got it! Definitely will try to copy that!

 

[jbnuke]

Thats looks like it could be a picture of how I wicked mine to get it to stop dryhitting and leaking...ive only got the bottom part of the wick just barely into the channels after manipulating. So far so good. Oh and btw seems like its a good idea to double up the oring at the top of the chimney to keep it from losing the vacuum and leaking out overnight. Anyone else have that pop up? Btw mine is a v2

 

[Megan167]

Just realized this (I'm vaping off of my ZampleBox from this month). The first juice I used is called "VG Heavy" (Liquid Sin - VG Heavy). The newer juice I'm vaping on ... well, I can't find the info for PG/VG ratio, so I can only assume it's higher PG than the first juice. (It's Fairy Blood - Good Life Vapor)

Definitely the juice was my issue, or maybe wicking was too the first time, but definitely the juice. Whew. I loved that juice too (28 Days Vape Liquid Sin: Dreamer), but obviously not going to work so well with this setup.

 

[3mg Meniere]

Oh and btw seems like its a good idea to double up the oring at the top of the chimney to keep it from losing the vacuum and leaking out overnight. Anyone else have that pop up? Btw mine is a v2

That is what I did to mine.

 

[panomano]

Definitely the juice was my issue, or maybe wicking was too the first time, but definitely the juice. Whew. I loved that juice too (28 Days Vape Liquid Sin: Dreamer), but obviously not going to work so well with this setup.

You can run max VG in your orchids. I daily mine with max Vg. Just make sure your wick is appropriately setup. Nowadays i only purchase max Vg liquid. Glad you're getting it working. Play with it more and you can find out what works best for you.

 

[JamieZ4M]

Thats looks like it could be a picture of how I wicked mine to get it to stop dryhitting and leaking...ive only got the bottom part of the wick just barely into the channels after manipulating. So far so good. Oh and btw seems like its a good idea to double up the oring at the top of the chimney to keep it from losing the vacuum and leaking out overnight. Anyone else have that pop up? Btw mine is a v2

I've not needed to do that with the o rings on 1 v1 and 3 v2's, only problems have been in the wicking for me lol.

I was testing one with pure vg juice the other day and that was wicking fine, the orchid has potential to keep up with very low ohm builds, there's a guide on YouTube of I slightly different method from someone running a 0.3 build and it keeps up.
He doesn't put any wick in the channels, just has a thick tuft sitting on the deck, and a bit wrapped above the coil. Looks like a good method tbh.