Not to sidetrack the conversation here- feel free to PM me if you don't want to hijack this thread... But can you tell me more the wicking process? I've only been vaping for a little over a week. I also have some LR Boge Cartos, and I think my wife might have burned one out yesterday (horrible burnt taste after she used it just a couple times). So how do you do it properly.
I drip into the top and also through the hole in the battery end. The higher the PG content of your juice, the longer they will last. As someone said before, dark and/or thick juices lead to clogging and tight draw.
Dripping through the hole in the battery end of the carto sounds weird, but it works well. There's a gold colored tube that starts at the battery end with a white silicone grommet on the end. That tube extends up about 1/3" into the filler. When you drip drops into the battery hole on the end, they wick right down the tube and run out into the filler. Wipe the end, blow gently into a towel through the large end where the cap goes, and vape. You can also drip a few drops into the cap end and let them run down the side of the barrel to balance the fill.
Burnt taste usually means a dry filler. The heater coil contacts the filler, so you can scorch the filler when it's dry. If you are lucky, filling it again will restore taste. If not, toss it and open another. As with most atomizer designs, this one isn't perfect either. The power comes from the battery end, of course, and the heater coil runs up the center hole in the carto filler.
Wicking is simple. Juice is maintained in the filler and the heating coil contacts the filler in the center hole that you see as you look down into the large end. If any part of the filler is dry you will get dry filler contacting heater wire. Frequent topping off with juice is critical to minimizing filler scorch.
Good vaping is dependent on being able to draw air easily from the battery end through the slots you see in the center (where the white ring surrounds the tube). Air is drawn through the tube and the hole in the filler. Sometimes, the filler gets tight with expansion and blocks off the air flow, creating a tight draw. You can insert a straightened out paper clip into the battery end or the mouthpiece end and gently wiggle it until it comes out the other end. Once it emerges, bias it to the side and rotate the tube around and around. The objective is to compress the filler and widen the hole in the filler so that you can draw easily again. I have done this on many Boge cartos and have yet to damage the heater coil. Eventually, you still won't be able to get like new draw. Then, it's time to chuck it and open a new one.
