How often do you change your cotton?

[iClearoman]

So I just bought the plumeveil rda and it is nothing short of amazing. Anyways, I have put two builds in this and they have performed greatly. The only problem I have had is my cotton is completely fried! I am running a .3 ohm dual micro coil build and it hit phenomenally. But it is burning the hell out of my cotton. So I guess my question is how often do you change out your cotton in your rdas?

 

[Cullin Kin]

I use the Plume Veil as well and I change the cotton at least once a day. Sometimes more if I'm switching flavors that aren't closely related.

 

[AntnyMikal]

The most I was getting out of cotton was 3-4 days depending on the juice, how often I use and the atty. I usually vape around .2-.6. On occasion I could get a week on the Magma around .5-.6, I think it helped that the wick stayed saturated.

Now I use cellulocotton/rayon and only change the wick because I want to or I'm bored. My plume veil had the same wick for 2 weeks, I changed it because I wanted to do a different build.

 

[HauntedMyst]

At least weekly. I tried the cellucotton but found it gave a funky taste after a while so I went back to Shiseido.

 

[nukleusx]

Running organic cotton from CVS I was changing it (depending on use of atty) anywhere from every day to once a week. Heavier used attys called for more frequent changes. Typically one knows when to change it. All depends on build though.

Running Shiseido, I have had same cotton in a heavily used build since this past Friday and it has yet to discolor or gunk up.

Guess it comes down to build and type of cotton, and how far one will tolerate before changing it. I used to be lazier with the organic regular cotton balls as it was a hassle, now with the Shiseido I can change out my cotton quicker, and it is easier; although not even necessary!

 

[cocacola31173]

I have Kayfuns and I change mine out every couple of tanks. Only takes a minute and makes a world of difference.

 

[fati]

I changed it as soon as coil get gunked, dry burn, new cotton. Every two days or so max. Depends on youre vaping style.

 

[Kropotkin]

I rewick every other day, but I never go below 1 ohm, so that might nor be relevant at all.

If it was me, and I was inhaling a lot of burnt cotton -------> <------- I think I'd either up the resistance or switch to something like silica.

 

[Shipmonster]

I think this has a lot to do with the juice that you vape as well. With some of my juices I can go a few days but with more complex or dessert-y flavors sometimes I'll dry burn and re-wick after one day.

 

[iClearoman]

Thanks for all the replies! I was unaware cotton burned so quickly but I suppose this is normal.

 

[nyiddle]

I use the Japanese cotton stuff (Koh Gen Do), and I find myself wicking once every day or two days.

It depends heavily on the juices I'm dripping though, like I can use the same wick for about a 3-5 days if I'm dripping only one flavor profile (ie: only tobacco-y flavors, or only fruity flavors). If I'm switching often (which happens more days than not), like going from a fruity juice to a chocolate/tobacco juice, it's necessary to change more often.

Also I've had some wicks work better than others, some of my best have been using a very very small amount of wicking material, and in doing so, I was able to use the wick for a full 12 days (I was on vacation and didn't wanna have to change my wick tbh, so it worked out well), and it tasted fine despite switching juices multiple times a day. I find what really ruins wicks more than anything is ANY sort of dry burning to them. Sometimes I'll have a relatively fresh wick but if I get a gnarly dry hit I'll swap the cotton out, because after that dry burnt hit it'll never taste quite the same.

On that note, I need to rewick today lol.

 

[minitater]

I used to get three maybe 4 tanks on cotton. When I switched to rayon I get 10-15 tanks on it and never had any burnt taste.
I gave away all my cotton and silica a couple of months ago!

 

[AzPlumber]

Whenever I use cotton I make it a point to do a change out every day regardless of what it is, underwear, socks, t-shirt or wicks.

 

[rondasherrill]

I only change mine about once a week. That having been said, I vape unflavored, so even after a week it is still clean.

 

[k702]

On all of the atties I own I tend to re wick whenever the wick happens to need changing.

 

[Spencer87]

I rewick almost daily. I find if my flavor rotations complement each other it's fine, but if I wanna move from 2 different flavs, I rewick. I rotate lots of flavors. I use Japanese organic cotton which is cheap as I live in Japan.