Ignorant Beginner can't get the Provari to vape
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I applaud your patience, i'd be pulling out my hair long before we reached page 2 of this thread.
Look on the bright side, once you do get things up and running, you'll have an awesome setup and a great vaping experience. Is there a real vape store near you (not online but bricks & mortar) where you can get someone to help you out? Might have to drop $10 on another clearomizer to keep the store guy sweet, but then again people who vape make up an awesome community. You might find someone happy to help just because they're happy to help.
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Unfortunately the ego's/tanks aren't cross compatible (and both of them are broken...) Was excited to upgrade, deep breath and patience I'm pretty happy to see such an awesome informative and patient forum.
I too applaud your patience, I used most of my prostanks for target practice except for the two I got great satisfaction from smashing with a sledgehammer.
I suggest spending some time in the Provari model specific sub forum.
I suggest spending some time in the Provari model specific sub forum.
Sounds like the ProTank may have a bad coil, or may not be getting suitable voltage to the coil.
Use the ProVari menu to check the coil resistance (keep clicking til you get to "Ao" for atomizer Ohms).
If it's something like 2, start with the voltage set at about 4 (click til you get to PU and wait a minute, then click to increase).
Use the ProVari menu to check the coil resistance (keep clicking til you get to "Ao" for atomizer Ohms).
If it's something like 2, start with the voltage set at about 4 (click til you get to PU and wait a minute, then click to increase).
Hey, I've never seen that!!
I WANT one of those - I definitely have "gap OCD".
I emailed with ProVape a few times about the possible "ProTank gap" before I bought my ProVari.
Fortunately, NONE of my several ProTanks has a gap OR has to be unscrewed - they all are working perfectly.
Still - there ARE some tank/mod combos where this little washer would be handy.
Has anyone seen this in a US vendor? Or maybe I should just look at Home Depot?
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I WANT one of those - I definitely have "gap OCD".
I emailed with ProVape a few times about the possible "ProTank gap" before I bought my ProVari.
Fortunately, NONE of my several ProTanks has a gap OR has to be unscrewed - they all are working perfectly.
Still - there ARE some tank/mod combos where this little washer would be handy.
Has anyone seen this in a US vendor? Or maybe I should just look at Home Depot?
LOL
Hope you get this sorted out soon, and please report back with whatever you fix you come up with it might help the next guy! If you scan through just a page or two you'll see several threads with PT problems of some sort. Not knocking the PT, that's almost all I use, but there's apparently some problems with them. I just don't think this can all be attributed to user error.
The airholes on the bottom of the PT2 being located in the threaded portion of the connection is a STUPID idea. And what funny is Kanger KEEPS doing the same thing.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein
I just had this same exact problem! My first Provari came in Saturday and it spit and gurgled. First I sent a strongly worded email to Provape, who promptly responded and are sending me a new (different type) tank. Then I went on this forum for more help. Someone mentioned to try changing out the coil. I changed the coil (there was an extra in my starter kit) and it works perfectly now. I would say it is a faulty coil! So sorry you are experiencing the same disappointing experience I went through 
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I just had this same exact problem! My first Provari came in Saturday and it spit and gurgled. First I sent a strongly worded email to Provape, who promptly responded and are sending me a new (different type) tank. Then I went on this forum for more help. Someone mentioned to try changing out the coil. I changed the coil (there was an extra in my starter kit) and it works perfectly now. I would say it is a faulty coil! So sorry you are experiencing the same disappointing experience I went through
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Good to see you here, maybe you will be able to help. At least you have the same experience more or less and with the same equipment.
They keep doing the same thing because we've tried the airholes in the bottom cap and it creates a whole new set of problems. If you can think up an airflow design for a clearomizer tank, it's probably been tried already, and we've all bought it and hated it. The air holes in the 510 connection has been the preferred air hole location for at least a year now.
If the blockage is in the air holes in the male 510 connection, the only thing you can do is pull your tank's post. Pull it either flush with, or a little bit past the end of the male 510 connection's base. If that doesn't work, you may need to try an adapter. But I don't see why that wouldn't work. unless its not the walls of the female 510 connection's fault and its actually that the airholes in your protank are blocked by juice or crumbs or sand or something. You could try washing your protank out a bit and maybe stick a tooth pick thru the air holes to see if they are blocked. If that doesn't work, then you are simply either flooding your coil to mouth piece tube, or you've got a block in the wick sections. If pulling your post, thinning out the wick, and thinning out your juice do not solve the problem, just send it to me. I promise I'll have it working and I'll enjoy it thoroughly.
It doesn't sound like a juice flow issue. Unless your juice is overflowing. In that case there is little you can do other than trying to stick an extra piece of cotton into 1 of the wick holes, or plugging one up completely with the broken-off tip of a tooth pick.
If the blockage is in the air holes in the male 510 connection, the only thing you can do is pull your tank's post. Pull it either flush with, or a little bit past the end of the male 510 connection's base. If that doesn't work, you may need to try an adapter. But I don't see why that wouldn't work. unless its not the walls of the female 510 connection's fault and its actually that the airholes in your protank are blocked by juice or crumbs or sand or something. You could try washing your protank out a bit and maybe stick a tooth pick thru the air holes to see if they are blocked. If that doesn't work, then you are simply either flooding your coil to mouth piece tube, or you've got a block in the wick sections. If pulling your post, thinning out the wick, and thinning out your juice do not solve the problem, just send it to me.
I promise I'll have it working and I'll enjoy it thoroughly.It doesn't sound like a juice flow issue. Unless your juice is overflowing. In that case there is little you can do other than trying to stick an extra piece of cotton into 1 of the wick holes, or plugging one up completely with the broken-off tip of a tooth pick.
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It was the tank, went to a local vape shop and they tried it and failed as well, so I got a vivi nova tank that works perfectly, emailed provari and they are mailing me another protank and a vivi nova for free, fantastic and quick service on their end.
Tried another protank in shop and the v2 didn't have any airflow though v3 flowed just fine. So, in thanks to this forum, if the other v2 doesn't work I am willing to ship both of them to anyone as a christmas gift as I have no use for them, just send me a PM with your shipping info (in the US)
Glad to see that I wasn't just doing something totally wrong in the setup process.
Tried another protank in shop and the v2 didn't have any airflow though v3 flowed just fine. So, in thanks to this forum, if the other v2 doesn't work I am willing to ship both of them to anyone as a christmas gift as I have no use for them, just send me a PM with your shipping info (in the US)
Glad to see that I wasn't just doing something totally wrong in the setup process.
I just had this exact thing happen....
Leaving the juice in my tank, i took apart the bottome, unscrewed the coil, wiped both bottom pieces with a paper towel and put it back together.
Voila, no gurlge or liquid splatter and a lot pf vapor
Leaving the juice in my tank, i took apart the bottome, unscrewed the coil, wiped both bottom pieces with a paper towel and put it back together.
Voila, no gurlge or liquid splatter and a lot pf vapor
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