Seeing as Im still new around here I posted this here . I couldn't find any where else. I just bought my first dripper (igo-w) and built my first coil as well. I used a jewelers screwdriver and 28awg kanthal to wrap the coil 1.8 ohm 10wraps, and cotton for the wick. for some reason its not tasting very good and cant figure out why. would making the coils to large cause a bad taste?
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Coil size has nothing to do with taste.
Here's a couple things to look at:
Clean the IGO inside and out, with a strong detergent. It may have machining oil on it.
Did you boil the cotton?
What settings and device are you using?
What liquid are you vaping? If it's over 12mg, that could make it taste very harsh.
Here's a couple things to look at:
Clean the IGO inside and out, with a strong detergent. It may have machining oil on it.
Did you boil the cotton?
What settings and device are you using?
What liquid are you vaping? If it's over 12mg, that could make it taste very harsh.
Clean the IGO inside and out, with a strong detergent. It may have machining oil on it.
Did you boil the cotton? No
What settings and device are you using? Between 4-5 volts still trying to find a good sweet spot
What liquid are you vaping? If it's over 12mg, that could make it taste very harsh. 6 mil nic and a fiew different flavors 50/50 pg/vg and 100 vg
common mistake with most first time cotton users is using too much cotton. It can be hard to find the right amount of cotton to use but once you do it will be great on flavor. you want to be able to just slightly pinch down the cotton and have it thread into the coil. it will swell as it hold juice and should then press up against coils.
Its recommended to boil cotton as it is common for them to use peroxide to bleach the cotton and the boiling will help with remove that as well as any other impurities.
Its recommended to boil cotton as it is common for them to use peroxide to bleach the cotton and the boiling will help with remove that as well as any other impurities.
I agree with previous posters that think you may have too much cotton. You also need to make sure you have plenty of juice on the wick. Is your build providing plenty of vapor but it just tastes bad?
How tight is the draw? My Igo-W (all my Igo's for that matter) had very small air holes. I drill them all. Not getting enough air flow can reek havoc on what would otherwise be a great vape.
Coil
Did you torch the coil? If you are doing standard coil, torch it before wrapping. If you are doing micro coil, torch it after you wrap it on the drill bit. I usually have to torch it 3 - 4 times to completely get it clean.
Cotton
Make sure you are using "organic" cotton. Otherwise, you will be tasting the chemicals they use to bleach it. If you haven't boiled the cotton, no big deal. Just don't inhale first few puffs.
RDA
Always always wash RDA before first time. Many ways to clean it. Warm water with dish washing liquid to ultra sonic cleaner. Whatever you feel comfortable doing. Don't forget to clean the drip tip well. Slightest machine oil taste on DT will ruin the taste for long time.
Did you torch the coil? If you are doing standard coil, torch it before wrapping. If you are doing micro coil, torch it after you wrap it on the drill bit. I usually have to torch it 3 - 4 times to completely get it clean.
Cotton
Make sure you are using "organic" cotton. Otherwise, you will be tasting the chemicals they use to bleach it. If you haven't boiled the cotton, no big deal. Just don't inhale first few puffs.
RDA
Always always wash RDA before first time. Many ways to clean it. Warm water with dish washing liquid to ultra sonic cleaner. Whatever you feel comfortable doing. Don't forget to clean the drip tip well. Slightest machine oil taste on DT will ruin the taste for long time.
Looks like a hot spot. Also, not enough juice on the deck.
Take the cotton out and burn the coil. Do it until all the gunk is burned off. Also, make sure entire coils get red when you fire. if only the center gets red, you have to fix the coil.
Use fresh cotton @ half of amount you are currently using. and make sure you have plenty of juice to cover all cotton.
Take the cotton out and burn the coil. Do it until all the gunk is burned off. Also, make sure entire coils get red when you fire. if only the center gets red, you have to fix the coil.
Use fresh cotton @ half of amount you are currently using. and make sure you have plenty of juice to cover all cotton.
Need to call myth busters on the swelling cotton wick. Many, if not everybody, says wick expands when wet. I went as far as laying cotton wicks on a ruler. Cotton ball wicks and cotton yarn. Drenched them in VG. They had zero visible expansion after 2 days of soaking.
Once cotton soak up dark juice, they look nasty. And nasty cotton look BIGGER than they actually are.
While it might/might not swell, larger cotton does "hold" more juice which end up not getting delivered to the coil. So, the efficiency of juice delivery is reduced if too much cotton is used.
If I have too much cotton how do I know how much to use for a dripper. like do I cut it off right at the side of the base of the dripper well.
Watch some recent YT videos. Rip Trippers, super_x_drifter, etc.
why u boiled the cotton? like pbusardo said and i quote " when u smoking previously did u boil ur analog?"
Funny quote.
Take a wiff of your boiling cotton. Rinse. Boil again for several minutes. Take another wiff. Notice anything?
If you don't boil away that smell, you will have "cotton taste" vapor for several minutes.
I don't like the "cotton taste" vapor so I boil/rinse cotton till steam smells clean.
That's not exactly an accurate or helpful comment, and it's one of the few things I disagree with Phil on - the filters in cigarettes are sterile when they're assembled, and they're not cotton. It's two different things.
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