Issues with burnt taste in Aspire Nautilus mini

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Hey everyone.
I started vaping with the Triton. Almost a year off analogs now. I just set up a new rig for home vaping. I have an Aspire Nautilus mini tank and have paired it with a eleaf istick battery. My problem is, no matter what I do, my Tribeca is tasting burnt. I vape at the same voltage as I did with my vv triton and cannot figure it out. Is this just too much battery for this juice? I am lost and this is and always has been my favorite juice. Help!
 

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I had a similar issue when I switched to a PT2 with Halo juices. If your device can do VW, try adjusting that over VV since it'll adjust the voltage for you (essentially). Also, try cleaning the coil and dry burning it (I'm not familiar with cleaning a coil for a Nautilus/Mini, so look that up before doing this). Or just try a whole new coil.

Heads up, the eleaf istick is adjusted for mean voltage out and not RMS voltage out, which most devices are tuned for, so it's always going to output a slightly higher voltage than you may expect.
 

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I bet it's the tank/coil not the ejuice or voltage.

I have an RMS Vamo running in VW mode, with a BDC tank it tastes great around 10-12 watts, when I put a top coil Triton tank on it I can't push it over ~4 watts without getting a disgusting burnt flavor. The spectrum is very different.

Try starting at the lowest volts/watts the istick will do and increase that in the smallest increments.
 

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Hey everyone.
I started vaping with the Triton. Almost a year off analogs now. I just set up a new rig for home vaping. I have an Aspire Nautilus mini tank and have paired it with a eleaf istick battery. My problem is, no matter what I do, my Tribeca is tasting burnt. I vape at the same voltage as I did with my vv triton and cannot figure it out. Is this just too much battery for this juice? I am lost and this is and always has been my favorite juice. Help!

I have a similar setup. Triton has been my only vape for the past year or so and recently I got a Nautilus Mini together with an Istick30 and Aspire CF VV+ batteries. I vape mainly Halo juice on the Nautilus at 4.3 volts on the vv and 11.0 Watts (4.8 volts) on the istick. I have vaped Malibu as high as 15 Watts (5.6 volts) on the Istick. None of my juices have ever tasted burnt (including Tribeca). You didn't say how long you have been using the Nautilus or whether you are using the new BVC coils or the old coils, but I use the BVC and they are a lot like cartomizers, with a vertical coil surrounded by ceramic material.


I prime my coils by putting 3-4 drops directly on the wicking material surrounding the coil, let it soak in a few minutes, then 3-4 more drops again. Then I fill the tank, let it sit 15 minutes, take about 3-4 dry puffs without power to make certain the wicking material is saturated and then vape at 3.3 volts for a short while, moving the power up gradually and have never gotten a burnt taste. Nautilus coils can take much higher power than Triton coils but if the wicking material on the Nautilus is dry you are going to burn it. That is the burnt taste you are getting, not the Halo juice.
 
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forget comparing voltage between different devices, vape at the voltage that tastes and feels the best. the number on the display isn't that important.
the istick is pulse modulation, and it's mean not rms. in other words, the reading on an istick isn't comparable to the reading on 90% of other devices.
put in a fresh coil, let it sit for 5 minutes, set the istick to the lowest setting, and take some short vapes.
if it doesn't taste burnt, take some longer vapes. then if it's still good, increase the voltage a little and repeat until you find the sweet spot.
 

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I used to have this same problem when I first got my Provari and some different tanks. The golden rule is to look at the resistance of your coil(s) and add 2 to get the roundabout right voltage. Aspire likes 1.6 and 1.8 Ohm coils so depending on which you have, you'd start between 3.6 and 3.8 volts.

Now that being said... Tribeca does not like heat! Not at all whatsoever! On a 2.0 Ohm Kanger Aerotank coil, it tastes burnt on anything higher than 3.5 volts.

Point is, start at the minimum your device puts out, and then increase til you get a burnt taste.
 

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Hey everyone.
I started vaping with the Triton. Almost a year off analogs now. I just set up a new rig for home vaping. I have an Aspire Nautilus mini tank and have paired it with a eleaf istick battery. My problem is, no matter what I do, my Tribeca is tasting burnt. I vape at the same voltage as I did with my vv triton and cannot figure it out. Is this just too much battery for this juice? I am lost and this is and always has been my favorite juice. Help!

I think you'll find the problem when using the iStick 20w in this review. It is overpowered because it is tuned to Mean/AVG Voltage instead of RMS. You set it to say 4V, but the actual output is much higher.



I'd recommend watching the whole thing, but he starts talking about the "numbers" at about 21 minutes in.
 
Thanks guys. I took a break from Tribeca for a bit and vaped some other juices just to see if I had a set up/Coil issue and haven't had any problems. I would never suggest that Tribeca is the problem, but have been scared to try it again. That being said, I am jonesing terribly for my go to juice. Nothing else even remotely compares, and I have tried dozens. Don't get me wrong, there are decent juices out there, just not like the Tribe! So (long winded stories aside) I am gonna try it again. I Have a clean tank with a brand new 1.8 ohm coil and I (fingers crossed) am gonna try and vape some Tribeca. Wish me luck compadres. I will let you know how it works out! All you wonderful people rock, by the way!
 

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Well, I think I may have to only vape tribeca in my Triton tanks. Still no luck, but I guess those are the breaks. Thanks again for everyone's advice!
One last idea. What resistance coil are you using. I see that there are 2 different resistances offered. I use the higher 1.8 rather than the hotter 1.6 on my iStick.

But as mentioned, Halo eliquids seem to vape best in the Triton tanks.

Enjoy.
 
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