juice travelling via cotton.

[aalmosawi]

I have done a wrap as i have seen on many youtube videos of the cotton around my rda one coil build as show in attachment.

heres the issue.

the juice in the area where there is no coil but only cotton is sitting there.
i get a dry hit unless i drip on the coil and wet the area of the coil.

why isnt the juice travelling and what can i do to rectify this if i want to use single coil?

this is on a wotofo troll rda as shown.

this is cotton that comes in a small bag with a subox mini starter kit.

(this is a 0.97 SS coil - 65 watts - 70/30 vg with 6mg)

 

[bwh79]

The cotton might be getting pinched off where it goes between the two posts, and preventing or restricting juice flow. Try using less cotton, so that it sits in there without compressing. (You still want it packed fairly tight inside the coil, so rather than just using a thinner wick overall, you could trim/thin the tails after you've installed it in the coil.) Or, you might also try running the cotton over the top of the center screws, rather than in between the posts.

I know a lot of people like to pack it in that way but to me, that looks like an awful lot of cotton. I usually leave the tails just long enough so that they just barely brush the bottom of the juice well when I tuck them down in. You do have to be more careful this way because it can spill if you tip it over, since the juice is just sitting free there in the juice well and not soaked up in a giant ball of cotton, but the benefit is that, without that giant ball of cotton soaking up all your juice, there's less of it "in the way" between your juice and your coil, so I feel that it wicks better this way.

 

[aalmosawi]

and here i thought i shouldnt put the cotton on the post ... ok i'll do that.

its tedious doing two coils ..you know?

 

[crxess]

TIME!

It takes Time for Cotton to become FULLY Saturated and allow continuous flow.
Quickly Dip a Dry rag in water and remove it. Notice not all of the rag is wet?
Try it with a sponge - same result.

Different materials Soak up liquids at a different rate and need to soak long enough for ALL contact surfaces to become equally wet.

This is one of the reasons a New wick can deliver Dry hits and the same wick when well used will start leaking.

Also - Cotton, like a Sponge, will hold some liquid. One BIG Reason I switched to Rayon.

 

[aalmosawi]

ya.

i just found this on somewhere ...

i guess this is just...extreme cotton wicking?

 

[HauntedMyst]

If I had to guess, you have too much cotton jammed in between the two chambers so the juice can't get through, I'd thin that out. If it's thick VG, its not going to flow well if its packed tight.

 

[sparkky1]

That whole one side of the well with no coil should be empty of cotton, just drop the tails straight down and tuck directly under coil, maybe 1/4 in past the bottom and tuck, you want a nice gap in between coil and tucked cotton
Cotton Bacon by Wick N Vape

 

[aalmosawi]

heres what i did and it has made 90% improvement!

i know its a disaster and goes against the ethics of cotton wicking. but hey, it works.

a clumsy workable mess.

 

[VHRB2014]

Too much cotton can actually hold back juice and not allow it to flow to a drier section. You have to consider the weight of juice itself becomes an impediment to flow. Consider an oil lamp. You don`t stuff the lamp with wick, as it would soak up the oil and oil would never get to the top, you put a tiny wick down in it so it can be drawn easily to the top where it is needed.