I came back to do my report and noticed this so decided to quote it as it's relevant
am new to RBAs, the coil i'm
vaping now is about the 10th ever i have made, so my experiences are not those of someone who knows what they are doing. I own an AGA-T2 and an IGO-S
Not done hemp on the IGO-S yet, it needs the capacity of the cotton, for me, but i really struggled with mesh on the AGA so i decided to coil that. I'm not sure whether the centrepost got in the way or i wrapped my coils too tight but with 2x1mm hemp the wicking was pretty poor. So i added a china style flavour wick laid over the coil and wrapped around the other two wicks, dropping down through the fill hole. Looks a mess, but vapes like a champ. Only had it running a couple of days so can't comment on
juice dirtying although it doesn't look like it is on mine, yes the top wicks are darker but there is nothing in the tank. Can still fill it through the fill hole with a pink needle.
seriously thirsty though, i reckon it's doubled my
juice intake but i do feel much more satisfied off it and seem to vape a little less often.
running 13w on the vamo with a 1.6 ohm of 2 strand twisted 34ga kanthal (all i've got till my wire order arrives)
I too will never use silica again. Can't say i had any negative effects from it but i was never happy about using it just because of what it is, seeing all the fibres in the bags it came in and on the hands, seeing hairy silica wicks in people's atomisers.. not for me thank you very much. Hemp will do me nicely though i burned it and inhaled the smoke on purpose for years so anything from natural hemp really doesn't worry me.