Kanger Protank 2 Burn?

[happydave]

Does your KGO Mega have adjustable voltage on it? If it does, then you should be able to adjust the voltage to suit the protank coils. If it doesn't, then the coil resistance will determine how much power goes into your coil.

nevermind... it might be VV

 

[TikPandora]

Well, you were quite right about the leaking of the liquid after removing the flavor wick. I replaced the wick and am just going to return to vaping as usual. Perhaps I will have better luck when my new juices (80/20) and my new coils arrive.

 

[Ian444]

I have a battery mod and use a protank II mini which I beleive uses the same same coils as the protank. I usually use 2.2 ohm coils or 2.5 ohms coils depending on the juice, one of my juices burns easier so I use the 2.5 ohm coil for that (I have 2 protank II mini's).

 

[Ian444]

In general, with a battery (as opposed to a variable voltage or variable wattage device) so we are talking a "mech mod", or a battery with no electronic circuits except a switch and maybe an LED to show its "on", then in this case the power that goes into the coil to vaporize the juice is determined by the resistance of the coil. Lower ohms resistance will produce higher power into the coil and vice versa. The limit to how much power you can put into the coil is reached when your juice starts burning instead of vaporizing. The more power into the coil, the more vapor you produce, until it starts burning and gives bad taste. Some juices can take more power than others before burning. If you want even more vapor without the burning, you need to wind your own coils for the protank or use a different atomizer/clearomizer/tank whatever. There's a lot of worse tanks out there than the protank, I love the mini, I never bought the bigger brother because I like the mini protank's physical size.

 

[meanckz]

I'm not sure what your replacement coils are, but in my experience the genuine Kanger coils work best for the longest amount of time....
best price I could find for genuine Kanger

 

[MoralFibre]

Hello everyone~ I am quite new to vaping, so I don't really know all that much about it.

After my Oakley Gemini tank broke due to a reaction which destroyed the plastic, I decided to bite the bullet and buy a Kanger Protank 2 to go along with my KGO Mega (1300 MAH) battery. At first I loved it, but then I started to notice some burnt taste every once in a while. I have tried many different juices from sites such as VaporGod, Vapor Beast, and Zeus Juice, and I keep seeming to get the same result of an occasional burn.

Is there something I can do? Am I doing something wrong? I have tried three different coil heads, and have made sure to let them soak too.

So new to vaping myself - one week of no smoking! But my ten cents on your Kanger Pro II (I have one)...
I also had some problems with dry(ish) hits. Saw a vid on using cotton, gave it a go today - and WOW, what a difference.

Can I suggest you give it a go. Cotton will cost you next to nothing. Kanthal - pretty damn cheap. I believe you'll need a VV device though. My newly made cotton based coil in the Kanger reads 4.0ohm. It vapes absolutely fantasticly, and not a hint of a dry hit.

But one word on cotton wicks - *don't* try and dry burn your wire!

I've already re coiled and wicked my second head for the Kanger, but not used it yet.

It just works.

The vid I saw on building a cotton wick was this one...
Mini Protank Micro Coil Rebuild - YouTube

It's a good vid, but a couple of things I changed. I *did* retain the rubber sealing gromet that goes over the head. However, I cut about half the rubber off, so that it sits over the metal/metal seal - but is not (any longer) long enough to go down as far to push on the wick.

And also... I watched the video late last night, and did not follow it that well. For me... I made the coil on a wee screwdriver (2mm diameter is my best guess), threaded some wet cotton through, semi trimmed the edges, fitted it, put in the rubber, then the metal pin (both of which I first bent over the wire so that pushing in both would not push the coil back up (not mentioned if the vid)), and finally tweaked the coil position with the tip of a wee screwdriver. Then semi-screwed the head to the base (makes pushing the top pin on easier), and fitted the top pin (head). And the put my cut-down rubber sealing grommet on. Screwed down properly onto seal, and then screwed entire head back on tank.

*Awesome*.

Vapes incredibly well. PS: I don't have 28 gauge Kanthal, I used 32 (all I have), and I did 9 wraps on one coil (in use) and 10 on the spare (yet to be tested). As said, I'm measuring 4.0 ohms on the head in use - and man, it works great!!!

Give it a go. Ditch the crappy silica.

 

[Decimate]

My protank is hit or miss. It works really good for like 15 mins then it either gurgles or burns,

I'm getting an aspire bdc soon so hopefully it works as good as everyone says

 

[elfy]

Info on making coils here (Credit goes to Rip Trippers on YouTube for the video, all I did was just make some notes of what gear I added to the pile to make it work for me)

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...ii-minis-better-also-guest-starring-peas.html

In short, Kanger heads can be nice for a few days and then they get gunked up and taste like crap. Learn how to rebuild your coils and put in wicks. You can use a few different things for a wick, silica wick, cotton, hemp fiber (I wanna try hemp next, using cotton now).

It takes some learning to do all that - and you NEED a means to test a rebuilt coil (its vital to know if you've gotten it right..its a safety issue) but the results are a LOT better than your usual stock Kanger heads.


In the comments below the blog entry are some additional notes on gear: needle nosed pliers and a small screwdriver kit I picked up so that I can easily compress my coils as Im making them (you can use a 2mm drill bit, but that has no flat edge on it to press the coil up against to squish it together, but not overlapping).

Good luck, and BE SURE to be safe about doing that stuff...you DO NOT (at all) want to use rebuilt Kanger coils that are under 2.0 ohms (until you really understand why that is, low ohms = massive current zapping from your battery = possible Ka~boom...so avoid that).

Oh yea: 32 gauge is good if not great to start with, not 30 or 28...no, no.

 

[Mark Anthony]

Sometimes replacing a flavor wick with a little cotton will help also for better absorption..... that is before the burnt flavor hits.

 

[MoralFibre]

Per Elfie, I hope I posted the same RipTrippers vid. It's great. Cotton is the way to go.

But my two cents: *do* keep the rubber sealing grommet (I cut mine down about 1.5mm), and bend the wire over so it doesn't get pushed back down and move the position of the coil when you fit the wee bottom rubber and then the pin (don't think that's in the vid).
Oh, and wet your cotton to make threading it easy (was that in the vid? - don't think so).

 

[jdavis207]

I've had zero problems with my pt2 or 3 leaking or gurgling. I just started removing flavor wicks, so far no problems.

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[TikPandora]

It seems I have lulled myself into a false sense of ease and affordability when it comes to vaping. This all seems so complicated and expensive, especially when I have already spent so much on tanks and juice and the like. Perhaps it really isn't for me after all.

EDIT~
I am actually going to just sell the Protank and go back to getting another Oakley Gemini. Even though I may have to stay away from the Sour Peach flavor with it as to prevent another reaction, it did provide a much better vaping experience.