A video by GrimmGreen suggested that he takes all of the flavor wicks out from the get-go with any Protank head he uses. He said he was getting burned hits and was like, wait, I had better luck with this before, only to realize he didn't take any wicks out. I took all of my flavor wicks out in the PT2 and I'm giving it another shot. So far I haven't really hit a burned draw, but I am experiencing a small amount of flooding. I'll keep tokin on this flavor-wick-less PT2 for a bit and see if it turns into a usable non-flooding/non-burning device. After all, the Nova has no flavor wicks and it has performed great in my experience (pending I twirl it to keep the wicks saturated). Then again, with the Nova being top coil, I guess it wouldn't be that likely to 'flood' like a bottom coil device, which could back up the point of the flavor wicks in the first place. At any rate, I'm optimistic and pessimistic about it all at once. We'll see what happens... the night is young.
EDIT - I'm happy to report that with 0 flavor wicks in the PT2 head, I can vape @ 4.0v (2.7 ohm) without any degree of a burning taste*. The gurgling has also stopped as I continued vaping as well. Even when I sat my PV down upright for an hour, then vaped again, it was absolutely fine with no gurgling.
*The only downside is if I go through a chain vape phase, where literally 5 seconds after exhaling the vape, I light it up again, and repeat for several minutes at a time, I do eventually taste a slight distant degree of an altered flavor that resembles a slight burn to it. I just tried the same thing on my carto tank and after chain vaping like a banshee, and I noticed it there too. While the Protank 2 was sitting as I was using my carto tank, I suppose it had some time to 'recover', because I put the PT2 back on just now and the vape is absolutely fine with no sense of a distant burning flavor.
I guess moral of the story is, if you're chain vaping like a crazy person, eventually a bit of burnt taste is expected. At any rate, I am quite happy that with no flavor wicks, I am experiencing no gurgling and extremely minimal burning. This Protank 2 is now performing as I always wished it would have. The juice I am using is 80/20, for what it's worth.
While I will undoubtedly keep my carto tanks around, I think I might hang onto the PT2 as my primary device for a few days. I'm anxious to see if it holds up as obnoxiously well as my carto tanks have with the amount of vaping I've done in recent days. Time will tell, but for now, I'm pretty content with what I'm experiencing.
EDIT - I'm happy to report that with 0 flavor wicks in the PT2 head, I can vape @ 4.0v (2.7 ohm) without any degree of a burning taste*. The gurgling has also stopped as I continued vaping as well. Even when I sat my PV down upright for an hour, then vaped again, it was absolutely fine with no gurgling.
*The only downside is if I go through a chain vape phase, where literally 5 seconds after exhaling the vape, I light it up again, and repeat for several minutes at a time, I do eventually taste a slight distant degree of an altered flavor that resembles a slight burn to it. I just tried the same thing on my carto tank and after chain vaping like a banshee, and I noticed it there too. While the Protank 2 was sitting as I was using my carto tank, I suppose it had some time to 'recover', because I put the PT2 back on just now and the vape is absolutely fine with no sense of a distant burning flavor.
I guess moral of the story is, if you're chain vaping like a crazy person, eventually a bit of burnt taste is expected. At any rate, I am quite happy that with no flavor wicks, I am experiencing no gurgling and extremely minimal burning. This Protank 2 is now performing as I always wished it would have. The juice I am using is 80/20, for what it's worth.
While I will undoubtedly keep my carto tanks around, I think I might hang onto the PT2 as my primary device for a few days. I'm anxious to see if it holds up as obnoxiously well as my carto tanks have with the amount of vaping I've done in recent days. Time will tell, but for now, I'm pretty content with what I'm experiencing.
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