Kanger Protank II Gurgling?

[natesbox]

Hi, I recently purchased a ProtankII, but it seems to be gurgling sometimes, and I was wondering what might be the cause.

Thanks

 

[Dakota Jim]

the gurgling means it is flooding which can be caused by 1. drawing too hard when you are taking a vape and pulling in too much liquid for it to vaporize, B. you are laying it on its side when it about 1/4 full which lets it over wick due to no vacuum in the tank, or III. the coil is getting gunked up and not working too its fullest potential (in which case you need to call the coil McFly because its a SLACKER)

 

[Train2]

A couple additional tips on gurgling ProTanks:
a) Check that the coil is screwed in finger-tight
b) Clear juice from the airtube (pipecleaner, or blow through, or something - while the bottom/coil are off
c) Increase the voltage a leeeetle bit

MOST likely are what Dakota said - low tank and/or weak coil lead to gurgles...

 

[VapinNathan]

That gurgling and mouthfuls of juice all the time have caused me to kick the protanks to the curb. Now I got a ibtanked and it's a world of difference.

 

[LittleBit]

Are you using a vv/vw? I've only had a few issues with my pt3 and I kicked up the power and the clouds came...

 

[VaperGlock]

Hi, I recently purchased a ProtankII, but it seems to be gurgling sometimes, and I was wondering what might be the cause.

Thanks

Only time I've ever had a Protank flood was too little wick on a rebuild and once with a loose head. Once I got that figured out it's been smooth vaping. If you didn't mess with the wicking I unfortunately will be of no help. My iClear 30 on the other hand... I'll never own another.

 

[unometooo]

My PT3 was gurgling a lot. I put a 1.6 ohm coil with a cotton wick and so far so good, no flooding at all.

 

[rx8man1987]

When I had gurgling with my Protank 2, it was because the stock coil had a gap in the center of it and I took the flavor wicks out. There for too much juice was going on the wick and leaking through the coil into the air tube.

 

[cope]

re-coil it with a micro and cotton wick it much better....

 

[jpayne]

Good info...thx

 

[edyle]

Hi, I recently purchased a ProtankII, but it seems to be gurgling sometimes, and I was wondering what might be the cause.

Thanks

In my experience so far, the heads work good for 1 day, then you start to get leaking; the leaking leaves eliquid flooding the coil can causing gurgling.

I tilt the tank to unflood the coil; that tend to send eliquid down through the mouthpiece.


Cerruntly experimenting with replacing the flavor wicks with cotton wicks. Just messsed up 1 more coil in the process.

 

[natesbox]

Thanks everyone, for those who asked, I have a eGo batt, so it's pretty basic. I'm looking to swap to a evic, the svd, or maybe the zmax. The evic seems to be at the top of my list though...

 

[natesbox]

I thought about it a bit more, and another thing that seems to happen is that the tank seems to perform better with the tank 1/2 full and above. I guess that is because when it is that low, the wicks run dry on it's side?

 

[gary f g]

the one main cause ive ran into is the tank is too low on juice as previously stated and also routinely cleaning off the battery contact of moisture too

 

[edyle]

The protanks do have a reputation for leaking;

the leakings problem seems to be related to the size.

Apparently the mini protank does not have the problem (I suppose the leak on the mini is to small too cause a problem)


Apart from the protank bottom coil tank, other bottom coil pyrex tanks are the Davides: the Anyvape Davide and the Aspire Davide; and then there is the Smoktech ARO BCC.

 

[natesbox]

Cool, thanks. I'll check those out, though I'm holding out on another tank purchase until I get my pvd.