Kanger Protank thoughts

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Scoper50

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I've always been a pretty loyal carto tank user. 90% of my tank collection consists of carto tanks and I've never been a huge fan of clearomizers. I have a couple vivi novas, and a kanger T3, and for the past 4 months, they have all been sitting in a drawer collecting dust. I always have problems with clearomizers. Mostly wicking problems. I would set one up, and it would be ok for five minutes, and then it would be one dry burnt hit after another. I gave up on them.

Now the Kanger Protank has been really popular around here lately. I figured it was worth a shot for twenty bucks. It came in the mail on thursday, and I've been using it on a provari mini ever since. I never thought a clearomizer could perform like this. TONS of vapor, loads of flavor, and the throat hit is awesome. I've read that some people have been using the same head in these things for over a month with no issues. If this ends up being the case I'll definitely be purchasing additional heads.

There have been a couple setbacks that I had to work around however. The kit comes with two heads. One is pre installed in the unit out of the box, and there is an additional replacement head. The first head didn't work out at all. It tasted burnt all the time. Even at 3.2v A quick ohm check on the provari showed the coil at 1.9 ohms. I know that these heads are supposed to be 2.5 ohms out of the box. It was a dud

So I switched to the other head. This one came out to 2.5 ohms like it should, and it performed decent. But I would still get an occasional dry hit when chain vaping. I had to take the head apart and remove one of the wicks. Keep in mind that I'm using 70/30 juice, so it's hard to believe that one little extra wick could cause a problem. But it did. After removing a wick, it's been smooth sailing ever since. I highly recommend this tank

Don't get me wrong, I still love my carto tanks, and they will still remain my primary vape, but if you haven't tried the protank yet, give it a shot. I highly doubt you'll be disappointed.
 

Scoper50

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Im on 70PG/30VG and when i vape i take a bunch of long hard drags right in succession and have had no issue. Im using 1.8ohm evod heads now, and find it easier to vape on without the airy draw of the standard protank heads.

Good to know. The draw is a little airy for my taste, but it's not terrible. I'll pick some evod head and try them out. Do they come in different ohm ratings? I use a provari, and I like to vape closer to 5 volts. 1.8ohms is too low for me.
 

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I too am having problems with clearomizers, quite frankly after 11 months of vapeing I'm pretty fed up with them. Especially iClear30's those are such a pain in the .... The coil heads maybe work 1 out of 6 so far I've tried. The protank is the only thing decent I own, 20 dollars seems expensive tho I bought 2 protanks for 28 dollars
 

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Rebuild the coil with 3 mm braided cotton.(and use 32 gauge kanthal wire) ..ya gotta boil this cotton wick stuff for 15 minutes.....Its a super nice taste, you can not dry burn cotton though so if you go this route rinse out your tanks after you fill it twice. Let that wick soak in distilled water overnight or in alcohol ( like a cheap vodka) for at least 2 hours. Then let it air dry out.

The stock wick/coils on the KPT are ordinary at best. Nice glass walls and heft to the tank but the atomizing section is so so.
 

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I love the Evod and ProTank. I have had no issues with wicking while using pg/vg from 80/20 to 60/40.

I quit smoking 3 weeks ago and I had my worst craving yesterday. I chain vaped for 4 minutes, taking a draw with almost every breath, without any dry hits. I was using a 24mg 70/30 e-juice.

did you have the jimmy shakes after that? hahahaha!
 
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