Keep getting dry hits!

[bovril]

Yesterday I kept on vaping until my tank was empty (i forgot to refill) and noticed a dry hit. I refill the tank. Another dry hit! Then I remembered I had a spare coil which I had used before and I still keep getting dry hits every time. I can't vape now

I am very confused, aren't dry hits caused by a burned coil? I switched my coil and why am I still getting dry hits?

I'm using a nautilus mini tank.

 

[Susan~S]

Dry hits are caused by either:

• not priming the coil well before you first start using a new coil and/or
• vaping at a wattage/voltage to high for the juice to keep up and/or
• using too high a VG ratio of juice

The Nautilus Mini uses cotton as a wick. All cotton coils have to be "primed" well with juice. If they are not primed well the cotton will burn. Unfortunately, once the cotton is burned the burned taste doesn't go away.

To prime the coil, drop 5-8 drops (sometimes less/more depending on the size of the coil head) of juice right inside the coil, another drop of juice in all the holes on the side of the coil. Put the coil in the base, fill the tank and screw the base back onto the tank. Once you put the tank on the battery give it several unpowered primer puffs. This will make sure the wick is fully saturated.

Turn you voltage/wattage down, take a few hits, bump it up, couple more hits. Repeat until you find your "sweet spot". If it starts to taste funny, gets too hot or tastes burnt, back it down. Different flavors will have different sweet spots so you just have to experiment.

I can run as high as ~17 watts with 50/50 juice without getting dry hits on a Nautilus.

 

[StirredStill]

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So i just came off a hard learned lesson the last week; I managed to burn through a total of: 8 coils
4 on my kangernano
4 on my prismT18

It was totally all me.
I was huffing on those babies like it was going out of style without taking into account 2 things:

-Higher VG means 'slow down'
A few seconds in between my lip sessions makes for primed cotton.

- not meant to be huffed on.

Its been 2 days on the coils on them now; so I guess I a practicing patience....




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[suprtrkr]

You're hearing good advice. With prefab coils and thick juices, you have to give the wick a little time to re-saturate. And priming the coil is imperative.

 

[bovril]

Dry hits are caused by either:

• not priming the coil well before you first start using a new coil and/or
• vaping at a wattage/voltage to high for the juice to keep up and/or
• using too high a VG ratio of juice

The Nautilus Mini uses cotton as a wick. All cotton coils have to be "primed" well with juice. If they are not primed well the cotton will burn. Unfortunately, once the cotton is burned the burned taste doesn't go away.

To prime the coil, drop 5-8 drops (sometimes less/more depending on the size of the coil head) of juice right inside the coil, another drop of juice in all the holes on the side of the coil. Put the coil in the base, fill the tank and screw the base back onto the tank. Once you put the tank on the battery give it several unpowered primer puffs. This will make sure the wick is fully saturated.

Turn you voltage/wattage down, take a few hits, bump it up, couple more hits. Repeat until you find your "sweet spot". If it starts to taste funny, gets too hot or tastes burnt, back it down. Different flavors will have different sweet spots so you just have to experiment.

I can run as high as ~17 watts with 50/50 juice without getting dry hits on a Nautilus.

But what really confuses me is that I replaced the coil with another one which i had used before and was fine, and i still had that dry hit taste. Maybe not as strong as the other one though. I had left it sit for 2 minutes for the wick to absorb the liquid. Would that be because I have not primed the coil?

 

[StirredStill]

Oh, that would be because the cotton has been scorched... No turning back on that one. That had me stumped in the beginning as well.
You'll need to replace it and just follow the above suggestions!

Unless they are rebuildable! Then its a matter of changing the cotton/coil (not familiar with this aspect...)


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