Leaking troubles

[Derek Derailled]

So, I'm currently enduring a problem. One of those problems that causes migraines and leaves a bad taste in
your mouth (literally, on both accounts). My tank is now leaking again after only one day of having a new coil
in it. I have went through four coils already in a month's time. They keep leaking and thus e-liquid shoots up
into my mouth leaving me with horrible tastes and headaches as a result.

My set up:

eGo-C Twist 1100mAh battery
Kanger ProTank 2 tank with Smoktech coils

The Kanger coils were alright only for a few days each, then my little brother got me these Smoktech coils.
The first one I popped in was AMAZING for about two weeks. Then it started gurggling, which led to juice
being shot up into my mouth. I changed the coil yesterday with another one of the Smoktech coils he gave
me and everything was fine. But now, just a day later, it's worse than the last one was! I'm not sure if
the gurggling and leaking are connected, but I am sure they are.

I normally vape at 3.2 volts (the lowest on mine) with my 50/50 juices and 3.6 to 3.8 volts with my 20/80
pg/vg juices.

I could really use some help here guys. If I can't vape I'll definitely go back to smoking, and I love my vaping.

 

[classwife]

Moved to Clearomizers

 

[Derek Derailled]

Anybody ?

 

[Taowulf]

I hope someone more familiar with that tank and those coils helps you out, but what else have you done? Have you made sure that nothing is overtightened? That can be as bad as everything being loose. Maybe you have a bad o-ring somewhere.

Edit: Found this thread for you http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/new-members-forum/547320-frustrated-leaking-protank-2-a.html

Hope it helps.

 

[patkin]

There are so many possibilities as to what's going on. I'll just hit the main ones:

1. Angle you're vaping. Best to vape as horizontal as is comfortable (90 degree angle putting the tip in your mouth is best) instead of a mainly vertical angle. You could be getting vapor/spit from your mouth going back into the air tube and, later, getting that in your mouth thinking its juice from the atty.

2. That topper you have requires very little draw and is why its called an "airy" draw. Drawing too hard will flood the atty which causes the gurgle and dry hits.

3. Depending on what juice you're vaping, your atty could be clogging up with gunk on the coil. Rinse the head in super hot water before each refill of the tank. Blow the excess water out through the head's air tube and put back in your tank. It is not necessary to wait for it to dry if you blow it out good. The first few puffs will be muted because it still has some water on the wick but after that your full flavor will return.

 

[Rickajho]

If you keep getting liquid up the mouth piece it's one of two things: Just drawing on it way too hard, or there is an air leak going on some place that is now making that easy to do.

First, are those Smok coils advertised as being PT compatible? Even Kanger makes two different coils - one for the PT/EVOD and one for the T3s/MT3s and they aren't cross compatible. The metal washer right under the coil is a different size, and the fitting that washer goes into on the clearo base is correspondingly different. The wrong coil in the wrong base causes flooding/leaking problems.

It doesn't take much to get installing a new coil wrong and have it not fully seated. Try backing off the coil from the base a bit and screw it back in firmly.

If you lost the flat o-ring on the PT base that's another source for air to get in where it shouldn't. There should be a white o-ring on the base, at the bottom of the threads that screw into the tank. Some people lose that one when cleaning.

The underside of every coil also has a flat o-ring, right under the metal washer. Check to see that it's in place and flat.

With the PT's that have replaceable glass you need to make sure the top and bottom o-rings for the glass are still in place correctly. I've seen a couple posts where people have had trouble with the bottom o-ring just "rolling" out of place, still not sure how that happens.

Removal of the silicone cap from the vent tube allows liquid to enter straight from the tank into the mouth piece tube. Some people think that silicone cap is packing material - it isn't.

You may have a batch of coils that have insufficient top wicks. That top wick above the coil serves two purposes: It feeds liquid to the coil and is also filling in a round peg of a coil that goes into a (basically) square hole of an opening. I've had a coil or two that only had one of two top wicks in place and those coils gurgled and spitted until I added more top wick in there. Even a small piece of cheesecloth works, rolled up tight and trimmed to shape. You wiggle and pull the vent tube with the silicone cap until it comes off, add wicking on top, and replace the vent tube.