I feel like I'm asking a lot of questions! But I'm really trying to get educated on vaping. So sorry if these questions seem silly, or very often. I was running low on juice in my tank. Had a 12mg darker cotton candy flavor in there and decided to top it off with a 6mg light yellow color of a flavor called afternoon delight. I've done this before and I like the combo of both flavors but after two or three pulls at the base of my tank you can see two dark spots on either side of the tank. Why is this?? It doesn't taste burnt or anything. Still tastes good and still getting a good cloud out of it. Just wondering what could cause your juice to do that?
little dark brown spots in juice?
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Hard to tell without knowing what kind of tank you're using. Sounds like you're getting back wash of the darker juice. Somewhere in your tank there's still some of that dark juice hiding out. As you vape, it gets pulled back into the tank.
It's a smok tf-r1 heres what it looks like.
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Remember your cotton is still holding some of the old ejuice. I agree with the previous poster. It may take a few tanks to totally(if at all) replace the old with the new in the cotton.
Yup, just caramelized juice coming off the wick/coil/old juice. Very common even with the same juice if you haven't used the tank for a day or two.
That's what I figured it was too. But now when I try pulling on it I get this weird gurgling sound. Idk what's going on with it.
As the others have mentioned, the darkness is probably just some of the old, darker-colored juice that was left-over inside the wick. When you puff on the tank, the moving air causes a pressure differential that makes the juice sort of flow back and forth through the little inlet channels to the chamber where the wick and coil are. Most of what goes in gets vaporized and replaced with air, but since the wick never gets (or should never get) completely dry, there's always a little bit that comes back out into the tank. So if there's a darker juice in the wick than what's in the tank, you might see some discoloration as a tiny bit of the darker stuff seeps back out. Nothing to worry about, and should clear up after a few more puffs. If it doesn't, you may have another issue but no reason to freak out just yet
The gurgling means there is unvaporized liquid somewhere in the air-flow path. You might just have a flooded coil or an over-saturated wick. Hit the fire button a few times, briefly, just until you hear a little sizzle. What you're doing is trying to boil off any excess liquid in the wick and coil. That might clear up the problem but if not, some liquid might have dripped down into the air intake. Unscrew the tank from your battery device, wrap a paper towel around the bottom of it (the tank), then hold it upside down and blow sharply through the mouthpiece. This should blow out any excess liquid in the air-flow path and, hopefully, since you just made sure the wick and coil weren't too saturated by pulsing the fire button first, won't just blow a whole bunch more into it. If that still doesn't solve it, you might need to find an experienced friend for some more "hands-on" troubleshooting.
The gurgling means there is unvaporized liquid somewhere in the air-flow path. You might just have a flooded coil or an over-saturated wick. Hit the fire button a few times, briefly, just until you hear a little sizzle. What you're doing is trying to boil off any excess liquid in the wick and coil. That might clear up the problem but if not, some liquid might have dripped down into the air intake. Unscrew the tank from your battery device, wrap a paper towel around the bottom of it (the tank), then hold it upside down and blow sharply through the mouthpiece. This should blow out any excess liquid in the air-flow path and, hopefully, since you just made sure the wick and coil weren't too saturated by pulsing the fire button first, won't just blow a whole bunch more into it. If that still doesn't solve it, you might need to find an experienced friend for some more "hands-on" troubleshooting.
As the others have mentioned, the darkness is probably just some of the old, darker-colored juice that was left-over inside the wick. When you puff on the tank, the moving air causes a pressure differential that makes the juice sort of flow back and forth through the little inlet channels to the chamber where the wick and coil are. Most of what goes in gets vaporized and replaced with air, but since the wick never gets (or should never get) completely dry, there's always a little bit that comes back out into the tank. So if there's a darker juice in the wick than what's in the tank, you might see some discoloration as a tiny bit of the darker stuff seeps back out. Nothing to worry about, and should clear up after a few more puffs. If it doesn't, you may have another issue but no reason to freak out just yet
The gurgling means there is unvaporized liquid somewhere in the air-flow path. You might just have a flooded coil or an over-saturated wick. Hit the fire button a few times, briefly, just until you hear a little sizzle. What you're doing is trying to boil off any excess liquid in the wick and coil. That might clear up the problem but if not, some liquid might have dripped down into the air intake. Unscrew the tank from your battery device, wrap a paper towel around the bottom of it (the tank), then hold it upside down and blow sharply through the mouthpiece. This should blow out any excess liquid in the air-flow path and, hopefully, since you just made sure the wick and coil weren't too saturated by pulsing the fire button first, won't just blow a whole bunch more into it. If that still doesn't solve it, you might need to find an experienced friend for some more "hands-on" troubleshooting.[/QUOTT
Thank you, this was very helpful. I did you what you said and it stopped the gurgling. I've been having problems with my tank leaking. So i think it just flooded the hell out of itself. I've since took my tank completely apart and cleaned it. The coils and wick look just fine. Nothing looks different. I just put it back together and put some juice in. Hopefully it stops leaking and I can continue vaping as I haven't been able to all day.
The dark juice is old juice that has been heated up. The less juice or the more empty you keep the atty before you refill the darker the juice becomes from your coil heating up the metal and caramelizing the sweeteners in the juice, another reason is that your coil is getting worn out with a cocoon of gunk around it so the coil has to heat the gunk first before it can vaporize the juice thus more power is being used and heat is dissipating into the juice. Once the juice begins to darken like you say, its time to rebuild. Throwing away the juice cause its now going to be off and contaminate all the new juice.
My wife's atty gets a ring of dark juice along the bottom so I have to rebuild. I don't bother saving juice since I DIY and its pennies per ml to make and by the time she tells me her atty is YUK it too far gone and in a lot of ways its better to replace the coil than dryburn and try to reuse especially if your using thinner 30 and 32 gauge wire. Stick a clapton into the atty and its a much more robust, longer lasting coil that can be dryburned more times than using single wire builds.
A note about dryburning....DON'T make the coil burning red hot, all you have to do is pulse it till it begins to glow then scrape the cooties off, repeat till its clean then wash the coil after to remove the scrapings. I even go as far as removing the coil to clean the RBA with tweezers and paper towel inside the airflow tube under the coil then put the same coil back. I don't like the burnt taste of scrapings in between places that you cant reach and down the airflow with the coil in place. I see many videos where they red hot the coil and that does nothing but degrade the properties of the wire and wears it out sooner.
My wife's atty gets a ring of dark juice along the bottom so I have to rebuild. I don't bother saving juice since I DIY and its pennies per ml to make and by the time she tells me her atty is YUK it too far gone and in a lot of ways its better to replace the coil than dryburn and try to reuse especially if your using thinner 30 and 32 gauge wire. Stick a clapton into the atty and its a much more robust, longer lasting coil that can be dryburned more times than using single wire builds.
A note about dryburning....DON'T make the coil burning red hot, all you have to do is pulse it till it begins to glow then scrape the cooties off, repeat till its clean then wash the coil after to remove the scrapings. I even go as far as removing the coil to clean the RBA with tweezers and paper towel inside the airflow tube under the coil then put the same coil back. I don't like the burnt taste of scrapings in between places that you cant reach and down the airflow with the coil in place. I see many videos where they red hot the coil and that does nothing but degrade the properties of the wire and wears it out sooner.
I would shake it up and see if it mixes in and not worry about it as the other suggestions indicate.
Perfectly normal when blending to different juice in the same tank without cleaning it
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