Loads of dry hits
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If usually means your wick cannot pull the eliquid fast enough to keep up with your battery. There are a couple of things you can do:
1. Dial down your voltage/wattage. This will vaporize the eliquid at a slower rate (if your battery allows you to do this)
2. Decrease the airflow, if your tank has adjustable airflow. The decrease in airflow will increase vacuum inside the tank's atomizer, which should increase the flow of juice to the wick..
3. Take a sharp draw (or two) on your drip tip (without engaging your battery). This will pull more eliquid into the coil so that it will be available when you press the battery button and take a draw.
You will get the feel of this over time and develop a sense of how often you will need to do this to avoid "dry hits". The PG/VG ratio of your eliquid also comes into play, as VG is thicker than PG . If you use high VG try adding a few drops of distilled water (per mls of juice) to your tank to thin out the eliquid. You could also install a higher ohm coil.
Susan has given you great info on your problem which will work well for you with a lot of attys. I have a couple of questions for you that may help us troubleshoot this a bit more with your particular hardware in mind.
What atty are you using, how many watts are you running, what is the resistance of your heads and what e-juice are you using?
Whatever the answers to my questions are, you will likely get relief from dry hits if you follow Susan's recommendations.
Best of luck with it
Dry hits are caused by the temperature getting too high and the juice burning and turning into nasty chemicals.
If the wicking cannot provide juice fast enough, what juice there is heats up too much. If there is insufficient airflow, this can happen as well.
Get yourself a mod and coil with temperature control support.
Eliminating dry hits, along with safety, is why TC was introduced on the DNA 40.
If the wicking cannot provide juice fast enough, what juice there is heats up too much. If there is insufficient airflow, this can happen as well.
Get yourself a mod and coil with temperature control support.
Eliminating dry hits, along with safety, is why TC was introduced on the DNA 40.I have the eVic VT. It's in temp control mode running at 50 watts.Susan has given you great info on your problem which will work well for you with a lot of attys. I have a couple of questions for you that may help us troubleshoot this a bit more with your particular hardware in mind.
What atty are you using, how many watts are you running, what is the resistance of your heads and what e-juice are you using?
Whatever the answers to my questions are, you will likely get relief from dry hits if you follow Susan's recommendations.
Best of luck with it
What do you have on top of it? What tank or atomizer?
ETA: Nvm I see your answer. How old is the coil?
ETA: Nvm I see your answer. How old is the coil?
shouldn't temp control mode be running at a temp or joule setting? pardon my ignorance - have not really used TC yet, though I am going to try it shortly... time to do more homework...
A week and a half probably. I don't use my vape too much though. It's the only coil that I've had in it. I haven't used my vape at all in the past 3 days.
Hmmm... unfortunately I'm not super familiar with anything you're using beyond knowing how tanks like that work, so I'm not going to guess and accidentally give you wrong info. But like others have already said, Susan pretty much covered it.
Keep in mind TC mode is basically meant for nickel and titanium but not really kanthal, at least not yet and at least as far as I understand. Are you using an appropriate coil head?
Keep in mind TC mode is basically meant for nickel and titanium but not really kanthal, at least not yet and at least as far as I understand. Are you using an appropriate coil head?
So you have the eVic VT tank running at 50 watts in temperature protected mode at 470 deg F using a Ti head at around 0.4 ohms which you've been using for a week and a half. It vaped fine for most of that time and then started giving you burnt hits.
My guess is the coil is now gunked up enough so at the power and temperature you've set it's burning juice. What I would do is check the coil. That means you have to take the tank apart to the point that you can see the coil in the head. I don't know that tank, but you'll probably have to get the juice out somehow in order to do that. You can then have a look at the coil and see how dirty it is. If you think it's gunked up put in a new one, leave the settings the same and see how it vapes. If the issue is gunk this will take you back to square one.
Or, you could just lower the temperature until it stops burning juice. This will work as long as the mod is in temperature protected mode. What will happen is when the wire gets to your temp setting the TP will kick in and lower the power to keep the set temp. You will lose power and your vape will change because of that though and you won't know how gunked the coil is.
Let us know what you try and how it works out for you.
The coil doesn't look gunked at all, it looks basically the same as the unused nickel coil I have. I can't use the nickel coil though, cause every time I try it, it says no atomizer found on the display. That's the only other coil I have. I tried lowering the temp, but all it did was take away from the strength of the burnt taste, but it's still there. No cloud at all. Virtually nothing comes out.
If you're in temp control mode, the watts are somewhat irrelevant; that only controls the power needed to get it to the temperature selected. what temperature do you have it set at, are you in Ni or Ti mode, and what is the diameter, ohms, and size of your coil and what wicking material?
I just got an Evic-VT too, and I'm a radical tootle puffer, but I haven't had a dry hit yet -- of course building coils and wicking them is something I've been doing for over a year, it's just a new material and method of supplying power to the coil. Mine is Ti1, 28ga, .57 ohms, 3/32; it's set at 380F and 35w -- and it's a great tootle puffing vape. 390F is good too, but almost a bit much for me.
Andria
OK, so when you lower the temperature until you get an unsatisfying vape there is still burnt flavor but less of it, and you think the coil is reasonably clean.
IMO that head is toast unless you clean it out and re-wick it if that's possible to do with these heads. It's either not as clean as you think it is or you've burnt the wick in it and the wick is giving you that off flavor now.
With your nickel coiled head, 'no atomizer found' probably indicates the resistance is too low. What does it read on your ohms tester? Andria might be able to help more with this too since she has one of these mods.
Either way, you need to buy more heads because they only last so long until they get gunked. They can also short though that doesn't happen often, but I don't know these heads.
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