Loud pop on Kanger rba

[vigga256]

i personally use just 1 strand, but I use 30g kanthal and I build with my CW-25 LT-Infinity Coil-Master (with the #1 gauge jig) it's a small jig & small wire gauge... I like conserving my juice while maximizing vapor production. My micro-coils are small in circumference but they pack a punch. I'd guess 2 strands would be fine for a 26g build with slightly larger circumference coil.

I'm not positive, but I believe we came to the conclusion, as a community, that the sugar N cream cotton was not the same as peaches n cream. I'm guessing the sugar n cream is bleached? where-as the peaches n cream yarn from walmart is 100% natural cotton, non-bleached. try and find the peaches n cream, it's a great bang for your buck and the diameter/circumference is perfect for a lot of our builds!

Also can this be used with the .5 ohm coils that are pre built? I think it's Kanger that sells them but could be mistaken.

 

[Plumes.91]

absolutely! any wicking material can be used with any coil material! you just need to make-sure that there is enough wicking material to slide-through the coil, with slight resistance, but not so tight that it actually chokes the wick at any point during the slide-through the coil process it's really a lot more simple than I just made it sound by writing it out. you can even unravel cotton-balls, rip a strip right down the side of the large strip (cottonballs are actually just large strips rolled into barrels- you'll see 1 day lol) and yes, you just roll that strip in your hand finger-tight, wet one end with e-liquid & roll the end tight-enough to thread-through the coil, and pull that cotton on-through until you've got a nice wad of cotton through the coil. snip even on each side & you've got a great wick! just don't make it SO tight that it won't even slide through, that's alll you have-to worry about really. (choking, which prevents liquid from reaching the center of your coil as quickly as it reaches the outside coils)

It really is more simple than it looks in text. You can use natural yarn, you can unravel a cotton-ball and snip or tear a quarter-inch or 1/16th inch strip, and thread that through the coil... you can use what's known as Japanese cotton. You can use silica wicking material, which is like a rope made of unbreakable glass-like fibers, which never break-down and cannot be burned, they do-not even let-off soot/smoke/carbon if torched. If your e-liquid burns/gunks-up on silica, you can just take a lighter or butane torch and torch the gunk right off, and the silica will actually go from black/brown, to red w/heat, & from red, to bright white all over again! We all used silica for QUITE some time, however, we've found that cotton wicks a fair-bit better than silica, especially in horizontal-wick RDAs. A-lot of us still use "ECO-WOOL" which is a type of silica with stronger (some say more absorbent) strands. (FYI: the silica material itself does-not soak-up liquid, rather it acts as a helix pattern trapping the liquid within it's many twists/folds/nooks/crannies. Silica was very popular. a lot of vapers continue to use stainless steel mesh. bought in either large 11x12 sheets, or smaller 2x4 sheets, we'd simple roll-up the mesh as tight as possible, then torch it to create a thin oxidized carbon layer (to prevent the steel from shorting-out your coil from touching the metal atomizer) cut to size & wrap a coil around it! A ton of people continue to use SS-mesh + cotton hybrid wicks. This works great as-well. SOME prefer HEMP over cotton, claiming that it is healthy and great at wicking. I just reviewed a test done by PBusardo on Youtube that disproves the wicking claim. (it does-not wick better than cotton) However, clean hemp is a wicking material option for sure, if you grab the right type of hemp. (there are vendors you can easily find by googling keywords: Hemp & E-cigarette. Another wick option that is gaining popularity by jumps, leaps, and bounds, in today's vape-world, is known as RAYON. Rayon is very similar to cotton, although it is synthetically made. It burns to light ash just-like cotton does, and it does-not melt or produce any sort of smelly vapor when burnt. "it smells like paper" was PBusardo's comment on what Rayon smells like when burned. (he did burn tests on each of the above materials)

So there are plenty of wicking-material options out there. I find stainless mesh to taste of sour metal. This sour metal taste can sometimes carry-on for the 1st 3 weeks of use. After 2-3 weeks of use, I find SS mesh to lose it's flavor & become quite flavorless, in-fact, it becomes 1-of the purest wicks you can possibly use, once you initially break a ss-mesh wick in for good. I find silica to give-off little to no taste, although it can mute flavors of your e-liquid (especially with higher VG juices, which do-not like to wick well with Silica wicks) and silica does give LESS initial warning before going completely dry & forcing you to inhale a horrible dry-burn. This is my reason for completely avoiding silica wicks. I find HEMP to have a certain woodsy taste that carries throughout their entire time in my RDAs. I dislike this taste (obviously) which is why I avoid hemp wicks. Yes, my all-time favorite wicking material is cotton. Pure cotton, that's the only way to go, in my humble opinion!! Yes cotton does have a break-in period, during-which the cotton gives-off a certain (slight) organic taste. however, the break-in period is measured in 1/2 hours or hours, rather-than days (like with the ss-mesh & hemp) so, cotton wins. After the initial cotton-taste diminishes/vanishes, all I can taste is the pure e-liquid flavorings (usually).

So, we come to the final remarks- I highly recommend you give cotton a shot. I also believe everyone should give a vertical-wick ss-mesh build a shot, within a genesis-tank. (DID mini clone, for example) while ss-mesh does have a break-in period where it tastes very acidic, that does go away with time, and ss-mesh can wind-up being the purest wicking material there is (in terms of flavor.. NO flavor!) & I suggest you stay far away from silica, unless you've got (& know how-to use) a temp control mod.

Good luck with your wicking material journey, my man! & good-night/good-vapes!!

 

[vigga256]

absolutely! any wicking material can be used with any coil material! you just need to make-sure that there is enough wicking material to slide-through the coil, with slight resistance, but not so tight that it actually chokes the wick at any point during the slide-through the coil process it's really a lot more simple than I just made it sound by writing it out. you can even unravel cotton-balls, rip a strip right down the side of the large strip (cottonballs are actually just large strips rolled into barrels- you'll see 1 day lol) and yes, you just roll that strip in your hand finger-tight, wet one end with e-liquid & roll the end tight-enough to thread-through the coil, and pull that cotton on-through until you've got a nice wad of cotton through the coil. snip even on each side & you've got a great wick! just don't make it SO tight that it won't even slide through, that's alll you have-to worry about really. (choking, which prevents liquid from reaching the center of your coil as quickly as it reaches the outside coils)

It really is more simple than it looks in text. You can use natural yarn, you can unravel a cotton-ball and snip or tear a quarter-inch or 1/16th inch strip, and thread that through the coil... you can use what's known as Japanese cotton. You can use silica wicking material, which is like a rope made of unbreakable glass-like fibers, which never break-down and cannot be burned, they do-not even let-off soot/smoke/carbon if torched. If your e-liquid burns/gunks-up on silica, you can just take a lighter or butane torch and torch the gunk right off, and the silica will actually go from black/brown, to red w/heat, & from red, to bright white all over again! We all used silica for QUITE some time, however, we've found that cotton wicks a fair-bit better than silica, especially in horizontal-wick RDAs. A-lot of us still use "ECO-WOOL" which is a type of silica with stronger (some say more absorbent) strands. (FYI: the silica material itself does-not soak-up liquid, rather it acts as a helix pattern trapping the liquid within it's many twists/folds/nooks/crannies. Silica was very popular. a lot of vapers continue to use stainless steel mesh. bought in either large 11x12 sheets, or smaller 2x4 sheets, we'd simple roll-up the mesh as tight as possible, then torch it to create a thin oxidized carbon layer (to prevent the steel from shorting-out your coil from touching the metal atomizer) cut to size & wrap a coil around it! A ton of people continue to use SS-mesh + cotton hybrid wicks. This works great as-well. SOME prefer HEMP over cotton, claiming that it is healthy and great at wicking. I just reviewed a test done by PBusardo on Youtube that disproves the wicking claim. (it does-not wick better than cotton) However, clean hemp is a wicking material option for sure, if you grab the right type of hemp. (there are vendors you can easily find by googling keywords: Hemp & E-cigarette. Another wick option that is gaining popularity by jumps, leaps, and bounds, in today's vape-world, is known as RAYON. Rayon is very similar to cotton, although it is synthetically made. It burns to light ash just-like cotton does, and it does-not melt or produce any sort of smelly vapor when burnt. "it smells like paper" was PBusardo's comment on what Rayon smells like when burned. (he did burn tests on each of the above materials)

So there are plenty of wicking-material options out there. I find stainless mesh to taste of sour metal. This sour metal taste can sometimes carry-on for the 1st 3 weeks of use. After 2-3 weeks of use, I find SS mesh to lose it's flavor & become quite flavorless, in-fact, it becomes 1-of the purest wicks you can possibly use, once you initially break a ss-mesh wick in for good. I find silica to give-off little to no taste, although it can mute flavors of your e-liquid (especially with higher VG juices, which do-not like to wick well with Silica wicks) and silica does give LESS initial warning before going completely dry & forcing you to inhale a horrible dry-burn. This is my reason for completely avoiding silica wicks. I find HEMP to have a certain woodsy taste that carries throughout their entire time in my RDAs. I dislike this taste (obviously) which is why I avoid hemp wicks. Yes, my all-time favorite wicking material is cotton. Pure cotton, that's the only way to go, in my humble opinion!! Yes cotton does have a break-in period, during-which the cotton gives-off a certain (slight) organic taste. however, the break-in period is measured in 1/2 hours or hours, rather-than days (like with the ss-mesh & hemp) so, cotton wins. After the initial cotton-taste diminishes/vanishes, all I can taste is the pure e-liquid flavorings (usually).

So, we come to the final remarks- I highly recommend you give cotton a shot. I also believe everyone should give a vertical-wick ss-mesh build a shot, within a genesis-tank. (DID mini clone, for example) while ss-mesh does have a break-in period where it tastes very acidic, that does go away with time, and ss-mesh can wind-up being the purest wicking material there is (in terms of flavor.. NO flavor!) & I suggest you stay far away from silica, unless you've got (& know how-to use) a temp control mod.

Good luck with your wicking material journey, my man! & good-night/good-vapes!!

Thank you thank you thank you for the wealth of information! I think I now know most everything there is to know about wicking material!
So I tried the peaches and cream yarn and it tasted horrible! Anything I'm supposed to do to prep it before vaping? I can't imagine that taste is something people are enjoying! Lol
Oh and I'm a girl. Amy, actually

 

[Plumes.91]

Thank you thank you thank you for the wealth of information! I think I now know most everything there is to know about wicking material!
So I tried the peaches and cream yarn and it tasted horrible! Anything I'm supposed to do to prep it before vaping? I can't imagine that taste is something people are enjoying! Lol
Oh and I'm a girl. Amy, actually

hmm... all you need to do is get it nice & wet with some of your e-liquid, and fire your mod on & off, until the yarn goes dry. you can repeat this once or twice in addition to the 1st time. After that, the taste should dissipate 100% and all you'll be tasting is your e-liquid. The yarn has microscopic cotton fibers that will burn during the 1st few saturations/burns. I mean, I sometimes forego this process all-together and my set-up is usually tasting solely of the e-liquid i'm vaping by the 2nd drip. So just saturate the wick, pulsate the coil until dry, x2 or x3 times, and then saturate & begin vaping! That should do it! Smooth sailing after that!

 

[edyle]

lots of things can cause popping.
just moving from upstairs in my house to downstairs causes my vape to pop alot; humidity I suppose.

Another thing I noticed that makes my vape pop more is when I make my mix with more water.