Muted e juice flavors

[Charlotte Nazba]

im very new to vaping, I recently bought a cool fire 4 plus storm edition with an iSub g tank by innokin technology this week. However, Whatever flavor I've tried, I just get a hint of muted melon gum. The e juices I have are "lost Art Space Rocks" and "cuttwood Mega Melons".


Both flavors taste very similar. Oh yeah, I vape at around 20-35watts.
Does anybody have any recommendations for different ejuice or perhaps a better tank that works with my battery? Ive been smoking cigarettes on and off for 5 years, but my last cigarette was about a month before I bought my vape kit.

 

[absoluttalent]

muted flavors are usually caused by

-too low power
-not right amount of cotton
-juice not steeped/mixed properly
-bad coil


If you are using the .5 stock coil, the power range seems decent. I usually settle around 30w when I use a .5 single coil. But check your battery charge level and charge it if its too low

Since you are using a pre-made coil, we shall visit #2 along with #4

I am not familiar with Lost Art, but I have tried Cuttwood. Its a 60vg juice, so I cant imagine its too thick to wick on those coils. But if you need to, you can toss a few drops of distilled water into the mix and shake it up to thin it out a bit. Makes wicking a little easier to keep up with demand.
But in all fairness, I have tried a few bottles of Cuttwood (melons, unicorn, sugar drizzle). And all of them needed a good long sit before they started to taste good to me. So maybe its just a steeping issue with yours.

Bad coil. it happens with these pre-mades. If you buy a pack of 5, you might be lucky and get all 5 that work. Occasionally, one or more will be bad. Bad wire, bad cotton, bad o-ring. It happens. Do you have another coil you can try? Also looks like a single horizontal coil in there, similar to how my old Kanger subtank coils were. I would take a very small sewing needle, and push it through the center a few times to break up the cotton inside the coil. And I would then make sure the cotton on the ends by the holes felt fluffy and moved a bit. It helped me with wicking.



Those are my basic suggestions. As far as other tanks go, as long as its 510 threaded (most are), it will work. I would suggest looking at a Kanger Subtank Mini. It seems to be a standard of great price, ease of use, and great flavor. The coils are available 95% of places, but it also comes with a rebuildable deck if you ddecide to give building your own coils a shot.

 

[Nick S]

aspire atlantis would be great if your vape supports sub ohm tanks. never had an issue with that tank. fantastic smoke and easy to change wicks although they are fairly expensive.

 

[Two_Bears]

muted flavors are usually caused by

-too low power
-not right amount of cotton
-juice not steeped/mixed properly
-bad coil


If you are using the .5 stock coil, the power range seems decent. I usually settle around 30w when I use a .5 single coil. But check your battery charge level and charge it if its too low

Since you are using a pre-made coil, we shall visit #2 along with #4

I am not familiar with Lost Art, but I have tried Cuttwood. Its a 60vg juice, so I cant imagine its too thick to wick on those coils. But if you need to, you can toss a few drops of distilled water into the mix and shake it up to thin it out a bit. Makes wicking a little easier to keep up with demand.
But in all fairness, I have tried a few bottles of Cuttwood (melons, unicorn, sugar drizzle). And all of them needed a good long sit before they started to taste good to me. So maybe its just a steeping issue with yours.

Bad coil. it happens with these pre-mades. If you buy a pack of 5, you might be lucky and get all 5 that work. Occasionally, one or more will be bad. Bad wire, bad cotton, bad o-ring. It happens. Do you have another coil you can try? Also looks like a single horizontal coil in there, similar to how my old Kanger subtank coils were. I would take a very small sewing needle, and push it through the center a few times to break up the cotton inside the coil. And I would then make sure the cotton on the ends by the holes felt fluffy and moved a bit. It helped me with wicking.



Those are my basic suggestions. As far as other tanks go, as long as its 510 threaded (most are), it will work. I would suggest looking at a Kanger Subtank Mini. It seems to be a standard of great price, ease of use, and great flavor. The coils are available 95% of places, but it also comes with a rebuildable deck if you ddecide to give building your own coils a shot.

Another question how old is the coil?

Cotton wicks start tasting off before the coil needs to be replaced.

 

[Maiar]

I find muted flavors are just par for the course with that tank. I've never had a satisfying vape on mine. I'm trying to rewick the coils with my own cotton, but the first couple failed so I haven't gotten it right yet. Hopefully that improves it. It just doesn't hold a candle to my subtank mini. Which is a shame because it's not expensive. I will give credit where credit is due though, I like to coil swap system and the airflow controller. It also puts out pretty decent vapor even below the recommended wattages. Which is another weird thing, it says 20-35W on the coil, but I've never gotten it above 20 without intense burnt flavor.

 

[Rixsta]

Upgrade

 

[djsvapour]

Most juice tastes bad to me at 25-30 watts.

Either half the power or go temp control.

There are many testimonies that say a coil 'rated' 15-40 watts (example) kills their juice even as low as 20w.
Trial and error. Start low. There are no prizes for clouds....

(well, there are, but not in this context....)