Well I just popped in another coil (money down the drain...) and it's not bad.
I think there might be two things:
This new pack of coils has been stuffed to the brim with cotton. So much that the airflow wide open is more like the two-hole setting. I can literally change the airflow setting and nothing changes. You look down into the coil and there's so much cotton that its tucked under the coil snd completely blocking what little airflow these coils have in the stem. Sub-Ohming needs a completely open draw, and this is not it.
Second, last time, I dried my cleaned tank with toilet tissue. I noticed that it got some dust in the tank. Could have contributed to a foul taste - I noticed that my mouth even went numb went I vaped it. This time, I cleaned it all out again and dried it only with some Japanese Cotton.
This reduced airflow is really making this Charlie Noble Custard taste bland though (more airflow makes it really pop!) but at 25 watts this new coil is doing fine. But then there's this everlasting problem of spitting!!!
I don't know. I enjoy sticking with one brand, as the Kanger coils are cheap on VaporBeast, and I really like the KBOX... I like feeling like my set-up is a real combo package. But these Kanger coils are pretty crappy.
I'm eager to try the new Atlantis coils, the old ones always started out with a burnt carpet taste and would spit like crazy after a day of vaping. However, I ended up switching from the EVOD II to the Aspire K1 for small time vaping, and Aspire really makes better coils in that department. The EVOD II coils burn out after a day and really made my juices taste thin. The K1 coils spew little strands of mess in my mouth at times, and also start out tasting like carpet for the first 20 hits (yes, I even over-prime them...) but they last forever after that!
I don't know. I'm tired of these products not being designed very well, as I'm a very low-budget vaper trying to quit smoking. On the best of vape days, I go all day without smoking. On the worst, I smoke a few. Any real testing at all would have revealed these tanks spit like a camel and taste pretty awful at anything near real Sub-Ohm vaping. Sure, for some people this is a hobby, but for me, it has to be no more challenging than walking to the store.
Overall, the Subtank Nano is %50 there toward being the perfect tank. There just needs to be a little less cotton, a little more airflow, and absolutely no spitting. If those problems could be figured out, this would be the end-all tank for me. I love the come-apart design (I can clean almost every nook and cranny) and I has not so much as leaked a drop of juice, even into the airflow chamber.
I do have to say that when these coils work right, I get about 4 days out of them, then the cotton beyond toast. The airflow isn't open enough to keep it from burning. But 4 days is pretty decent. My juices have been quite sugary though. With a really thin-flavored liquid, I'm sure these coils would last a week.
