BVC coils don't seem to want to wick. I am guessing 70/30 or 80/20 VG/PG. I was vaping a 50/50 in it and was doing great, I switched over to the high VG and it worked great until the coil started going bad. When I changed the coil to a new one and filled it with the same VG eliquid it never seemed to wick. I primed the coil like I always do, primer puffs plugging AFC to draw liquid in even sat an hour. Burnt metallic taste. Tried another same procedure even letting it sit longer, still no luck. Was the first coil broken in enough it was able to wick the VG or did I get lucky? Really wanting to find a way to use this eliquid it's my fav ADV.
Nautilus mini & VG
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Hi. Nautilus Mini with a BVC wick high VG very well, I must say. Right now I'm vaping that setup with a a 70/30 juice (Suicide Bunny's OB) and everything's well, even on high wattage. The vapour production is good, the flavour too. Also, a 80/20water juice wicks (one of the generic German juices, tastes like water).
Try a good 50/50 wicked coil with that higher VG juice, do all the primer stuff. Should work. Although, for me the Nautilus BVC 1.6 Ohm coils score much better than the 1.8 Ohm coils. I've had 1.8 Ohm coils, fresh ones, which just don't want to wick at all, whatever I do - nasty dry hit 'n such.
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Try a good 50/50 wicked coil with that higher VG juice, do all the primer stuff. Should work. Although, for me the Nautilus BVC 1.6 Ohm coils score much better than the 1.8 Ohm coils. I've had 1.8 Ohm coils, fresh ones, which just don't want to wick at all, whatever I do - nasty dry hit 'n such.
R
Must be something I'm doing then cause local BM store said they wick well when I asked them since its their juice. Strangely enough I put the 50/50 in a coil that had been primed and soaking for 6 hours but giving a burnt flavor with the VG blend and it wicked within 5 mins and working like a champ.
Right now I'm vaping thinned 100% VG in my BVC mini, and it's doing fine. Might want to add a bit of distilled water to your juice and see if that helps. If you add 5%-10% it shouldn't affect flavor very much and wouldn't lower the nic too much either...
Actually Aspire recommends VG ratios of less than 50 on their BVC's. It's not the heating element that is the issue, it's the wicking material. To high a VG ratio is thick and it just can't flow properly to the wire to make sure you don't get dry hits or get good flavor.
So the following PG/VG ratios are good for their BVC's
100/0
90/10
80/20
70/30
60/40
50/50 is on the cusp. Some juices marked at 50/50 work fine, others, not so well.
If you want or have to use high VG juice, they recommend going with the Atlantis with their CF SubOHM or CF MOD battery.
So the following PG/VG ratios are good for their BVC's
100/0
90/10
80/20
70/30
60/40
50/50 is on the cusp. Some juices marked at 50/50 work fine, others, not so well.
If you want or have to use high VG juice, they recommend going with the Atlantis with their CF SubOHM or CF MOD battery.
Here's what I do. 3 drops of juice in the coil head after you fasten it to the base and let it sit upright. Fill the tank and finish assembly. Whatever air hole you're on block it off with your finger and take 15-20 hard pulls. You should see bubbles, you want that. Attach to your device and turn voltage/wattage all the way down and take a few fired hits but don't inhale. After a few regular hits slowly turn it up to your desired setting.
I've used 85% vg 15% pg and not had a problem, typically I use 70 vg. This method is free to try and priceless if it works lol.
I've used 85% vg 15% pg and not had a problem, typically I use 70 vg. This method is free to try and priceless if it works lol.
Good advice here. I had the same problem with 80vg/20pg juice in my naughtys. I burned 4coils/wicks in kne weekend. Didnt help i was hot boxing and using an istick mini, before i knew about the overvolting. I switched to 50/50 juice recently and have had no burning.
I want to go back to the 80vg and will do just like Ren recommends, im hoping it works better this time.
Thanks thats what I'm doing now, it floods but works after blowing the excess out. As long as I have a juice rag close, this is going to be the method I have to use.
I'm no nautilus fan overall, but I had been using mine despite its quirks until I switched over to a high VG juice about a week ago (80/30). And no matter what I did, about every third hit was a nasty dry hit. Even with the airflow set on the smallest setting, it was still happening. Even after I "primed" the coil like a guy at my b&m suggested, by taking just the coil, holding it in my hand with a paper towel under it, dripping five or six drops of juice in it, letting it run out the bottom holes, then blowing down the center of the coil until I could see juice coming out of the wick holes on all sides, then drying it off and screwing it into the base, and filling the tank and waiting the usual 15 minutes or so to vape it. That would make it go about half an hour tops without dry hits, but it still eventually got to that point. I guess some max VG juice is thicker than others, but no, it's not just you.
I know that I have read online that some people are thinning their high VG juice with a few drops of distilled water or vodka in the tank, and others have used a drill bit or dremel to widen the wick holes in the coil a little bit. If you're dead set on using the nautilus, that might work for you.
I know that I have read online that some people are thinning their high VG juice with a few drops of distilled water or vodka in the tank, and others have used a drill bit or dremel to widen the wick holes in the coil a little bit. If you're dead set on using the nautilus, that might work for you.
You mean 80/20?
If so, I tried 80VG/20water, and i wicks and puffs whatever setting.
R
I chain vape 50/50 in a Mini Davide and K1 with BVC coils without any problems. I've actually found that higher PG juices are too thin and often gurgle and leak with the BVCs. I've tried up to 85% VG and it wicked decently, but it seemed to kill the coils pretty fast. I've also found high VG usually doesn't carry flavor well enough to get good flavor at typical clearo wattages.
I had the same taste for a few puffs on a 70/30 VG/PG. Then it was fantastic! But not as good as when I run the same juice through my Atlantis.
Derp, yes, I meant 80/20. Math is hard when you're half asleep.
It's actually some kind of funky percentage that I'm pretty sure they do just to be "different", like 76%VG, 24%PG or something…but essentially it's 80/20. I had thought about thinning it with a drop or two of vodka, but with the tank I'm currently using I don't seem to need to.
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