Hey guys! So I bought my very first e-cig back in February of this year. Unfortunately, it was a starter kit at my local vape shop. They sold me a Joyetech eGo-T 2 900aMh with a Kangertech T3S tank. Well, ever since I bought it, I have had nothing but problems with it. It won't stop leaking! I kept taking it back to the shop and they would just clean it up (exactly what I did at home). I even bought a brand new coil and a brand new tank (same brand and size). It just won't stop leaking. I don't smoke it that much and I find myself refilling my tank every other day or every other 2 days. I did research and I don't think Joyetech makes the eGo-T 2 battery anymore, BUT idk anything about the Kangertech T3S tank. Is this kind of tank compatible with this battery? Do I need to just upgrade my battery and tank that are much better and more compatible together? I don't know anything about this stuff. Please help!!
NEED HELP PLEASE!!!!
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I started off with that exact setup years ago. The battery should be fine. The T3S is a good tank once you learn its quirks, still have a few of them laying around infact for my old iTaste VV V3. The T3S was Kanger's entry into the bottom coil design along with the Protank series.
The coil is the rascal of it all, bottom set and horizontal orientation. The strength of it is it rarely can get a dry hit due to the coil and wicking is constantly submerged in liquid, this is however its greatest weakness, yep you guessed it "Leaking and Seeping". The tank works off several physics, vacuum, air and liquid elasticity, and affected liquid thickness as well, surprisingly temperature and air pressure. To hot a temperature outside thins the liquid also builds up heat, that whole liquids get warm they wish to expand thing, causes pressure, the only relief valve is the coil and wicking channel. In a controlled environment, store the device on its side, going out into the hot weather or changing elevation, this includes going up or down a building to go outside, driving up and down hills, taking an airliner flight, keep the tank upside down, this puts the air in the tank at the coil so as air increases or decreases, only air is vacated. All bottom coil designs fall prey to this fatal flaw unfortunately, with the T3S I adapted to it like I did my Protanks once I began rebuilding them, thinner liquids I'd wick tighter wicking in the rebuild, thicker liquid I'd wick less, hot weather add more wicking, cooler weather less wicking.
Alternatives to the T3S you could look at would be the Aspire Nautilus Mini would be more eye appealing on an Ego with its transition beauty ring on the Ego skirt threads, its bigger brother the Nautilus Full Size is just fuggly on an Ego on top of top heavy, be cautious though, the Nautilus being bottom coil as well suffers the same above weaknesses but not to the extent of the T3S, the technology of the Nautilus was a year down the road from the T3S when it launched.
You trying to quit smoking?
I wonder just because that would help justify spending some money...
That kind of equipment isn't very popular any more - people have had much more success with more power, better "wicking" of the liquid, and a little more "airflow".
Almost any kit on these pages, and you'll be like "WOW, that's a LOT of vapor!" and probably enjoy it more...
There's a bunch of good kits for under $50. Just check if they have a built-in battery - some of them need an 18650 battery you take out and charge in a charger - so you'd need a couple batteries and a charger on top of the kit...
I wonder just because that would help justify spending some money...
That kind of equipment isn't very popular any more - people have had much more success with more power, better "wicking" of the liquid, and a little more "airflow".
Almost any kit on these pages, and you'll be like "WOW, that's a LOT of vapor!" and probably enjoy it more...
There's a bunch of good kits for under $50. Just check if they have a built-in battery - some of them need an 18650 battery you take out and charge in a charger - so you'd need a couple batteries and a charger on top of the kit...
Yea those things are well known for leaking. Unfortunately there is not really anything you can do to stop them from leaking. The ego battery should be fine to use altho it all depends on what YOU want. I would recommend picking up a nautilus mini tank for your ego. You can get one here Aspire Nautilus Mini BVC Organic Cotton You will get MUCH better results and it works perfectly with your current battery. Even the most advanced vapers still have at least one of these. It is rated by many as the best flavor tank on the market for Mouth to Lung vapers such as yourself.
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Also if you wanted to upgrade your battery you could pick this up Eleaf iStick 30 Watt Base Kit Its great for beginning vapesters!
Yes, I am trying to stop smoking. The juice they make is 70VG/30PG. I use to smoke blue camel crushes (half a pack to a full pack a day). They told me the 6mg of nicotine should work, but it just made me want to grab a cigarette more. So I went back and got a new bottle of juice but 12mg of nicotine, and that nicotine level has worked for me since. What is "wicking"? What does that mean?
Wicking is the process of the cotton inside of a coil soaking up juice. When you replace a coil you have to allow it to wick up some juice so you dont get dry hits or even worse... burn the cotton inside the coil.
Unless they changed something in the last couple of years, the wick inside the coil on a t3s is silica, not cotton. Bottom coil clearomizers like that do leak, especially if you leave them sitting for long periods of time. First thing, if you can, when it's just sitting there set it down upside down. Battery up and mouthpiece down, that way the coil is not just sitting in liquid and getting over saturated.
Another thing you can do, if you don't want to buy new gear, you can replace the silica wick in the coil with cotton. Cotton plumps up, wicks better, and should hold the liquid in the tank at least a little better. You should be able to find youtube videos of "re-wicking a t3s head."
Thank you soon much! So far, the worst that has happened is that it usually does a big pop and juice comes out of the top when I press the button and let it warm up for a couple seconds. If it gets really bad, I get nothing but the juice in my mouth, kinda like I sucked it out of a straw but slower. Yuck!
the bigger tanks use more heat for the coils which in turn gives you a more powerful vape .when you notice you are getting a little jittery then you may want to go to a 6mg youll vape more at first but then it just becomes ,vapeing that is, to relax and enjoy the flavor
I was just giving a simple definition for the term ''wicking'' as she asked what that meant.
I loved thr flavor of thr Nautilus Mini.
I evolved to more of a lung hitter than MTL and moved on.
It was the Nautilus mini that turned me into a flavor chsser.
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