New Aero tank, flavor somewhat muted?

[postembr2]

Im now trying the new Aerotank from kanger, its a dual coil new design. Its pretty sleak, looks like designed after keyfun, it looks real pretty and nice. It have a bottom air draw adjust ring, very good. It also dont leak on battery contact, since the bottom is sealed and the air holes are just above.
I have lots of vapor on it, a bit more warm than im usually accostumed, but its good. The only thing im noticing is somewhat muted flavor. I dont know if its related to the dual coil, or the voltage im using. The coil reads 2 ohms, but since its dual coil, im using it around 4- 4.5 volts.

 

[postembr2]

Wow, i opened the coil, first thing i noticed it dont have a flavor wick. I believe this is designed this way. Anyway just added a flavor wick, much better now.

 

[molimelight]

Good idea on the flavor wick. I haven't torn down an Aerotank head yet. I did find, as you said, it's a warmer vape than the single. I've been using mini/micro coils that I built using the heads from the PT2/Mini PT2 that I adapted to the Aerotank by adding an extra silicone washer to the post. A trick I learned here. I've always used a flavor wick in those (cotton for the coil and flavor wick). I've heard that the Aerotank heads can be rebuilt using a single coil, but I haven't checked into that yet. Hopefully others will add to this. One of the things I appreciate about the Kanger tanks and heads is that they keep it simple which lends itself to tinkering and rebuilding.

 

[SKYYcamel]

Wow, i opened the coil, first thing i noticed it dont have a flavor wick. I believe this is designed this way. Anyway just added a flavor wick, much better now.

What did you use as a flavor wick. Also, did you just lay it on top of the top coil?

 

[1buda]

My Aerotank dual coil did mute the taste as well. I just replaced the coil to a single and now I've got lots of flavor. I'm going to try adding a flavor wick to see what happens.

 

[Dakota Jim]

The kanger dual coil heads have a "flavor" wick between the 2 coils to keep them from touching and shorting each other out

Just my fyi 2 cents

 

[1buda]

I added a flavor wick on top with no luck. But after taking it apart and cleaning it I found a lot of juice at the very bottom where the coil sits in to. Vapes pretty good now.

 

[molimelight]

I finally tore one down to see about rebuilding it. I've posted a pic below to show the difference between the PT II and Aerotank heads. (Click on the image to enlarge it.) You can see the much larger gap in the head (red arrows) of the Aerotank to accommodate the wicks for the dual coils. The taller shoulder also gives the chimney a taller profile, but the chimney itself is the same size.

I've placed a ghost image of a second silicone washer on the PT II head to show how I use a second one on the single coil heads I've rebuilt for use in the Aerotank. (Orange arrow.) So far so good on that. I've experimented with placing them right side up and upside down on top of the existing washer and don't know if there's a difference in performance. They vape very good with a micro coil of 30 gauge Kanthal and cotton wick. (1.9 ohms) It looks like it would be very difficult to rebuild the Aerotank heads. If you do it with a single coil, you have a lot of opening there to stuff with wick to keep it from flooding. Trying to do a dual coil in there is beyond my digital dexterity! I was thinking that there's enough real estate in there to do a vertical coil but you'd still have the openings. Anyway, hope this helps the conversation.

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[LandCloud]

It does have a flavor wick, it's just in between the coils on the DC instead of on top like the old coils.

 

[LandCloud]

I finally tore one down to see about rebuilding it. I've posted a pic below to show the difference between the PT II and Aerotank heads. (Click on the image to enlarge it.) You can see the much larger gap in the head (red arrows) of the Aerotank to accommodate the wicks for the dual coils. The taller shoulder also gives the chimney a taller profile, but the chimney itself is the same size.

I've placed a ghost image of a second silicone washer on the PT II head to show how I use a second one on the single coil heads I've rebuilt for use in the Aerotank. (Orange arrow.) So far so good on that. I've experimented with placing them right side up and upside down on top of the existing washer and don't know if there's a difference in performance. They vape very good with a micro coil of 30 gauge Kanthal and cotton wick. (1.9 ohms) It looks like it would be very difficult to rebuild the Aerotank heads. If you do it with a single coil, you have a lot of opening there to stuff with wick to keep it from flooding. Trying to do a dual coil in there is beyond my digital dexterity! I was thinking that there's enough real estate in there to do a vertical coil but you'd still have the openings. Anyway, hope this helps the conversation.

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The dual coils do suck to rebuild, IMHO totally worth it if you use cotton, took me about 20 mins, getting them lined up right is the hard part. If you don't want to rebuild the coils, I'd recommend gently removing the silica, then gently threading cotton through, keep the cotton a little on the thick side to make up for the flavor wick removal!
Hope this helps