Hey all...I've been trying to build a Fogger 4.1 (half a dozen trys so far) and have had little success. It seems coiling isn't my issue but wicking. My question is...what would be the most forgiving juice for a new builder to use. What would be more forgiving to things like a bit too tight a wick or the like. I understand VG is thicker than PG so would that be better to head off flooding/leaking if my wick isn't perfect? Or would that not wick as well if it's too tight. Eeesh...I'm trying not to give up but I'm hoping this gets easier with practice. Oh...I'm using 26 gauge and doing about a 10 wrap, 1.3 ohm build.
Thanks so much in advance!
Boomer
Hello there I know these annoying problems, Had to face them a lot in my initial vaping life when I started with rebuildables. Maybe i had it easier the first time because i was using a kayfun 3.1 and you started with a fogger which is more tricky to wick. For wicking these type of atomizer you need get a balance with the amount of juice you are pulling up those channels, and the amount of vapor you are producing.
If you pull more juice to the coil than is being vaporized, then you'll get flooding, pull less juice and you'll get dry hit. So the following is my way of dealing with these types of atomizer, be it kayfun, aqua, orchids fogger, rose or any other similar atomizer, both for the clones and the originals, though you'll get less trouble with the originals. Of course I consider that you already checked your atomizer for defects, or obstruction to airflow and juice flow, and that all your o rings are ok and not missing.
[1] Most important if its the first time I am using this atomizer and you don't know how it wicks then I test it using VG only either pure or diluted with distilled water if i want to use a juice with VG and PG, eg I dilute 80% VG with 20% distilled water if i want to have the same consistency as 60% VG and 40%PG juice.
This make sure that I am not wasting juice and a small amount of VG cost near to nothing.
[2] If you getting dry hit it means not enough juice is reaching your coil. In this case i check first if the juice channel is deep enough, If not, a dremmel and 2mm drill bit and some patience will cut that juice channel deeper.
If you are satisfied with the juice channel depth, this mean that you have put too much cotton in the juice channel and you are obstructing the flow of juice, so remove some cotton from the juice channel.
[3] Always remember to fill your tank up to 3/4 its capacity as I have noted it you fill it up completely, wicking get more difficult that when you are at 2/3 or 3/4 capacity
Now if the tank is flooding, mean that more juice is entering the atomizing chamber than you are vaporizing. Here the only way to deal with that is to stuff more cotton in those wicking channels, so that you block the juice flow, small amount at a time then test till you get the balance. This gona look difficult for the first couple of times, but once you get the hang of it it becomes automatic.
The most troublesome RTA i have work with is the D-Eagle atomizer, This one have 4 juice channel which is about 2 times deeper than the fogger, and this atomizer is really crazy to build right. First time i did it was just like I do the fogger, that is small amount of cotton about halfway along the four vertical juice channel, and the sucker leaked like hell. To give you an idea, what I did was after After i made the coil and wick it, in 2 opposing channels i just put a small amount or cotton so that it would wick nicely and on the two other opposing channel I stuffed a large amount of cotton there so as to block the juice flow. And guess what, It started to work wonderfully after never had a single dry hit or the sucker leaking ever since after that.
