Some further observations. I disassembled one of my atty's yesterday to inspect and adjust the wick. Found one of the threads from the wick was actually stuck in the coil. Bad assembly/QA at the factory? Anyway, after pulling that out of the coil and repositioning the wick in the needle, it has worked much better. With one less strand in the needle, liquid flows better to the coil and keeps it wet more efficiently. I had a lot less "dry hits" during the course of two tanks.
A more significant discovery was the possibility that dried juices are also a culprit in the burnt taste mystery. Last night, I just set my Ego-T down on my desk when I went to bed. This morning, when I took the first couple of hits, I got a very nasty acrid, burnt taste similar to a dry hit. But it went away after 4 or 5 draws. Which got me to thinking that due to the large quantity of air in the atomizer body, that juices were oxygenating and drying out on the coil. So, for the first few hits of the morning, you're tasting the burn off of dried juice. So, I'm going to try something for the next week. Each night, I'm going to submerge the coil end in a small cup of liquid to keep the coil wet overnight, but not really clean it as I normally would. If keeping the coil wet prevents juices from drying out, there may be less of a burnt taste.
Leaky tanks. I don't think there is much that can be done about this. Each time you press the tank onto the needle point, it shaves just a hair more plastic out of the hole until you lose your seal. Until they change the design, we're just going to have to live with it.
Ray
A more significant discovery was the possibility that dried juices are also a culprit in the burnt taste mystery. Last night, I just set my Ego-T down on my desk when I went to bed. This morning, when I took the first couple of hits, I got a very nasty acrid, burnt taste similar to a dry hit. But it went away after 4 or 5 draws. Which got me to thinking that due to the large quantity of air in the atomizer body, that juices were oxygenating and drying out on the coil. So, for the first few hits of the morning, you're tasting the burn off of dried juice. So, I'm going to try something for the next week. Each night, I'm going to submerge the coil end in a small cup of liquid to keep the coil wet overnight, but not really clean it as I normally would. If keeping the coil wet prevents juices from drying out, there may be less of a burnt taste.
Leaky tanks. I don't think there is much that can be done about this. Each time you press the tank onto the needle point, it shaves just a hair more plastic out of the hole until you lose your seal. Until they change the design, we're just going to have to live with it.
Ray
and I want to go DR.Frankenstein on it and see if I could bring it back from the dead. Seeing those pics again might help me do it without destroying it, maybe.
