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I just noticed the Advanced option for Questions/Answers. I had wondered if people were prewriting on another program and just cut and pasting. I will from this point forward attempt to write like the adult I am, and not continue to use the Horrible habits I have picked up as a texter.
First off, thank you to all who have replied. I haven't made it all the way through the video yet, but I appreciate the info I did get and am fairly certain that the method I had been shown for priming the carto was flooding it. Baditudes description of the draw also supports this conclusion.
The set ups: The tanks I have are a 6ml and 3ml Aluminum ended tanks with air channels, that I purchased from SLC Vapor after I had purchased a 5ml XL J-tank from ElectronicStix.com (Love Estix but the tank tubing was cut poorly and only connects to the top piece for about half the diameter before it makes a u dip that goes below the rubber seals.) E Stix Also sold me the 5 pack of XL(3.0ohm) 510 Boge Pre-punched SR Cartos and SLC Vapor sold me a 5 pack of XL 510 Dual coil 1.5 +- 2.0 Ohm cartos with bottom flanges from Company unknown.
I have a SR510XL Boge in the J-tank, which hasn't actually given me any trouble. I also have a Boge in the 3ml Aluminum. It's the Dual Coil 1.5 ohm(According to my iTaste SVD VV/VW Mod) that was giving me problems. The other tanks are on Smok Winders VV ego batteries, which seems to give me the same amount of taste, throat hit, vapor and warmth as the SVD with its supposedly much higher wattage (Set at 8, but can go to 15.)
In the DC that was giving me problems I had a 75/25 pg/vg Juice. I filled it the way I was shown in store at estix with the Boges (A youtube video of poor quality showed me the same method) which was to put the carto through the tube, use the drip tip to push it back down so I only had a 1/8th inch space between the top of the carto (uncovered) and the bottom lip of the tanks, then I used a curve tipped 6ml syringe to fill the tank to just below the carto top. I pushed the carto all the way back up, inserted a drip tip, placed a finger over the 510 air hole, and would inhale and then lift my finger, which would cause air bubbles to exit the carto, while fluid entered. I did this till half the tank had absorbed into the filler, then topped off the tank. It instantly started to spit out juice when I tried to vape, and it produced little vapor between 3.8 and 4.2v. Anything over 4.2 tastes burned, anything under 8 watts or 3.8v gave me no hit at all. The only time I received a half decent toot was if I put the Dual Coil on the Smok Winder at 4.4v.
The Boges have given me no trouble with this same fill technique (though with them I use a 50/50 blend), and I switched out the Dual Coil for a double punched XL SR 801 (I'm guessing) Smok carto, and it also works well with this filling technique(still with the 75/25 juice.) Though I am certain at this point that it was flooding the carto that made it perform so poorly. If I took off the drip tip the area directly under always had fluid above the white cap, and if I used the syringe to remove it you could watch it sweat fluid right back up into the space the drip tip left. I tried a flicking method to get the fluid out of the drip tip, but the success rate wasn't great and that carto never worked right so I tossed it.
I have a lot of Cartos to go through now (Estix had some misdelivered 801 XL Smok cartos for $0.50), but I would like to know the proper way to fill/use the 4 remaining Dual Coil Cartos I have. I believe that even with the smaller hole the 75/25 juice can fill it correctly, if I know the correct way to fill (I am guessing once I finish the 45min Youtube video I will know how.)