Penelope Help?

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PhreakySTS9

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Ok, so a couple days ago my Penelope finally came in. Not only did I buy it off the classies from a Greek forumer, I accidentally wrote a wrong digit on my ZIP code, i'm sure it got caught up in customs, and I wasn't home when they tried to deliver it, and couldn't go get it until wednesday. Well I got it home, and got it setup, first with the Kir Fanis clear window on it. As I posted in my other thread, with the clear tank juice wasn't feeding down below the juice control properly. Well I did some reading and it seems this is a common problem with the first round of tanks he made, and it seems to have been pretty much cleared with the second. But I am also having a world of problems with the stock, metal tank setup.

It seems like no matter how far I open the juice control, it's just not getting juice in there. It's dry, scratchy hits, one after another, even with a very thin 70/30 juice I tried. What am I doing wrong? I know people wouldn't rave about the Penelope the way they do if it only performed the way it has been for me. Any help here guys? I really want to love this thing, but if it weren't to perform any better than it is, I wouldn't even want to use it.
 

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Also, has anybody used cotton in their Penelope or Oddy? I just can't handle the dry, scratchy hit. It's seriously making my throat hurt like hell here.

Edit: Also, I don't have these problems with my drip mode Ody, which makes me believe i'm having problems with the juice feed system. Though my Ody was a bit rough before it first broke in, it was nothing like this at all.
 
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Did you fire the coil and check it out before putting the mouthpiece on? It sounds like one of the loops is not touching the wick and glowing hotter than the rest of the coil. One small hotspot will throw off the taste in a big way. What kind of wick are you using and what size? I use 3 or 3.5mm silicon from COV and usually double it at the coil. They wick great even with 100% VG like Boba's.
 

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Yeah it was working fine when I tested it, it seems like the problem is that juice isn't feeding properly. Maybe later today when I have time i'll take it apart and check the wrap, make sure I didn't bump it around or something when I was putting it together. Thanks for the response.
 

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Well I ended up just making another wick setup. I had one piece of what I believe is 3mm wick, and I used two pieces of what I believe is 3.5mm wick. The thicker one came with my drip mode Oddy, and the thinner wick came with the Penelope. It seems to have fixed my wicking problems because it is now vaping like a champ! Thanks for the help!
 

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I may need to take you up on that offer. Seems like it has a short now or something. It wasn't firing up right away I had to push the coil around a bit. Now it fires fine but it's reading 2.6ohms which I KNOW isn't right obviously... I'm using all prejoined wires and I still have 6-7 left I believe. I don't understand why i'm having problems. Even though my Oddy is only a drip mode it's a lot easier to setup and it's V1. Didn't have any issues with it, though i've only set it up once since the coils last forever and I don't use it all that often. Hrm...
 
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