Possible to burn e juice?

[Jaymus]

It's a silly question, because I'm sure it's possible. The other day I was vaping on my MVP2 with my usual juice (Jackson Vapor Co.) and I'm not sure what happened but all of a sudden it just tasted funny. I took a few more draws just thinking that it was the coffee I was drinking. However when I looked into the tank I noticed the juice was more of a brown color than the usual golden orange. The tank is a Kanger ProTank 2 with an aero base, 2.6ohm vaping at 7 watts. I don't know if I held the button down too long but it wasn't long enough to trigger the cutoff on the MVP2. So I'm just a little confused because I really was vaping as usual, and this has never happened before. Leave it to me to burn a liquid lol (insert Gordon Ramsay screaming)

 

[Fisheeboy]

It's definitely possible and even sometimes very easy to burn the e-liquid. I do it too often But I run my coils around 1.5 ohms and sometimes put too much voltage to em and it fries the juice. I change attys and flavors often throughout the day and forget to adjust accordingly.
But having a gunked up coil can cause a burnt taste too and a discoloration of the liquid.

 

[Jaymus]

It's definitely possible and even sometimes very easy to burn the e-liquid. I do it too often But I run my coils around 1.5 ohms and sometimes put too much voltage to em and it fries the juice. I change attys and flavors often throughout the day and forget to adjust accordingly.
But having a gunked up coil can cause a burnt taste too and a discoloration of the liquid.

I wasn't sure if the condition of the coil would play any part in it or not, I suppose it's finally time to try my hand at dry burning lol To Youtube!!

 

[edyle]

It's a silly question, because I'm sure it's possible. The other day I was vaping on my MVP2 with my usual juice (Jackson Vapor Co.) and I'm not sure what happened but all of a sudden it just tasted funny. I took a few more draws just thinking that it was the coffee I was drinking. However when I looked into the tank I noticed the juice was more of a brown color than the usual golden orange. The tank is a Kanger ProTank 2 with an aero base, 2.6ohm vaping at 7 watts. I don't know if I held the button down too long but it wasn't long enough to trigger the cutoff on the MVP2. So I'm just a little confused because I really was vaping as usual, and this has never happened before. Leave it to me to burn a liquid lol (insert Gordon Ramsay screaming)

the coil gradually gunks up.
some flavors will gunk the coil up faster with certain flavors.

flavors that contain metals will not completly vaporise, and the residue ends up at the coil/wick.

 

[Slots]

It's happened to me too.
I think it has to do with the type of juice I'm vaping along with, as Fisheeboy say's .. didn't "adjust accordingly".
It hasn't happened to me often enough to pin it down to juice type, flavors, or maybe sweeteners.
In any case you're not alone ... and it does gradually start to taste ucky enough to take a look ..surprise surprise

 

[Bontasia]

Is it a new head? If it's one you cleaned, that may be it.

I found out I was doing it wrong. I was soaking them in warm water then letting them air dry a day or 2 and I found out that causes them to oxidize on the surface and then bam any liquid you add turns brown.

 

[Slots]

flavors that contain metals will not completly vaporise.

EEE..U ..That doesn't sound good.
I hope it's good for us .. iron, zinc ???

 

[edyle]

EEE..U ..That doesn't sound good.
I hope it's good for us .. iron, zinc ???

Sodium as in salt; potassium; magnesium; iron; zinc sure I suppose; I'm no flavor expert, but metals are certainly common in all kinds of chemistry; there's going to be a few milligrams of metal in some flavorings, and especially for food flavorings there isn't going to be a concern about it, but for vaping purposes, the less metal the less likely you'll gunk the coil.

If you vape unflavored, then the only things in there are vg, pg, and nicotine, none of which contain any metals other than trance random impurities.

 

[Jaymus]

Is it a new head? If it's one you cleaned, that may be it.

I found out I was doing it wrong. I was soaking them in warm water then letting them air dry a day or 2 and I found out that causes them to oxidize on the surface and then bam any liquid you add turns brown.

No it was definitely a new coil, but I didn't realize that drying them for that long would cause them to oxidize. Is it because you dried them for longer than a day that allowed them to do that? Or just the drying process in general?

 

[Katya]

Only PG and VG get vaporized cleanly, without leaving any residue behind. Everything else, flavoring particles, colorings, sweeteners etc. attach to the coil and the wick and slowly cook and bake and scorch til they look like this--and eventually choke the coil:

Please clean your coils often--every couple of days if you're using dark/sweet juices. Some coils have to be cleaned daily. A soak in PGA, denture cleannig solution or vodka is all it takes to get rid of some of that crud. After a while, you'll have to dry burn the coil--or get a new one.

Another thing you can do is to vape a little (1 ml) of unflavored (or plain PG, VG, or a mix of the two) through your clearomizer to dissolve the impurities on the coil. I repeat this procedure a few times, as needed, until the my unflavored ejuice runs clean

 

[Katya]

flavors that contain metals will not completly vaporise, and the residue ends up at the coil/wick.

Well, I hope my eliquids are free of metals...

 

[Katya]

However when I looked into the tank I noticed the juice was more of a brown color than the usual golden orange. The tank is a Kanger ProTank 2 with an aero base, 2.6ohm vaping at 7 watts. I don't know if I held the button down too long but it wasn't long enough to trigger the cutoff on the MVP2. So I'm just a little confused because I really was vaping as usual, and this has never happened before. Leave it to me to burn a liquid lol (insert Gordon Ramsay screaming)

Yes. Eliquids darken even when they just sit in their bottles. Nicotine oxidizes when exposed to light, heat and oxygen. It's a normal process and doesn't affect the way eliquids taste or produce vapor. Just like when you cut an apple open, or an avocado--it turns brown almost immediately.

When you pour your eliquid into a tank, the oxidation occurs much faster because the eliquid is exposed to light, heat and oxygen all at once. Another cause for the darkening is that the wick and coils become gunked up with unvaporized particles added to ejuice--flavorings, colorings, sugars, etc. All that dark caramelized gunk essentially "stains" the fresh e-liquid that was added to the tank. And since PG is a great solvent, it continuously dissolves portions of that gunk.

So, keep your coils clean and avoid vaping at high wattages.

 

[Bunnykiller]

the coil gradually gunks up.
some flavors will gunk the coil up faster with certain flavors.

flavors that contain metals will not completly vaporise, and the residue ends up at the coil/wick.

now this a new one on me.... metals in the juice??? ummm which metals are you referring to???

 

[GPC2012]

might be time to change your coil and clean the old one. soak the old one in alcohol (I use vodka) overnight and then rinse with a little more vodka the next day. Let the coil dry for a day or two.

 

[edyle]

now this a new one on me.... metals in the juice??? ummm which metals are you referring to???

There's metals all over the place; there's iron in you blood.

There's sodium in salt - that's why if you put salt in a frying pan and try to burn it it does not vaporize into nothingness- the pan won't get hot enough to vaporise salt;

sodium and potassium are very common metals in foods;
other light metals are also common; magnesium, calcium, lithium

Of course there is also iron, which although not a 'heavy' metal is not exactly a light metal;

when you fully dryburn a coil, the greyish whitish ash that just refuses to vaporise is because of the stuff like metals --- and silica

 

[GMayberry]

I rinsed a few of my Evod tanks and wicks with warm water and let them air dry and noticed oxidation on the windows of the tanks and on the wicks. Will a vodka soak not cause this?

 

[edyle]

I rinsed a few of my Evod tanks and wicks with warm water and let them air dry and noticed oxidation on the windows of the tanks and on the wicks. Will a vodka soak not cause this?

The white cloudyness you see on the tank is not oxydation; it's from the 'hard water'; unless it's because of leeching plastic.

Get a glass tank that knocks down for thorough cleaning:

miniprotank2 v2; same replacement coils as the evod.

 

[Skorpeyon]

The white cloudyness you see on the tank is not oxydation; it's from the 'hard water'; unless it's because of leeching plastic.

Get a glass tank that knocks down for thorough cleaning:

miniprotank2 v2; same replacement coils as the evod.

Kanger's EVOD Glass is another alternative. It looks just like their normal EVOD 2 line, I believe, but uses a glass tank instead of a plastic one. I like them a lot.

EDIT: sorry, didn't read thoroughly enough. They don't break down like the Mini Protanks so if you're looking to break it down for better cleaning then you shouldn't get the EVOD Glass.

 

[carlitosway277]

What temperature is the best way to store juice, either in the bottle or vaporizer tank. Sometimes my juice looks like its turning into a gel?