Pro Tank II coils not working very well after a day or two at most. HELP please!

[xdunlapx]

Well I switched to the Davide tank which apparently uses the same coils. Same problem. If I actually changed out the coil when it needed it it would be 2 coils per week. But I've been holding off until about 1 week and keeping the coils. So now I have a bunch of coils that need cleaned. I bought vodka a couple of months ago and will be using that today to clean them. So we'll see how it goes. I've never had success with using water alone to clean the coils as it tended to break them, though I have no idea why. But that was 2 years ago when I last tried it with a regular atomizer. But I'll clean them with vodka today. I hope not to have to buy coils so often, or so much at one time. It's getting expensive.

FYI for now, since switching to a USA-made juice the wattage varies but right now the coil is about 4 days old and at 6.6 watts/3.72 volts and my eVic is showing current resistance at 2.1 ohms.

 

[Frenchfry1942]

I'm doing the same things. A little babying, last longer.

 

[entoptic]

I had a couple "bad" coils that came with the tank. I'm being able to clean them with hot tap water and a few hours dry time...


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[crxess]

Seems some times bumping the watts a few tenths for several draws allows the coil to clear up a bit. Like it refreshes it.

 

[Anthal69]

Vodka wouldn't last a couple of days around my house, let alone a couple of months. Lol.

Make sure to give the coils a good stirring while you're soaking them to help push the vodka through the coils.


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[xdunlapx]

I cleaned them with vodka for a few hours, rinsed them really well with hot water and let them dry for about 5 hours or so. I put one in a clean tank and new juice and now I'm very buzzed. It's more like I'm high than drunk. I think I'm going to go to bed now. Maybe I didn't rinse them as well as I thought I did, but wow. I'm not enjoying this. Hopefully when I wake up and vape some more I won't get buzzed again. Ick!

 

[ImperfectFuture]

You need to let then REALLY dry, like 24 hours. I dunno when I used vodka, if I wanted to vape it.

 

[bluecat]

I get about 3 tanks before I have to clean them.

I became too lazy to rebuild anymore. Too cheap to buy replacement coils.

Usually it is just water boiled in a coffee cup in the micro. Then I drop the coils in. Sometimes I give them an overnight soak in coke.

I usually blow from the screw side while covering the post hole. This blows the water out of the coils and any e liquid residue.

I have had 3 in rotation since January. 2 coils with each.

 

[Baldr]

I don't know if this will help, but I was using a Protank II and pretty happy with it. Then I added an airflow control valve. IMO, that improved it. I pretty much leave it wide open, as I like a lot of airflow, but it seems to get better airflow this way than with the standard thing.

Kanger Airflow Control Valve - Protank II, Protank 3, Aerotank

 

[guitardoc64]

I'm doing all this with a protank 2 and am having mixed results. Some coils come clean just fine (using vinegar and water) and some don't come back from the dead. It's easy enough to rebuild them once you have the materials in hand.

 

[Baldr]

I'm pretty happy with my protank II. I go through roughly 2 protank heads a week. At $2 each, that's about $8 a month.

I don't clean them, because when I tried some worked out well and some were crap. It's not worth the time and trouble when half of them turn out like crap the first time around (and I'm sure if you continued trying to clean them the percentages would go up since you would have a lot more older atomizers in the batch.)

I don't wrap my own coils. I'm older, my eyes aren't as good as they used to be, and I've never been good at tiny little detail work. I'm not going to waste a bunch of time trying to redo something I can buy for $8 a month that does a good job. It's not worth the trouble, and I seriously doubt that I can improve on the store-bought ones.

I think it's a bit sad that almost every newbie to vaping who shows up saying "what should I buy to get started" is told they have to learn to build coils.