Problems with 6ml TW dual coil tank system: What did I do wrong?

[HighlanderNorth]

I bought the Totally Wicked 6ml tank to go with mt Torpedo VV(that I hardly ever use). I got it last Wednesday, but have not tried it out til last night. Its a dual coil 1.5ohm 6ml tank. I read the instruction on their site, and I watched the video the other day, and again as I tried filling it last night. I removed the cartomizer, and dropped in 30 drops of e-liquid, just like the guy on the video did. I let it soak into the material for a couple minutes. I didnt see any liquid weeping out of the hole on the side of the carto, but I had added 30+ drops.

Then I put the carto part way into the tank, but not through the top o-rings, so there was still room to squirt the e-liquid into the tank itself. I added about 2.5ml of e-liquid to the tank. Then I pushed the carto all the way through the top o-rings and installed the drip tip that came with it on top of the rubber gasket piece with a hole in the center.

Then I screwed it onto first the Torpedo VV body, but I kept the voltage at around 3.4v, and I hit the battery button and started to take a hit, but I didnt hear any sizzling, and didnt get a hit at first. So I drew on it some more til I started hearing 'some' sizzling, then took a hit, and it was the nastiest taste ever! It tasted like pure, burnt cotton with no e-liquid flavor. So I tried it again, with the same results.

Then I screwed it onto the Ego battery, and even added a few more drops to the top of the inside of the carto after removing the gasket thing, and tried it again, but I was still getting 90% burnt cotton flavor with about 10% e-liquid flavor.

At that point I figured something is wrong with the carto inside the tank, and I didnt want to damage anything, so I sucked out the 2.5ml of e-liquid from the tank with a long blunt tip syringe, and just put it away and filled a regular LR carto and hit it with my Torpedo VV for a while.

Whats going wrong here, and is it something I did wrong?

 

[RsK0807]

The cartos that come with those tanks are junk. if it has a flange, throw it away.

 

[Absintheur]

dripping from the top is just about the worse way to fill a carto, takes a long time to get the juice to the coils, especially the bottom coil. Filling the carto from the bottom with a syringe really helps. Those tiny holes in the pre drilled cartos are too small as well in my opinion, I punch my own cartos with a saddle valve.

 

[DarklyNoon]

The cartos that come with those tanks are junk. if it has a flange, throw it away.

Agreed. I ordered some of the flanged prepunched Smoktech cartos and three out of five only lasted one day, the 4th is holding up. This is a real QC issue, so it looks like I'll be punching my own boges again. Only wish I hadn't ordered 15 of the flanged Smoktechs.

 

[Fiamma]

Then I put the carto part way into the tank, but not through the top o-rings, so there was still room to squirt the e-liquid into the tank itself. I added about 2.5ml of e-liquid to the tank. Then I pushed the carto all the way through the top o-rings and installed the drip tip that came with it on top of the rubber gasket piece with a hole in the center.

Whats going wrong here, and is it something I did wrong?

..installed the drip tip that came with it on top of the rubber gasket piece with a hole in the center.

That white gasket with the hole in it gets thrown away before you put a drip tip on it.

I've been using these cartos in tanks for 6 months and have never burned one.

 

[Baditude]

Don't put the little white doughnut back in the carto after filling it. Just the drip tip.

Switch to single coil cartos. Dual coil cartos were a good idea that didn't pan out in real life.

My personal experience with pre-drilled or pre-punched cartos is that they work as long as you are not using them with juice that is too thick or dark, such as 80-100 % vg. I use 1, 2, and 3 holed that are pre-drilled, choosing which one to use according to how thick or dark the juice is. Only juice I've issues with is Boba's Bounty 100% vg.

 

[donnah]

A nasty burnt taste means the coil was not wet or wet enough. I condom fill mine before I put it in a tank. Never had a burnt hit yet since I started doing this. I use single coil boge cartos.. you can get them xl to fit in the dctanks. I had problems with dual coils in a tank.. plus they drain batts much faster. I use a hammer and screw to punch one largish hole in mine.. easy and cheap.

 

[DummyMe]

I agree with Donna. I never fill by counting drops, mostly use condum method. Everybody's droppers are different size. I fill it until the carto is slushy on top by either using the condum method or just dripping even. I let it rest a few minutes, then I stick thru the tank's bottom & push it thru part way to the top. I then fill the tank up to just below the top of the partially filled carto. I push the carto up closer to the top & fill more juice until the tank is 80% or so full. I then push the carto the rest of the way in. I then check the carto & if it isn't slushy at the top, I add more juice. Put the drip top on, blow out any excess juice, stick it on your battery & vape. Easy, Peezy.

 

[Unforeseen]

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