Protank 2 burnt taste. Voltage/wattage questions.

[Atwooooood]

New member here, been vaping for a couple weeks now and I have a couple questions.

I bought a new protank 2 last week at my local vape store and everything has been great with it. Right around the 5/6 day mark, I start getting a burnt taste which I knew was normal, that happened with my iclear 30 after a week. I knew I just had to clean and dry burn it. Well I didn't have time to clean the head before work this morning, so I just threw in the spare head that the protank comes with and filled it up and let it sit overnight.

This morning I fired up the cleaned up tank with the new head, and first thing I get is a burnt taste. I've heard about the trick where you unscrew the tank a little to allow air in there (something about the tank creating a vacuum seal), and that would help for only a couple of draws, so I just dealt with the burnt taste while I was at work today.

When I got home today, I cleaned the first head that I took out last night and dry burned it, and put some liquid right on the wick to prime it quicker. I have been vaping it for a little bit now, and I am still getting intermittent burnt hits. I have been following a voltage/wattage formula I read here on the forum (add 2 to the ohms to get the voltage, and then v * v divided by ohms to get the wattage) and haven't had any problems using that formula thus far. With the cleaned head I am using now, the only way to get rid of that nasty taste is to turn the voltage and watts as low as they will go on my itaste MVP, which I can't fully tell if the burnt taste it gone as I have been getting burnt hits all day on that replacement head and the taste might just be residing in my mouth :/

I am starting to ramble, so what I really need to know is why a brand new head would give me burnt hits all day (2 ohm head, varied the volts between 3.5 and 4, and watts between 7-8) and should I be running my volts and watts lower? Currently vaping at 3.3 volts and 6 watts (lowest it will go) on the original head which is 2.3 ohms and am getting the best taste compared to those other numbers.

Any help would be appreciated, and I apologize for the massive post. Didn't mean for it to be so long.

 

[Decimate]

I think the latest batch of these have been duds or something. I can't get mine to wick right no matter what I do

 

[Atwooooood]

Thanks for your response Decimate. I have been looking into rebuilding these heads. I have heard that using cotton is a good alternative to the silica wicks, as I have a co worker that does that and he recommends it.

 

[Decimate]

The weird thing is that after I get a burnt hit ill open it up to discover that the wick looks perfectly saturated with liquid. I'm going to put a new head on tonight and let it soak all night and try it out tomorrow. If not im gonna be an iclear guy :/

 

[Atwooooood]

Same thing here. The brand new head I put on a last night and let soak up all night looks saturated when I checked it after work today but it only delivered burnt hits all day. The old head I cleaned is tasting much better now after turning the volts and watts all the way down.

I also like my iclear 30, but I prefer the protank when I am on the go, as it doesn't leak when it gets turned upside down when my mod is in my pocket and I sit down to drive or something that tilts the tank upside down.

 

[Metroicon]

I've got around 15 Protank 2's and I have had no issues. Perhaps you have it set to a high voltage.

 

[Rathamar]

I have been running a ProTank II with 2.4 Ohm Coil for a while now with no burnt taste. I run a Smoktech Pipe Mod with a Silencer VV on it. I run the volts at 3.8 unless I am outside in the tundra for a while then I bump it up to about 4.2 to heat the juice up a little more.

Did you recently change juice brands? I have found that I have to adjust the volts when I switch to a different brand of juice.

 

[Decimate]

I've got around 15 Protank 2's and I have had no issues. Perhaps you have it set to a high voltage.

I use a 3.3v ego-c on mine so it can't be that in my case

Hopefully this gets figured out

 

[vaperature]

You said you kept on vaping it while it was producing the burnt taste. Could be you corrupted the juice itself with the burnt taste. Replace the juice maybe? It's happened to me.

 

[Topwater Elvis]

I am starting to ramble, so what I really need to know is why a brand new head would give me burnt hits all day (2 ohm head, varied the volts between 3.5 and 4, and watts between 7-8) and should I be running my volts and watts lower? Currently vaping at 3.3 volts and 6 watts (lowest it will go) on the original head which is 2.3 ohms and am getting the best taste compared to those other numbers.

Any help would be appreciated, and I apologize for the massive post. Didn't mean for it to be so long.

You either adjust the watts or volts, you cannot adjust watts and volts at the same time, it is one or the other.

6w using a 2.3 head = 3.72 v
3.3 v on 2.3 head = 4.73 w = reason you are getting the best taste.
2ohm using 7 - 8 watts is 3.75v ~ 4v

The whole point to owning a variable power device is so you can vary the power to find what works best for you with the juice and the delivery device you're using.
No charts, formulas or math needed, start off at a low setting and work your way up until you find what you're looking for, if you get a hint of burned taste turn it down a little.

 

[Stonesourlemon]

could be a lot of things, i have a vamo v5, and i can almost never use my pt2 on it, no matter what happens every other hit is burnt. unscrew it and pop it on my mech and everything is fine. sometimes too many burnt hits will actually change the color of and pollute the taste of your juice. what i do it pop the chimney off the head, take out the flavor wicks, disassemble the pt2 entirely, and run it thru the coffee pot. inside of the basket where you would put coffee. i put a little bit of vinegar in there and usually i dont even need to dry burn after. kills 2 birds. clean atty, clean coffee pot. also try leaving the flavor wicks out and replacing them with a little bit of cotton, helps taste a bit

 

[Mark Anthony]

I run the PT2 on my MVP using 2.2 ohm heads at 3.3 volts and always get good taste.... Unless I'm in a hurry and don't clean the tank for more than 3 days with the same atomizer and just top it off with juice. Then it might start to taste a little off.

 

[jpeters05]

I have been having the same problem with my pt2. I've only been vaping for about 2 weeks. The first week was great. Good taste and all. After that I started getting a burnt taste. I am using a pt2 with 2.5 ohm coils a vision spinner. Since that first week i've tried new coils, new liquid and i've been cleaning my tank almost daily. just cant get away from the burnt taste! Its very frustrating because I loved it for the first week and I've just been trying to get that initial taste back.

 

[StarDose]

I was hoping that issue would have been fixed for the pt2 since it is the same issue I had with the pt1 and the only solution I found was rewicking the head since the stock ones I have give the same problem.

 

[cloud.nine]

If I run my protanks at greater than 6 watts, I get a burnt taste.
I usually run at 5 watts/3.4 volts, depending on the juice.
You might want to lower your wattage.

 

[StarDose]

I ran my protanks at 8-9w with no issues and great flavor/vapor the first couple weeks. Then clean the coil and got that burnt taste, changed the coil and a few puffs later same issue. I wrapped a micro coil with cotton wick and no issue since. Cotton wicks are great since you can use the same coil by only replacing the cotton for months on end.

 

[Christopherja]

Go cotton!

 

[Atwooooood]

You said you kept on vaping it while it was producing the burnt taste. Could be you corrupted the juice itself with the burnt taste. Replace the juice maybe? It's happened to me.

When I cleaned the first head I had been using and dry burned it, I put in fresh liquid.

I have been running a ProTank II with 2.4 Ohm Coil for a while now with no burnt taste. I run a Smoktech Pipe Mod with a Silencer VV on it. I run the volts at 3.8 unless I am outside in the tundra for a while then I bump it up to about 4.2 to heat the juice up a little more.

Did you recently change juice brands? I have found that I have to adjust the volts when I switch to a different brand of juice.

I was originally using Mt Baker menthol 24mg 80/20 blend when I got my MVP which came with the iclear 30. When I got my protank, I bought some NicQuid smooththol liquid, 24mg, and the guy said he thought it was like a 60/40 blend. After the head with that NicQuid starting tasting burnt, I put some new Mt Baker menthol, 24mg 65/35 blend in that replacement head which gave me that all day burnt taste. When I cleaned out the original head for the protank, I put the new 65/35 Mt Baker stuff in there.

You either adjust the watts or volts, you cannot adjust watts and volts at the same time, it is one or the other.

6w using a 2.3 head = 3.72 v
3.3 v on 2.3 head = 4.73 w = reason you are getting the best taste.
2ohm using 7 - 8 watts is 3.75v ~ 4v

The whole point to owning a variable power device is so you can vary the power to find what works best for you with the juice and the delivery device you're using.
No charts, formulas or math needed, start off at a low setting and work your way up until you find what you're looking for, if you get a hint of burned taste turn it down a little.

I only said that I changed both the volts and the watts at the same time because I have the MVP version 2 which allows me to adjust them both. I am all new to this though so I probably don't fully understand all of this. With both the iclear 30 and the protank with the first head using the NicQuid liquid, I was running the MVP at around 4.2 volts and 8 watts and going almost a week before I got any burnt taste. Using my cleaned out 2.3 ohm head with the Mt Baker 65/35 blend, going anywhere above 6 watts delivers a burnt taste, but experimenting with it now, I put the volts up to 4.2 while leaving the watts at 6 and it tastes fine, although the flavor seems a little muted, but that is probably because I am used to this brand of liquid hitting much stronger in that iclear 30 as the protank does have a more airy draw to it.

I figured I was probably jumping into this a little too fast going with a APV as a newcomer to vaping, but I wanted to start with something good. Looks like I need learn some more and realize that different tanks and liquids will deliver different results. I want to thank everyone for their input.

 

[Topwater Elvis]

With all vw/vv devices it is a one or the other power adjustment, you can not adjust the watt and volt output at the same time, whatever you adjusted last (V or W) is what it is set at when you take a vape.

So if you set it at 4.2 v then set it at 8w you're vaping at 8w or if you set it a 8w then set it at 4.2 volts you're vaping at 4.2v's.

6 watts powering 2.3 head = 3.71v = the reason it tasted like you want it to.
8 watts powering 2.3 head = 4.3 volts = the reason it tastes burnt.

Some flavorings & pg/vg ratios burn at lower temps than others = The reason for using a vv/vw power device, so the user can adjust the power to suit their individual tastes, juice flavor or pg/vg content and resistance of delivery device / equipment used.

In other words with that particular juice you need to turn the power down to prevent the burnt taste.

 

[computertech83]

When my pt2 starts to get that burnt taste i can usually pull out the flavor wick and replace it, clean the head and it will be good for another couple days. After that, I will just rebuild the coil, new silica wick and wire and that fixes the problem. I have noticed that PG juice will get that burnt taste quicker then VG juice. At first it bothered me, but now it just gives me a good reason to tinker

Hang in there and Vape On