ProTanks... a love/hate affair

[BradleyNIN]

I love my ProTanks, all of em - from the PT to the Unitank; when they are working, that is.

Yeah, they push the pins down and ruin your mods. They gurgle, they flood, sometimes they leak but MY LORD when they're perfuming perfectly, they're glorious!

I buy only Kanger replacement heads. I've pulled out the wicks on some; that only boosts the taste but dampens the vape.

Has anyone found the perfect PT setup? What ohms are you using? Unitiank, PT, PT2?

Chime in please. I'd love to know how to get a more consistent vape out of these babies. I'm dripping and carto-tanking more than ever because of my recent troubles and loss of consistent performance in the PTs.

 

[EvilZoe]

The best way to get a consistent vape from a Protank, I've found, is to put it in the holder with all my other Protanks and use my carto tanks.

Protanks look very nice as decorations and I'm done fighting with them.

 

[BradleyNIN]

The best way to get a consistent vape from a Protank, I've found, is to put it in the holder with all my other Protanks and use my carto tanks.

Protanks look very nice as decorations and I'm done fighting with them.

I think I'm with you. I'm going to continue using one every once in a while on a Kicked Kamry. I seem to be getting a good day's worth on one before its .... When I run out of heads, I'll think before buying more. I'm fine using an MVP and a carto tank.

Thanks Zoe, Only you can inspire one to have the courage it takes to give up.

 

[The Vagabond]

pretty little Protanks all in a row
I traded them for cartotanks a long time ago

 

[meanckz]

someone will have to explain those carto tanks to me one of these days....how they function, what not to do, how long they last....and all that stuff

 

[BradleyNIN]

I started with an F16 and smoktek LR, double punched cartos. It's been my primary for a few weeks.

Drop $15 and get one. YouTube filling instructions. You won't be sorry.


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[flowerpots]

Rebuild the Pro Tank coils. It's very easy, cheap, and provides a vape much better than the factory coils. There are many youtube instruction videos on how to do it.

 

[KnurledNut]

I read many reviews about the Protanks and decided not to get into them. Instead I got a Dbox PuriTank which uses the sames coils and doesn't have any issues.

 

[speedysteve]

I prefer to use the mini pro tank 2s. Acually, it's the only tanks I use anymore besides RBAs. For best of luck, always pull the rubber piece up on the shaft of the kangertech head before putting it back on the tank. And don't over tightin the bottom base onto the tank. Just my 2 cents

 

[BradleyNIN]

Rebuild the Pro Tank coils. It's very easy, cheap, and provides a vape much better than the factory coils. There are many youtube instruction videos on how to do it.

I appreciate the insight but I'm just not ready to rebuild right now. I'm looking to take the plunge with my new Kayfun but I just don't think I'm at the skill level to rebuild a PT head.


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[Kirkwood]

Rebuilding them makes me hate them less . Best setup for me is a micro coil and cotton at 1.6 ohms wether it be a PT, mini or evods

 

[EvilZoe]

I think I'm with you. I'm going to continue using one every once in a while on a Kicked Kamry. I seem to be getting a good day's worth on one before its .... When I run out of heads, I'll think before buying more. I'm fine using an MVP and a carto tank.

Thanks Zoe, Only you can inspire one to have the courage it takes to give up.

Oh, honey, I'm not trying to tell you what to do...lol I was just expressing my own disgust with my own issues with the Protanks - and pretty much any tank other than the first simple little (too little) evod tank that came with my first kit. I really just don't want to deal with the crap anymore.

someone will have to explain those carto tanks to me one of these days....how they function, what not to do, how long they last....and all that stuff

It's a LOT easier than you think. I was intimidated, too, and kept buying Protanks and other like-types to put off actually trying a carto tank.

ECF member Batitude has written up some easy to understand steps on using carto tanks, so after watching PBusardo's video review of the Slap Yo Mama tank tool and following Baditude's carto priming blog entry, I was vaping in minutes.

 

[BradleyNIN]

Oh, honey, I'm not trying to tell you what to do...lol I was just expressing my own disgust with my own issues with the Protanks - and pretty much any tank other than the first simple little (too little) evod tank that came with my first kit. I really just don't want to deal with the crap anymore.

It's a LOT easier than you think. I was intimidated, too, and kept buying Protanks and other like-types to put off actually trying a carto tank.

ECF member Batitude has written up some easy to understand steps on using carto tanks, so after watching PBusardo's video review of the Slap Yo Mama tank tool and following Baditude's carto priming blog entry, I was vaping in minutes.

I'm at my wits end with them. I was totally asking for someone to tell me what to do and you came through!


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[BradleyNIN]

I screwed that last post up. I was intending to quote Zoe. Can't fix it with tapatalk.


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[danca90]

As I see it, there are 2 camps of vapers, those who use carto tanks, and those who have not tried a carto tank.

 

[Myrany]

I still have the one protank I got when they first came out. It is still performing really well for me. BUT I recoil the heads myself. Mine has never leaked or gurgled or given me trouble. Maybe I just happened to get a good one.

That said I have multiple pyrex carto tanks. The Smok DCT pyrex tanks.

Lately though they are all sitting on a shelf. It is mechs (the REO in particular) and RDA's for me. Nope not sub ohm, just your basic 1.5-1.8 ohm micro coil with cotton.

 

[CocoaButter]

I have used the Evod heads a LOT. i rebuild them all the time too. I have a Evod tank, a Protank II, and a Davide. The evod tanks didint hold enough and didint produce enough.. The protank gurgles a lot if im using a stock coil. The Davide? .......ah yes... vape taste is good, vape production is great.. its vapetastic.

As for rebuilding them.. i started rebuilding ASAP. But im also notoriously poor. Just about everything i ahve is second hand because i cant even afford juice. Sooooooo.. Mine was out of necessity. So honestly? when they gurgle i just use a qtip.. when they wick wrong i adjust the wick, when i buirn a coil i just replace it, and i move on smiling, knowing that i ahve been blessed enough so far, to stop smoking for as long as i have, and as of this day, i can already taste better, smell better, smell better to others, breathe better(giggity) and many other things. Also no one around me chokes to death from cig smoke. So i cant complain.. At all. A gurgle is better than a hot ash in the eye driving. Breathing is a lot better than sucking a cancer stick nail coffin. Vaping even on a sub par coil, is a Blessing to me, And my Family. Thank God, and the And the things he put into peoples heart to bless me with what i got. Rants over, sorry if it sounded harsh.

Vape on!

 

[nikkysikk]

I was having serious problems with my PT1 on my mini Zmax. No air, no flavor, it would spit in my eye. Things like that. But as soon as I got my MVP it works just fine and I love my little pro tank.


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[BradleyNIN]

I was having serious problems with my PT1 on my mini Zmax. No air, no flavor, it would spit in my eye. Things like that. But as soon as I got my MVP it works just fine and I love my little pro tank.


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I actually put my PT on my MVP last night while on this thread. I seem to tell a difference and its performing well. Hmmmm....

 

[Jayvaps]

I gave up on the kanger Bottom coil design awhile ago. I have not looked back.

I liked my iclears better, but am moving to carto tanks. have 1 and 2 more in the post right now.