Radiator Pluid juice in my Somnium atomizer turns black..... ?

[arcspace]

Hello. I'm new to this forum, but I've been vaping for about a year and a half now.

I just got my first rebuildable atomizer (Somnium) the other day, and it's been working great. It's actually my second, but the first one that I decided to keep. I had a Z-Atty-Pro, but I sold it after 2 days because it was garbage.
I've got just one issue...
A couple of hours after filling the tank with Radiator Pluid, and moderately vaping on it, the juice loses it's bright green color, and starts turning into a dark forest green color, and eventually it becomes almost black! The flavor remains the same, however. Has this happened to anyone else? Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening?

PS. I did 4 wraps around the wick, and it reads 1.6 ohms. I use it with Provari mini on 3.7v

Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

 

[Tiffany Smeggin Peak]

oh my!
any pictures?

 

[Cyric]

What is the tank made out of ? Pluid will kill ANY Plastic tanks.

Hrm, if its the one on the Somnium site (http://www.somnium-mods.com/product/275/somnium-rebuildable-atomizer) then it should have a Pyrex tank which should be ok I would think.

 

[arcspace]

This isn't even as dark as it gets...
The tank is made of Pyrex glass. Thanks!

 

[Cyric]

Hrm, could be your wick maybe ?

 

[arcspace]

The coils work fine, there are no hot spots... Which means it was completely oxidized, right?
The mesh was 40mm long by 30mm wide, and it fits fine in the hole. Not too loose, not too firm. I rolled it as a straw, the juice definitely travels through it. I'll make another wick though, and see what happens. Thanks again

 

[ninfreak]

make a solid wick instead and no darkening of juice will happen..... basically what is happening is the straw like wick is volcanoing juice up the wick and boiling it without vaporizing it. it goes back down into the tank. do that a few hundred times and you have nasty burnt boiled juice.

on another note why do you think the zap was garbage? user error? have had mine since june and has been flawless. i see a lot of peeps selling them because they don't know that you have to clean them every so often. they stop working and people think they are junk when a 5 minute cleaning makes it good as new.

 

[arcspace]

Thanks, that makes perfect sense! By 'solid' you mean, tighter and sealed on both ends?

As for the ZAP... i thought the cap was too loose, and I wasn't getting exceptional flavor. Maybe because the airhole was too big. And it leaked profusely... The somnium has none of these issues. But as you said, maybe I was doing something wrong.