Rayon wick, better flow, flavor, saturation and Nic Hit!

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Cuando

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When I put rayon in my fogger v4, that's the first time I experienced what your talking about, I've been a huge cheerleader of both ever since!

I'm telling you, I've been loving rayon in my drippers but decided to re-coil and rewick the RSST and with the same style wick I have done with cotton before. It has never, ever worked so well, and has become my at home vape. I've started looking at Kraken's after having sworn off another genesis style atomizer, all thanks to this thirsty little fiber.
 
Is there any consensus on loose wound or tight wound coils?

All my coils are loose wound and I have no problems.

For the record I'm using:

Kayfun 3.1
Kayfun lite
Kraken Genesis
IGO-L

All with CCr (rayon)

My opinion is, if there is juice in the middle of the coil then how does it get vaporized if it is a close wound coil. A close wound coil would only vaporize from the shoulders. A loose wound coil would let juice come up thru the gap in the coils.

Just wondering. So far I'm happy with loose coils and Rayon.
 
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Is there any consensus on close wound or tight wound coils?

All my coils are loose wound and I have no problems.

For the record I'm using:

Kayfun 3.1
Kayfun lite
Kraken Genesis
IGO-L

All with CCr (rayon)

My opinion is, if there is juice in the middle of the coil then how does it get vaporized if it is a close wound coil. A close wound coil would only vaporize from the shoulders. A loose wound coil would let juice come up thru the gap in the coils.

Just wondering. So far I'm happy with loose coils and Rayon.

If you want an answer to this and any other micro coil question the best place is the Micro Coil Discussion, they will answer anything you want to know
 

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I always had micro coils before and the rayon made them much better. But when I tried a non contact coil I thought it actually improved the vape. More th and pop in a parallel 32 build. The microcoil was a little smoother.

I agree, I'm running a twisted 28ga build @ 0.45 0hm in my quasar and it's not quite touching wraps and it's pretty aggressive, I do love this atty, great everything.
 

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If there is a difference in the amount of rayon, that can also be hard to detect given the "fluffiness" of rayon.
You can kinda tell by how hard it pulls when you tug on it through the coil to see how tight it is (at least with the Sally's one). It's fluffy, but there are some threads in there that give it substance.
 

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I have noticed that rayon does cause juice to taste sweeter, I have vaped 200ml of the same strawberries and cream juice in various devices wicked with cotton and I instantly noticed the increase in sweetness on the R91. When I attempted to drip the same juice it was too sweet for my preferences.

That happened to me too. I'm wondering if it has something to do with the different sizes of molecules in e-juice. Maybe sucralose was getting stuck somewhere in my other wicks to keep it from come through in the vape, whereas it's certainly smacking me in the face now, with rayon. Before, I was having to add almost 4% just to be able to taste the sweetness. Now I add about 2% and it's still satisfying my crazy sweet tooth.
 

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It was more about the wicking ability of rayon. If there is more juice in the middle then where does it go?

I had one wick completely burn out in the middle. Maybe too much wick, too small a diameter, who knows.

A micro coil isn't a sealed apparatus, the vapor escapes through the minute gaps between the coil wraps.
 

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Here's a source for rayon medical balls. Should be a good quality higher grade rayon if anyone wants to try. Should be very clean. 12.95 + shipping. If you've got a buddy near by you could split it.

TIDI Cotton and Rayon Balls - MedSupplier.com

I may pull this link later so it doesn't sell out..
Can you still edit the OP, Jeremy? It might be nice to have all these sources at the top of the thread (or some kind of summary of what we've learned so far, including your videos).
 

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That happened to me too. I'm wondering if it has something to do with the different sizes of molecules in e-juice. Maybe sucralose was getting stuck somewhere in my other wicks to keep it from come through in the vape, whereas it's certainly smacking me in the face now, with rayon. Before, I was having to add almost 4% just to be able to taste the sweetness. Now I add about 2% and it's still satisfying my crazy sweet tooth.

That seems feasible to me, cotton and rayon very well may put off different sized vapor particles.
 

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To me rayon seems to add a mist atomizer effect to the vapor. (or fully atomized?)
You can tell, when the wicks overly saturated, if you take a big pull you'll feel a mist in your mouth. It's not hot or anything just a warm mist. In addition to the vapor. I guess that's where I got - its like drinking your juice.

It's like that wet feeling you get in your mouth when you're eating ice cream...that's probably why I've been craving ice cream flavors lately. :laugh:
 

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Ok, so its been two days (this would technically be the third as its in the AM) of vaping on the Helios w/ CC and have a bit of coil buildup on one coil more than the other. My girlfriend and I went from Conroe, to Waco, and then Glenn Rose, TX yesterday and again today in reverse, and I had this in my hand the whole time. We camped at Dinosaur Valley State Park and the only time this wasn't in my hand was when we set up camp and when I was sleeping. I even met another guy there vaping on a stingray clone lol.

Question though, should I rewick the coils with less CC, or more?

Oh and also I vaped three different juices on this build. Home Slice, Doodle, and Wakanda(mostly).


Sorry for a terrible picture, it was terrible quality up close, but now i see farther away it is harder to see, even though the coils are waaay clearer than the uppy closey pic....
 
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