Right its super easy to change the head... My point not every day... That is more annoying to me... It seems for some reason everyone gets more mileage out of theirs then I do...
RBA verses a Prebuilt kanger type atomozier
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Right its super easy to change the head... My point not every day... That is more annoying to me... It seems for some reason everyone gets more mileage out of theirs then I do...
I think you need to remove the "flavor wicks" in your coils.
Take a new coil, remove the silicone doughnut and pull off the top tube of the coil.
Remove the two loose wicks and put a drop of liquid on the coil, replace the tube and doughnut.
Give that a try and if it starts leaking, replace one of the wicks and try that. Most coils come with two wicks on top of the coiled wick.
I always remove one wick and I use a 60PG/40VG liquid.
dropped9, VG can be some gunky stuff. I personally like 50/50 blends for a balence between vapor, flavor & a smooth TH coupled with the actual ability to wick. I get 6 to 12ml worth of use out of my kanger/ARO type coils before they get gunky. Soemtimes more, sometimes less, depending on the juice. Had similar experience with 100% VG. It's just very thick, goopy and my coils hated it, plus I didn't get as good a flavor on 100% VG. PG seems to help carry flavors better than VG to me.
I dry burn the Kanger/ARO coils to clean them. There are youtube videos on it all over the place. Here is one with a guy that has a Brit accent, so it is obviously trustworthy as a British accent makes everything more trustworthy. I do the same on iClear30 coils. I have a dozen or so of the kanger type coils. I usually take them as they get gunky or go off flavor and plunk them in a little babyfood jar with some rotgut vodka in it. When I am down to one or two clean ones I'll clean the lot of dirty ones and start over again. A week or two in the vodka makes the gunk go away fast when dry burning. Obviously, I dry them off good before dry burning. No need to burn my nose hairs, right?
Try taking one out if using VG to help it wick better, like the above poster said. Get a foot or two of 1mm silica for replacing the flavor wicks if the fall apart or get lost.
I like the kanger type clearos and tanks for taking to work and they vape really good. The elcheapo Smok RBC clearos are really damn good I think. The juice holding part of a tank is immaterial I think, as the variable in tops is the coil & wicking. As is stands I use a couple different tops for different juices. I like cartos & carto tanks for high PG juices since they seem to smooth out the PG a bit for me. Have a mango/peach I vape gallons of that is a 90/10 PG/VG mix that i can tolerate through a carto tank. There's a chocolate juice I like that I vape in a iClear30, as the kangers hate it. YMMV and it's cheap enough to try out different tops.
Started fooling around with rebuildables but there's a learning curve to it and I seem to be behind that curve. Not happy with the results but I intend to keep trying.
I dry burn the Kanger/ARO coils to clean them. There are youtube videos on it all over the place. Here is one with a guy that has a Brit accent, so it is obviously trustworthy as a British accent makes everything more trustworthy. I do the same on iClear30 coils. I have a dozen or so of the kanger type coils. I usually take them as they get gunky or go off flavor and plunk them in a little babyfood jar with some rotgut vodka in it. When I am down to one or two clean ones I'll clean the lot of dirty ones and start over again. A week or two in the vodka makes the gunk go away fast when dry burning. Obviously, I dry them off good before dry burning. No need to burn my nose hairs, right?
Try taking one out if using VG to help it wick better, like the above poster said. Get a foot or two of 1mm silica for replacing the flavor wicks if the fall apart or get lost.
I like the kanger type clearos and tanks for taking to work and they vape really good. The elcheapo Smok RBC clearos are really damn good I think. The juice holding part of a tank is immaterial I think, as the variable in tops is the coil & wicking. As is stands I use a couple different tops for different juices. I like cartos & carto tanks for high PG juices since they seem to smooth out the PG a bit for me. Have a mango/peach I vape gallons of that is a 90/10 PG/VG mix that i can tolerate through a carto tank. There's a chocolate juice I like that I vape in a iClear30, as the kangers hate it. YMMV and it's cheap enough to try out different tops.
Started fooling around with rebuildables but there's a learning curve to it and I seem to be behind that curve. Not happy with the results but I intend to keep trying.
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for me removing the flavor wicks seems to introduce flooding. It used to wind up in my 510, but now I use the aero piece to avoid ruining my mod. The kayfun clones are really the best thing out there. If you do your homework, it's super easy to make a coil and cotton wick, and super easy to change tanks, reinsert a new wick and vape some more.
I can get months off my coil builds before I need to wrap a new coil on my rba's. Do need to periodically pull the wick and dry burn the gunk of the coil then put fresh wick in, but usually can get 2 weeks off the same wick, of heavy vaping.
Like they said, check ohms, check voltage.you may be running them too hot!
There's tons charts online. Google image search for "vaping voltage chart"
Also, dry burn your coils, YouTube it! Silica wicks will resist the pulsating heat. I do this on my pro tank coils. I just started, but with the right voltage I get 6+ weeks out of my coils.
Good luck! I'm getting into rtas too, but for different reasons! :]
There's tons charts online. Google image search for "vaping voltage chart"
Also, dry burn your coils, YouTube it! Silica wicks will resist the pulsating heat. I do this on my pro tank coils. I just started, but with the right voltage I get 6+ weeks out of my coils.
Good luck! I'm getting into rtas too, but for different reasons! :]
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