I'm new to RDA and in the last few days I e made some twisted coils I'm sitting at 0.31 ohm built with 26 Guage kanthal wicking with cotton bacon ver 2.0 on a Tsunami rda and I'm vaping it with my rx200s usually at 80 watts.. loving the flavour. Kicks my TFV8 .... labour wise. I chain vape when I'm at home I'm finding myself going through a lot of liquid. I'll be getting nice flavours then the next hit I'm tasting burnt cotton. So I'll drop some.more juice on and I'm good to go. Anyway before I put more juice on I do notice my wick is wet still, not like after being dripped on but the cotton still holds juice. Is this a normal occurrence? I change my cotton everyday. I don't use my RDA at work. . Too much of a pain. I've tried turning down the watts sure the burnt taste goes away but the favour just isn't there. Is that the way she goes? Or have I done something wrong.
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Welcome to dripping! Your cotton will still have some juice in it on the ends but you are dry burning inside the coil. I am not familiar with that dripper myself but they all pretty much work the same way. You want your cotton to come out of your coil and to barely touch the build deck (the bottom of the dripper) this leaves you with a juice well. This juice juice well is like the glass area of your tank. I am not sure how deep your juice well is or how your air hole are. But with my goon I fill the juice well almost to the top. Now this means I cannot lean my mods very much or I get leakage out the air holes but it gives me more hits before I have to refill. The biggest issue most people new to dripping have is thinking that you stuff the juice well full of cotton. Yes this somewhat eliminates the juice sloshing around in your dripper but you lose alot of juice capacity and it will not sick the juice into the coil as effectively. I am sure you will get many more opinions but this is what works best for me and I have been dripping for over 3 years. My avatar is my current build it is 10 strands of 28g stainless steel wire in a fishtail braid 5 wraps ohms at . 11 awesome flavor and good clouds but it probably won't stay in there long as I am constantly learning more advanced coils and changing mine out. That's why I have 2 more goons on the way.
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A well built RDA is going to be superior to a TFV8. A tank with pre-made factory coils is like a TV dinner, it may taste ok, but gourmet it is not.
You need to keep your wicks nice and saturated. but not flooded. Depending on all the factors involved this may last 3 puffs or 20 puffs. You can stay of the safe side and drip little and often. Experience and time will arm you with the knowledge you need.
You need to keep your wicks nice and saturated. but not flooded. Depending on all the factors involved this may last 3 puffs or 20 puffs. You can stay of the safe side and drip little and often. Experience and time will arm you with the knowledge you need.
In my eyes the wicks are saturated. And I'm wasting a lot of juice to it not going to the coils. The wicks are not tight they pulled through the coil dry without moving the coils. I've even tried using less cotton and still same outcome.
Pictures please. I suspect you have too much wicking.
The wick is a conduit not a reservoir. Wicks should just touch the deck, not fill the juice well.
The wick is a conduit not a reservoir. Wicks should just touch the deck, not fill the juice well.
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Welcome and glad you joined. I would try .5 or higher ohm coils ( under 80 watts ). Could be pushing the upper juice limits of what can be tasted.
Might like to read:
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The wicks look ok from the picture. You just need to experiment with the wick material/density and see if you can get better results. It's possible (maybe) that your coil is not heating evenly or efficiently. Try a normal round wire build and see if that improves things.
Try not to see it as wasting 'a lot' of juice. If you make up your RDA, drip plenty through it before the next removal of the cotton, I would estimate your wasted liquid is in the region of less than 1%.
Or get an RBA deck for the TFV8 and put a set of those same coils in it. The only time you worry about a dry hit is if the tank is empty.
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