RDA's and Flavor, What am I missing?

[FearTX]

I find my happy place to be a bit under 1 ohm on IGO-W or Patriot with 1/16" air holes.

I know I get flavor while my lung hit is going on because some of my tastier juices will make me salivate like crazy while inhaling. I do taste it more on the exhale though.

 

[DrillRX]

Well ya, if you do lung inhales ALL of your flavor comes from your exhale, not most. It's how the human body works, I didn't make any of it up.

Uh......??.... What?........ Not sure if that's true. (takes a gratuitous inhale).... Nope, just most. I do get some flavor on the inhale as well but with the throat hit it's pretty muted. The exhale is where the flavor is still

 

[Mr.JohnPatrick]

And that is plain silly, and flat out dangerous. I sure hope you're not as new to vaping as your post count/join date would indicate. That build would be 37 amps and 137 watts. The top cap of your Trident would be glowing red.
You are going to blow your damn fool head off!

Well I do know what I'm doing and no I'm not new to vaping. My top cap isn't glowing red and I use IMR high amperage batteries so if I ever pop a battery it won't blow up, they'll vent. You shouldn't assume that I'm not knowledgeable and truth be told I'm a sub-ohm vaper. I love my plumes.

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[BigBeazy]

Make sure you use cotton! My dripper is by far the best, flavor and vapor production is better than anything. Don't go past .8 or flavor might suffer.

 

[B4ttleT0ad]

It's like eating. You're not gonna taste as much flavor in your food if you're gonna just inhale it. If you want flavor, try Edit: increasing your resistance, say 1.1 to 1.3 ohms and decrease the airflow just a bit. Take it in slow with a mouth to lung inhale. That's the trouble with sub-ohm vaping, straight to the lungs with a giant cloud and "hey, where's the flavor?" Chill out dude... trix are for kids.

Totally agree with this post... try going a little higher with the ohms and see if that gives you the flavor you are looking for. Im using a regulated mod with my dripper so I can only build around the 1.2 range at the lowest but haven't had any flavor issues with my igo w4.

 

[Completely Average]

Uh......??.... What?........ Not sure if that's true. (takes a gratuitous inhale).... Nope, just most. I do get some flavor on the inhale as well but with the throat hit it's pretty muted. The exhale is where the flavor is still

Yeah, that's exactly what happens any time you do not use your nose while eating.


Try this. Get some ice cream. Eat a spoonful. Then, plug your nose so you cannot breath through it and eat another spoonful. Amazing how the flavor is suddenly muted, eh?

That's because half your sense of taste comes from your sense of smell. If you're doing lung hits you are not inhaling through your nose. No nose, no smell - no smell, no taste. Doesn't matter if your vaping, eating, or wine tasting, you have to smell to be able to taste.

You would taste MUCH more flavor on the inhale if you did mouth hits rather than lung hits. Surprised you never noticed that before.

 

[gotch23]

like dice pointed out, the lower the resistance the bigger the airflow needs to be.
And vice versa, a higher resistance needs a smaller airhole for optimum flavor.

Take for example the reomizer. Stock it has standard a fairly small airhole (3/64" ).
It is a true flavour-wonder with microcoils 1.3 to 1.5 ohms, also really good
at higher resistances.
And it is for mouth-to-lung inhales... very satisfying.

My trident has 2mm airholes (i guess... idk for sure). And my sweetspot flavorwise with
that is at about 0.6 ohms on a mech.
This is for lunginhales, so the vaping and flavour-experience is different.

As for the coils: Why not just duplicate what you liked in the protank on your RDA?
2 of those microcoils would be around 0.65 ohms, which should fit your airholes fine.
Keep the coils close to the airholes, and try a standard cotton wick pulled through
the coil... less is more. If that tastes right, you can always experiment with some
more fancy stuff later.

 

[DrillRX]

Yeah, that's exactly what happens any time you do not use your nose while eating.


Try this. Get some ice cream. Eat a spoonful. Then, plug your nose so you cannot breath through it and eat another spoonful. Amazing how the flavor is suddenly muted, eh?

That's because half your sense of taste comes from your sense of smell. If you're doing lung hits you are not inhaling through your nose. No nose, no smell - no smell, no taste. Doesn't matter if your vaping, eating, or wine tasting, you have to smell to be able to taste.

You would taste MUCH more flavor on the inhale if you did mouth hits rather than lung hits. Surprised you never noticed that before.

You just proved my point. Look at the post I was replying to. We were talking about lung inhales in the first place.


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