Ruined Kanger T3 Clearomizer coil (1.8ohms)

[Beretta]

Hello,

Today, one of my Kanger T3 Clearomizer coils dumped ejuice all over my eGo-C twist 1000mah battery. I took apart the coil, pulled out the wick completely, and noticed "gunk" in the center of the wick. The coil was black, but I assume that is normal. The wick must have lost is absorbancy properties, and subsequently dropped the liquid into the base, draining into the battery. Is this what happened?

I've only owned the T3s I have for a few days, so I'm looking to find out why this happened.

I just bought some sweet tobacco 100% VG juice, and I mixed it about 50/50 with some 100%PG menthol juice. After completing that tank, the T3 coil wick flooded my eGo-C twist battery.

I did use a higher voltage on the twist, around 3.8 volts. I am using a 1.8ohms T3 coil.

Can someone help me avoid this in the future? Thankfully I do have backup coils.

 

[Kent C]

Unless I'm missing something and I don't intend this to be unkind, but it could be that you removed the T3 in the wrong way. Unlike almost all other attys, cartos, or clearomizers, the T3 has to be taken off 'upside down' to fill. BTW, IF you did that, you would not be the first - in the US, that would likely be me.

Either that or when you unloosened the knurled part of the T3 from the batt, you also unloosened the top part as well. Sorry if that was not the case, but I've never heard of a situation the way you describe... but I suppose it is possible if there was a defect in the wicking but even then it should only be a small trickle from the holes in the knurled part. Something you would have noticed before ejuice got all over the batt.

 

[tmcase]

I'm only guessing here but it sounds like you might not have had the base of the T3 screwed tight enough. If you remove the T3 by holding the tank rather than the base then you wouldn't have a tight seal and the juice could leak out. The only other thing I can think of is when you filled the tank you got a lot of juice in the air tube and it leaked out the connector. Even if the wick lost it's absorbency, which I've never heard of, the juice still would have stayed in the tank if the base was screwed tightly to the tank.