I am a new vaper. I have a question about safety. Most of my research has turned up that vaping is pretty safe. However - today I had a coil go on my new Kanger genitank.. I noticed it wasn't hitting well anymore and the hits that i was getting really irritated my throat. My question is when a coil goes - can you inhale harmful material- like when the wick was toast I felt like I was getting more than juice, like material instead. Once I replaced the coil everything was cool. Just wondering if there are unintended harmful possibilities when you get a dry hit or have a bad coil etc. Thanks for reading.
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I think it's definitely possible that some bad stuff gets created when this happens. Luckily, it's very unpleasant and this limits the amount of burned stuff someone is likely to inhale. Always carry a spare coil for times when stuff like this happens.
All the flavors we use are tested by people eating them. They are not tested as something inhaled. The guys making microwave popcorn found out that something safe to eat is not safe to inhale so we do not use it any more in our juice.
Vaping has only been around a short time and no long term studies have been done. The stuff we inhale is probably better for us than smoking. The relaxation we get while vaping might make it better for us to vape than not. Nobody knows.
It's probably not good to inhale burned cotton but it tastes so bad I change it at the first sign.
Vaping has only been around a short time and no long term studies have been done. The stuff we inhale is probably better for us than smoking. The relaxation we get while vaping might make it better for us to vape than not. Nobody knows.
It's probably not good to inhale burned cotton but it tastes so bad I change it at the first sign.
When a coil gets dry and turns red hot and burns some blackened residue on the wick, yes thats... welll... smoke.
Dry hit is not good.
Is the genitank glass or plastic?
When it comes to safety, I'd get glass
Anyway as far as safety in vaping is concerned, I think more focus should be on the battery for new vapers; those things store alot of energy.
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Burnt hits are nasty but I don't think it's anything to be concerned about. I've sat around 100's of smoky camp fires while puffing on Marlboros but I'm only 59 and it could get me someday.
Burnt hits are nasty but I don't think it's anything to be concerned about. I've sat around 100's of smoky camp fires while puffing on Marlboros but I'm only 59 and it could get me someday.
I had my first experience with this yesterday. I had a defective Kanger tank and it completely leeked overnight (but it was staineless steel, not clear). In the morning, I did my vaping and didn't know it was empty. 1st two drags were ok and then it hit -- the nastiest taste in the world. Only takes doing two of these to realize something is wrong. 
Bad taste usually mean a bum wick. Just replace it. Yea it's gonna take awhile to know what vaping really is doing to us
Also what is your nic strength ? Pg vg ratio? Are you sensitive to pg? A lot can be at play
If you look at the coil assembly you will see some tiny little white rubber/silicone grommets that seperate the positive and negative leads from each other, these can scorch a little when you dry burn or chain vape too quickly without letting your tank cool between hits. This is the only thing in a stock coil for that tank that will burn and give on any sort of fume that is hazardous. By hazardous... i mean barely hazardous.
Most likely the taste you are getting is from the "gunk" that builds up on the actually coil wire around the wick over time, and it burnt off. This happens as your eliquid caramelizes over time and accumulates there. Darker and Sweeter juices tend to build up quicker than lighter non-sweet juice.
Most likely the taste you are getting is from the "gunk" that builds up on the actually coil wire around the wick over time, and it burnt off. This happens as your eliquid caramelizes over time and accumulates there. Darker and Sweeter juices tend to build up quicker than lighter non-sweet juice.
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