Just bought an istick 50W with a Triton 2 tank for my wife. She's using a 1.8 ohm coil at 10W. This thing spits out trails of vapor and gurgles like crazy by just pressing the button. I tried replacing the coil, blowing through it, turning it upside down and holding the button, taking it apart and cleaning everything. Even just left the coil on the battery without the tank, and it still continued to gurgle for longer than I felt comfortable keeping the button pressed. The juice she's using is a 50:50 PG:VG blend. I noticed that the display reads 2.0 ohms instead of 1.8. Could the unit be defective? It's brand new and it started gurgling with a few days of use. Arghhh.
Severe Gurgling and spitting without even a draw
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If you mean by gurgling when you press the fire button without drawing air like a normal puff, then yes, when power is applied to the coil, pressing the fire button, it will heat up the liquid in the wicking, should sound like bubbling and sizzling, this is normal operation. However, if it is actually gurgling, sounding like slurping up the last of a soda out of a cup through a straw, then the coil is flooding, it can not vaporize off the amount up juice flowing in toward the heat of the coil, or the coil head base of the tank is flooding and needs to be cleared out. To clear a flooded, just the coil, there are a couple of options
1) Tilt the mod and tank upside down so there is an air gap and the coil juice wicking holes in the coil head, holding a napkin/paper towel at the mouthpiece, blow into the air inlet at the base of the tank and press the fire button, for about 1 to 2 seconds, repeat until the flooding is cleared out, the napkin/paper towel is there to catch and absorb the flooded liquid you cleared out so it doesn't go everywhere. You can do this the opposite way blowing through the mouth piece while the mod and tank are upside down, with the napkin/paper towel held at the air inlets of the base of the tank, these methods will not work with a full tank, there needs to be air gap at the wicking holes. Firing the coil while blowing through will allow the coil to vape off some of the excess liquid in the wicking to alleviate the over flooding. This should balance out and tank will vape normally soon.
2) Q-tips and/or napkin paper towel, use these without the coil head in the base of the tank, and clean out the base of the tank where the coil head screws in.
Causes of flooding issues:
1) Ambient Temperature - Just like the oil in your car, as e-juice gets warms in thins in viscocity, this especially as summer is here in the northern hemisphere will get worse, especially outside and going in and out of a hot environment into a cold environment, and vice versa
2) Ambient Air Pressure and Altitude - As pressure increases, the tank working on a sealed vacuum physics, any change the pressure in the tank will want to push liquid out of the path of least resistance, the opposite factor pressure dropping, will create a second vacuum at the coil, this will pull liquid out of the tank. Going up and down in elevation and altitude will cause this balance to change as well. Remedy for this is to store the tank upside down in a cup holder or pocket when you know you will be having changes in air pressure, going on a airline flight, driving up and down hills, going up and down stairs/elevators in a tall building, this places air where the pressure wants to alleviate at the path of least resistance, the coil and wicking.
3) Over-saturation when priming a coil - pre-priming a coil is highly suggested, just don't flood the coil, just enough juice at the top of the coil and on the wicking holes on the sides, just enough to get things wet, if it looks like it is pooling you are over-priming, after initial priming it is best to let the tank sit upright for about 5 to 10 minutes before initial firing, this lets the wicking soak up just enough to function properly without burning.
4) Airflow is to tight and restrictive, couple with the draw she is using is to much. Open the airflow a bit more or she needs to decrease how hard she is pulling and drawing on it, otherwise you need to up the wattage a bit to compensate, otherwise this can suck to much juice in at once and the coil can not compensate. If she is using like a mouth to lung (basic cigarette or straw pull then inhale), the pressure balance is more like a straw or an unfiltered cigarette, she needs to compensate how hard she is pulling or how loose the airflow in the tank is to larger. Direct to Lung (this the pull is at the lungs directly, not the jaws, this method needs higher wattage and looser airflow even still, analogy clearing a water .... method).
hth a bit.
1) Tilt the mod and tank upside down so there is an air gap and the coil juice wicking holes in the coil head, holding a napkin/paper towel at the mouthpiece, blow into the air inlet at the base of the tank and press the fire button, for about 1 to 2 seconds, repeat until the flooding is cleared out, the napkin/paper towel is there to catch and absorb the flooded liquid you cleared out so it doesn't go everywhere. You can do this the opposite way blowing through the mouth piece while the mod and tank are upside down, with the napkin/paper towel held at the air inlets of the base of the tank, these methods will not work with a full tank, there needs to be air gap at the wicking holes. Firing the coil while blowing through will allow the coil to vape off some of the excess liquid in the wicking to alleviate the over flooding. This should balance out and tank will vape normally soon.
2) Q-tips and/or napkin paper towel, use these without the coil head in the base of the tank, and clean out the base of the tank where the coil head screws in.
Causes of flooding issues:
1) Ambient Temperature - Just like the oil in your car, as e-juice gets warms in thins in viscocity, this especially as summer is here in the northern hemisphere will get worse, especially outside and going in and out of a hot environment into a cold environment, and vice versa
2) Ambient Air Pressure and Altitude - As pressure increases, the tank working on a sealed vacuum physics, any change the pressure in the tank will want to push liquid out of the path of least resistance, the opposite factor pressure dropping, will create a second vacuum at the coil, this will pull liquid out of the tank. Going up and down in elevation and altitude will cause this balance to change as well. Remedy for this is to store the tank upside down in a cup holder or pocket when you know you will be having changes in air pressure, going on a airline flight, driving up and down hills, going up and down stairs/elevators in a tall building, this places air where the pressure wants to alleviate at the path of least resistance, the coil and wicking.
3) Over-saturation when priming a coil - pre-priming a coil is highly suggested, just don't flood the coil, just enough juice at the top of the coil and on the wicking holes on the sides, just enough to get things wet, if it looks like it is pooling you are over-priming, after initial priming it is best to let the tank sit upright for about 5 to 10 minutes before initial firing, this lets the wicking soak up just enough to function properly without burning.
4) Airflow is to tight and restrictive, couple with the draw she is using is to much. Open the airflow a bit more or she needs to decrease how hard she is pulling and drawing on it, otherwise you need to up the wattage a bit to compensate, otherwise this can suck to much juice in at once and the coil can not compensate. If she is using like a mouth to lung (basic cigarette or straw pull then inhale), the pressure balance is more like a straw or an unfiltered cigarette, she needs to compensate how hard she is pulling or how loose the airflow in the tank is to larger. Direct to Lung (this the pull is at the lungs directly, not the jaws, this method needs higher wattage and looser airflow even still, analogy clearing a water .... method).
hth a bit.
The difference you're seeing the resistance is normal. +/- .2
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