Strong throat hit with RBA

[Feryll]

I've built my first rba with micro coil + cotton and the throat hit with 6mg is like 12mg in mini nova and 510 drippers.
Is this absolutely normal or my coil is choking the cotton ? (by the way there is lots of vapor)

 

[State O' Flux]

As you don't divulge any specifics regarding the atty, coil or power supply... it's hard to say for sure, but yes, it's probably normal.

 

[Aawa]

Dripping with nicotine will yield much more throat hit than expected initially. Most drippers use very low nicotine 0mg, 3mg, 6mg as it will produce a more managable throat hit. 12mg+ produces a very harsh throat hit that hurts. Try mixing your 6mg eliquid with 0mg eliquid and see if you are able to handle that throat hit.

 

[Feryll]

I am using Taifun GT with about 9 (2mm) wraps of 28awg nicr, 1.21 ohm in a mech.
Previous setup was 3.7 eGO with aspire mini nova 1.8 ohm BDC and 510 2 ohm dripper.
The wattage is higher now of course.

 

[cjxxvi]

if it taste funny maybe you're burning the cotton (chocked wick) that may result to that strong throat hit. but I know that you already know that. My 2nd guess would be the nicotine content of the juice is way higher than the indicated content.

 

[Arch]

Try lowering your nicotine level and also keep in mind that acidic juices will produce a harsh throat hit when dripping. I personally can't drip any sort of lemon/lime/raspberry/blue raspberry/etc type of juices because the throat hit is a sharp acidic one. You also want to drip on the VG heavy side, as PG will increase throat hit quite noticeably. I don't drip anything under 70% VG/30% PG.

 

[Feryll]

I use it with the tank so I don't drip right now.
I tried it with nic free juice and there was absolutely no throat hit but that was a different build.

 

[dice57]

Could be wicking issues for sure. what's your ohms and watts vaped at. which rba do you have.. I have builds from 0.2-1.4 ohms and they all vape, wick and breathe exceptionally well. Coil wick density is critical with all fibers. When twisted tight, should pull through coil easily, then untwist fibers to fluff and straighten them for maximum flow potential. Then it's just a matter of correct placement of the wick tails, so as not to block off any juice channels or right amount going through juice ports, or whatever you system allows for.

It's just one of those things, play with it till it's just right, then it will become easily repeatable. Then when switching to a new wick fiber, get to go through the same process again. lol