Tanks and Kanger's ?

[Andy Thatcher]

I am still having tank issues.

So far have used Resurrectors and Boges but after the initial few puffs the juice flavour just seems to weaken. I have tried 4 holes, normal slots, vertical slots, dry pulls and while this does seem to alleviate the problem the end result is still not as satifying as a properly filled carto.

This is in a range of PG/VG mixes and doesn't appreciably change with lower VG.

So I was wondering as the Kanger has a bottom coil so the juice should be fed near enough directly to the coil from a tank if this would be an improvement given that the other carto's have coils that run vertically so after a while there is always going to be filler that is not saturated with juice towards the top therefore reducing flavour ?

Any hints gratefully recieved ! Or am I just missing something ?

 

[donnah]

I don't know what to tell you.. I use the resurrectors and they taste the same in a tank as they do alone. They wick fine for me in a tank with one hole punched with a saddle valve. I've not tried the Kangers. Sorry I couldn't help

 

[SteelJan]

Could it be your battery(ies)? If your using something like an ego/kgo/riva/etc then your battery might just be underpowered. But if you are using a battery mod, are your batteries new? If the batteries are getting near the end of their lifetime, they can sometimes be great for a little bit but then go weak pretty quickly.

You might want to try when you sense that weak vapor, put some drops directly down the carto and see if it dramatically improves. If it does, then yeah, you might need to fiddle with your slots or holes. But if it doesn't, you might want to question your battery(ies).

 

[Andy Thatcher]

Currently using dual 18650's in an VV Altoids Box Mod but also had it using Ego's and a couple of Ego 18650 Mods. Used tanks with fresh batteries on all of them ranging from LR's to 3.5 ohm carto's.

I really want to get on with tanks but seem destined not to that is why the Kanger idea struck me.

Love the vid's by the way.

 

[madsen6466]

" I use 2 holes and punch them with a sharpened stanley punch. Sometimes it does smash the center tube but I get a paper clip, measure it from the outside to gauge where the holes are, mark that with a sharpie, then stick it inside the tube to try and open it up. Just have to be careful that you don't hit the coil.

As far as getting them to work, I inhale sharply a few times then either blow into the drip tip or just let the liquid flow downwards by itself. The coil is only on the bottom so you do not have to worry about the top of the filler not being wet. Only the dual coil cartoz have to be wet to the top which is why they are a fail. "

 

[madsen6466]

http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/9799/dsc04294hi.jpg

 

[madsen6466]

- this is information from a correspondence between KEITH97M3 and myself - he's a firm believer in the Kangers in a tank and has helped me with the Kangers - my liquinator will be in my hands monday so I'll have more direct help maybe then.

Hope some of this was helpful!

 

[Andy Thatcher]

Think I am going to have to give them a go.

Makes sense that they have advantages over other carto's for this application.

 

[exodus454]

I am still having tank issues.

So far have used Resurrectors and Boges but after the initial few puffs the juice flavour just seems to weaken. I have tried 4 holes, normal slots, vertical slots, dry pulls and while this does seem to alleviate the problem the end result is still not as satifying as a properly filled carto.

This is in a range of PG/VG mixes and doesn't appreciably change with lower VG.

So I was wondering as the Kanger has a bottom coil so the juice should be fed near enough directly to the coil from a tank if this would be an improvement given that the other carto's have coils that run vertically so after a while there is always going to be filler that is not saturated with juice towards the top therefore reducing flavour ?

Any hints gratefully recieved ! Or am I just missing something ?

I'm having the EXACT same issues as you with the Kangers. I've also tried every possible combination of holes, placement and slotting and nothing will get them to wick consistently for longer than one hit. I've never had such difficulty getting a carto to work in a tank.

Are there secrets to getting them going?

EDIT- really punch holes that large in them?

 

[Andy Thatcher]

Well that theory seems to have gone out of the window lol

However the upside is that it seems I am not alone with tank issues. I keep reading how they leak but have never had that issue that lack of wicking and the resulting lack of flavour is. I would even deal with a few leaks and get consistent flavour.

If Kangers are going to give me the same grief I may as well go for the option of opening larger holes until I get it right. The holes in the picture are a smaller area than I open with slots.

Anymore hints ?

 

[madsen6466]

I just got my first tank in the mail today - a liquinator from vaporescence (spelling?). Punched a Kanger XL, once, with a 1/4" valve punch, filled it with boba's with a syringe, and tossed it in my tank. Flavor is remaining consistent and I'm having no feed issues. It's amazing what putting a tank on does. I'm absolutely blown away.

Good luck to you

 

[Andy Thatcher]

Good for you!

Think I am just getting paranoid about it now lol

 

[manimal]

do you usually drip? if so, you're not going to ever get the same amount of flavor out of a carto tank. If you want a tank with amazing flavor, you will want to look into an oddysseus or a genesis of some sort. you get the dripping flavor in a tank with those bad boys.

 

[Andy Thatcher]

I drip a lot at the moment as I am still on a juice hunt so I understand the difference in flavour between dripping and carto's.

The problem I am having is that too my mind adding a tank to the equation should mean that the flavour should be that of a well filled carto. It isn't. I see the juice going down but the flavour is vague compared to just using a carto.

I suspect you are correct in that a Genesis or RDT etc is the long term answer however struggling to justify that expense. Well I can justify it to me but not she whom must be obeyed.

As said originally I love the idea of tanks I am failing in the execution.

 

[manimal]

ah, i see.

 

[siampumpkin]

Think I am going to have to give them a go.

Makes sense that they have advantages over other carto's for this application.

I just tried a Kanger in my Phiniac tank with Stellar results but unfortunately it burned out after just one tank. Is this just bad luck or is it due to the design that is not compatible with a tank feed?