Taste differences between cartos, clearos, and dripping

[Anubuk]

I have been experiencing some taste changes depending on which delivery method I use. I have been vaping Halo Cafe Mocha for awhile now with first using cartomizers. Tasted great. Got some Kanger T4 clearomizers and the taste was gone. It had a taste but it was cross between a bad coffee juice, black pepper with more crap coffee flavor. No it was not the clearo. I cleaned out the cafe mocha and then filled it with Halo Belgian cocoa and the cocoa tasted awesome so it wasn't a dry or burned wick. I have tried it several other times as well with different T4, MT3 ,and a CE4 plus. I thought it might be because of the top coil (hotter vapor) so tried it in a Vision Nano (not a big fan of these but that is another post) and same thing. I made sure the wick has a good long chance to get saturated before trying. I also dripped the cafe mocha and the flavor was cross between how it should taste and a bit of the bad coffee flavor. The cocoa/chocolate tasted great in all 3 delivery methods.

My Johnson creek Vanda (vanilla) has the same exact issue. What gets me is some of my similar style juices (creamy dessert like) do not have the issue and some do. I am not sure what the difference actually is. Both halo juices are same % nicotine, same pg/vg ratio. The dessert styles have a similar flavor style. And dripping some of these doesn't work either. I can only get the full and actual flavor in a cartomizer which is okay but cartos do not have the easy fill of clearos or the cool ease and vapor of dripping. I would think it was my equipment but Like i said I have a chocolate and a caramel that taste great on the same 3 apparatuses. I have looked into ohms and voltage. I have tried 1.5 to 3.0 ohm stuff and used my passthrough (3.3v to 4.2v) but nothing changes.

I have wondered about the type of wick in the T4 clearos, nanos and generic bridgless atomizers, even the wire used in the coil but I am not at the rebuilable point just yet so there is no way for me to test this out.

It just strikes me as odd that a cartomizer would bring out the flavor better than dripping. I even tried the Johnsons creek Vanda in my Kanger protank 2 and it did the same thing, lack of flavor! Haven't yet tried the Halo cafe mocha in my protank though.

I have searched for info on this with no luck. It would be cool to find out what causes this. It bugs me. I hate that I can't just drip to test a juice. If it lacks flavor (I steep so that isn't the issue and I continually check them out) I have to consider using a cartomizer which is annoying compared to the ease of dripping.

Thanks in advance for any help you guys can offer!

 

[Thunderball]

Dripping will taste better than a carto. If you dont want rebuild, use what I used to use to test my DIY flavors before I started to rebuild.

A little 306 dripping atomizer. when your done, just wash out and let dry. Dont be "dry firing these" ..lest they burn out and go bad.

Low Resistance (LR) Atomizer - 306

I prefer this low resistance one. Better taste....be carefull its always wet with juice...or you will fry it.

Use this at 3.3 to 3.7 volts

 

[Baditude]

Every type of juice attachment will have mild to moderate differences in flavor production.

Clearomizers: Use only tiny wicks to bring e-liquid to the heating coil. Small surface area. Moderate to heaving vaping could cause these little wicks issues in keeping up in delivering the liquid to the coils. This can lead to dry hits, flooding, and inconsistancy. Mute many flavors.

Cartomizers/cartotanks: Use a large wad of polyfill wicking material which completely surrounds the heating coil. Large surface area. Can generally keep up with moderate to heavy vaping. More flavor production and more consistancy.

Drip Atomizers: Do not use a wick which may alter a flavor, so you get nothing but the pure flavor of the e-liquid. With no wick to hold the e-liquid, only a few drops can be used at a time, an inconvenience when on the go.

Bottom Feeder Mods: Use a drip atomizer on a self-contain mod with built-in tank. A window in the body of the mod allows the vaper squeeze/squonk the tank to manually add a few drops of e-liquid to the atomizer as needed. The full flavor of an atomizer with the convenience of a tank.

Is It a Carto, a Tank, or What?

 

[Melissa1313]

Well I cannot really help you with the issue of having more flavor with the carto than protank. What I can say is that I sometimes have the problem with my protanks mini 2 as well and wwhen I rinse and wash with warm water and make sure my coil is not clogged, I then get a pretty good flavor again. When I dont, its because the wicks of the coil are no good anymore, which I have been trying to find where to get that material, so I could just change them since the coils are still good. Hated cartos, which I started with, they burn so fast, espacially with my Rasberry Cappuchino from Maple leafs, that juice is gooood in flavor, but burns fast is not used at low voltage. Maybe its just a voltage issue?? low voltage gives more flavor but less vape?? Just sayin

 

[Completely Average]

Every type of juice attachment will have mild to moderate differences in flavor production.

Clearomizers: Use only tiny wicks to bring e-liquid to the heating coil. Small surface area. Moderate to heaving vaping could cause these little wicks issues in keeping up in delivering the liquid to the coils. This can lead to dry hits, flooding, and inconsistancy. Mute many flavors.

Cartomizers/cartotanks: Use a large wad of polyfill wicking material which completely surrounds the heating coil. Large surface area. Can generally keep up with moderate to heavy vaping. More flavor production and more consistancy.

Drip Atomizers: Do not use a wick which may alter a flavor, so you get nothing but the pure flavor of the e-liquid. With no wick to hold the e-liquid, only a few drops can be used at a time, an inconvenience when on the go.

Bottom Feeder Mods: Use a drip atomizer on a self-contain mod with built-in tank. A window in the body of the mod allows the vaper squeeze/squonk the tank to manually add a few drops of e-liquid to the atomizer as needed. The full flavor of an atomizer with the convenience of a tank.

Is It a Carto, a Tank, or What?

So............. A Kayfun 3.1 is a Clearomizer?