I am so confused with what is going on with my BRAND NEW!!! TFV12 tank. I primed the coils in addition to letting them sit for a whole half hour in the filled tank soaking in more. After a half hour, maybe even more I went to use it and it tasted burnt, plus there was next to no cloud that came out. I've been letting it sit for a few days now with a new coil, thankfully I still have my old mod as a backup, but I just hit it again and it was the same as when I first tried it. After 2-3 days of sitting with a new coil it still is tasting burnt with little to no cloud production. I have it on the smok G-Priv at 125 watts. What's going on? Has anyone else experienced this problem with the TFV12?
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Always, always, ALWAYS start trying a new coil with a very low wattage and restricted airflow. Somewhere around 20-25 Watts is good. Then slowly work your way up, 5-10 Watts at a time, opening airflow a bit at a time, until you hit the spot that where vape tastes good and the vapor production is satisfactory. That is probably going to be well south of 125 Watts, regardless of what Smok or that dude at the vape shop said.
Chances are that the coil you got the burnt taste with is toast. At 125 Watts, that coil lit up like the filament in a 125 Watt light bulb. It burned a layer of cotton (and probably a bit of juice) to form a charred barrier preventing proper wicking to the coil. That can't be fixed--the only thing to do is to start over with a new coil.
Don't beat yourself up about it--we've all been there and the more stubborn among us (hand raised) did it more than once before it sank into the thick skull.
Chances are that the coil you got the burnt taste with is toast. At 125 Watts, that coil lit up like the filament in a 125 Watt light bulb. It burned a layer of cotton (and probably a bit of juice) to form a charred barrier preventing proper wicking to the coil. That can't be fixed--the only thing to do is to start over with a new coil.
Don't beat yourself up about it--we've all been there and the more stubborn among us (hand raised) did it more than once before it sank into the thick skull.
So true... You just can't fire up a new coil at 125 watts and expect anything good to happen. I've done it accidentally, when I thought I was turning my mod down to 6.5 and it actually only goes down to 7 watts... It "spun around" to highest wattage of 120 watts, and my poor little BVC coil gave me the WORST priming taste I'd ever had, and it was totally toast. It was extra unfortunate as I was taking a Long Slow priming pull, and the taste was out of this world! Only not in a good way. That was a coil I did not even TRY to resurrect, I normally will rinse and soak mine once to reuse them. Not THAT coil.
You may not ever reach THAT HIGH a wattage, if you go up in increments.... I find a perfectly satisfying vape quite often at lower than the coil's "recommended" wattage.
Take the coil out and thoroughly clean EVERYTHING you can about the tank. Do not pass go.... etc. You toasted your coil, your juice, and you don't want a residue of burnt tainting your tank for ages...
Good luck!
Anna
You may not ever reach THAT HIGH a wattage, if you go up in increments.... I find a perfectly satisfying vape quite often at lower than the coil's "recommended" wattage.
Take the coil out and thoroughly clean EVERYTHING you can about the tank. Do not pass go.... etc. You toasted your coil, your juice, and you don't want a residue of burnt tainting your tank for ages...
Good luck!
Anna
I've never started it on low wattage in all my 4 years of vaping lol. I just let it sit for a long time before firing it up. I've actually never had this problem with any tanks in the past and I've gone through quite a few, maybe 1 every 6 months and then I get a new one. I might just stick with my TFV8.
I think it's a bit silly not to try again. Murphy's law states that if things can go wrong, they eventually will. IF the TFV12 tank is the first tank you've ever had to prime correctly, so what? It's really not hard to do. That said, by all means go back to your TFV8 coil if you want to. I see no reason not to try again, just because something worked in the past, doesn't mean it will now . This is different equipment. TBH, I wouldn't use that coil even if I LOVED DL vaping, it seems a bit like overkill to me.... But that's what makes vaping fun-- different things for different people.
Good luck either way.
Anna
Good luck either way.
Anna
Try it. You'll like it.
It's especially helpful for coils designed for higher wattage vaping. A single vertical coil doesn't need such babying. But Smok piles in 2, 4, 8, n coils into a single head and they just take some TLC to break in. Kinda sucks but... They just do.
You wouldn't drive a Lamborghini off the dealer lot and hit 125mph before the first block would ya?
Although i don't do this exactly (mostly go from lowest recommended slowly up with airflow fully opened all the time but it works so bleh) This is still VERY important when inserting a new coil to "break it in" doing this for about 20 mins then i find my sweetspot and all is fine !
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