The Fogger V3 - How I dealt with the flooding / leaking issues. Hint: It's all about the wick!

[baburs]

Firstly, before you ask why a Fogger? Why not just buy a Kayfun? I bought it mainly because it was cheap, and I'm on a tight budget. In fact I actually wanted to only buy coils and an ohm meter to rebuild my kanger heads but somehow ended up buying a new mod and RTA.... Oh well it should last me a long time and I only need to replace the coils, wick and juice from here on.

I've been lurking on this forum for quite some time and I have read a lot of negative reviews on the Fogger, but at the same time there were also positive reviews so I decided to give it a go. It can't be that bad right? Why would they sell something if it doesn't work and annoy everyone?

I won't be doing a review on the Fogger since it's my first RTA and I can only compare it with my previous tank, a mini Protank II, so of course it works better.

This wicking method may not work with high wattages because the juice may not feed through the wick that quickly. I'm at a 1.3ish ohm coil and vaping between 10 - 12 watts. I tried it at 20 watts and burnt the cotton. BLERGH. But I guess it was a good thing so I can rebuild it and show you all how I did it.

Let's get started!

ah man how do I rotate the photos.

As most of the reviews has mentioned, it is quite frustrating to attach the coil to the posts. First thing to do is to unscrew the posts until it sticks out of the wall. I wrapped the coil using the screwdriver that came with it, placed it on the channels and then wrap the legs around the screws and tighten them. It helps if you have two screwdrivers so one can be used to hold the coil in place and use the other to screw it down.



Here's how it looks. Centered over the airhole and in between the channels.



Mod shows it at 1.32ohm. It's a Cloupor mini by the way. Now to check if it heats up evenly.



Looking good. Now to tidy it up.



Looking gooooood. Final reading at 1.36ohm. Didn't take a photo of that, sorry.

Oh I forgot to mention. It's a 30 gauge kanthal wire with 6 wraps. Why 30? The shop ran out of 28..

Gave it another test burn and it was glowing nicely, starting from the middle.

Since I can only attach 5 images per post, I'll have to continue it below.

 

[baburs]

Wicking time!



I'm using cotton, boiled to remove that cottony taste. Mmmm cotton.... It looks like it a lot in the photo but it's actually really fluffed up and pressed down slightly so it'll be easier to feed through the coil and roll up the end too.



Okay it's all the way through. That is too much cotton cotton so we're going to snip off some of it. Remember, it's fluffy. It's so fluffy I wanna dieeeeeee.



Snipped! Looks like it's still quite a lot of cotton right? I found this to be just right for this method.

Footnote: I've read another thread about how they made a dam behind the wall to prevent flooding. I tried that method and it worked for me. Once. I tried it again and got a flood. Juice were a wasting so I thought of trying a different way



Here's where the magic begins... Pack the cotton down into the channel! Stuff it hard, while making sure the rest of it stays fluffy. I used a small screwdriver for my glasses that fits nicely in the channel. I could use that to make a nano coil I guess.

Remember, stuffed cotton in the channel, while the rest stays fluffy.



Fold back the excess cotton, and push whatever that's along the channel in. PUSH IT IN HARD! The key here is to make the cotton that's in the channel really packed to block the liquid from flooding in the well. Only the ones in the channel. The rest of the cotton must stay fluffy.

To be continued....

 

[baburs]

Now fold the cotton again, leading it out and pack the ones laying over the channel. That's it. 2 times folding, first inward then outwards while packing the cotton that lays over the channel really tight and making sure the rest of the cotton stays fluffy.



Repeat the process on the other side. For the cotton in the well, push it down (I used my screwdriver) and around the entrance of the channel so there's sort of a dam there. This method is very similar to the one I saw but with an added effort of stuffing the channel.

Let's see how it vapes now.



Looking good..... Now to put on the chimney.



I didn't use the o-ring that came with it. Almost all of the tutorials I've read and watched took it out so I did and it works fine.

But how does it vape? Will the fogger... fog?



Boom. A fogger indeed.

I did a mouth inhale. I don't do throat inhales much but I reckon you could get more vapor that way.

Some things worth mentioning:

I used a syringe to fill it up through the screw hole. Make sure the air intake is closed. It works nicely when done correctly. I haven't had a flooding issue since. I even left it on its side with the air intake open when I went off to shower and eat. No leaks. I do keep it closed when I'm carrying it in my pocket or pouch just in case.

One thing I found quite frustrating is the screwing method for opening and closing the airway. There were a few times when I struggled to unscrew the top and glass tank, and since I was gripping it on the airflow screw, it made it so tight I had trouble opening it up! I found out the trick is when you screw the top over the glass. Make it tight so it's sealed but not too tight that you'll have trouble unscrewing it.

EDIT: The stuffed cotton blocks the juice from flooding into the well, but still soaks it up nicely and feed it to the cotton in the coil since the rest of it are fluffy. This could be the reason why it won't work for high wattages because the flow of the juice is considerably slow.

But it's not too slow though. I can rapidly do a few mouth inhales without it burning, and continuously chain vape for a couple of hits too.

I think that covers everything.

No doubt, the fogger v3 can be a nuisance to work with but when it works, it works good..