Too much cotton??

[Equilibrium]

I've been building coils for my KFL+ for awhile now with great success so I decided to build one of my kanger coils and see if I like it better than factory builds.

Here's what I did... 28g kanthal, 12 wraps on a 1/16" drill bit and wicked it with organic cotton, one through the coil and a small piece on top of the coil. My resistance came out at 1.5 ohm. It fires great and produces great vapor BUT I'm getting a little bit of a funky taste. I've never had this happen on my kayfun coils using the same wire and cotton. Did I use too much cotton?

 

[Marc411]

I go 5/64 and loose cotton in the coil. I got a funky tasta too when I put a piece of cotton on top of the coil.

 

[Mark Anthony]

I do my PT coils with organic cotton as well and the funky flavor usually goes away after about 10-15 hits on it. Too much cotton would make it hard to wick and would choke the coil and possibly cause a burnt taste.... is that what you are experiencing?

 

[Equilibrium]

No, not a burnt taste, just different, ya know? Not burnt though

 

[GeorgeWachsmuth]

I use 30ga....tight quarters in there! I also use a very, very, very little bit of cotton on top....I typically keep it above 1.6 ohms...dont want to chance cooking the insulator...never had an issue...I save 28ga and below for my RDAs and RTAs....

 

[doghair]

I get a metallic type taste (not burnt) from my new kanthal coils for awhile if I don't heat the hell out of them with a butane torch before installing them.

 

[Equilibrium]

I don't think I'm cooking it. I've got the coil in a PT2 and running it on my MVP2 at 7 watts.

 

[Equilibrium]

I get a metallic type taste (not burnt) from my new kanthal coils for awhile if I don't heat the hell out of them with a butane torch before installing them.

I torched the wire before wrapping it and torched the coil again to get it good and tight after wrapping it. Maybe I didn't torch it enough?

 

[State O' Flux]

I've been building coils for my KFL+ for awhile now with great success so I decided to build one of my kanger coils.
It fires great and produces great vapor BUT I'm getting a little bit of a funky taste. I've never had this happen on my kayfun coils using the same wire and cotton. Did I use too much cotton?

The "funky taste" may be coming from the coil tail retention pin bushing.
Older genuine Kanger bushings were white rubber, and with low resistance coils, they could get hot enough to burn... producing the funky taste. The more recent genuine Kanger coil heads have higher temperature tolerant, semi-transparent, silicone bushings.

 

[Equilibrium]

This one does have the white bushing

 

[Rickajho]

Dunno. Too much cotton results in the flow of liquid to the coil getting choked off once it's wet and expands a bit. But that would give you a taste of classic "burnt cotton" - yark.

 

[danny4x4]

Did you saturate the cotton with juice before installing the head? IMO, if you dont , the cotton taste may take 10 to 15 hits as someone mentioned to completely disappear.

 

[Equilibrium]

Yeah, I soaked the cotton before putting the chimney back on.

 

[Equilibrium]

I'll keep vaping on it and see if it goes away.

 

[Rickajho]

The "funky taste" may be coming from the coil tail retention pin bushing.
Older genuine Kanger bushings were white rubber, and with low resistance coils, they could get hot enough to burn... producing the funky taste. The more recent genuine Kanger coil heads have higher temperature tolerant, semi-transparent, silicone bushings.

What the Fluxmeister said. If you have a coil build with a hot leg it could be singeing the center post insulator. Most people describe that as a "rubber" or "chemical" taste. The only way to know is to take the build apart and examine the center post insulator for burn marks.

 

[Equilibrium]

Okay, after about a dozen hits the taste is almost completely gone.

 

[Zombiecan]

32 gauge 5 wraps sugar n cream cotton yarn for wick no flavor wicks... Perfect

... Sent from my LG G2

 

[Equilibrium]

The yuck flavor is gone, we're rockin now!

 

[Zombiecan]

No, not a burnt taste, just different, ya know? Not burnt though

The "weird" "funky" taste seems to go away fairly quickly but I noticed the other night when I vaped my mini protank 2 v2 with sugar n cream yarn that the taste came back just a tiny bit because it has been sitting there for about a week and a half without being used. But like I said it goes away fairly quickly

... Sent from my LG G2