Vapor is too sweet

[epices]

Hello everybody.

Yesterday I got my first rba (SQuape) and made three coils.

Recently I've been vaping unflavored liquid, before the SQuape, there were egos and clearomizers and no issues with them. Now, with this atomizer, the vapor is too sweet. I tried both with 70% PG and with 50%pg-50%vg and it's the same thing. I played around the wattage and voltage, but raising either results in vapor that tastes burnt, as well as sweet. I am using ecowool wicks. I tried with cheap silica and the taste was much worse.

I have exactly the same liquid in a clearomizer and there it does not taste too sweet, and it also has gives more throat hit and warmth.

Why is that? Does the sickly sweetness have anything to do with air flow? Or with the fact that the wick is not cotton? Or it has something to do with the coil? The ones I made had the resistance between 2.00 and 2.60 ohms, 4-5 turns, not microcoils.

Thanks for reading.

 

[H. Hodges]

RDA's usually bring out a fuller more robust flavor out of your liquids; where carto's and clearo's usually tend to be more muted. It can take some time to allow your tastes to adjust to the increased flavor a RDA with a good coil can produce. However, If you just can't adjust to the increased flavor, try this:

VG is a natural sweetener. Try a all PG liquid and see if that helps. If still too sweet, try cutting with distilled water. This will affect your nic level, but you can account for that by buying a higher nic level and diluting to the desired level. Play around with your RDA by adding a few drops of the liquid you have now and adding the same amount of distilled water to cut it to the desired sweetness. If the first try isn't right, you've only wasted 2-4 drops of liquid. It's cheap and easy. If you find the right ratio (ie: 2 drops liquid / 3 drops distilled water) that tastes right, then remember the ratio and mix a 5 to 10ml bottle at that ratio and see if it still is right. There are additives that DIY'er use to add sweetness, sour, and other nuances to their liquids. I suggest you ask some of the master mixers on the DIY liquid threads how to decrease the natural sweetness of a non-flavored liquid.

Hope this helps!

 

[epices]

Hi H Hodges. Thanks for the suggestion. It did not occur to me to dilute it with water, but it makes sense. I'll try it.

It might also has something to with the air : vapor ratio, with the temperature of the vapor, the nic ratio, the physiology of taking the vapor in. ... Very complicated and too many variables.

 

[H. Hodges]

Just play with one variable at a time. It might take a while to lock down your ultimate vape experience, but it's the journey that counts, not just the end result! Have fun with it and let us know what you learn/get out of it. And make sure you use only distilled water. Tap or other water might have additives (fluoride, chlorine, sediments, etc.) that might change the flavor, or might be dangerous!