Weird taste vaping on an rda

[elenamylove]

You have to clean machined attys really well, those things come covered in machine grease and other nasty stuff. Never vape on one right out of the box. Use soap and water and be thorough. I've seen this with stuff I ordered on fasttech as well as stuff I bought locally (probably came from fasttech anyway )

Fasttech, the WalMart of Vaping!!!

Orders must take weeks to get from China to USA, its the only thing that keeps me from ordering anything from them.

 

[iDanieljviaiTaste]

Assuming it's 1.5 total, that's a little over 16 and a half watts. I'd guess at this point maybe too much cotton? Or possibly not enough and leaving hot spots in the coils. Can you post a pick of your coils wicked?

Excuse my bad coils. This is my first so it's not the best. Also, I've tried it with a lot less wick but the taste is the same.

 

[elenamylove]

Excuse my bad coils. This is my first so it's not the best. Also, I've tried it with a lot less wick but the taste is the same.View attachment 376146

I'm thinking you are tasting the material/metal your RDA was made with.

Perhaps a certain metal was used to cut costs? The member who posted about getting one before is probally right. You will know if you clean it again and you still get the nasty metal taste.

BTW- Your coils look pretty good for your first time.

 

[eratikmind]

Excuse my bad coils. This is my first so it's not the best. Also, I've tried it with a lot less wick but the taste is the same.View attachment 376146

I would definitely take the time to carefully line up the coils and move them closer to the air flow slots.

 

[elenamylove]

Also, try with just one coil and see if anything changes with taste...

 

[UncleChuck]

Great idea on the single coil, I've noticed a few times on dual-coil builds that the center post with both wires can get bound up to the point where there is some sort of arcing, or something happening inside the post that causes an awful musty sour metallic taste very similar to a shorted mesh build.

Try with a single coil and make sure the screws are nice and tight, wiggle the coil around and make sure it doesn't move at all. This will just make it a bit easier to troubleshoot instead of worrying about two coils.

In the picture above it looks possible that you don't have enough cotton coverage on the left hand coil. The left wick-tail looks like it's routed upward and over from the coil. This can leave a wick gap at the bottom of the coil, as the wick being pulled upwards pulls it away from the bottom of the coil.

BTW, if you were still looking for the name of your atty it appears to be a TOBH clone.

 

[rhean]

Excuse my bad coils. This is my first so it's not the best. Also, I've tried it with a lot less wick but the taste is the same.View attachment 376146

Those coils look fine. Also, I see a lot of wicking there. What are you using for wick?

 

[realsis]

Fasttech, the WalMart of Vaping!!!

Orders must take weeks to get from China to USA, its the only thing that keeps me from ordering anything from them.

Fasttech is where I got my kracken that tasted nasty!! I've never had that happen to me again and please believe me when I say RBAS are wonderful! ! I would NEVER go back to vaping anything else.!! Don't let one nasty tank ruin it for you.. someone else mentioned they got a nasty one from fasttech as well. I'm wondering if it's something they are using? ? I've NEVER encountered that nasty taste again and I have a LOT of RBAs.. don't let one bad apple ruin it for you!

 

[Marc411]

rhean, I would suggest that you wash that bad boy again. Take out the screws and give it a good long hot soap bath. Clean the screws real well and then throw it all in a bowl and run hot water from the sink over it for a little bit. Drain the water and give it a bath in some vodka or everclear. My RDA's only drink everclear.

I get the everclear hot by filling the sink with hot water. Let the RDA sit in there for 10 minutes, the hotter you can the liquor the better.

Rinse it again with hot water for about five minutes. When you pull it out the heat of the metal should dry the pretty fast. I blow the water out of my posts with canned air.

Machine oil sometimes get's into the post holes.

Give that bad boy a real good bath and don't forget to scrub where the sun don't shine

I use the tooth brush inside of my post holes. Sounds naughty doesn't it?

 

[Roscoe01]

I guess I will say it since no one else has.... please read up on battery safety and be sure u have a good ohms tester and a knowledge of what your battery can handle. I was a little troubled that u aren't "sure" if your coils are 1.5. Check out baditude battery safety blog for great info. We want all our friends on here to vape safe and be happy. IMHO that looks like about a .7 ish ohm build on there and i am not familiar with Iclick mod.

 

[scottkh]

For some reason I cant get the pic to load but if it is a .7ish build that mod will not run it well at all

 

[iDanieljviaiTaste]

I guess I will say it since no one else has.... please read up on battery safety and be sure u have a good ohms tester and a knowledge of what your battery can handle. I was a little troubled that u aren't "sure" if your coils are 1.5. Check out baditude battery safety blog for great info. We want all our friends on here to vape safe and be happy. IMHO that looks like about a .7 ish ohm build on there and i am not familiar with Iclick mod.

I'm positive they are at 1.5. Well actually, I've built a new one at 1.3 but when he asked if it was 6 each I was a tad confused at first. I haven't been to sleep for a good two days now. My mind isn't right.

 

[elenamylove]

Did the single coil build change anything (if you tried that yet)?

 

[rusirius]

I'm positive they are at 1.5. Well actually, I've built a new one at 1.3 but when he asked if it was 6 each I was a tad confused at first. I haven't been to sleep for a good two days now. My mind isn't right.

I asked if they were 3 each... You'd need two 3 ohm coils in parallel to get a 1.5 ohm total resistance... In other words, when you put two coils in a typical atty, i.e. the ends of both coils touching each other on both ends, then the resistance (assuming they are both the same resistance) is halved. So if you for example built two 1.5 ohm coils and then installed them in the atty, the total resistance would be .7 ohms.... So to get 1.5 ohms total resistance (the same as a single 1.5 ohm coil installed) you'd need to build two 3 ohm coils... Does that make sense now?

 

[Roscoe01]

U would have to have a 5 mm diameter coil with 8 wraps of 28 gauge to get 3 ohm per coil. I suggest like the others that u try a single coil as I'm pretty sure your Iclick mod won't give you a very satisfying vape. Keep after it and you will be a pro in no time at all. Keep asking questions and you will find many people here who are most helpful.

 

[KurrptSenate]

Ive had plenty of atties that didnt get clean with soap and water. Vinegar, boiling, etc. Now, if I want something really clean it goes in the ultra sonic cleaner plus simply green. Works flawlessly

 

[mikefash]

I'm positive they are at 1.5. Well actually, I've built a new one at 1.3 but when he asked if it was 6 each I was a tad confused at first. I haven't been to sleep for a good two days now. My mind isn't right.

Should not be running dual coils on your VV. Your dual coil build looks like 7/6 wraps of 28 gauge kanthal. Each coil would be about 1.2-1.4 ohm and final number would be .6/.7 ohm. RDAs running dual coils should only be on mech mods or sx chip 50-100 watt device. Remove one coil and should be okay, however still under recommended values. Would run a 1.7-2.0 ohm single coil on that device. Also it looks like a Tobh Atty, by chance did you get one of those copper caps.