What am I doing wrong?

[Filthy-Beast]

Remove the bottle in the Reo and drip that juice, does it give the same great flavor?

Squonking onto a hot coil can cook/heat the juice and change the flavor this cooked juice then gets sucked back into the bottle. Repeating the process and increasing the flavor shift with each squonk onto a hot coil.

I'm guilty of doing this, I can hear the juice hiss as it hits the hot coil. My unflavored clear nic liquid slowly turn amber in the bottle and gets a flavor shift, but I don't mind. I'm still trying to break the habit and let the coil cool a bit before squonking.

 

[Della Cirque]

Remove the bottle in the Reo and drip that juice, does it give the same great flavor?

Squonking onto a hot coil can cook/heat the juice and change the flavor this cooked juice then gets sucked back into the bottle. Repeating the process and increasing the flavor shift with each squonk onto a hot coil.

I'm guilty of doing this, I can hear the juice hiss as it hits the hot coil. My unflavored clear nic liquid slowly turn amber in the bottle and gets a flavor shift, but I don't mind. I'm still trying to break the habit and let the coil cool a bit before squonking.

Before squonking I've started taking a long draw without hitting the firing button, the airflow cools the coil a bit.
I, too, am a juice cooker.

 

[super_X_drifter]

It may also be that your coil is so close to the deck that squonked juice is collecting under it rather than completely draining. This will have a cooling effect on the coil and vape anemically.

Just raising it slightly will help with that or tilt so it's slightly higher on the feed hole side like this:

The other option is a dibi crack where you leave a little space in the center of the coil like this:

You start with a loop in the wire in the center and wrap from the middle out. That's an old pic and I don't run a dibi crack though but some people love em

 

[kingdal]

Yep guilty of cooking the juice too. Kinda hard to chain vape and not squonk when the coil is still hot. But let me try controlling that and see what happens. I never realized that reos are similar to gennies that way but it makes a lot of sense

 

[kingdal]

It may also be that your coil is so close to the deck that squonked juice is collecting under it rather than completely draining. This will have a cooling effect on the coil and vape anemically.

Now this is an eye opener! I always thought I needed to have the coil at or below the airhole to avoid harsh TH. So it could be as simple as raising the coil? Easy enough to do. I think I'll leave the dibi crack as a last resort. Simpler is better for me. Thanks Supe!

 

[super_X_drifter]

It may also be that your coil is so close to the deck that squonked juice is collecting under it rather than completely draining. This will have a cooling effect on the coil and vape anemically.

Now this is an eye opener! I always thought I needed to have the coil at or below the airhole to avoid harsh TH. So it could be as simple as raising the coil? Easy enough to do. I think I'll leave the dibi crack as a last resort. Simpler is better for me. Thanks Supe!

Yep Rob always said to leave room and he's right. But there is a fine line - too high and TH will increase. That's why I tilt my coils in the RM2

 

[kingdal]

Just thought of something. I'm running my RM2 at 0.9 ohm on a 1.25mm airhole. I always thought a bigger airhole meant less flavor. Anyone think the small airhole could be the reason why the flavor is muted?

 

[patrao_n]

Mine is 1.5mm and I have loads of flavor. I would say just keep trying. I know some cool builds I have done were horrible. I couldn't pin point the problem. Then finally it all just worked.

Sent from my SM-N900T

 

[kingdal]

I noticed there were quite a few posts asking about the same things as I was. So i'd like to update this thread for the next person who has issues with flavor on their RM2.

So its been a couple weeks of experimenting and research. Lots of good advice everywhere but it does take a while to find them in the middle of a million posts. One thing that i found really helpful was the advice not to sqounk on a hot coil.

But what really solved my flavor problem was building a dual coil on my RM2. Once i got that running, i had flavor comparable to my drippers. Right now running my RM2 with dual 30g 9 wrap coils, one on top of the other, at 0.9 ohms. After 2 years, i can finally say that my reos taste just as good as my rdas, with a ton less hassle.

Thanks to everyone who replied with their suggestions. And thanks to pdib for posting how to build that dual coil. Great to be in reoville!