I like a warm vape. Mesh won't deliver that.
I often hear this. Although I'm not a big fan of warm vapes, so it is hard for me to relate. And lab tests shows temps above 460°F / 238°C, you start getting high levels of
formaldehyde and acetaldehyde in your vape anyway. I don't know if that is what I am tasting above those temperatures, but the vape tastes charred to me. And most flavored vape juice contains lots of different flavors. And they peek at certain temperatures. Thus when I vape, I want each puff to hit those peek temperatures without going overboard.
And it is easy to regulate the temperature of your vape by the amount of air you intake on each puff. For example, I could get the vape really hot by slowing down my draw even down to 25W on a Zeus X Mesh. Of course the combination of wattage and draw you could vape at any temperature you want to, even with mesh.
If you drip on top, the juice held inside the wick still tastes foul. You may not notice it. I do.
Oh I notice it alright. I notice it with coils too. And when you drip over them, you are diluting it down to a very small percentage. Sure it is still there, but to a far smaller amount. Same is true with coils. And within a few puffs after you drip, that diluted bad taste disappears anyway.
I dunno if you ever tried this, but if you want to taste everything except for your juice... here's what I do. Inhale a puff and hold it in your lungs for like 5 seconds and then exhale. All of the sins are now exposed! The taste of the wicking and coil/mesh are very clear. There is something about flavored ejuice that the flavors are very short lived once vaporized. And even when doing this sin test on all of my tanks and RDAs, these Zeus X Mesh tastes the cleanest out of all of them. That is really impressive if you ask me.