I had my coil and wick changed about five day's ago. The first pull I took this morning tasted burnt to me. I had my wife try it out and she said it tasted fine to her and thought it was just the juice I'm currently using (which she says taste gross, does not like it to begin with) after a few more pulls seemed to be fine. The juice I had in it was 12mg cotton candy from MT Baker. Doesn't really taste like anything but sweet to me. I don't mind it. It's actually not even that sweet. Kind of has a peppery tobacco taste which is fine. I don't mind that either. Now I have a different juice which is much tastier and is 6mg. So far no burnt taste like I had this morning. Anyway, I don't have any wicks right now, not even cotton balls and won't until probably tomorrow or the next day. So I was wondering what's the longest you guys have gone without changing your wick??
What's the longest you've gone without changing your wick??
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I also want to add that my clouds are the same they have been this whole time. Still had a good pull on it and everything. I know sometimes when your wick is done, clouds get smaller but mine seem just about the same in thickness and so on.
Try to get in the habit of after the atty sits for a while, give it a couple pulls without power to get the juice flowing back into the wick and coil. Overnight the juice drains as you can say from the wick and in part to why it condensates around the airflow area or outside the atty so the wick is drier than its suppose to be. Lower the power also for the first few vapes until you feel the vape getting better then increase to desired level. Don't pull hard until you are sure that wick and coil are saturated and performing, its very easy to take a morning pull that is too hard with a dryer wick then your day is spent with irritated throat
The peppery taste is usually crappy nicotine but if you kinda burnt your throat some with those first drier vapes then its just irritated and takes a while before it gets better.
Your posting got me to revisit my TFV4 and for the first time I actually wicked it without it leaking. Something else that helps is to blow down slightly until you see a nice plumb come out of the airflow, your giving the coil time to heat up(ramp up) then pull up and you'll get a better vape. Also pull for a second or two after you release the power button, that gets juice to the coil and cools it off so excess juice doesn't burn onto the coil as fast.
Answer to your how long question. I can get 2-3 weeks and longer, well over 150mls off a rayon build but its a DIY Hangsen tobacco vape that isn't sweet by any means. My wife gets a couple weeks and @100mls out of again a DIY cotton candy but her coils are 1.6ohm clapton rayon builds.
The peppery taste is usually crappy nicotine but if you kinda burnt your throat some with those first drier vapes then its just irritated and takes a while before it gets better.
Your posting got me to revisit my TFV4 and for the first time I actually wicked it without it leaking. Something else that helps is to blow down slightly until you see a nice plumb come out of the airflow, your giving the coil time to heat up(ramp up) then pull up and you'll get a better vape. Also pull for a second or two after you release the power button, that gets juice to the coil and cools it off so excess juice doesn't burn onto the coil as fast.
Answer to your how long question. I can get 2-3 weeks and longer, well over 150mls off a rayon build but its a DIY Hangsen tobacco vape that isn't sweet by any means. My wife gets a couple weeks and @100mls out of again a DIY cotton candy but her coils are 1.6ohm clapton rayon builds.
I never go more than 2 weeks because I vape very sweet juice. Usually change once a week
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I've gone the better part of a month once or twice. Two weeks is absolutely no problem. But I vape unflavored or very lightly flavored, and use rayon wicks. Nonetheless the coil eventually gets enough crud on it that it begins to taste burnt, so the wick gets yanked and the coil gets cleaned. Coils last me 3-6 months.
Thank You, this was super helpful. That's awesome though, I'm glad you were able to avoid the leaking. I've refilled mine twice today with no leaking at all! I really love this tank, I don't want to give up on it. I figure if it's not tasting bad enough to get me to stop using it, it's probably okay for another day or two.
I saw this video the other day. No need to pay attention to what he's building but the 30:25 mark after he cuts his cotton then how he thins it out is the trick(I've never seen cotton being thinned that way before). I did that in my TFV4 to thin out the rayon and it keeps the density in the coil but removes the bulk so you don't have too much wicking in the juice notches and chokes the juice flow into the coil. I was hands of a surgeon with a pair of scissors before removing bulk from the tails but with this scraping excess out works so much better. Show that piece of the vid clip to your brother and it could make rewicking the TFV4 with a better result and you should/could have less leaking to deal with.
Hard to track really, cuz I run a bunch of mods at once. BUt weeks, certainly.
If you get a HINT of burnt, from a slight dry wick but immediately soak it - then the wick can "recover" and not taste burnt - not be ruined. I'd say this DOES cut down the lifespan of the wick - perhaps it'll be gone in one more week instead of two or something - but it's my experience that a single, partial, beginning of a dry hit does not mean you have to immediately replace.
If you get a HINT of burnt, from a slight dry wick but immediately soak it - then the wick can "recover" and not taste burnt - not be ruined. I'd say this DOES cut down the lifespan of the wick - perhaps it'll be gone in one more week instead of two or something - but it's my experience that a single, partial, beginning of a dry hit does not mean you have to immediately replace.
longest with same wick was exactly 93 days. i still prefer using silica wicks that don't need to be removed everytime i rinse off and dry burn my coil though so that's why. with cotton 2 days was my longest, with rayon i think it was maybe a week.
Since I have at least a dozen tanks going, I will express it in millimeters. I mostly vape unflavored and higher PG (75%) at low wattage (8-10 watts). I easily get 100 mil through the tank before I even consider changing it. Usually it's not the wick, but the coils needs burned off...that's when I change the wick.
I will normally change my wicks out about once a week, but it's because I vape a max VG with heavy vanilla flavoring. The combination of the thick VG and dark, sweet vanilla flavoring means that the flavor starts going off in about a week or so. I'm also vaping dual Clapton coils at 120W, so any gunking up of the wick leads to burnt tasting hits really fast.
Hmm, depends on my tank/atomizer
Running my Kayfuns with 50/50 Unflavored juice I've gone a month between wick changes in the 8 to 12 watt range.
My sub-ohm RTAs and RDAs longest I've gone is maybe a week.
Running my Kayfuns with 50/50 Unflavored juice I've gone a month between wick changes in the 8 to 12 watt range.
My sub-ohm RTAs and RDAs longest I've gone is maybe a week.
Hmm, the juice I've been using is dark but not really all that sweet, 50/50 and I'm between 18 to 20 watts. Every now and then I'll get a dry hit, but nothing too terrible.
Dark is a killer. The colorings build up in the wick and can gunk them up pretty quick. If I use a clear Vanillin in my ejuice then the wicks last more than twice as long as they do if I use the near-black Madagascar Vanilla flavoring.
Dry hits on the other hand have nothing to do with flavoring and is almost always a matter of how the coil is wicked. If you're getting dry hits then you're not delivering juice to your coil fast enough. And this is a case where wick material makes a ton of difference. If you're using cotton then it's best to use a "Japanese cotton" long strand cotton where the fibers are all pointing the same direction. Cotton balls are OK, but they do not wick as well as long strand cotton. With cotton the expression "less is more" is really true. You want the wick to be a little loose going through the coil to give the juice room to flow.
However, the opposite is true for Rayon wicks. Rayon really works well if you follow the "more is better" train of thought. You don't want to choke the coil off, but unlike cotton the fibers don't expand, so the more fibers you can get through the coil the more juice they'll carry up there.
Finding the right balance can take some practice, but once you find it you shouldn't be getting any dry hits. I can chain vape on dual Clapton coils at 120W without getting a dry hit and without any leaking. It took a while (about 5 wick changes) to find just the right amount and just the right length and placement of the wicks to do it, but now I can rewick and get perfect results every time.
Three months for wicks and over 12 months for coils and still going strong. If you're using thicker gage wires like 24AWG, the coils they can last forever basically. Companies like KangerTech, Aspire and Innokin would hate me ! ...LoL
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I'm not sure exactly how long would be the longest, over two months, possibly over 3... I know I've used the same coil for over 6 months. Sometimes I get really lazy and/or forget. Don't judge me.
Because I get such a long runtime out of my coils I mark the install dates on my calendar for reference.
My last coil change on my Arctic tank was August 25th, 2016. NI-200 coil.
The last coil change on my Crown tank was Nov. 6th, 2016. 0.5 ohm coil.
I use them both every day.
My last coil change on my Arctic tank was August 25th, 2016. NI-200 coil.
The last coil change on my Crown tank was Nov. 6th, 2016. 0.5 ohm coil.
I use them both every day.
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