Wicks separating flavor from PG/VG

[quisp65]

Notice how on a long wick CE2 like the fluxomizer you get very dark eliquid at the end when it's time to refill? I wonder if the wick pulls the PG/VG out more efficiently and leaves some of the more thicker concentrate behind? This would mean what is being vaporized would have a bit less concentrated flavor additives.

The fact that eliquid is darker in the near empty ce2 when it's time to refill, is this evidence that you should use the least amount of wick to get the job done?

What other reason would the eliquid be darker?

I'm thinking I should cut my wicks on my fluxomizers. I tip frequently so I don't need much wick.

 

[quisp65]

I guess it could be darker from a bit of the gunk on your coil coming down into your container, but I don't think that would contribute to it that much for the color change of your eliquid.

If this were to be true I'm thinking what kind of wick would be best...thick, thin....? I'm thinking each strand of material should have access to the eliquid and not soak up from the adjacent wick. I would think multiple thin strands of an airy kind of wick would be best, and as short as they can to do the job. This would make a wick on top of a coil not a good idea.

Opinions?

 

[MPage]

Mine is the Vision or CE4, whatever you want to call it, with the short wicks. I was told some juices react more to the oxygen and get darker- I have only one that changes the most- but it could be many causes?

 

[skelley]

That is one of the reasons I dislike the CE4+/stardust types.
They don't like to wick the heavier particulates in juice for some reason.
I took a new one; filled it; vaped half; topped it off; vaped half way again.
At this point the juice was dark & thick so I poured the juice into a new CE2.
OMG, it tasted awful and completely unvapable and I never used them again.

My wife still uses them and she told me that when the juice gets thick/dark that she just dumps it out.
So that means she is wasting half of the juice we buy.

I have noticed that some CE2's will do this also, but never to the extreme that the CE4+'s do as it takes many fill ups before getting thick. So is it the wicks?? I got the wife a pack of the longer wick ones and she doesn't seem to notice it as much, but she's been rotating them more also.

That's also one reason I like the newer CE3's, the juice is more consistent throughout as the wicks/coil is on the bottom which I think makes it easier for the heavier particulates to get vaped. Therefore the taste/vape is more consistent for me at least.

 

[quisp65]

I've been cutting my wicks on my fluxomizers to the point they look like my short wick stardusts and since I tip frequently I noticed no problem. However with my limited experience with this I've still noticed the juice to get darker. How much difference between short and long, I'm really not sure. I guess one could do a test of same flavors down to the bottom of the tube on two clean cartomizers short vs long and compare.

 

[quisp65]

The color was different probably because I wasn't shaking my tubes! Duh! Since I have several flavors sometimes a filled tube will sit for a while and thought tipping would be enough, but apparently it wasn't. Might not be the wicks at all. But then again, it still doesn't hurt to cut your wicks if you tip enough and are having no wicking issues. Less filler, easier to clean & I there is no negative at least for me.

 

[skelley]

I was done with the CE4+/stardust a long time ago due to the tight draw and wicking issues.
I purchase a pack of CE2's & CE3's monthly, but this will be the last month for the CE2's.
The newer CE3/CV3's are just working for me.