Would adding more flavor wick reduce flooding?

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I have used brand new in the wrapper coil heads & so far 4 have flooded. I generally take a light 3-4 second puff.
I'm not sure if I could have gotten that many bad kanger heads in a row. That's what it seems like.

Would I put in just some strands or go for full 1mm. That would be in addition to whatever they put in there out of the box.
I'm not used to having such flooding problems. It all started when a coil went bad.
Usually I remove a flavor wick so this is strange indeed. All have come with the proper gaskets & appear to be the same so I don't think the problem is that. I tighten it well but not overly crazy.

I'm frustrated with gurgling & no vapor production plus the lovely liquid in my mouth.

Should I just continue to put new heads on till I find one that works?
I'm using Boba's Bounty so you'd think it would be the opposite if anything.

Thanks for the input so far.
I'm saving the heads for a time so I can learn how to rebuild them. I don't know how to quite yet but plan on using various wicking materials. I have silica 1,2 & 3mm, some peaches & cream yarn & cotton balls. I'll have to experiment with those materials but do like the option of dry burning with the silica. I only have Kanthal 32.

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Yes, adding wicking material across the top of the coil will help to eliminate flooding problems. Removing them is inviting flooding. Those things are there for a reason.

Using cotton or silica helps, but you need less cotton to do the same job.

Just don't ever try to dry burn a coil with cotton as the primary or secondary (flavor) wick in place.
 

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Go ahead and pop the pipe off a couple of the Leaking heads. Inspect them to see how the wicks are laid out.

Kanger:
(1)x 2mm wick wrapped by coil
(2)x 1mm wicks - Parallel above coil
I always recommend fluffing wick ends before installing the first time.

Clone Coil Heads:(some)
(1)x 2mm wick/coil
(1)x 2mm flavor wick

I have and use Both of these configurations. While I have had slow wicking issues to tweak out, I haven't had any leaking issues, so far.

Any Exposed GAPS wick to channel is a highway to leaking. Fluffing or filling may be required.
Some heads have come(even Kanger) with 3 flavor wicks or even with only 1 small wick(missing wicks) Poor factory QC.
 
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