Youde Bellus Wicking

[jfoster1]

I have several kanger pro tanks, I have a lemo, several serpent tanks, a goliath V2, a crown and have not had any problems with wicking them. I have 4 bellus simply because I love the tank. I bought the first one and liked it so much I immediately ordered 3 more. When I got the first tank I knew I was going to have to play more with the wicking, but I thought I would get it figured out. I have literally about pulled my hair out on this tank. I have probably watched 15 you tube videos on how they wick thiers and say no dry hits and very little if any leaking. Well on my tanks I have had no such luck. I have rest the cotton on the first shelf in the drip well. When I do this I have massive leaking when filling. I have tried thinning out the cotton and then trying with more cotton. When ever I thicken up the cotton I get dry hits. I have let a little tail of cotton hang off the first lip in the drip well. I either get dry hits or pretty bad leaking when filling. I am usually vaping a .5 ohm SS coil at 25 watts. I have tried a spaced coil also. I have tried numerous combos and it comes down to no dry hits equals leaking on fill ups, or no leaking on fillups to getting some dry hits. I have watched alot of you tube videos where they had much more cotton than I use and they say no dry hits. It is a mystery to me. I have always been able to find a happy medium on any of my other RTA's, but the bellus has continued to elude me. I only vape a single coil build, I use the adapter that came with it. I don't see how this might be the difference between all the video's I watched.
I love the taste of this tank, just tired of loosing about .5 ml of juice everytime I fill it.

 

[classwife]

Moved this to RTA from Ask The Veterans

 

[sonicbomb]

The Bellus has been extensively discussed in this thread, especially wicking.
Try using a 2mm ID coil as the tails will fit nicely into the juice channels with hardly any trimming. The wick tails should extend no more than 1 to 2mm into the juice wells, but should cover the top of them. Raise the coils so the airflow is striking the bottom third of the coil.
What PG/VG ratio is your juice? You may want to try a higher VG ratio as this will have a higher viscosity which may help.

 

[Rizzyking]

With my 60\40 pg\vg liquid I have the tails going halfway down the juice channels and have had no leaking or dry hits that's with a 2.5mm ID coil.

 

[ogie56]

2.5 is the best size and tails barely in the channels.but the most important is not to soak your wick before filling ,just enough to make it stay in place. place coil showing part of it through the air holes. by doing it this way the wick soaks while filling. works every time good luck!

 

[jfoster1]

Thanks for all the suggestions. I have discovered something, and not sure what the answer is. I use 2.5mm coil with 70vg and 30 pg. Since I posted the original post I figured everyone that was not having any problems seem to be using dual coils, and I always used the adaptor with a single coil. I had tried every single wicking method I could think of and still had problems. I decided to just try a dual coil and see what it did. With a dual coil I have absolutly no problems. No leaking, no dry hits. When I go back to the single coil with the adapter though it brings back the problems. I have a goliath v2 that uses the same adapter and I have absolutly no problems with that tank. So I do not know. I prefer the single coil though for the battery life. I can tell a small difference in flavor in favor of dual coil, but not that much. Anyone have any idea why the adapter is obviously restricting juice flow. I have tried to eyeball the thing and it seems to be placed correctly. Might just be a design issue with single coil.

 

[ogie56]

sorry forgot to say in my earlier post that all I use is single coil

 

[jfoster1]

Wel thanks for that ogle, see that is why I post on here. Don't think I would have ever thought about not soaking the cotton down, and I thought I had thought of everything.