YUCK! Brown E liquid Someone Help

[drkngl417]

I vape using Clearomizers, Cartomizers, and carto tanks. Here is my issue. I have been vaping a Kanger T3 and noticed the other day that my e liquid inside looked like it was swirled. It is a clear juice but had some brown swirly look to it. Wasn't sure and didn't think anything about it and took a vape. OH MY... Tasted like burnt caramel. So I throw the juice and the tank away thinking that my juice had went bad. Then last night I was vaping a carto tank full of a new juice that I had gotten from the same vendor and as I was vaping noticed the taste was changing and started to get a sweet burnt caramel taste. Then I looked in my tank and noticed that the liquid was getting that brown swirled look leaking from the punched holes in the carto. When I let the tank sit for awhile the juice in the tank looked like melted chocolate. Now I know that e liquid will change colors the longer that is steeps, but all my e juice so far is clear or a light yellow not dark brown. I had been using the kanger and the carto tank for quite some time but always with the same juice, I don't cross contaminate flavors. I use one carto and clearomizer per flavor. What is causing this? Is the tanks and cartos going bad? Oh and I don't ever vape above 4 volts and I always stay around the 2 to 2.2 ohm range. Someone please, if you know what is causing this let me know.

 

[mooreted]

The wick in the tank is burning and the burnt particles are getting into the juice. What ohm tank and what voltage are you using? Is the juice a thick VG juice?

 

[shedevil7953]

Your cartos or clearos could be getting some age on them. I notice that coffee and bakery flavors will darken, especially at higher voltages. I keep mine between 3.6 and 3.8. I don't particularly care for juices any higher than that. If they have a lot of sweetener in them, I believe that also causes them to turn brown but doesn't affect the taste, for me.

 

[UncleChimney]

Mine Always Turn Dark, But I Usually Run Around 4.5-4.8Volts.

 

[VapinWolf]

I have noticed this in my carto tanks, NO burnt filling, and it is not old juice. (At least in my case) Here is what I believe is happening. The filler material is acting as a filter, my juice is dark but even after 3 or 4 days my filler is still bright white (soggy wet, NO DRY HITS). At about 1.5 to 2 days the 'dark stream' will start wafting out of the two fill holes into the tank.

I believe the filler is 'filtering' out the color, and possibly flavor as well. Thicker filler material in my new cartos does it worse.

**This post is a personal opinion and has not been verified to be accurate by any local, state, or federal agency**

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[drkngl417]

Thank you all for your responses. I was thinking the same thing about filtering but all my liquids are over a month old. I let my juice steep for 3 to 4 weeks before vaping. My cartos and tanks run 2 to 2.2 ohm. And I vape at around 3.6-4 volts depending on the juice. All juice is 70 pg 30 vg I like a runnier juice not thick. I was thinking burning filler material but the kanger is only wick and wire, no filler. Just checked some of my CE4 clearomizers and the same thing. Now I do vape on these for about a month or so. Does anyone think this could be gunk build up on the coil that burns off. I know that sugar will turn brown and give a caramel flavor when heated and I am thinking this is the culprit. I just took the carto apart and the coil is covered in crud and brown goo. Still not one hundred percent sure yet. But again thank you all for your answers.

 

[Katya]

Thank you all for your responses. I was thinking the same thing about filtering but all my liquids are over a month old. I let my juice steep for 3 to 4 weeks before vaping. My cartos and tanks run 2 to 2.2 ohm. And I vape at around 3.6-4 volts depending on the juice. All juice is 70 pg 30 vg I like a runnier juice not thick. I was thinking burning filler material but the kanger is only wick and wire, no filler. Just checked some of my CE4 clearomizers and the same thing. Now I do vape on these for about a month or so. Does anyone think this could be gunk build up on the coil that burns off. I know that sugar will turn brown and give a caramel flavor when heated and I am thinking this is the culprit. I just took the carto apart and the coil is covered in crud and brown goo. Still not one hundred percent sure yet. But again thank you all for your answers.

Coils need to be cleaned often. If you don't clean them, the unvaporized particles from your eliquid accumulate on the coil forming brown/black goo. The darker, the sweeter, the heavier the juice--the faster that gunk gets baked onto your coil. Then, when you add fresh juice, PG (a good solvent) starts to dissolve some of that gunk and stain your fresh juice, altering its appearance and taste.

Please clean your coils often--every couple of days if you're using dark/sweet juices. Some coils have to be cleaned daily. A soak in PGA or vodka is all it takes to get rid of some of that goo. After a while, you'll have to dry burn the coil--or get a new one.

Another thing you can do is to vape a little (1 ml) of unflavored (or plain PG, VG, or a mix of the two) through your clearomizer to dissolve the impurities on the coil. I repeat this procedure a few times, as needed, until the my unflavored ejuice runs clean.

Cartomizers are disposable--they can't be properly cleaned because they can't be dry-burned. Toss them as soon as flavor and vapor begin to diminish--or when you notice dark colored ejuice in your tank!

Clearomizers can be cleaned; check Youtube tutorials for the specific model you're using.

This is what a dirty coil looks like:

And a video. BTW, this is torching followed by a dry burn.

 

[drkngl417]

Katya, thank you. That is what it is. Burnt on crud. You have steered me in a better direction now. Really helped.

 

[VapinWolf]

For carto I would recommend tossing them when flavor changes or draw tightens. If I toss them when this dark color comes out I would be tossing them every day.

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