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Did you do like 5-6 times long pulls on the PV continuously? I get dry hits when I do that. I'm using Muji cotton btw.
could it be that u're using too much cotton? i had that problem before, but using muji cotton. after i trimmed the ends a bit and thin it out was ok. can wick like crazy no more dry hits.
Don't know whats the cause, but apparently, muji cotton absorbs juice better, with the same amount of cotton used
^^^ I vote that as a strong possibility. Too much and the cotton chokes in the coil when it expands.
The cotton is not absorbing enough
not too sure about this, the cotton doesnt absorbs during the priming process, when i dripped on the cotton, just rolled down the cotton without getting absorbed, the cotton is not jammed packed also.
Hmm, just curious as I never used kendo before, but is there the 'skin' on the piece of cotton? if so, pretty sure that part is not so absorbent. could affect the wicking as well!
There doesn't seem to be skin on kendo cotton as it is not cotton pad. Its a huge lunp of cotton which you tear a piece and mold it to be used as your wick.
Try pulling apart the cotton, thining it 1st, then lightly roll it back? Not sure for Kendo cotton, but others like bacon cotton or other brand sometimes I find little lumps when I do that.. May impedes the wicking?
I never have problem with cottons. Organic muji or kendo. A friend of mine even use normal cotton from Watson when his muji were running out. No problem so far.
You're simply not priming it enough. Kendo cotton requires WAYYY more priming than what's written on the package.
A good practice would be:
After fluffing the ends up, using ur ejuice dripper to dab e juice all over your fluffed up cottons. Make sure that the sides, top, botttom and even the centre (the ends basically...) are slathered with e juice.
Make sure the cotton that runs into the coil are completely saturated eith e juice. This can be done by dabbing the dripper tip directly onto the cotton. Drip some on the coil.
If the whole process is done correctly, u can actually get about one and a half dropper worth of e juice onto the cotton.
Next step would be to fire up your mod and blow at the cotton/coil assembly. Fire for a good 5 seconds straight at 60% of the wattage you'll be vaping at.
After this is done, you'll notice that the cotton that's sticking out from your coils start to turn translucent. This means that the cotton inside the coil and nearest to the coil has been primed.
Drip more juice over the cotton and fire your mod for another 5 seconds while blowing at it.
Repeat this step 10 times.
Also, try to bend the fluffed up ends of the cotton so that they're above the coil as heat is what helps in priming it and in no time, the entire cotton and fluffed up ends will turn translucent.
Once this is done, set the cotton back in to cover the juice holes and spread them out nicely.
I've been using Kendo cotton for nearly half a year already and I find that it requires a bit of tlc and patience to set up in order for it to wick properly.
Hope that helps.
And no, a little too much cotton wouldn't hurt as this cotton is absorbent AF.
A good practice would be:
After fluffing the ends up, using ur ejuice dripper to dab e juice all over your fluffed up cottons. Make sure that the sides, top, botttom and even the centre (the ends basically...) are slathered with e juice.
Make sure the cotton that runs into the coil are completely saturated eith e juice. This can be done by dabbing the dripper tip directly onto the cotton. Drip some on the coil.
If the whole process is done correctly, u can actually get about one and a half dropper worth of e juice onto the cotton.
Next step would be to fire up your mod and blow at the cotton/coil assembly. Fire for a good 5 seconds straight at 60% of the wattage you'll be vaping at.
After this is done, you'll notice that the cotton that's sticking out from your coils start to turn translucent. This means that the cotton inside the coil and nearest to the coil has been primed.
Drip more juice over the cotton and fire your mod for another 5 seconds while blowing at it.
Repeat this step 10 times.
Also, try to bend the fluffed up ends of the cotton so that they're above the coil as heat is what helps in priming it and in no time, the entire cotton and fluffed up ends will turn translucent.
Once this is done, set the cotton back in to cover the juice holes and spread them out nicely.
I've been using Kendo cotton for nearly half a year already and I find that it requires a bit of tlc and patience to set up in order for it to wick properly.
Hope that helps.
And no, a little too much cotton wouldn't hurt as this cotton is absorbent AF.
As @smokyribs says, Kendo is so hard to prime and you need to make sure that all parts soaked in juice... Once it is soaked with juice, it absorbs much more compared to KGD or even bacon
Damn. So this is how you prime the cotton. I tried to prime it the same way as muji cotton. No wonder it didn't absorb. It's much much better now. Thanks for the video.
I do similar to this with Muji cotton. After I cut the strip, I treat it like a Scottish roll and pull it thin, then roll that into a fat wick. Works very nicely.
But priming the cotton... isn't this video the way to prime all cotton? I do this to Muji too; drip stroke, poke, saturate. Just that Muji seems to absorb juice really quickly so doesn't need as much prodding. How do you prime your Muji cotton?
@smokyribs wont you be wasting juice by using kendo if you are priming it so many times ?
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