Everything I seem to make just tastes burnt and not very flavourful. I've made some of the top rated recipes on www..................... such as mothers unicorn milk, strawberry fog and a few others but everything seems to just not taste that great. I've used different vg and pgs, tried every probably every different steeping method, glass and plastic bottles but yet nothing seems to have a nice flavour and everything has a weird almost burnt taste to it. Only thing I can think it might be is that I'm using a kanger Dripbox and it's burning the juice but off the shelf stuff tastes fine. I make my own coils and use cotton bacon to wick, make a new coil for every juice but yet still not a nice taste :/
All my diys taste burnt!
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I'm having a similar problem. My watermelon menthols taste terrible, my strawberry isn't very good and most of my juices just aren't very flavorful even though I am following exact recipes. It's pretty disappointing. Hopefully someone here will help us figure out what's going on
My first guess would have to do with wattage, coil condition, and juice feed.
Are the juices thick, high VG, or something that makes them wick slowly? Is it good with a new wick and dwindles down to burnt after a while on a new wick? Does a wick change with a dry burn fix it for a while?
I'm thinking thick juice and wicking that won't feed it fast enough if vendor juices are fine.
A look at the recipes might give a hint as to why?
Are the juices thick, high VG, or something that makes them wick slowly? Is it good with a new wick and dwindles down to burnt after a while on a new wick? Does a wick change with a dry burn fix it for a while?
I'm thinking thick juice and wicking that won't feed it fast enough if vendor juices are fine.
A look at the recipes might give a hint as to why?
I agree with the above. Sounds hardware related. Maybe to thick a mix causing poor wicking. Are your wicks and coils blackening prematurely? Could be to thick a mix, to sweet a mix, Hardware set to hot. I think we need more detail about the mix recipe and how hot your running.
As your dripping it could be as simple as not adding often enough. Once you vape down to low and scorch the wick everything else that follows will taste burnt. The idea of dripping is to always keep the wick saturated.
As your dripping it could be as simple as not adding often enough. Once you vape down to low and scorch the wick everything else that follows will taste burnt. The idea of dripping is to always keep the wick saturated.
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What Danny said. I've had the same problem with some thick juices. You pull it apart and there's burnt crud on the coil and the wick is black under the coil when you remove it. Sugary juices will cause it, among other things.
The coil is in open air inside the chimney. Any contamination is re-burned every time you press the fire button. Once that happens a new coil (or a dry burn) and new wick is the only fix.
If it happens continually, clean up the coil and install a new wick, then try some clear, lightly colored juices for comparison.
It doesn't seem to change from a brand new wick to a wick that's been in there a couple of days and I've had juices ranging from 50/50 to 20/80
Pretty sure the dripbox fires at 60watt.
maybe it could be crappy wire for my coils, I've ordered some premade ones so I'll let you know if that changes it. But I can't see it being that tbh.
Pretty sure the dripbox fires at 60watt.
maybe it could be crappy wire for my coils, I've ordered some premade ones so I'll let you know if that changes it. But I can't see it being that tbh.
A coil placed to high over the juice well will cause a steep arc in the wick producing poor wicking. Try pushing the coil down lower into the well where the coil is almost buried into the wick.
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When starting my vape at low wattage, I find that the wattage that works for me is usually a few watts over the lowest watt setting (where i can barely see the vape cloud on the exhale). Lower watt settings lessen the chance of burning the liquid and generates the best flavor IMO.
After I get my Atty (coil and chamber heated up) going for awhile, I will often times turn the mod down or up a watt or so to see if I can taste more flavor. I'm often surprised at how much better tasting the vape can be by adjusting the temp/wattage.
The only problem is, is that with the dripbox mod, you can't change the wattage or temp. It literally just has a fire button and a charge port.
The Drip Box 60 is a mech with safety features.
To get the 60 watts you would need about a .2 ohm coil, on a fully charged battery.
You might try building around .5-.4ohm
Pushing the coils down has made abit of a difference but not to the point it tastes anything like what it should. Maybe just a placebo lol
Usually give my coils a quick fire, before I wick them, to make sure they glow ok and fire from the middle. If that's what you mean? Usually fire fine.
Never used sweetener until today and I've had juices steep for weeks and weeks and not change. Tried hot baths, microwave, leaving to breath. They just always seem to taste bland and have a weird after taste.
Yes, a .4ohm coil will put out 44.1 watts on a fully charged battery 4.2v
Discharged to 3.7v it would put out 34.23 watts
So if I run less watts, it will help the flavour? It's not like it's a burnt taste like when you burn a coil out, just a weird almost dirty kind of taste and not much flavour
It may.....or it may not, depending on the juice.
To me it sounds like its not wicking fast enough for the watts being used.
If you are using the atty that comes with the Drip Box, you have be sure you squonk long enough for the juice to reach the wicks.
I always make sure the wick is pretty wet, every time I squonk I make sure it comes over the coils and soaks the wick
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