So I've had my Alien 220 kit for about 2 month now and every cool I try has a burnt taste to it. I have no idea if it's the mod, juice, coil or the tank itself. I've tried 5 new coils and all of them taste really bad I prime them before putting it in the tank and let it sit for 5 minutes. I usually start at 25 watts and work my way up to 60 watts but every hit just taste like fire lol. What do you guys think is wrong?
Every coil I try has a burnt taste or no flavor at all
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It's takes a while for the cotton to get broke in. It may take 30 min or so to break the cotton in or sometimes with tanks it will take a tank full or 2 before the cotton gets broke in. I thought the same thing when I was new to vaping. Hang in there and deal with the taste. Keep your wattage low and when you start taking the juice more start to bump up the wattage to your normal wattage of vaping.
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The problem is I've never had this problem with my alien kit since I bought it. Every new coil I switch it still tastes burnt even on 30 watts.
Factory coils? Could be a bad batch. It happens.
Are they right coils for how you're using your device, as in not using TC coils with wattage, or using regular coils in TC mode?
Are they right coils for how you're using your device, as in not using TC coils with wattage, or using regular coils in TC mode?
I'm using regular coils in wattage mode on the coil itself it says best 40w-60w But it'd be crazy if the last 5 coils I bought from different vape shops have all been bad from the start
Could also be the coils are fakes even if they were purchased from reputable source it can happen.
Are you using the Baby Beast that comes with the SMOK Kit? I run that coil at 30 Watts MAX. I have pushed it to 32.5 watts but I personally do not like the taste at that wattage. The coils may be able to fire at that but they will not last as long at higher wattage. Just my opinion based on personal observations.
I am using the baby beast that comes with the kit but when I first started vaping on it I would vape at 60w and I would have amazing flavor with great cloud production. Now I'm using the same type of coils and they just taste bad
Been vaping the same coils since I started about 2 months ago at 60w
If you already fried the coil it doesn't matter if you do a No Power Pull it will taste bad.
Are you using the 0.4 ohm coil (whatever Q or come other letter they randomly choose to name them) that came with the BB? I have one, and a few things I've noted about it. First, the cotton is pretty well packed in there. You really have to prime well, let it sit, do a bunch of unpowered draws, and then start out really low, like 20W, and slowly work your way up a few watts at a time. I'm not saying your preference for 60W is wrong. We all have our own sweet spot. But I will say at 40W I feel I've maxed out the coil.
On the duo-deca-whatever coil with the BBB comes with at 0.15 ohm, and has ?3 separate parallel coils, I've got it maxed out, for me, at 45W. Could I work it higher? Sure, but that provides too hot a vape for me. Regardless of where I end up, I still follow that same priming slow powered break in of every coil. Not right on topic, but I will say that these Smok coils have a strong cotton taste for the first half a tank, then performs quite well on flavor for me. But I was surprised on that first draw to have such a strong cotton taste.
On the duo-deca-whatever coil with the BBB comes with at 0.15 ohm, and has ?3 separate parallel coils, I've got it maxed out, for me, at 45W. Could I work it higher? Sure, but that provides too hot a vape for me. Regardless of where I end up, I still follow that same priming slow powered break in of every coil. Not right on topic, but I will say that these Smok coils have a strong cotton taste for the first half a tank, then performs quite well on flavor for me. But I was surprised on that first draw to have such a strong cotton taste.
Have you tried that tank on a different mod? Could be an issue I had once, where the tank had an exceptionally long 510 pin which was pushing the mods pin in too far. I think when some mods pins retract to far in, they push out a burst of power or a short that singes the cotton
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Been vaping since 2011 using RBA since 2013. Given that big pharma and big tobacco have issues with safe alternatives to smoking. Has anyone stopped to consider sabotage in a way that may not be immediately apparent. It is not a far stretch, If vaping which offeres superior taste were made to taste bad would people go back to tobacco? I say this because I have been using the same spool of wire since 2014 and the same batch of cotton since early 2016. Been mixing my own juice off and on since 2014 recently been having the same issue, upon disassembly i have found strange scorching patterns on the posts of my RBA and the cotton is unburned. One hit will be fine next hit scorch, reassemble same cotton same coil no dry burn 1 hit fine next hit scorch. Same RBA since early 2016 same box mod from 2015 all voltages and resistance readings stable. Condition is not dependent upon juice or flavorings. Will be fine for a few days and not for a few days.
I'd say it's more a case that you might have a mod that's simply dying and pulsing badly... What you're describing reminds me of: My first 18650 mod, I ended up vented the battery as I was sliding it in and the wrap and ring broke and slipped, shorting the battery on the pin. The spark was enough that the mod was damaged, and started acting weird a few days later and eventually died completely.
Try your tank on another mod and see if the same happens, try another tank on that mod and see if the same happens... as it could also be the tank that is simply having a problem with the insulator breaking down from use and age.
Do you close the airflow and suck on it a couple of time to prime the coil in depth? Could be a simple case of just getting enough priming done, or that you're using a liquid that's too thick to wick properly.
If "every hit taste like fire", I'd say that you're getting dry hits...so prime them more and see if that fixes it... sadly, once a wick is burnt, the "taste" is hard to get rid of, the cartridges are usually wasted.
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