Recommended range is 60-80W, so 100W should not be immediately burning the cotton media. It is spec'd at 50-110W, so you're nearing the top end. At that wattage you should be taking a deep, fast DTL hit (let innuendos ensue, lol). If you're drawing too slow, you'll kill it. I got called in so I was not able to get in touch with you in-process but I did go throw a fresh T8 in mine and had no issues. The resistance reading you are getting is what troubles me. With a no or low defect coil head you really should not read that far off. This is a 0.15 coil and you are getting almost 0.20 ohms, and that is a good bit past what you could account for by variations in your mod's reading even accounting for some resistance in your tank to mod connection. If you are getting a similar reading after changing the coil and the taste persists then (1) Do not try to salvage an of the juice from the previous fill and (2) Clean all of your threaded connections inside the tank with alcohol, repeatedly if necessary, but do not use anything abrasive because that will lead to a compounding and progressively worse problem as you go forward. Do the same with your external threaded connections between tank and mod. It is possible you have two coils from a bad batch, but I would do the cleaning first. If you can notice carbon/oxidation build-up and the alcohol is not clearing it, you can use something stronger but you will need to do thorough rinsing with water & drying, probably several times before you try to use it (again, do NOT abrade). If your Alien is putting out & performing as advertised, you may consider using another compatible coil head. I have used the eLeaf HW coils, and they're ok (plus being they are built with an abindance of cotton, thus harder to burn), but my personal preferance being the Vaporesso GT coils (I use the GT8 on my Baby Beast and my NRG). Let us all know if you come up with any further details/observations so maybe we can shed some more light on your plight.