coils tasting burnt after only few days

[VaperCaper]

If you're using Aspire heads and they start tasting burnt then because those are like mini cartomisers and have wadding inside them, once they taste burnt you can't get rid of the taste.

If you're using ProTank/evod standard heads then you can dry burn clean them.

burnt taste is caused by not enough liquid getting to the coil. If you're chain vaping then it's possible that the coil/setup you have can't keep up too well. If you pause 30 secs or so between vapes this should help a lot.

5 days is on the low end of the scale for a head to start burning out but isn't wildly outside expectations. Heads are disposable/consumable items and do need replacing often.

 

[Billie86]

I'm a chain vaper so my coils only last at least 2-3 days b4 I have to change them, but now I 're coil so works out cheaper x

 

[Salmon]

I was killing kanger tanks pretty quick for a while, I started leaving more time between vapes and keeping them topped up and it seems to have helped

 

[pmac]

I was the same. I was lucky to get a week out a head using I clear 16'. This was even using 3-4 with different flavours. I found the lower ohm heads worse and couldnt go over 3.7v or would get a burnt taste straight away. I think the fact my main vape was fruitsalad (sweets) so was pretty sweet doesnt help or my chain vaping. Chamged to all t3s and got the same.
So ive started rebuilding myself using cotton instead of silica. I can just whip the wick out and dry burn rewick and its as new within minutes.
As above I top my tanks up when there half empty which also seemed to help.

 

[madpiano]

Why do coils need replacing? What does actually break on them? Would it help to just re-wick them? Or do they fall apart like the old lightbulb coils?

 

[Waspy]

Why do coils need replacing? What does actually break on them? Would it help to just re-wick them? Or do they fall apart like the old lightbulb coils?

Vapercaper can explain this much better than me but basically the burnt deposits build up on the wire and wick until the whole thing becomes unusable.

The deposits can be burnt off the wire but the wick needs to be replaced.

This is what makes cotton wool and micro-coils so effective, you just pull the cotton out of the coil, burn all the gunk off the coil, thread a new piece of cotton through the coil and away you go.

Of course if the coil gets too hot and actually breaks like a light bulb filament, that needs replacing too.

 

[madpiano]

So if I keep dry burning my coils I could theoretically keep them for months, rather than days? At least the EVOD ones?

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[Waspy]

Well, nothing beats burning the coils with no wick in them.

The wick is another matter, not much can be done to make them last months.

If you pull an old one apart all will become clear. You can scrape the gunk off the coil with a fingernail but the gunk sticks to wick like sh1t to a blanket.