I use the SS one in the picture, but I never can hot 30W as mentioned, I reach 20W and I can barely vape for 2 seconds, can it be the liquid I'm buying? Though I bought 2 brands and they do the same! I changed Atomizer, I changed Battery, What else I can change lol
There are a lot of factors going on you are not taking into consideration.
1) Vaping Style the mod (battery) and atomizer (tank) are independent, the tank proving what style it falls in. These vaping types for devices are Mouth to Lung (MTL/M2L) which is just like a cigarette draw and pull, very tight, low powered, restrictive airflow generally in the 6 to 15watts range and a coil ohm range of 1.2ohms to 3.0ohms, then there is Direct to Lung (DTL/D2L) which are looser airflow, higher powered, less restrictive in the 20 to 25watts plus range and what is termed "Sub-Ohm" coils that measure below 1.0ohms, which is similar in draw and pull to clearing the chamber on water xxxx for the funky tobacco. Not to say a "Sub-Ohm" coil can not be used lower powered and in MTL application, it will be still a bit warmer than a standard MTL device, if you are at 30watts or even 20watts and you are not D2L vaping you will scorch not only your wicking as that airflow is needed to cool the coil via evaporation of your liquid, but also you liquid as well. If you are MTL on your tank try D2L at first, or if you are D2L and having these problems then we move down to these next points that follow.
2) The tank coil head, or coil cartridge, these are the engine of any vaping device, if they are not primed and cared for properly, they will scorch your wicking and make for a terrible vape. Proper priming on "Any" new coil is as follows
2a) Saturate the wicking properly on any fresh out of the package coil, take your juice applicator and soak all that exposed white material, not so much that you have a pool of juice in the coil head which will be a flooded coil, but just enough that the wicking, most times organic cotton, looks wet and tinted in the color of your juice, after which install the coil into the tank, fill the tank and let it set about 5 minutes for a thinner 50PG/50VG liquid to about 15 minutes for a 20PG/80VG thicker liquid, this lets the wicking soak up more liquid enough that it doesn't flood by over saturation by hand.
2b) Set your mod's watts low, if a coil has a wattage range of say 30watts low to 70watts high, set the mod to about 20 to 25watts for these next initial firings, after take a few puffs rapidly without firing the mod at all, after which in shorter about max 5second firings fire up the device, stay at this level for about 15 to 20minutes continuous use, after which bump up the watts about 5 to 10 watts, and again vape on that for about another 15 to 20minutes continuous use, rinse and repeat this until you reach nirvana flavor with that particular juice and coil, the moment you start to feel a dry or lowered flavor at a higher watt setting, back it down about 5watts, this will be the sweet spot for that juice and coil together (yes juice plays a very significant factor, some juices love high watts while other love lower watts)
2c) At any time you get a harsh, scorched hit, tear out the coil, replace, start at 2a again, and start over you've scorched and ruined the wicking.
3) Juices themselves can be detrimental to the longevity of a coil head, the sweeter, darker, more colorings, more cream or bakery the flavor, tobacco flavors (especially Whole Tobacco Alkaloid and Naturally Extracted Tobacco types are coil killers), coffees etc, these impurities in the liquids and flavorings don't vaporize off, so thus either collect up on the wire and in the wicking (gunking and plugging things up) leading to carbonization in the case of colorings and flavorings, to crystalization in the case of major sweeteners in the liquid, which can lead to wicking scorching. The more you move away from an unflavored, unsweetened just a clear pg, vg, and nicotine in a liquid the worse your coil longevity.
Coils on average should last from 3days for very high powered coils with very sweet and creamy flavors up to 2 to 3 weeks or a month with a straight unflavored liquid at lower power settings. Its frustrating but you have to dance the dance to find the right balance with any vape device in your life, quite a lot like a marriage, the device needs to adjust to you, but you also have to adjust to the device's limitations just as much.
