Aromamizers dry hitting.

[conanthewarrior]

Hi everone.

I have an issue with my aromamizers, which I know is down to ME, as they are both doing it.

I am using dual 26G 2MM ID coils, together which make 0.5 Ohms.

Even at 28W, I am getting dry hits.

It seems that the juice level does not go down unless I cover all 4 holes, suck through, and then it bubbles and juice goes onto the coils and wicks, and I can then use it.

I use 70/30 DIY juice, just find it odd how it does not auto-drip onto the coils-or is it meant to be like this, and you do have to give it a suck with the airflow closed to get more juice on the wicks?

Thanks to everyone on here that helps me, it is appreciated.

Conan.

 

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[burley]

It may not be the advice you're particularly looking for, but have you tried vertical coils in it? I've become pretty set that that's the best way to build on the Aromamizer. Wicking is 100% easier - straight up and down, little mushroom cap fluff of cotton on top, little tail all fluffed out just resting it's fibers right on top of those juice-feed holes solved my dry hit problems with it. Two post deck design makes throwing those in there a hearty two seconds' worth of time with minimal adjusting afterwards. Just a thought.

 

[Manimal3497]

I have not tried burley's method yet but do plan on it. From my experience with the aromamizer there is a fine line between to little cotton and to much cotton and both will cause dry hits. I try to make sure that I dont have it super tight in my coils and then I cut it longer then the velocity deck but shorter then the outter base if that makes any sense. I has to just barely touch the deck and air holes otherwise it wont wick

 

[burley]

I has to just barely touch the deck and air holes otherwise it wont wick

That right there is what I kind of figured out as well. I can "get away" with a little too much cotton in the juice wells on an awful lot of devices - but the Aromamizer is a little more finicky with it. Barely covering the holes is the way to go.

 

[conanthewarrior]

OK thank you all for your input.

As for it not feeding, I have figured out why-I vape with my device facing downwards, I don't tip it up-I have tried tipping it up whilst taking a hit, and now it is bubbling after, and not dry hitting.

I will have to try another build in there though, as I can still only use it at a max of about 32W, I understand it is meant for more than this (In general most people use them a fair bit higher I have noticed), so maybe I was too quick to dismiss these, and will find with experimentation they work as well as my crius's .

I will try vertical coils-see how I get on.

Thank you all for your advice.

EDIT: I know this is personal preference, but I just want to see if there is a wire gauge, coil ID and resistance the majority are finding these tanks to work best at-or can I stick with my 26Gauge builds, and use it at lower wattage? (I prefer to use lower wattage, I like getting longer battery life-batteries die MUCH too fast for me otherwise).

 

[burley]

Conan, Conan... one word, buddy. From one Crius owner to another.

Griffin. Griffin, bud, Griffin.

 

[conanthewarrior]

Conan, Conan... one word, buddy. From one Crius owner to another.

Griffin. Griffin, bud, Griffin.

Thank you man-I have one of those on the way-BUT I ordered it from China, as I was in no rush to get it. I look forward to getting it though, and seeing what it is like.

Do you find it as good as the Crius? I haven't found any other tank I own that produces as much flavour as the crius does.

 

[burley]

Thank you man-I have one of those on the way-BUT I ordered it from China, as I was in no rush to get it. I look forward to getting it though, and seeing what it is like.

Do you find it as good as the Crius? I haven't found any other tank I own that produces as much flavour as the crius does.

I do, and there's a number of things that I've found are just simply better. The top-fill method is pretty big up there, I so very much appreciate a tank that lets me take off the whole top instead of just opening a channel hole. Airflow is about the same, flavor I'd say is about the same - but the lack of leaks (no more weeping AFC! woo!), the bigger build deck, the ability to have a wide-bore drip tip (and adapter for standard) and the top fill put it up at the top of the list where the Crius once stood tall and proud.

Having both the stainless steel and black ones, I'm happy mine didn't have any issues coming apart for an initial cleaning - my black Crius, on the other hand, that thing owes me some thumb skin back.

edit: glad to hear you've got one headed your way - you're going to dig this tank, Conan. I'm tellin' ya, it's the bee's knees IMO.

 

[raymo2u]

If you have a Drill or Dremel you could always enlarge your juice ports, I drilled mine out to 2.2mm each and made a extra 1mm hole on the outer side of each port. It didnt help much but it was an improvement, your wicking has to be just about perfect in the Aromamizer...

I wasnt going to suggest the Griffin, I got alot of shit for it on another thread because I vape differently then other but I know its a great workhorse for anyone type of vaper. Ive seen it. The people that have issues with it are wicking it like other tanks and thats about all the problems Ive seen.
The Aromamizer I could never get right, others seem to have it working for them but I find both the Crius and Griffin better, Griffin is much better then the Crius though.

 

[domct203]

Hi everone.

I have an issue with my aromamizers, which I know is down to ME, as they are both doing it.

I am using dual 26G 2MM ID coils, together which make 0.5 Ohms.

Even at 28W, I am getting dry hits.

It seems that the juice level does not go down unless I cover all 4 holes, suck through, and then it bubbles and juice goes onto the coils and wicks, and I can then use it.

I use 70/30 DIY juice, just find it odd how it does not auto-drip onto the coils-or is it meant to be like this, and you do have to give it a suck with the airflow closed to get more juice on the wicks?

Thanks to everyone on here that helps me, it is appreciated.

Conan.

I use 26awg Kanthal a1, 3mm ID, 6 wraps, horizontal coils coming in at 0.51 ohm, and can vape well into the 50W range with no issues. I usually stay between 42-45W.

It took me a bit of trial and error to get my wicks just right, and found that when I was having issues like you mention it was because I was using way too much wick. Don't leave the ends so long that you find yourself "stuffing" the cotton into the deck. The ends of the wick should just reach the deck, with a little extra to fluff up and spread out evenly under the coils. I also poke up though the holes (with a dental pick) to slightly lift the cotton off the deck.

When you first saturate that wick it is going to expand, you need to leave some room for that.

HTH,
Dom

 

[heateris]

Definitely to much wick. I take the deck out of the base then cut the wicks just above the bottom lip of the deck. That seems to be the right length.


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[rickycal78]

I had a similar issue when I first picked up my Aromamizer as well. After looking around I got the same advice that was already given here. Vertical coils and you have to get the wicking just right. A couple other tips that helped me were using less cotton and shredding the wicking below the coils. I cut a piece of cotton off the pad that's just barely bigger than the inside diameter of the coil. The Aromamizer doesn't seem to like it when you roll the cotton tight to pull it through the coils. Before I put the coils on, I shred up and separate the bit that's going to be hanging in the juice well. Then when I attach the coil and tuck the wicking I pull it up until it's just barely touching the bottom of the well.

 

[conanthewarrior]

I use 26awg Kanthal a1, 3mm ID, 6 wraps, horizontal coils coming in at 0.51 ohm, and can vape well into the 50W range with no issues. I usually stay between 42-45W.

It took me a bit of trial and error to get my wicks just right, and found that when I was having issues like you mention it was because I was using way too much wick. Don't leave the ends so long that you find yourself "stuffing" the cotton into the deck. The ends of the wick should just reach the deck, with a little extra to fluff up and spread out evenly under the coils. I also poke up though the holes (with a dental pick) to slightly lift the cotton off the deck.

When you first saturate that wick it is going to expand, you need to leave some room for that.

HTH,
Dom

I have currently got a dual vertical coil set up in there-Granted, they are 26G ID 2MM coils coming out at 0.5, as I like vaping at lower power-but maybe this tank performs better at higher wattages.

I can use this up to around 42W now without dry hits, and flavour has definitely improved with vertical coils, plus it was 100% too much wick on my account.

I was wicking it before how I would a standard dripper-with the vertical coils, I have the cotton just resting on the base-and have left about 5MM of wick on the top side of the vertical coil, and it is nice.

I still am not finding it as good as the Crius, flavour wise that is amazing, and I use that with 26G ID 2MM standard coils, at around 0.4, and it needs 28 to 32W and this produces fantastic flavour, and believe it or not, cloud as well.

Whatever OBS is going to these tanks, wether it voodoo or whatever, I want it performed on my other tanks!

I will try a 3MM ID 26G build now, as the 2MM build is on my SS 6ml 3 post, my 3ML black version is velocity style.

I will let you know results as soon as I am done-6 wraps at 0.51 sound perfect, so I will actually do this right now, and get back to you with the results.

Thanks everyone, Conan.

 

[conanthewarrior]

I use 26awg Kanthal a1, 3mm ID, 6 wraps, horizontal coils coming in at 0.51 ohm, and can vape well into the 50W range with no issues. I usually stay between 42-45W.

It took me a bit of trial and error to get my wicks just right, and found that when I was having issues like you mention it was because I was using way too much wick. Don't leave the ends so long that you find yourself "stuffing" the cotton into the deck. The ends of the wick should just reach the deck, with a little extra to fluff up and spread out evenly under the coils. I also poke up though the holes (with a dental pick) to slightly lift the cotton off the deck.

When you first saturate that wick it is going to expand, you need to leave some room for that.

HTH,
Dom

WOW-These 3MM ID 26 gauge coils, at 0.5, vertical, are AMAZING.

I didn't go much on the aromamizer, but now, at 55W, it is full of flavour. Now, I do prefer vaping at 40W and under, as my batteries obviously die much faster at higher wattage.

But-this now has amazing flavour-and I can finally see WHY people like this tank so much.

I have plenty of new batteries-I changed from 25R's to HE4's as they seemed to give a tiny bit better life to me, plus I know by the colour which ones are my newer batteries (I do date them-although this wears off, but I have stuck it on with paper and tape on my newer batches).

VERY happy with the aromamizer now-now I just need to do this to my 6ML version .

Thank you for the advice-definitely a tank that performs better with bigger coils and slightly more power.

 

[domct203]

Glad it helped.

I think I need to try vertical coils again too, now that I understand how to wick this deck.

Dom