Hi
@Cor Sicarius and welcome to VU!
I am sorry you're having problems with the Atlantis....I had nothing but problems with my Nautilus (which the Atlantis is basically a Nautilus on steroids,) and it just turned out that I had a pack of coils that all 5 of them were bad. Let's see if we can't troubleshoot here and find the problem. I will do my best to help and I hope you don't give up and go back to the icky sticks. I am just going to list everything I can think of that could be the cause of your difficulties so if you've already tried some of these I apologize. Just trying to cover anything I can think of like I said....
Ok...you said you had an Atlantis before? Is this a second one you've purchased or just a new pack of coil heads giving you a hard time? Some things to look at on the tank is everything screwing together straight or is it slightly crooked? I ask because I had a protank 2 that constantly instantly burned coils and would never wick right and always taste burnt and finally one day fiddling with it, on the verge of throwing it out the window of my bathroom into the street, I looked at it just right and realized the center stem was crooked....I had replaced the glass, all the orings, tried a different base and nothing worked....I put all of the old parts on a new top cap and then it was like night and day and whole different tank. If the coils aren't screwing in straight and everything is slightly crooked it can throw off the pressure of the vacuum and seal inside the tank causing it to not wick right and ruin everything.
If the center stem is straight then I would while the tank is still empty make sure that the bottom seal and the o-ring at the top is making a good seal and the top one is installed right...I know a bunch of the Nautilus tanks had the top o-ring installed upside down at the factory and a bunch of tanks causing hell for a bunch of people and it was as simple of fix as flipping it over.
I say (well type) this all the time and I am sure I'll be typing it for a lot more time as well...but I don't trust the QC of factory made coils for any clearomizer tank anymore....they are so mass produced now in such great numbers that it is entirely possible to get an entire pack of bad coils....I had the same problem with the original BDC coils for the Nautilus....out of 7 of those coil heads six didn't last more than 2 days and the seventh failed when I turned it up .1 past 4 volts on my old Provari.
Also...you said you've tried soaking it in juice for a day or two before using it right? Did you drip a drop or two directly on the holes where the juice feeds into the coils on the sides and/or in the top around the edges on the wicking material? I always drip on the sides and the top just like I did when I used carto tanks...these coils are basically little cartomizers and priming them the same wait drastically cuts down on wait time to use them....and just like cartos....if you fire the coil before it's fully saturated all the way threw you'll burn the bitch and never get that taste out and its shitty I know but what can you do?
If the seals are good and there's no crack in the glass and the coil is properly saturated and primed and the center post isn't bent and crooked and the coil screws into the base straight and those threads are cross threaded or mis threaded causing the coil to sit crooked and you try another coil and it instantly burns then I reckon you just have a bad tank and the only way to fix it is to take it back and trade it if you can....
like I said, I've had my fair and unfair share of the same problem and one time it was a bent center stem and the other time it was literally 7 bad coils....but don't let it discourage you and give up on vaping....I know it sucks but sometimes you just get a bummer tank and have to swap it for a good one....that being said....I didn't immediately stop smoking when I started vaping...it took a couple months to fully make the switch. And I can honestly say that the we have today that even when it's fucking up and burning coils like you're having problems with is still better than some of the best gear we had when I started so do give up. You will find a good vape and you will like and you will succeed....i have faith.
Good luck and here's hoping for a good vape
