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[atssec97]

I am a newbie looking for the dumb question section of the forum! I did a quick search and didn't find anything that answers my dumb question so I will just throw it out there and hope my fellow vapors can help me answer it!
I get a loud popping sound from some of my devices accompanied by a splattering of juice. At times its very loud and I can taste hot drops of juice in my mouth. What would be causing this and how can I avoid it?
As always thank you for the help and my vaping education!!

 

[Huckleberried]

What are you using?

I love that sound! Hot juice, not so much. I don't get that very often at all.

 

[Bacong]

there's a multitude of things it could be. your coil could be flooded, or going bad, or you could have juice leaking into the airway (or some that has built up there). it would help to know what you're vaping on.

 

[atssec97]

Hi Huck,
I am using the Kangertech sub tank plus with the factory .5 ohm coils. At 10 watts on an IPV4 mod. Also get the worst popping and splattering with my dark horse RBA. I don't mind the sound although it does catch me off guard occasionally and is somewhat startling. I just do not like the HOT juice in my mouth! Just trying to figure out what causes it. I mixed a bottle of a Bahama Mama juice and that seems to be what i get the worst of the popping from. All of my juices do the popping sound but the BM juice is the worst so far. I have been mixing my juices 50/50 or better on the VG side. Could it be caused by the temp of the coil reacting to the juice maybe? Does e juice have a boiling point? Any thoughts?

 

[atssec97]

Hi Huck,
I am using the Kangertech sub tank plus with the factory .5 ohm coils. At 10 watts on an IPV4 mod. Also get the worst popping and splattering with my dark horse RBA. I don't mind the sound although it does catch me off guard occasionally and is somewhat startling. I just do not like the HOT juice in my mouth! Just trying to figure out what causes it. I mixed a bottle of a Bahama Mama juice and that seems to be what i get the worst of the popping from. All of my juices do the popping sound but the BM juice is the worst so far. I have been mixing my juices 50/50 or better on the VG side. Could it be caused by the temp of the coil reacting to the juice maybe? Does e juice have a boiling point? Any thoughts?

@Bacong More info!

 

[Zamazam]

Hi Huck,
I am using the Kangertech sub tank plus with the factory .5 ohm coils. At 10 watts on an IPV4 mod. Also get the worst popping and splattering with my dark horse RBA. I don't mind the sound although it does catch me off guard occasionally and is somewhat startling. I just do not like the HOT juice in my mouth! Just trying to figure out what causes it. I mixed a bottle of a Bahama Mama juice and that seems to be what i get the worst of the popping from. All of my juices do the popping sound but the BM juice is the worst so far. I have been mixing my juices 50/50 or better on the VG side. Could it be caused by the temp of the coil reacting to the juice maybe? Does e juice have a boiling point? Any thoughts?

10 watts is way too low for a Subtank with a .5 Ohm coil, You are getting popping and snapping because the coil is flooded. I suspect the same with the RDA, not vaporizing the juice efficently. The Kanger subtank needs to be run at 25-40 watts with a .5 ohm coil. Your RDA, based on the build will need more than 25-40 watts. Subtanks are designed to put out lots of vapor, they run the best with higher watts, same with drippers. Try it for a while, I think the popping and snapping with juice spit back will cease once you get the juice to the vaporization temperature quicker.

 

[atssec97]

10 watts is way too low for a Subtank with a .5 Ohm coil, You are getting popping and snapping because the coil is flooded. I suspect the same with the RDA, not vaporizing the juice efficently. The Kanger subtank needs to be run at 25-40 watts with a .5 ohm coil. Your RDA, based on the build will need more than 25-40 watts. Subtanks are designed to put out lots of vapor, they run the best with higher watts, same with drippers. Try it for a while, I think the popping and snapping with juice spit back will cease once you get the juice to the vaporization temperature quicker.

Wow! Seriously? I am new to vaping so your help is very much appreciated. I have found that if I run the factory .5 ohm coil at anything higher than 11.5 watts and vape it, i start to get a burnt cotton taste. At first I thought i had a bad coil so I swapped to a brand new one and in short order ran into the same problem. I tore the original coil apart and looked at it and everything was clean, no build up of any kind on the kanthal wire, cotton appeared stained from juice but wasn't black or anything. Now I'm really confused. lol
Both coils were from the same box? Bad batch of coils?

 

[Bacong]

^yup

 

[Bacong]

Wow! Seriously? I am new to vaping so your help is very much appreciated. I have found that if I run the factory .5 ohm coil at anything higher than 11.5 watts and vape it, i start to get a burnt cotton taste. At first I thought i had a bad coil so I swapped to a brand new one and in short order ran into the same problem. I tore the original coil apart and looked at it and everything was clean, no build up of any kind on the kanthal wire, cotton appeared stained from juice but wasn't black or anything. Now I'm really confused. lol

did you prime the coil before you used it?

 

[atssec97]

did you prime the coil before you used it?

I did prime the coils, dripped 4 or 5 in the center and could see juice at each of the hole. filled tank and set it upright for a minute or two before putting it on my mod. Hope I did that right!!

 

[atssec97]

Would airflow be a factor? On some juice I like to reduce the amount of air to the coil, seems to bring out more flavor than with it wide open.

 

[atssec97]

10 watts is way too low for a Subtank with a .5 Ohm coil, You are getting popping and snapping because the coil is flooded. I suspect the same with the RDA, not vaporizing the juice efficently. The Kanger subtank needs to be run at 25-40 watts with a .5 ohm coil. Your RDA, based on the build will need more than 25-40 watts. Subtanks are designed to put out lots of vapor, they run the best with higher watts, same with drippers. Try it for a while, I think the popping and snapping with juice spit back will cease once you get the juice to the vaporization temperature quicker.

On my RDA i have it built with duel Clapton coils reading at .58 ohms and much more than 40 watts the popping and splattering is terrible. at 50 to 60 watts its worse and the vape is so HOT i don't care for it at all. I attributed all of that to the atomizer, only one I've got and I'm not sure about the quality of the product.

 

[Zamazam]

Ok, put in more wicking in the RDA's coils, it should be a tad tight. The popping is coming from juice between the wick and coil getting super heated. Had the same issue with my claptons, a tighter wick will reduce the pops.

 

[Zamazam]

Wow! Seriously? I am new to vaping so your help is very much appreciated. I have found that if I run the factory .5 ohm coil at anything higher than 11.5 watts and vape it, i start to get a burnt cotton taste. At first I thought i had a bad coil so I swapped to a brand new one and in short order ran into the same problem. I tore the original coil apart and looked at it and everything was clean, no build up of any kind on the kanthal wire, cotton appeared stained from juice but wasn't black or anything. Now I'm really confused. lol
Both coils were from the same box? Bad batch of coils?

ah, got the solution. Some of the Kanger coil heads are packed tightly with cotton. Take a pin or needle tip tweezers and tease out and loosen the cotton at the juice inlet holes. Happened to me a couple times...Easy fix.

 

[PuffPuffPass]

Sometimes, it's just the heating of the juice. Not always. But sometimes.

Low ohm/watt myths aside.

 

[Bacong]

Sometimes, it's just the heating of the juice. Not always. But sometimes.

Low ohm/watt myths aside.

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was that a 25 second drag?

 

[VapeRN]

As others have said, you need to up the wattage to get to around 3.7 to 4.0 volts. I find that's the sweet spot so around 28w should work. Also, you should probably be taking long airy hits on this tank at this set up. More airflow will allow even vaporization of the juice.


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[atssec97]

Ok, put in more wicking in the RDA's coils, it should be a tad tight. The popping is coming from juice between the wick and coil getting super heated. Had the same issue with my claptons, a tighter wick will reduce the pops.

AHHH! To me that makes sense. I will try that and see if that cleans it up some. I really am not into a lot of wattage unless it will release some hidden flavor in my juice mixes. I mix higher VG and I get enough cloud to blow my oh's so I am happy with that!! Just hate the popping and splattering.
Zam, I really appreciate your help!

 

[atssec97]

ah, got the solution. Some of the Kanger coil heads are packed tightly with cotton. Take a pin or needle tip tweezers and tease out and loosen the cotton at the juice inlet holes. Happened to me a couple times...Easy fix.

I did notice when I tore apart the stock coil that the cotton was really packed into that little space really very tight. Going to try to fluff it up a bit and see what happens. Worse case I will tear that sucker apart and rebuild it!! Thanks again for all your help!

 

[Jimi]

What Zam said in post #14

 

[atssec97]

Sometimes, it's just the heating of the juice. Not always. But sometimes.

Low ohm/watt myths aside.

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Nice!!!! I like that little rba for the kanger tanks!! One day i am going to figure out how to put a clapton in that too!! Haha! If I could ever figure out how to make one with smaller wire! My eyes are not what they once were!!!
Thanks for the tip on Juices!! will have to pay attention to what I am using and see if different mixes give me trouble.

 

[atssec97]

What Zam said in post #14

Thanks Jimi !

 

[PuffPuffPass]

was that a 25 second drag?

I wish But, its an MVP 3 box. Times out at 12, I've never made it that far though. That was probably a 7 or 8 sec hit.

 

[atssec97]

As others have said, you need to up the wattage to get to around 3.7 to 4.0 volts. I find that's the sweet spot so around 28w should work. Also, you should probably be taking long airy hits on this tank at this set up. More airflow will allow even vaporization of the juice.


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Thanks, I am going to play with it some more and see what I can come up with. I sure appreciate it!

 

[atssec97]

10 watts is way too low for a Subtank with a .5 Ohm coil, You are getting popping and snapping because the coil is flooded. I suspect the same with the RDA, not vaporizing the juice efficently. The Kanger subtank needs to be run at 25-40 watts with a .5 ohm coil. Your RDA, based on the build will need more than 25-40 watts. Subtanks are designed to put out lots of vapor, they run the best with higher watts, same with drippers. Try it for a while, I think the popping and snapping with juice spit back will cease once you get the juice to the vaporization temperature quicker.

Zam your the man!! I've been tinkering with this stock coil and a few pokes with a needle and a little fluffing of the cotton and I have that sucker at 27 watts chucking even bigger clouds and chain vaping as I always do and not a single dry hit!!! Thank you so much for your input!!! That shit is packed in there like concrete!!!!

 

[CorallineAlgae]

You would be much better off using the 1.2 ohm coil heads next time. I get a much nicer low watt vape from those heads with no popping or spit back.
I've put Clapton coils in the RBA section a couple of times and is can have a little spitback but it's minor. The prebuilt Clapton wire from UD works pretty well for the Subtank RBA with a 2-2.5mm rod. You can fit a .5-1.6 ohm UD Clapton coil in there. I aim for a 1.2 ohm coil. It's a nice coil size for a cool low watt vape, although twisted wire is probably my favorite for RBA tanks.