Want to get back into vaping, but it's hard. Basically, I've tried a lot of stuff and gotten some amazing tastes, but it all ends up tasting like crud; mixture of too hot of air, metal, and flavors just being ruined by the heat. If I turn down the wattage, it ends up being little to no vapor, and the occasional gurgle into my mouth. Yuck.
What am I doing wrong? I've spent a lot of money trying to solve this, and I don't want to spend any more if I can't get some good advice. Help me out with some products, recommendations, etc, thanks guys.
I've thought it was the following:
Things I haven't tried:
What am I doing wrong? I've spent a lot of money trying to solve this, and I don't want to spend any more if I can't get some good advice. Help me out with some products, recommendations, etc, thanks guys.
I've thought it was the following:
- Rewicking, oiling it up, etc. (including burning off the old stuff by really ramping the hell out of the coils.)
- My velocity and troll RDAs just needed a good ol soap bath. This worked a few times, but not most of the time. They were Chinese clones but doubt that matters.
- My cotton. Was using cotton bacon which was popular at the time.
- Using thicker/thinner cotton inside the coils.
- Made sure to leave my juice away from light, seal it extra tight.
- Turning down wattage, increasing coil resistance, different coil builds, prebuilt coils, etc.
- Hitting it slower (bad idea)
- If I hit a gas station vape (non-refillable), it's usually perfect compared to my RDAs. Maybe I need to try an RTA? I always burned out the cotton because of my thick blends though (I made sure to let them juice by dragging and not hitting. However usually used thick blends, 20pg/80vg.)
Things I haven't tried:
- Switching to a higher PG blend. I usually like 20 pg / 80 vg @ 6mg nic. Maybe I hit it too hard with these thicker blends? Might balance out with a higher PG and lower nic?
- Haven't tried any expensive RTA/RDAs that weren't clones, out of fear that I'll just be left off where I was.
