So i did some cleaning and dig out a bottle of Mister-E-Liquid's Jade Tiger with at least 25ml left in the bottle. Prolly have been sitting for at least 7-8 month

Nose test what i can get is only oily-ish smell, with a very faint hint of watermelon. Cant remember how it taste like when it was brand new.

A few test on my dripper and all i can taste is very hint watermelon and oily type taste. Not to the point of disgust but still vapable.

I am just curious are they suppose to taste like this, or still safe to vape.

Will be a waste to throw this away like some of the local juice that gunk up the coil and destroy your cotton in less then a single tank(i.e. horny mango).

thanks to the input from u guys.

vaping this for a while, all in all they just taste oily. watermelon scent is very hard to detect. Prolly all flavor had oxidize into something else.

content is going into the sink, saving the bottle for reuse.

about to embark into the realm of diy juice with simple 2-3 flavor recipe.

really miss bro Tristan's mojito and gambit.

a friend run his Griffin 25 on a RX200 with a heat sink, looks all right and running without problem. The griffin's AFC ring taper down abit from the actual tank so didnt effect much look wise.

TFV4 Full Kit and 80W Cloupor GT

well anyway, i am letting go 2 of my heavily under utilize item.

0.46 ohm single contact SS coil, firing at 20w 430F on rx200s. Tank is a Crown if that matter.

TCR was set to 118 as suggested by djlsb as it is more accurate on the graph he test.

damn it, TC doenst give me a satisfying vape. not like kanthal.

my juice tasted slightly different from what i am used to as well.

keep hitting temperature resist and i can see it is firing between 6-12w only.

what do i do wrong here.

had tried this previously as well on my other tank with velocity styled deck.

maybe i need to hold on for a few more days to get used to this and try to like previously it is only 1 tank of juice and then i gave up return to kanthal.

the vaper is much more cooler though, and tank doesnt get too warm from chain vaping. just that i cant get a satisfying pull after a dozen of chain vaping. Maybe cotton had dried and need time to rewick ?? hmm.

more tinkering on what works for me is required.

yup, ohm was lock. Dry fire first to make sure the coils are firing properly, let it cool and then lock the ohm before i actually vape on it.

taste was a tiny bit different from my usual kanthal build. Probably i am too used to kanthal wire.

increase my temperature to 450-460 from 430 and it is actually firing decent, wattage hover around 13-15 when temp protection kicks in.

just have to see what works for me.

have anyone notice there is a hint of metallic or weird taste after you switch from TC to VW on the same SS build ?

wire was a donation from a friend with a spool of Geekvape SS316L.

I use contact SS316L on power mode. Not enough space on my deck to build a spaced coil, and honestly they feel the same to me, just that with spaced coil generally they will fire even and properly in one test fire.

No erratic changes in my resistance. Maybe sometime around 0.02 only.

Check if the screw on your post is properly tightened, or the leads is trim nicely, or if the deck is secured and tightened properly to the contact pin.

Same thing to report, my trusty subtank mini never leak on me.

Crown leak when i refill at the top, good thing is i can fill it in from the bottom. Apart from that, never leak on me as well.

This is the step i use if i am using my Griffin 25, after refill close the top terbalik let all juice go down and then only open up juice control, AFC was left open. So far its been good.

On my top refill crown, i can see gush and gush of bubble coming up when i am just halfway refilling. By this time, u better have a lot of tissue with you quick. It happens even with the AFC close off. I am having top fill leakophobia on my Crown since. It was my first refill using that tank, change to bottom since and working well.

pretty sure i have seen tank review with top air flow only man, but could not remember which one.

It was claim to be leak free.

how many kayfun 5 user here ? how is the tank treating u guys ?

my usual build ( twisted 26 ss316 2.5 ID 5 wraps) just could not bring the same flavor out like my crown.

on my crown the flavor is like a bomb explode.

On the KF5 it is muted. I can taste all kind of flavor on the crown ( juice was Teleos The Milk), same juice on the KF5 just cereal and nothing else. Though the tank's inhale quality was damn smooth and excellent, and does not whistle or make weird sound on the tightest one dot AFC setting.

Build quality of the clone was surprisingly so much better then my authentic crown.

thanks to everyone for the reply of their build, appreciate it.

Just switch to regular 26g kanthal 2.5 ID around 6 wraps to give me 0.7x ohm.

So the tank does not like anything more then regular build. On tightest one dot AF setting i am starting to taste stuff now though still not like a bomb explode.

One thing i can notice off the bat is the tank is not damn hot from chain vaping, not like from my twisted build. Cotton last longer now surprisingly( The Milk is sweet to begin with), and of course lower juice consumption. KF5 is thirsty on my twisted build.

Wicking wise i like to shave a lot of cotton off using my tweezers. 1.5 turn of JFC is enough to wet them cotton on 70VG juice.

Gonna hold on and explore some more with other build.

My is a twisted 316L 26 AWG, 2.5mm. Sometime the same build but using kanthal wire.

I make sure the cotton is tight with only very small resistance when being pulled, and then shave the excess cotton off from coil to tail using a tweezer until they are thin. Cut away access if they are too long. Pull the cotton up, close the barrel of the RBA and softly poke the cotton back into the juice channel with your tweezer. Prime it, test fire and you are all good.

I have been using the Crown for quite a long time and was never once successful in doing top fill on this tank.

Leak 2-3 times, first time was the tank telling me i dont like top fill on the first time with the tank, the rest was the tank telling me my cotton is way too damn thin when i got it wrong.

Had never dry hit before on the Crown. I find the tank is very forgiving and always give me great flavor. It is basically the only tank i use now and the rest is siting in their own package waiting for me to sold them off. I only use my dripper when its time to buy some juice i am not familiar with at the local B&M.

My technic is strictly for 70VG and above juice. For 50-50, i only shave some off but still the same way.

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Clearing some of my stuff.

How was the velvet cake thing ?

I bought that pop corn a long time before. Specifically pick the 6mg. When time to vape it, it taste nothing like a 6mg more like 12mg above. The throat hit is too damn strong for a vape.

Juice taste a bit pepper and spicy, and corn taste, no caramel. Could be they just use a cheap nicotine base for their juice. Sat too long and the nicotine just "expired"

I cannot even finish a tank. Steeping them wont work.

Juice turn dark because nicotine oxidized.

I too bought stuff from vivaport before. Good seller.

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RX200S added.

thanks guys.

If you are just crossing over to vaping from cigarette, basically you will go back to cigarette in 1 hour tops if u vape juice without nicotine. Unless you are VERY EXTREMELY discipline and determined to never again return to cigarette.

Thats why it is recommended to vape juice with nicotine.

The thing is local made juice always lie on the actual amount of their nicotine. A local juice with 6mg label may be an actual 0mg juice.

I suggest try a bunch of juice that fit your flavor profile in store, choose juice that give u this hit in the throat sensation when you inhale. A 0mg juice wont give you this sensation.

Ever since i use SS, kanthal has this tiny metallic taste to it to me. Juice tasted much "brighter" on SS 316L.

SS can fire at a much lower wattage. The same build of a dual wire twisted 26GA kanthal and SS , kanthal tasted mellower or "darker", and the vapor is very much more warmer if i want to get a long satisfying pull out of it.

That is to me, YMMV.