Iclear 30 coil finished in a week?

I bought the MVP 2.0 with an iclear 30 exactly one week ago. I bought other clearomizers, but I've mostly been using this head with some sweet MBV juice.

Since about yesterday I've been getting a burnt taste already, the flavor is just about done on it. I've read about this online, and I am pretty sure I can clean it and hopefully get a bit more life out of it, but it seems like most people really just replace the head. Is one week and 10ml of juice about right for needing a replacement on these?
It seems a bit short, but I could have done something wrong (maybe I vaped too quickly and burnt the wicks?). I am curious what lifespan (maybe amount of juice is a better measure than time since most people don't vape only one clearomizer at a time usually) you get from your iclear if you use one. Are Kanger/Aspire supposed to last longer or do they just work better and need to be replaced in about the same time?

It's not the most expensive thing in the world at 70B for a new head, but I wasn't vaping THAT much, I think 10ml in a week is not a lot at all. Hopefully this was just me being a newbie and possibly just chain vaping or something, but I don't know.
What is interesting too is that on my old cartomizers usually the flavor would die at about the same time the vapor production drastically declined. With this though, the flavor is pretty poor and burnt tasting, but to be honest, if you really needed the nic and didn't mind a poor flavor, it's still producing good vapor, it's just not tasting right.

 

Hi David,

i had the same order (MVP2 + Iclear30) about 2 months ago. My Iclear coil lasted at least 3 weeks (i'd guess 40-50 ml) before i had a noticeable lost of taste.

I've rebuild it with a single coil and it's working great (except my silica was old and then tasted like crap... but... other story)...

 

I don't want to rebuild but I would be happy with 40-50ml before the burnt taste.

It could be that I like sweet strong flavored juices and this was strawberry shortcake from MBV and it could possibly gunk it up quickly, but I am not sure. Could be my vaping style since I usually probably vape too quickly, maybe I'll try to slow it down a little and see if that extends the life. I'm not vaping on any high voltage or anything either, I'm not sure why it needs to be cleaned so quickly.

I've heard that cleaning it will really stretch out the life, thanks for the link. I'm going to give cleaning a shot shortly, I am a little afraid as when cleaning my old cartomizers about 75% of the time it was the same or worse after a clean anyways, I'm hoping this one comes out a little better.

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You get 2 months without a clean?? I have a mini Kanger and Aspire, I'm going to try to get better juice in them and give them a better try, that would be worth the upgrade. I have been using cheap-end juices that I had from a while back in them now and I think the juices are performing poorly, so I can't really compare them yet.

 

I haven't had tons of luck either, but it's worth a shot I guess, worst thing is I just have to replace the heads. I did hear about the soaking method although I don't know which one is really preferable, I used to always do the dry burns, but it seems to be a pretty big split as to how to clean them, I don't know that one is better than the other though.
I might try the soaking method one of these days, I just don't have vodka lying around and it is obviously much quicker to just rinse and dry fire a few times.
I thought I would have more time before I needed to replace heads, I think I will go stock up on replaceable coils really soon.

As far as the ramped up wattage, is that for sub ohm? My Kanger is 1.8 ohms I believe, and I vape them at fairly low wattage, I was under the impression that about 8 watts was the limit for this resistance?
I am still playing with the variable voltage/wattage and definitely haven't found my sweet spot, but I will keep that in mind before trying higher wattages next time, easy to do anyways.

 

I am pretty terrible with understanding the electrical issues, I thought that was supposed to be a hard rule, I didn't realize that certain coils took higher wattage better.

I will have to look up how to clean those coils, I want to change the juice in the Aspire K1 and I will have to clean out the old flavor, I will have to look up a video. The iclear is the one that people recommend to dry burn, at least now I know I need to watch some videos before cleaning the other brands.

 

are you talking about those ones ?



If so, that would explain the burn taste i have experienced above 9 watts indeed... But low vapor production under that though...

 

I use both the iClear 30 and 30 S. And I can easily go a month without problems now. Remember That both the Iclear 30 and 30 S tanks have coils with a long wick because they have topcoils where the Aspire and Kanger are buttom coils. So We get no help from gravity when we use these tanks. I have found that when especially with thicker juice, I had to hold the tank upside down or make some rolling movements to help the coil get some juice to the top of the coil, mostly when the tank is under half full. And yes a to fast quick draw might just net the coil in trouble not being able to transport enough juice to the top.

 

I guess being so new to this and not really knowing what I'm doing I might have been doing something wrong (of course it could have also been poor luck who knows.

But I had the iclear 30, not the S, maybe I should give that one a try as it seems to be an improvement. I would not use these much longer though if it keeps happening, they're cheap and they worked really well, but the flavor just went out on me too quick.

I actually tried to wash this one, I rinsed it, dried the bottom piece and atomizer, screwed it on to dry burn and it won't even fire up....I don't really know what happened as I didn't even rinse it that well (I plan to use the same flavor). I never was good at cleaning atomizers since I started, I hope I have better luck on the next one. I know people get a lot of life out of cleaning their equipment, but I always seem to have problems, not really with killing it, but usually the flavor or amount of vapor is terrible after I clean anyways, although these are much better built than the ones I've had experience with, so I'll keep trying!

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UPDATE: It's just not idiot proof and I screwed it in wrong, I didn't think that was possible, but if there's a way to do it wrong, I'll somehow end up there. Probably lucky it didn't fire screwed in wrong, but it's working now.

I actually found an almost finished bottle of vodka and decided to give it a soak too.

The wicks are falling out a bit, not sure if I should just let it go with less wicks or try to sort of stuf the ones that fell off in there, hopefully 14 wicks instead of 16 will still be ok, but I don't have high hopes for this atomizer working like new again anyways really.

 

If you're going to get a new tank anyway, just get rid of that iclear and grab yourself a nautilus

 

Unfortunately I just didn't know what I was doing and went for Kanger just because that was what was available, and I didn't want to go buy a new tank yet.

I think the iclear works REALLY well until it quickly doesn't then you have a poor performing coil or you have to replace it fairly quickly I guess.
Now I have been using the Kanger mini pro tank 3 and the Aspire K1, and they're both pretty good, but nothing amazing, just very good for a tank I think.

Now I am leaning towards getting on the drippers because I think the tanks are better left for time when I can't be using a dripper..

But one of these days I need to try the Nautilus and see what the hype is about