Came for the wick, stayed for the beard

I swear, your tone is so soft and soothing. Wish more KZfaqrs would have your tone instead of being so loud and hyper. You earned a subscriber.

I knew that tight wicking is better than loose, but since I wick it really hard, like you suggest, its much better and smoother. Keep on your good work and ideas. Cheers from Germany

My new favorite vaping channel, that's it. Been vaping for a about 12 months and one thing that really really bothered me until now was the amount of "myths" and "axioms" that were told, but without any technical and scientific approach and explanation. Now I found this Nordic guy, explaining the exact way I always wanted, with technical experiments and very empirically. You don't know how much I appreciate the work you've been doing. You got a fan. Greetings from Brazil!

I just started running a parallel 26g kanthal coil in a new rda and was having trouble with dry hits, I just happened to be watching your video on the Entheon and made my way over to this. Thank you very much for this. I use Muji, tripled my wick thickness and didn't remove the exterior like usual, no dry hits and way more dense and saturated vapour. Subscribed! I hope you'll continue to make videos in future!

Another great video Morten. I've started hammering my kanthal using your technique and I've got to say that I love the flavor and the vapor production. After seeing your wicking videos I've started wicking my flat wire builds tighter. Your ideas work and I love that you've actually done a lot of testing to find out what works the best for you.

your beard says angry viking but your voice says "i'm the bob ross of vaping" haha... thanks a lot for the experiments!

Love the way you think out of the box.. Thanks

It all makes perfect sense to me. I have progressively wicked tighter by trial and error, and will now try very tight thanks to you.

Morten, thank you so much for this. I just heavy wicked my recurve RDA. on my on my pulse squonk mod. No doubt about it denseness, warmth. most of all the taste jumped levels! thanks again.

Very interesting approach with the sound. 👍. Thanks for the video.

I just found out that this channel exists but i have to say: i love it! This is not your average kind of vaping channel where they spread bro science this is *actual* science made by you Sir. I am actually very curious what you do for a living. I mean there aren't many people who can make this type of scientific research and I would really not be suprised if you would work as some sort of a scientist.

Best vape video ive seen yet,both parts. Thank you for taking the time to produce these video look forward to watching your other videos and future video ☺

Great video and great explanation. This is the kind of info on vaping I've been looking for.

You changed my vaping experience. Thank you.

I’ve been saying this for years man. Just not as sciency as you just did lol It used to be you want to wick it so you can pull it through with little resistance and you can slide the cotton some without the mod falling over But in my time dripping I found that to not be true So glad someone is proving this!

I have been vaping with cellucotton and a vandy vape mesh RDA which allows a very very tight wick because you install 1 end of mesh then cotton then wrap the mesh around. Your sound experiment in a tight wick is exactly as I have gotten from trial and error. I have found for mesh the tighter the better. Great job

thank u for another special video!!!!!!very nice set up the surric with my best flavour rda the recoil look i cant say the word.you know what your doing!!!!!!keep on doing amazing videos

Hello Morten. I wanted to take a moment to thank you for these series of videos. I'm new to RDA building and have moved from using cotton with aglets (Firebolt, Wotofo XFiber, Cotn Threads). I have a Lost Vape Drone with a Recurve Dual running Quad Core Fused Claptons that build around .13-.14. I've struggled with wicking over the last few days when following the accepted style of wicking more loosely. Since wicking more loosely, I've noticed much more gurgle and spitback, the flavor fades very quickly and I have to squonk much more. Also the cotton dries out after a couple of hits. By wicking much more tightly I get minimal gurgle and spitback and it's the best for flavor. I run less wattage and get more dense and warm vapor. The cotton also stays saturated much longer. Thank you again for taking the time to create this series. It's made a huge difference in the consistency and quality of my vape. Much respect to you sir!

Great information, simple yet effective.

I applied this to my RTA which has two fused Clapton coils. I had the same results as your experiment. Massive dense flavorful vape with the thinker wick.

thanks for this video, as a new vaper this helped me tremendously, I now no longer have sputtering issues and flavor improved tremendously with a thicker, tighter wick!

Very very nice, thank you so much! I've found it to be working astonishingly for me, with spaced coils. Voopoo's rune rda, dual coils, 0.17 ohms, 53 watts, half airflow, 3.5mm diameter fused claptons (2 x 30ga ss316l and 40ga ss316l, 3 wraps), 2mm wrap spacing. Wasp nano rda, single coil, 0.18 ohms, 42 watts, half airflow, 3.5 mm dia 22ga ni80 3 wraps, 1.5mm wrap spacing. Both on cotton bacon prime. Split into 4, parallel to the strains, then cut in half for each coil. Scottish rolling, extremely tight, no fluffing. Flavor is amazing. Ridiculous!

Recently discovered your channel. And I got to say it's great to see and hear your inputs throughout your videos and also might I add a very calming voice commentary which is great. I will be watching more as I have been doing so and also if it's OK when needed at the right time I would love to ask you a few questions and advice throughout all aspects of vaping. As there are some areas I'm struggling with. Anyways hope you all the best keep up the great work and love to see more and hopefully talk to you in future . Many thanks

I’m liking these well explained clear videos,

Thanks again for such informative vids. *Food for thought* I tried wicking harder and saw an improvement but like you I found it frustratingly hard to put the wick in..SO, I took a 20/80 PG/VG, no nicotine or flavoring and wet the thicker wick enough to compress it and make insertion much easier. Once in, I noticed the new wick growing dark with my flavored ejuice in the tank. The first side was almost to the coil before I could finish positioning the other side. The setup is a Wismec RX Gen3 with a Vandyvape Perseus on top with one .95 ohm Fused Clapton (Demon Killer) coil at 25 watts. Before, and using a fluffy wick I found the top outside of the wick would touch the cover and ejuice would build up there and char. I think this 'hard wicking' will solve that problem. Thanks again and keep on experimenting. ;-)

Awesome video again Morten. Have a lot of things to break my brain over now. 😂

Thnx so much for your Videos about wicking. The sound of Vaping was a hughe problem for me in the past. Now I re-wicked most of my singlecoil Devices tighter and the crackling-noise sounds not so bad any more for me. Greetz from Germany, Follow & Like is for you and your channel. And sorry for my bad english. ♎🗣️💨

Have to say I agree with your hypothesis - it makes sense. Similarly the bubble size will constrain the wave length of the formed sounds, similar to how a tweeter has a smaller cone than a subwoofer because the wavelengths are smaller. It's like a mechanical signal filter

I've had a couple of bocks tonight and couldn't go into the scientific element, but Morten it is very nice to see a contrary perspective to what's considered the "status quo" in the vaping community. Too much information whether false or positive is pushed as the "only" way without any afterthought or dispute, most of the time even evidence and research. I hope you can continue to make us all think a little differently.

Another great video Morten 👍 I have actually been wicking very tight for the last year or so. I feel it prevents popping and it holds more juice, so I don’t need too drip as often. I saw a video from rip tripper where he showed a Scottish roll wicking technique. Your videos are very interesting and I’m glad I found your canal.

totally agreed ,got good vape ,no crackling anymore , thanks man

4:30 I swear hes saying "mm little skittles" Haha lmao

I've been enjoying these videos on wicking and I think your methods are pretty good. What I've been thinking about is those methods in application inside the wide range of atomizers out there. I've been using rebuildables exclusively for about 2 years and have experimented quite a bit with coil placement and wicking, and for the atties I use, moderate wick with thinner tails has been most successful. For RDAs, I can use much more wick than anything with a juice reservoir. My favorite atomizer at the moment is the Serpent RDTA. Increasing the wick in my coil choked it off completely and I started getting dry hits in no time. I went back to my usual method of thinning and trimming the tails so that there's much less volume in that part of the wick than the part in the coil. Still, I can't go super tight with my wick because the amount of cotton in the tails that will wick fast enough doesn't carry enough juice to the cotton in the coil to keep it saturated if it's super tight. I've experienced the same thing in the Serpent RTA and the Govad RTA. The Griffin 22, oddly, I can always jam with cotton and it wicks fine. I think this may be in part due to the chamber shape. So outside of simple RDAs, where we're getting into reduced chambers, juice channels, and bends and pressure on our cotton, what principles still apply to guide us?

Excellent Video. Thanks a lot!!!

Great work Morten Oen ... you are doing great for vapers community... However you talk so slow that I slept twice during your video... Then I downloaded your audio and played it 3x times faster..... it helped a lot. Keep up the good work....... Hats off

Thank you Morten, I will be trying to Wick Hard.

ok now i need to try very hard thanks for the infos !

Morten, you have started something here that is hard to put away. An additional thought about hard wicking. How about creating a 'wick rope' ? I've taken 3 equal lengths of the amount of cotton I would have usally use one and after inserting fluffed it up. Holding one end of the 3 wicks together I started twisting one clockwise and wrapping it counter-clockwise around the other 2. Continuing until I reached the other end. The end result was a 3mm cotton wick rope. Then threaded and kind of pulled and turned it with the twist as I pulled it through. Afterwards, I realized that had I reversed the initial process...i.e. twisting each strand counter-clockwise and wrapping clockwise that I could have just started the wick through the coil and screwed it in while maintaining a pull on the insertion end. With this setup I am using a Wismec RX Gen 3 with an SXK 1:1 Haku Phenom, a single Demon Killer .48 ohm fused clapton at 40 watts, drawing 4.38 volts and 9.1 amps. The flavor and cloud production is good. I also have a ramp-up/pre-heat set to 60 watts for 0.2 seconds. I don't know how to attach a photo but if you are interested we could figure out a way to get a pic to you. The wick build looks strange with it twisting into the coil but it is swelling with ejuice and presently shows no signs of burning. Time will tell. Thanks again for your vids. I will keep you up to date on my experiments.

"#1 had a ramp up time the others didnt." that actually explains the issue ive been having with coils taking 2-3 seconds to "wake up" i will try to go tighter and see if it helps.

Hi Morten, i didn't know you where there before yesterday :-D You have really find your self a nisje about vaping. Seen all your testing vids and i am impressed. BTW, i lives in Nittedal too... :-D

Your technique works incredibly well. I wicked a quad core 316ss 6 wrap alien and the wape is amazingly dense and flavorful. I just spaced the wraps out with the tweezers of doom cause the wick was so tight it pulled all the wraps together. I'm very grateful, thank you sir!

much respect for the info i have a hard time wicking dono when its too little or too much but my cutton never dries equal and sometimes dry hits or the cutton in the middle between the coils goes black and the sides still wet, but its called vaping not waping bro

Wish you would have stated the BRAND of the Japanese Cotton. I have found there to be substantial differences between brands, with "Koh Gen Do" brand being the best. Especially when taking into account things like flavor neutrality, lack of bleaches (safety), and scorch resistance. I have found that "Koh Gen Do" is more likely to survive dry hits than other cheaper brands. It also has a cleaner taste and is the purest and safest JOC on the market. IMHO

Thanks for all the info. So I have the proper amount to use in my mind - did you leave the "skins" on the cotton pads or did you peel them? Thanks for the width #'s as that's a great starting point. Thanks in advance. :)

So wick real tight on rda only or can it be use on rta too

I have a question, is this true with tanks as well?? Because from my experience with tanks if the wicking us to tight, theirs a significant loss in flavor.

So wait... I use primarily fused Claptons and framed staple coils. Should I not be wicking very tight as shown in this method?

great video owen thank you for this, but I tried already the heavy wicking it seems the popping is gone and i dont know if its just me but i notice the flavor decrease. I actually love the popping effects cause I notice im getting more flavor and clouds. i dont know, maybe its just me. but what can you say about this? thanks for your reply

Thank you Oen. I'm using 24ga nichrome, so if I understood correctly you say a heavier guage wire will burn a tighter wick? I'll have to rewatch the video but if i recall you recomend using 32ga and finer? what is your opinion on coil spacing? I'll keep watching more of your videos.

Have you considered that perhaps that adding more wicking materials (thicker wick/tighter) allowed for a better plume/vapor production due to more eliquid already being available to vaporize at the coil. Have you done any tests on the actual wicking speed of the tighter coils under heat, as this test is already pre-saturated. I'm just curious if when gravity isn't an issue (usually wicking horizontially and heat is applied, which speed would the liquid wick to the center/coil. I'm more curious if the more threads actually increase the pull of the ejuice or this wicking gain is due to the 'bandwidth' of the cotton being added in (more strands = more volume/surface area to wick up.

Also factory produced wickes in ready made coils is VERY hard... take one apart!

I wick my coils as tight as I can get them, have been doing this for years now. I found that you get zero spit back and the sound is far less annoying to my wife lol. Your RDA is quieter and the wicking lasts longer between re-wicks.

Now a question. What about using mesh for coils. I'm not talking about a mesh rda like the vandy vape mesh, I'm talking about actual coils made of mesh.

Again, most excellent experiment and information, amigo. I will be getting away from my staggered fused claptons now for a while and back to some simpler round wire SS builds to run these tests for myself. The problem with the massive metal coils for me is the core heat not disappating quickly enough and resulting in the core cotton inside the coil burning out over a short time leaving good wick at the end of the coil and a hollow center. Spaced is somewhat better but still the heat retained in the big metal is an ongoing issue. Looking forward to some testing myself. Your experiments with wicking has been very helpful.

And yes I do believe there is a middle ground when it comes to wicking..

Thanks bruh!

How about the flavor on tight wick oen?

Cloud chasing with Morten :)

very interesting

thats 22g? i mean wow thats crazy even if its hammer amazingly well

My best flavour and cloud experience is, that 18mm wide japanese cotton pads with removed top & bottom layers works best with ø3.5mm of the following coils. Kanthal: 4x (0.8x0.1mm flat) + 2x 0.4mm round, twisted, 7 wraps, Ω0.16, 96 Watt's - inside a Vandy Vape Pulse or Pyro & 1mm space between bottom to coils, between coils and coils and Airflow pipes. It tastes like you put the liquid direct into the mouth, and the clouds are like in a Disco club. :-) (It can't be compared with a Goon 1.5 & same coil and cotton setup. Goon is less effective.) >>All kind's of claptons as well as staggered are not doing any good for me. My coils are my favorites, and I've build many different kind's

Doesn't hard wicking takes out flavor? I Always have problem with burnt taste when I wick too hard

I confirm all what you find out in scientific way, the sound of blasting blubbes, changes from an low to high pitch,and fro a High frequenzy to a lower by increasing the bubble who cracks. The same you can expect in a fiew days big firecrackers make high Pitch and duller sound, in opposite to smallcrackers with a higher sound and a lower pitch. all fine and best wishes at the shortest day of the year.

Hey Morten. I've been trying to get a question through to you. I can't hammer out wire in my apartment. I just don't have the time, equipment or sound deadening.😆 can I use ribbon wire instead? I'm fascinated by this flat wire hypothesis of yours.

I would assume that all of this is applicable to RTAs as well right? I am a newb and wanted to confirm before I wick “hard”! I am using round wire kanthal a1 26g, regular single wire coil

I wonder if the same is true for RTAs, given enough deck space?

why not do this with more complex coils? such a great video, thanks!

Flóki is that you?

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That #5 still shot is so beautiful. Could you email that to me please? I'd like it for my wallpaper. Thanks.

do you love skittles or is that the cameraman at #4?

Can you be my best vape friend

What size flat wire? (In this video)

Should i care about it? I just paint my coils with the juice

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