Thank you for doing more than anyone in the vaping community to keep people safe and informed about our batteries!

Mooch has just made it so more people spend money when not needed. If you do some checking you will notice. There are much cheaper batteries then what he recommands that all just as safe.

So I'm guessing you have some test results on these "much cheaper" batteries for us then? I'm not seeing how he has an interest in making you spend more money. It's about quality over quantity.

The interest lay where people who have more would rather spend more money. There plenty of videos on youtube for best cheap batteries. Nothing more to say.

Thank you Schalk! I really thought this last video was not necessary, but it was asked for, and it is cool to watch all the other experiments come together. And I too has a totally different vape and flavor than when I started this journey 10 weeks ago with all of you fine people!

IKR?! I had an RDA that I was about to shelf, and after watching these videos, it's right up there with the others. Definitely changed how I build, and I pay more attention to the details of the build, which makes a huge difference on the result. This man will be a legend of the vaping community.

Oh, they are watching allright... ;-)

Thank you, sir, for the kind words:-) Your story is not very different from my own.

Thank you Randy. Yeah, I know about having a lot of equipment to choose from:-) Wicking very tight solved a lot of inconsistency problems for me. Now testing RDAs make a lot more sense and is way more predictable.

Thank you :-)

I did a live stream demonstrating your wicking method, it's now up on my YT channel. I included a link to your channel. Thank you for your hard work! :)

Thank you, Rowella! A year ago I was as ignorant as everybody else. Then I asked a simple question that no one knew the answer to. And here we are 🤓

Thanks man! This whole thing is just something I did because I wanted to learn how to create videos, and then it just took off:-)

Thank you for the feedback!

Thank you Ezio! Glad you like it 😀

Thank you!

Thank yo so much for giving this feedback. I learn just as much from that as from doing these crude tests:-) Advice is a scary business, you know!

Thanks for the feedback, Matej!

Thank you Abdullah! What a great story:-) I have gotten lots of positive feedback from people who uses RTAs, so it holds true for some of the tanks too. Splendid!

Thank you for detailed feedback, Peter! I'm expecting a Serpent SMM myself, a gift from Jeremy Morton. Might do a video on it :-)

Thank you CrapshackCo! And you are right. Up untill now I have not got one negative comment from someone who have tried any of my experiments. Negative only comes from those who are defending bad habbits, not willing to try anything new. They are actually trying to argue that there has to be something wrong with physics and reality:-) A guy even sent me a drawing that "proved" why my air flow observations had to be wrong :-D Thank you for suport!

You are welcome, and i have to say I'm glad that's over with!

Most people say I am a cure for insomnia:-)

Thank you, Ian. I will include it in my next RDA review comming up in 2-3 days. Thanks for the sugestion. Airflow and wicking tutorial it will be!

Thanks for input, Jason! I agree.

Thank you for support and enthusiasm, Brian :-)

Hey, I just found a good technique today for wicking hard. After you get the tip through the coil, twist the cotton in opposite directions like you would wring out water from a cloth. It spirals and compresses reducing the diameter of the wick making it so much easier to pull through delicate coil builds. Once it is in place un twist it to expand it back to shape. Bobs your uncle. :) I just remembered it today and it is not my idea. I can't find the video to credit the person, but it really works well. If anyone remembers the video chuck it up here.

Thanks Travis!

Thanks Anthony!

Some have success, others hate it. Just thin out so the channels are open. Smaller coils might be an option too, just for experimenting with it :-)

Morten Oen that's good to know, thanks for clearing that up!

Sounds like a great experiment, but difficult to set up. I would think that the overall heating of the RDA and the juice helps. I'll look into it! Sounds like fun:-)

Thanks! I'll do a wicking in the next video:-)

Morten Oen thanks buddy!

The laws of capillary forces will not change. The more fibres, and the tighter they are together, will transport fluids higher and faster. With RTAs you just have to be sure that there is room for breathing in the wick channels. You can make a hole with tweezers or a roll of mesh like a snorkle.

The short answer is no:-) I test the stuff I buy and use, and nothing else. But I never know what the future brings...

Morten Oen you might consider one of the RDTA tanks for yourself. When used with stainless steel ropes to move liquid to the deck, and cotton in the coil with the ends on top of the rope, the wicking keeps up even with higher wattage, and the flavor and vapor is similar (IMO) to a dripper

Hi!I have no idea:-) I have gotten a lot of positive feedback from users of RTAs and RDTAs, but I have not done any tests with them myself. Just try it, cotton is very cheap:-)

Hi Dennis. I don't think it's possible to wick so hard that you choke off the juice. I had some discussions with an engineer about that. Theoreticaly there is a choke off point, but you will never get there without destroying your coil and tearing apart the cotton.

Had the same feeling in an Kensei RTA and had the same issue, but I think I found the reason. Because the wick is not fluffed or so, there is not enough room for air to travel into the Tank to remedy the vacuum resulting from the wick sucking the liquid. I used my pliers to create a little room between the wick ends in the juice well (between the strands coming from each coil), to allow air to travell faster into the tank and this did the trick. In an RDA you dont have to worry about vacuum, but in tanks, I guess, this is one of the main reasons a tank works or not.

In a RTA you need to take great care not to block the ports. Use a piece of mesh as a snorkle, or just a toothpick to make a hole. Read up on Jurin`s law on wikipedia, and apply it in your wicking. My technique is mostly for RDA, but if you read the comments, a lot of RTA users have done this with great success. Good luck in your experiments!

​@@mortenoen434 Thanks for replying mate. I don't have a mesh atm so I will have to resort to the toothpick trick you speak of. I can find numerous discussions on the mesh snorkel but non on making a hole using a toothpick. Could you please point me on how people do this ? This morning I made a hole using a toothpick in the saturated cotton where it goes into the serpent elevate's wicking port. But my guess is sooner or later that hole will be filled/saturated by the ejuice effectively rendering it useless.

​@@mortenoen434 I dont see a difference between an RTA and an RDA as far as wicking and wicking ports go. But my experience is limited to a wasp nano and a serpent elevate. So I did a couple of experiments over the past few days and found this method worked best for me for a serpent elevate. A 3.5mm ID coil, wicked as hard as possible (I 'impregnate' my firebolt cotton with more cotton by spreading it apart with very light hands so as not to break too many strands) and for the wicking, I cut up an upside down L shape of the wick. Where the length of the L is going down the wicking port (dont care about the length) and the breadth part sits slightly above the wicking port. Thus not choking the wicking port. And after reading up on Jurin's law It seems like the thickest cotton (instead of fluffed) will have a greater capillary action - an in my case where the cotton is cut in an inverted L, after the liquid wicks up the length of the L, it immediately wicks up even faster as it finds more channels to 'soak up'. I also think nature shows us this action in the roots of the trees, the thinner roots go out and suck as much water as possible and then the as the water is soaking up towards the thicker roots it wicks much faster. Just thought to add this here.

Yeah, I have been thinking about that lately:-)

@@mortenoen434 I think it would be great to summarize your findings for these major topics: 1) What is best wick tightness in coil? 2) Is the type of coil a factor in wick tightness? 3) Does it make any difference how the fibers run in the wick? 4) Should the skin layer on top and bottom of the cotton be removed or left on? 5) Does fluffing the wick ends make any difference? 6) If most of the coils used are 2.5 3.5mm ID, what ID is best? 7) Does the hang down length of the wick make any difference? 8) Is there an optimum position or angle for air flow to hit the coil? These pretty much cover your various experiments and what most vapors who build need to know. If one watches the various reviewers on KZfaq, there is much myth and little fact. Your work is very commendable and important to the vaping community. Hope my suggestions are useful. Thanks for all you have done.

:-D And my girfriend, who has spent 11 years in Amsterdam, have told me it also means castrated donkey in that language...

Dnns84 Does Dnns84 mean dumb ass with too much time on hands in Norwegian?

If it doesn't, it probably should...

And please post the results! Normally testers use pure VG. I did a 80/20 mix because that is what I use. Good luck!

Anyone have any thoughts/updates on using this method for rayon???

There are mixed results for RTA. You have to experiment with that yourself.

Vi har gjort et par kollektive eksperimenter som viser at dersom du har en RDA med to coiler så er det mer effektivt med 2-2,5mm indre diameter. Med single coil RDA er det bedre med 2,5-3,5mm. Dette har med energi å gjøre, ikke selve the vape experience:-) Jeg bruker aldri mer enn 2,5mm på dual coils RDA'er.

Yes sir! Get in as much as you can without ruining the coil. Just practice a few times.

That's quiet interesting. I have to try this with my RTA as well. I don't mind being the test dummy for you. Especially for all the efforts you put in 😂

Ok Morten, your wicking method has changed the way my wick acts. I am amazed and astonished as to what a difference your coiling method and wicking method has made to the way I vape! I shall recommend you to everyone that I know. Man, you have won my trust!

Thank you for enthusiasm and support, Muhammed!

Hei! Dette er en wire som ikke kan brukes til vaping, bare til dette eksperimentet. Jeg lager min egen wire. Jeg bruker 22g kanthal som jeg banker flat med hammer på en ambolt til vaping. 24g går også an å bruke. Du får ikke kjøpt wire som etter min mening er god nok, men her er en lenke til nogen kommersielle produkter som er helt ok. www.evolutionvaping.co.uk/flatwire-uk.html Og her er en lenke til en tutorial jeg laget om flat wire kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z6x8bLV7mL3Rgok.html

Tak for sit svar! Øv det ligner ellers noget nice wire! :D Hvilken slags af de kommerciel wire vil du anbefale til single coil for flavour (hadaley) ? Hilsen Mads

Hei Mads! De fleste har best erfaringer med 22g.

Hej Morten, Jeg må i gang med mine egne eksperimenter. Håber snart jeg kan finde mig en tilfredsstillende vape igen, efter at have ødelagt min gamle kangertech subohm 😔😓😢😭

Wicking channels? I never use tanks, only RDAs. "My" theory has been accepted as a scientific proof since the 16th century :-)

Morten Oen no,my point is...if you get better wicking from a tighter wick then why do you get dry hits from over wicking?p.s. Your absolutely crazy for not using rta’s there are so many good ones out now.imagine using an rda where the wicks never get dry “at least until the tank is empty”

Ok:-) RTAs can have good flavor, I'll grant you that. My first objection though, is that they are big and heavy. And they make my mods un-balanced or top heavy. They break easy. They are very messy to work with if you want to experiment or change coils. Many leaks. A tank holds only half of the volume in a squonker, and holds only 1-2ml more than my favorite 30mm RDA. The build decks are tiny, so you have little clouds compared to an RDA, or the vape is too hot, and you can't use big coils. And finally, if you wick tight to make the coil efficient, spatter free and a tad faster, you clog the channels so that you get a vacuum problem in the tank, so the juice will not flow up the cotton and in to the coil. You can see this very clearly as there are no bubbles after you take a draw. To boil it down: If a device tries to do everything, it's never best at anything. There is however 1 exception where I have used a tank, and will use a tank again. This summer I worked night shifts as a security guard, and beeing outside, in the pitch black night, in the rain, I was very pleased with my water tight Geek Vape Aegis and the tank that came with it.

Morten Oen sounds like I’m beating a dead horse here,ok don’t use rta’s your loose man. #reloadrta #lotusrta

Only in a RTA or RTDA do you need to thin out your wicks because the juice holes/channels are the limiting factor. In an RDA you dont have limiting factors