Tank Cartomizer Tasting Weird In Tank

[bananabic]

I'm having this weird issue where the cartomizer tastes like metal when I vape with my tank. Without the tank tube the cartomizer works perfectly without any metal taste. If I prime my tank it tastes fine, but after putting it down and vaping an hour later, I get the metal taste. I don't want to have to prime it every time I pick it up. Also, my other cartomizers don't have this problem.

Edited December 4, 2012 by bananabic

[Brian]

What type of tank and cartomizers are you using? Is it just the one carto that acts this way in the tank, but other cartos work fine in it?

[bananabic]

Smoktech 5mL tank and Smoktech 2.0 tank cartomizer. It's just this cartomizer and the others are fine.

[joe2003]

hmm maybe the coil is shorting against the side of the carto?

I've heard that will give a metallic taste.

lol prolly not tho I'm just guessin.

The good thing is how easy they are to replace

[RomenHooper]

IMHO the idea of priming is to fill the wadding material, but more importantly to fully wet the wicking material so that it cannot be burnt by the heater coil; and it really does burn with a foul taste. Worse than that, once the wicking material has been burnt the cartomizer will never function effectively again. You can got some new e juice (double mint) and you will get some taste from the previous flavour but if not a strong yucky flavour like chocolate etc it will work its way through mate, good luck.