Hi, I've noticed that in my Exocet if I use too much cotton it tends to mute the flavour and I get bad dry hits, also, I find royal wicks and cb v2 to be the best in this atty.
Secondly if I'm using high vg juices, anything over 70/30 vg/pg ratio it struggles to wick at times, not often but the lower the vg in the juice the better the wicking and flavour.
I just built a 2mm id now, 6 wraps, n80 fused claptons to read at 0.4ohmsand the flavour is glorious, tried the cranapple, I've been wanting to get rid of in this build and its shinning bright!
I suggest also to fluff up your cotton quite a bit and make sure it stays clear of the walls of the borro when placing the atty into the borro, also make sure when u unscrew the Exocet from the mod or tab u building on, that you don't turn the top cap so that it compresses the cotton again or sits skew as this will pinch the cotton and not allow for proper wicking.
I wouldve take some pics but saw this post late, sorry dude. I hope this advice helps because when u get this right, life is great!
Good luck
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