the main thing you have to do with an atomizer that is acting up, is experiment with your draw speed, your draw strength, and how your holding the atomizer. For instance:
1. Try to picture in your mind, the juice in your atomizer right now. Maybe it is all UNDER the coil platform. In which case you may have to take 1-2 quick, hard pulls, to splash some of that e-juice back up into the ceramic coil platform and into the wick/coil.
2. Keeping the many possible juice where-abouts in your mind.... If your atomizer is GURGLING, it probably just needs a loooong, SOFT drag because the coil is flooded. Allow the coil to heat up sufficiently to vaporize the excess juice around it. If this results in burning, try a couple quick, hard drags FIRST, then go ahead and try the long soft drag.
3. Keeping the many possible juice where-abouts in your mind... If your atty is gurgling, sometimes a quick, hard pull or two will resituate the juice. The SAME can be said about blowing into your atomizer if it is gurgling. Don't directly blow into it. Instead, blow at a medium to high pressure through your lips and pass the atomizer through the line of airflow VERY quickly 2-3 times.
4. If your atomizer feels TIGHT and is burning, it is usually that there is not enough juice. If it is leaking when you drip 2-3 drops, and still burning, it sounds like there is already juice in it, and the new drops are connecting with that juice and being pulled out the bottom through force of gravity. Picture raindrops on your car window, coagulating together and then streaming down quickly. Understand?
Tightness- Tightness is usually a tell-tale sign of too little juice in the atomizer and burning comes with tightness's territory. If the juice seems to come out the bottom, you may need to drip 2-3 drops and then QUICKLY take 2-3 FAST, HARD pulls to distribute the juice throughout the atomizer, rather than allowing it time to coagulate at the bottom and drain out. Makes sense right? Before adding juice, try step 3 first. You may just need to pull up the juice in the bottom of your atty into the coil chamber.
5. Atomizer Angle- This is something else to consider when using an atomizer. The juice within your atomizer is running freely like grape juice in a cup. It will wash up onto the surfaces of what is inside of your atty, it will soak into the mesh and the string that your coil is wrapped around, but it doesn't always do this on its own!!! You MAY need to shake, rattle, or spin the juice around inside your atomizer to get your atty to work properly. When all of the above steps fail, try vaping with your device held horizontal to the floor, and if that doesn't work, try upside down. Try shaking, or rattling your atomizer. Try it all. The angle of your atomizer is sometimes the main culprit @ first.
The above is the way I trouble-shoot a new atomizer that is acting up. Keyword NEW. If your atomizer is a couple weeks to a month old and the above steps are not helping, it may be time to get a new atomizer. I have had success with cleaning atomizers. You can try running hot water through it in the sink (make sure you plug the drain) and I've also had success with boiling old atomizers for SHORT periods of time. A lot of people, including grim green, have had success keeping attys clean by dropping them into a high-proof alcohol when switching flavors. To dry the water/boil techniques, let the atomizer stand over night for 1-2 nights, OR, put the atomizer in the oven at 250 for 3-5 minutes at a time until dry.
Hope I've helped in some way.
The main thing I want to get across here is that atomizers ARE tricksters. they ARE finicky. But they CAN be TAMED to a point where you aren't having many problems with them. Once the above steps become second nature, atomizers are one, if not THE, BEST juice vaporizing system we have when it comes to flavor, one of the best for longevity and re-use, and 1 of the top mechanisms for vapor production as well. Just go through the trouble shooting steps above when your atomizer is acting up.
I want to stress that the above steps are basically steps to break in an atomizer. (similar to "breaking" a wild horse) the above steps are to make a brand new atomizer start to work correctly. You will not have to do the above steps for the life of your atomizer, ONLY to break it in, and then the occasional time your atomizer acts up. Thank you for reading.
1. Try to picture in your mind, the juice in your atomizer right now. Maybe it is all UNDER the coil platform. In which case you may have to take 1-2 quick, hard pulls, to splash some of that e-juice back up into the ceramic coil platform and into the wick/coil.
2. Keeping the many possible juice where-abouts in your mind.... If your atomizer is GURGLING, it probably just needs a loooong, SOFT drag because the coil is flooded. Allow the coil to heat up sufficiently to vaporize the excess juice around it. If this results in burning, try a couple quick, hard drags FIRST, then go ahead and try the long soft drag.
3. Keeping the many possible juice where-abouts in your mind... If your atty is gurgling, sometimes a quick, hard pull or two will resituate the juice. The SAME can be said about blowing into your atomizer if it is gurgling. Don't directly blow into it. Instead, blow at a medium to high pressure through your lips and pass the atomizer through the line of airflow VERY quickly 2-3 times.
4. If your atomizer feels TIGHT and is burning, it is usually that there is not enough juice. If it is leaking when you drip 2-3 drops, and still burning, it sounds like there is already juice in it, and the new drops are connecting with that juice and being pulled out the bottom through force of gravity. Picture raindrops on your car window, coagulating together and then streaming down quickly. Understand?
Tightness- Tightness is usually a tell-tale sign of too little juice in the atomizer and burning comes with tightness's territory. If the juice seems to come out the bottom, you may need to drip 2-3 drops and then QUICKLY take 2-3 FAST, HARD pulls to distribute the juice throughout the atomizer, rather than allowing it time to coagulate at the bottom and drain out. Makes sense right? Before adding juice, try step 3 first. You may just need to pull up the juice in the bottom of your atty into the coil chamber.
5. Atomizer Angle- This is something else to consider when using an atomizer. The juice within your atomizer is running freely like grape juice in a cup. It will wash up onto the surfaces of what is inside of your atty, it will soak into the mesh and the string that your coil is wrapped around, but it doesn't always do this on its own!!! You MAY need to shake, rattle, or spin the juice around inside your atomizer to get your atty to work properly. When all of the above steps fail, try vaping with your device held horizontal to the floor, and if that doesn't work, try upside down. Try shaking, or rattling your atomizer. Try it all. The angle of your atomizer is sometimes the main culprit @ first.
The above is the way I trouble-shoot a new atomizer that is acting up. Keyword NEW. If your atomizer is a couple weeks to a month old and the above steps are not helping, it may be time to get a new atomizer. I have had success with cleaning atomizers. You can try running hot water through it in the sink (make sure you plug the drain) and I've also had success with boiling old atomizers for SHORT periods of time. A lot of people, including grim green, have had success keeping attys clean by dropping them into a high-proof alcohol when switching flavors. To dry the water/boil techniques, let the atomizer stand over night for 1-2 nights, OR, put the atomizer in the oven at 250 for 3-5 minutes at a time until dry.
Hope I've helped in some way.
The main thing I want to get across here is that atomizers ARE tricksters. they ARE finicky. But they CAN be TAMED to a point where you aren't having many problems with them. Once the above steps become second nature, atomizers are one, if not THE, BEST juice vaporizing system we have when it comes to flavor, one of the best for longevity and re-use, and 1 of the top mechanisms for vapor production as well. Just go through the trouble shooting steps above when your atomizer is acting up.
I want to stress that the above steps are basically steps to break in an atomizer. (similar to "breaking" a wild horse) the above steps are to make a brand new atomizer start to work correctly. You will not have to do the above steps for the life of your atomizer, ONLY to break it in, and then the occasional time your atomizer acts up. Thank you for reading.
