Question to fellow vapors.

[applefr3ak]

Im wondering... What causes premature 510 Atomizer death? There are some people that seem to be able to kill them quickly.. Myself however have been on the same atomizer for 3 months... And it still vapes like a monster and i have never cleaned it... So.. Im wondering from others "experience" What do you think could cause 510 atty death in under a week?

[youfillintheblank]

Bad solder joints.
Not enough wire (heats up too much and poof!)
Crappy e-liquid (not yours though!)
Dropping it.
Overuse/overheat.
Giving it a dirty look

Im wondering... What causes premature 510 Atomizer death? There are some people that seem to be able to kill them quickly.. Myself however have been on the same atomizer for 3 months... And it still vapes like a monster and i have never cleaned it... So.. Im wondering from others "experience" What do you think could cause 510 atty death in under a week?

[markarich159]

Under a week? wow, I would say having a somehow defective atomizer from the factory would be my primary guess. Running it totally dry for an extended period. I've only had 1 510 atomizer die on me in almost 3 months and it was my own fault. I ran it in a 5V device and I flooded the atty while doing this.

It seems to me(from reading the forums) that the people who are compulsive about cleaning their atty's are the ones who seem to report the most atty failures. Left alone(with nothing but an occasional manual blow out of excess eliquid) all my atty's (with the exception of the previous mentioned) have worked perfectly with virtually no maintenance.

[applefr3ak]

yeah thats my thoughts on the whole thing too. but having 4 atomizers go in a month all in a row is a little ridiculous.. (i have a customer that claims this right now) Yeah im gonna replace a few for him no biggie. But he exclusively uses TW and Johnson Creek... I know when i used JC for a while it killed some of my attys pretty quick but u dont know why.

[applefr3ak]

oops meant to say i dont know why

[markarich159]

yeah thats my thoughts on the whole thing too. but having 4 atomizers go in a month all in a row is a little ridiculous.. (i have a customer that claims this right now) Yeah im gonna replace a few for him no biggie. But he exclusively uses TW and Johnson Creek... I know when i used JC for a while it killed some of my attys pretty quick but u dont know why.

Sounds possibly like the power supply(battery) he's/she's using maybe defective in some way to kill all those atty's so quickly. Or just gross negligence on his/her part. There's no way he/she was that unlucky to get 4 defective atty's from the factory(the statistical odds are outrageous). I've used JC-old and new formulations-(never TW) liquid straight and mixed and I never had a problem with it blowing atty's(although I've heard that it can have that tendency).

[smc]

Bad solder joints.
Not enough wire (heats up too much and poof!)
Crappy e-liquid (not yours though!)
Dropping it.
Overuse/overheat.
Giving it a dirty look

Removing the wick.
Hooking it up to a car battery

[applefr3ak]

rodlkopters yeah that would do it

[LostInDaJungle]

I'm not nice to my attys. I take big long hits that cause them to get hotter than Megan Fox in spandex, never clean them, direct drip and flood them, etc... In the 2 months I've had the 510, it's still chugging along like a champ.

I too think it's interesting that the people who most often advocate cleaning the attys are the ones who seem to have the most trouble with them.

Th Nichrome wire in them is essentially a really bad fuse, so maybe high voltage vaping can cause the nichrome wire to go, or excessive heat can cause solder joints to go. However, I often take big 30-45 second vapes and no problem here.

[applefr3ak]

30-45 second vapes?! Holy crap u must have lungs as huge as Goliath!