510 atty lifespan?

[doots]

the tea bag doesnt melt. it is better than poly in my opinion of using them for a week now. it is a special nylon that stands up to heat. the tea bags would go into boiling water so it has to be safe for high temps.

[seadooman]

the tea bag doesnt melt. it is better than poly in my opinion of using them for a week now. it is a special nylon that stands up to heat. the tea bags would go into boiling water so it has to be safe for high temps.

Thanks for the info.. I geuss I'm off to VONS.

[a2dcovert]

I'm thinking of getting a Joye 510,hear there attys run hotter than normal.What are heavy smokers seeing for lifespan??

Back to the original topic, I have 8 atomizers in service right now. The 2 oldest atomizers were purchased on 03-29-09. The newest atomizers have been in service for about a month. I have 2 atomizers that are officially dead. I have 2 atomizers that only put out about 50% of the original vapor production (meaning they are clogged up). The remaining 4 in service are rotated daily using 2 in any one day.

Soaking the atomizers in alcohol will clean them mostly but all atomizers will reach a point where the gunk on the coil is too tough to clean. I think that having only 2 dead atomizers in 5 months of use is very good.


kevin

[ramblingrose]

I've been rotating two 510 attys for three months. They're both still good, and so far testing shows no increase in resistance at all.

The only maintenance I do is blow them out and stand them on their heads for a little while before I go to bed.

[RIMP]

That's the same thing I do If it ain't broke don't fix it I think we diddle around with the atty's too much



RIMP

Let them stand on their heads a while, good to go

[STILLSMOK9]

6 weeks and still going strong. I think they are better than 901's.. IMHO

[sandy]

my first 2 attys still work at their best since june and meanwhile I keep rotating with about 5 (daily change). I'm a heavy vapor. I can really tell that in my "vaping career" (9 months now!) my ohter PV's styles (pen, pipe, 901 etc.etc.) never kept mor than a few weeks max. Since 2 months I've been using 510 only. Cleaning: same procedure as "ramblingrose" posted above. (sorry for my bad english)

[Anonomo]

I started off doing the following when I started vaping back in April:
Cleaning weekly with overnight alcohol soak
Blowing atty out before bed
Rotating between two atomizers

That lasted about a month. I keep using the same one until it no longer performs and replace it. No fuss, no muss . I haven't had any short lived atty's yet and if I get a month out of one I feel like I got my moneys worth. Batteries are another story, these I haven't fared as well with. Lots of duds. But so far I'm very pleased with the new mega batts, these are a big improvement.

[catlvr]

I've been rotating two 510 attys for three months. They're both still good, and so far testing shows no increase in resistance at all.

The only maintenance I do is blow them out and stand them on their heads for a little while before I go to bed.

Same here, but my two are now going on four months. Still using and topping off carts with a couple drips on one of them and the other one I messed up taking out the wicking, it works great for dripping and tasting new flavors. I don't feel the need to change atty's using a new flavor, I just vape until it tastes crappy, then drip a couple drops of the new flavor onto the atty, add the new cart and I'm pretty much ready to go. Sometimes it takes doing this a couple times to get the old flavor off completely. And I realize after getting some crappy menthol that menthol is very hard to get rid of. I used that dry burning method a few times and suffered with the pepperminty flavor for awhile, but eventually it went away. Just kept dripping good juice on it between burns. I have a hard enough time remembering what flavor is in the cart let alone trying to remember what atty I used for what flavor.

[Macromny]

Check out the "cola-method-method-taken-another-level" string of the experiments-equipment page.

I'd post a link but can't yet.

I haven't tried it yet, but then again I have three 510 atty's 2 weeks old still going strong.

I'll start looking for "savior" methods soon I'm sure.


Wayne