Daily dry burn for cleaning atties.

[surbitonPete]

7 Days now at 100% vapor production, nothing to your 40(!!!) but that's better luck than I usually have. They're usually down to 75% by a week out and then a few more weeks and it's 50%.

For what it's worth, when I look under the bridge at the coil I can still make out the wires wrapped around the core of it. Sure, they're not shiny brand new but the layer of brown grime seems thin.

Lol ...I have been worried you are going to come back and start cursing me if your atty dies but I can relax a bit now if you have passed the point where you are having better luck than usual. Mine is still working 100% today at day 41. I know I would sooner have one working at 100% for just a couple of weeks and then die than to keep on vaping with even a 75% atty. it was just too much trouble trying to get a decent vape once the performance dropped.

[ProfessorDaffy]

Still doing this since Tuesday, no reduction in vapor yet.

edit: Did get a really bad burnt taste after doing it today, filled it up with vodka and shook it around. Seemed to take care of it mostly, took another 30 minutes of vaping for it to taste 100% clean again.

I too prefer my 510 shaken and not stirred.

About once or twice a day, when I'm at the end of a vape (so I know it's pretty dry) I take out the cart look inside and as soon as it turns red I count to two. Seems to be fine so far.

Has anyone else noticed that atomizers seem to last longer and require less cleaning when you use them with the USP passthrough? I don't know if it's the higher amps or consistent power or that I use it longer at one sitting or what. Is it burning cleaner?

--Prof Daffy

[jvapor]

hi jvapor ...from taking apart many failed atties I found that a lot of gunk can build up in just a couple of 'days' of vaping and once that amount of gunk has built up the dry burn can often burn the atty out instead of clean it off, so I am surprised that only doing it once a week is working for you!!. Just out of curiosity do you use a low nic juice? and when you say the 'rest' of your atties are past the two month mark do you mean you have used each individual atty for two months of solid vaping or do you mean that several atties have lasted for a two month period?

I use a high nicotine. 24mg and every now and then 36 mg. All of the attys that I listed I use on a daily basis and rotate between them with every battery charge. I have been using all of these attys for 2 months except for the 510 attys which are closer to 3 months and have alot more use than the others. I am still using the same 510 attys that came with my starter kit. I have had to replace batteries but not my attys.

[surbitonPete]

I use a high nicotine. 24mg and every now and then 36 mg. All of the attys that I listed I use on a daily basis and rotate between them with every battery charge. I have been using all of these attys for 2 months except for the 510 attys which are closer to 3 months and have alot more use than the others. I am still using the same 510 attys that came with my starter kit. I have had to replace batteries but not my attys.

Ahh that's quite different to having one single atty lasting for all that time.

[kinabaloo]

Hi steve ..if that 'is' the case then I guess a clean 'gunkless' juice, with nicotine in it, is not a possibility. Glad to hear you are still experimenting though. I have been expecting you to come up with a fully working amazing new type of atty or something.

(actually that makes me wonder if some of the people who have very long life atties might also be the one's who use very low nic juice. I pretty much have only used the 36mg and trying out different flavourings and different types of juice didn't seem to make any difference to the amount of gunk I found)

Very good point Watson! Like it

ps: what first made me think about the dry burn was something that seemed strange at the time - that people running mods like the magnum claimed to get long atty life; seems counter-intuitive if the deposit is some kind of heat degradation.

[surbitonPete]

Very good point Watson! Like it

ps: what first made me think about the dry burn was something that seemed strange at the time - that people running mods like the magnum claimed to get long atty life; seems counter-intuitive if the deposit is some kind of heat degradation.

I had always pretty much dismissed the idea of doing the dry burns, thinking it had to be the 'least' likely method of making an atty last longer, keeping it wet seemed more logical somehow...but when I read the 'getting annoyed this is an effective method of prolonging atty life' thread, I had already tried everything else with no luck ..so I thought what the hell I had nothing left to loose. I did change the idea slightly to my own thoughts on how best it might work and haven't had any atty problems since. I am a very happy vapourer these days. But I hadn't made the connection between the people running mods so often claiming long atty life, it's very easy to see it now that you mention it.

[sattec]

Well I know for sure that I do a dry burn...I can see the coil glow red and when it's glowing red it 'must' be dry and it only takes a few seconds of power to do that when I take the cart off. The coil itself 'has' to be dry to glow red. It couldn't be wet and glowing, try dropping a bit of water onto a red hot electric cooker ring and you will see the glow is gone for a few seconds until it is dry. Nothing will glow red hot if it is wet. Try it on anything at all that is glowing red hot, it will only glow when it's dry.

If you bring it to "glow" and you blow into the atty from the top, and smoke comes out, you're buring fuel. A dry burn with no smoke at all,is a true dry burn...this is my opinion, I wanted to be sure everybody understands what I'm saying. If you can't seem to ever get it to stop "pumping out" smoke when you blow into it, where's that smoke coming from? fuel.

[me who]

I've been doing this on a 510 for about 3 week and it works!
Thanks Pete

[sattec]

sometimes flakes of gunk "blow out" onto my chest( I don't wear a shirt inside)..it works, you'll see a big glow if you blow into it during the burn, but watch out, you'll melt the solder points, dont blow real hard! You're blowing alot of heat into the inner workings of the atty....

[sattec]

(psst...all that heat can help clear out the air ducts to the burner too, but you'll have some juice coming out the bottom too, I think the heat and hot juice going through the air ducts actually clean up the ducts)