Hi, Newbie to the forum here.
Outstanding thread!
I've been working on this all by myself and someone suggested I check this forum out, remind me to thank him profusely .
An acquaintance showed me one of these thingies and it seemed like a good idea so I looked around and ended up with an e-pen / classic / 801 / RN{something} and fell in love with it.
BIG problem with it seems to be that the atomizers die with startling regularity. I really do NOT want to go back to analogs, so I ordered a second one for a spare and the vendor did send me a new atomizer and battery for the trouble.
I stagger usage of the two so they last longer and a couple days ago the second one dies. Getting these things apart is something I have not perfected yet. I suspect I will need to heat it up as I suspect it is glued together somehow. Tried using a battery to remove the atomizer and ended up with the battery coming apart and breaking the wires. Small task to resolder but it didn't get the atomizer apart.
I metered out the resistance on the good atomizer (~3.3 ohm) and the two bad ones. One had what looked like a piece of ?screen? fall out of it and does measure ~3.3 ohm but does nothing. The other shows about 25 ohms.
If I can get them apart, I was thinking of a 1/16 or 1/8W wirewound resistor cleaned up but not sure that is a good idea depending on what it is made of, it would be abuse of the device so I let that go by. Not at all sure they make wirewound that small either. An inductor was another thought...
Considered winding something to get ~3.3 ohms but until I can get the atomizer apart we are kind of dead in the water :-/.
Got some really great ideas out of this thread, thanks to all!
Take care, Fox3
Outstanding thread!
I've been working on this all by myself and someone suggested I check this forum out, remind me to thank him profusely .
An acquaintance showed me one of these thingies and it seemed like a good idea so I looked around and ended up with an e-pen / classic / 801 / RN{something} and fell in love with it.
BIG problem with it seems to be that the atomizers die with startling regularity. I really do NOT want to go back to analogs, so I ordered a second one for a spare and the vendor did send me a new atomizer and battery for the trouble.
I stagger usage of the two so they last longer and a couple days ago the second one dies. Getting these things apart is something I have not perfected yet. I suspect I will need to heat it up as I suspect it is glued together somehow. Tried using a battery to remove the atomizer and ended up with the battery coming apart and breaking the wires. Small task to resolder but it didn't get the atomizer apart.
I metered out the resistance on the good atomizer (~3.3 ohm) and the two bad ones. One had what looked like a piece of ?screen? fall out of it and does measure ~3.3 ohm but does nothing. The other shows about 25 ohms.
If I can get them apart, I was thinking of a 1/16 or 1/8W wirewound resistor cleaned up but not sure that is a good idea depending on what it is made of, it would be abuse of the device so I let that go by. Not at all sure they make wirewound that small either. An inductor was another thought...
Considered winding something to get ~3.3 ohms but until I can get the atomizer apart we are kind of dead in the water :-/.
Got some really great ideas out of this thread, thanks to all!
Take care, Fox3