What is this dirt in my 510 Connection?

[armyofskittles]

I am pretty OCD about keeping my equipment clean, so when I take a q tip to my connection and swab around, It comes out with black dirt or dust or goo on it. What is this??



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[Sugar_and_Spice]

It is caused when the connection is made from battery to topper. Kinda of like when a spark plug starts your car, I always just thought of it as a kind of sute(sp). I always take the q-tip and clean the inside and a paper towel to the outside. If you let it build up too much it can interfere with said connection and may cause your topper not to work. I have never heard of this being a real problem, but I keep my equipment clean and it lasts a whole lot longer than if I didn't.

Hope this helps.

 

[armyofskittles]

It is caused when the connection is made from battery to topper. Kinda of like when a spark plug starts your car, I always just thought of it as a kind of sute(sp). I always take the q-tip and clean the inside and a paper towel to the outside. If you let it build up too much it can interfere with said connection and may cause your topper not to work. I have never heard of this being a real problem, but I keep my equipment clean and it lasts a whole lot longer than if I didn't.

Hope this helps.

Thanks a lot for clearing that up. I was sure it was like you said but curiosity had me thinking maybe it was dirt getting in there lol

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[DelboyinDorset]

If its carbon, if left alone will in the end "track" much like carbon dust does in a cars distributor cap and means it will short out, it is annoying and I have noticed my sprung connections don't make this black stuff so its def arcing causing it I would say.

 

[zoiDman]

I am pretty OCD about keeping my equipment clean, so when I take a q tip to my connection and swab around, It comes out with black dirt or dust or goo on it. What is this??

Two Words: Dead Electrons

Read this thread and you will Understand.

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/e-cigarette-maintenance/96715-cleaning-ego-battery.html

 

[Rangertrix]

Two Words: Dead Electrons

Read this thread and you will Understand.

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/e-cigarette-maintenance/96715-cleaning-ego-battery.html

You had to send me there, didn't you? If the dead electrons turn into shinola, what do the components of the sacrificial anode turn into? Is the "black gunk" on the copper grounding rod oxidation or dead electrons? Where do the neutrons get the tiny little shovels to bury the electrons? From tiny little hardware stores run by the protons? Do they "positively" have a monopoly on this market? Raised so many more questions than it answered.

 

[DelboyinDorset]

Good to see the brass oxidising will kill us all lot are out and about good and strong ^^

 

[zoiDman]

... Where do the neutrons get the tiny little shovels to bury the electrons? From tiny little hardware stores run by the protons? Do they "positively" have a monopoly on this market? ...

Yeah... It was Questions like these that drove Richard Feynman to play the Bongos.

 

[Rangertrix]

Yeah... It was Questions like these that drove Richard Feynman to play the Bongos.

I wonder if he kept his roommate awake with them as well?