So I have read in multiple places that you should keep your atty wet, or its life will be shortened, yet so many on here refer to intentionally burning it dry to clean it; why is this not also bad for the atty?
A little confused about "dry burning"
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Imo, dryburning atty's should only be done to an atty that is on it's last leg. I have killed a couple of good ones doing this.
I'll let others weigh in on reasons they dry burn (you mentioned one). I would never suggest doing so. Too many ways to clean attys than to take the chance of popping one. Always keep them wet...always....unless you can afford to replace them frequently.
You might get away with dry burning plenty of times. The problem is, atty's are not created equally. What works for one may fry another immediately.
I always dry burn my attys after cleaning and it has brought otherwise lifeless attys back to life and prolonged the useable life and performance of all of them, you do have to be careful and not over do it. I haven't popped one yet but I'm sure it be done fairly easily if one went to far with it.
Dry burning burns all the build up off the coils and wick around the coils. You can soak an atty all you want and that's great for getting liquid and most of the stuff out but it won't get rid of what's baked on to the coil which when built up enough keeps the coil from heating up the liquid enough. It has to be cooked off which is what dry burning does.
Here's a video using a CE2, its the same principal for a atty though.. He a little braver doing it that I am. I usually stop when everything is clean but it's the same procedure and it does show everything very well starting at about the 5 minute mark.
YouTube - Volcano Clearomizer Power Flush and Dry Burn - Part 1
Dry burning burns all the build up off the coils and wick around the coils. You can soak an atty all you want and that's great for getting liquid and most of the stuff out but it won't get rid of what's baked on to the coil which when built up enough keeps the coil from heating up the liquid enough. It has to be cooked off which is what dry burning does.
Here's a video using a CE2, its the same principal for a atty though.. He a little braver doing it that I am. I usually stop when everything is clean but it's the same procedure and it does show everything very well starting at about the 5 minute mark.
YouTube - Volcano Clearomizer Power Flush and Dry Burn - Part 1
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