A noob atty user

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patkin

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I didn't even know the right keywords to do a search for what I need to know so I imagine I'll use the wrong terms here... but...

I bought two really expensive attys and promptly proceeded to burn them up. I don't want to do that again and need to learn how to use an atty to test my juices. What burned up were bridgeless dual coils. After that, I watched a few youtubes that showed the inside of the atty being used and it had a metal plate covering the heating element and had three holes in the plate. I ordered a single coil atty called a dripping one and it didn't look like that. It had a bridge. Trying to use it, it didn't burn up but it did taste horrible and leaked all over the place. If I can find the one like the youtube (with the plate) will it help this noob? I'm really sick of wasting all this money. Thanks.
 
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I haven't seen any atties with a metal plate covering the coil (a genesis??) but I would imagine in the youtube video the individual that posted it would say what atty it was (yeah, would be interesting to find out what it is).

As far as bridges on atties, the significance of a bridge is so the atty can be used with cartridges... which hardly anybody use anymore... but they still sell them that way except NOW you can get bridgless atties which cannot be used with cartridges and are thus only for dripping.

In any case, the most common reason for atty burn out is the juice that you are using on the atty not the atty. Thicker juices are much worse but over time it will happen with any juice... in that first a film and ultimately a scab will develop around the atty coil and then the heat cannot escape and the coil gets so hot that it... burns out.

Otherwise, if you run an atty when there is no juice on it then... yeah, that could burn out the atty also but usually people do not do this (but, a newbie might <g>).

306 atties have an advantage over 510s in that you can look at the coil under magnification and see what is going on there (film, scab or what not) much better.
 

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thanks

screen shot from a youtube

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and here's a link to one of two placed I found them. Rewatching the youtube, I guess the leak problem is I didn't have that drip cover for it and didn't use a sealed 510 to 510 adapter. I had one more short single coil one with a bridge that I tried tonight and it didn't burn but there's almost no taste to juices I know have a taste with cartomizers. Lots of vapor but no taste once past the horrid taste of the atty and I blew it out first too. Its a Joytech and cost about $9.00 I think. I thought for sure at that price it would perform well but I'm just having no luck at all with dripping.

ooops... forgot the link

http://www.vaporalley.com/510-LR-Bridgeless-Atomizer_p_258.html
 
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Dripping in the beginning is usually unrewarding. Those are good Atties. It takes some burned Atties to get the gist of it. And over dripping is common because burned doesn't taste good. It's true they need a little tiny bit of breaking in to In a couple days I bet ya all will be well. I don't know the ohm you bought nor the device. Sometimes the combo you have going makes it too hot and that's always difficult to handle right. I'm pretty much in the 2.00- 3.00 zone most the time. For my tank cartos I use the low reserve. Atty, from what I've read and also from experience is pretty much low reserve at 2.00. Any lower takes more finessing and some discrimination about juice flavor choices. It really can be those oplittle things and user error. I rarely make messes or get jice in my mouth or burn flavor anymore but if I'm not diligent I still do. Dripping is not easy for being busy with other things at the same time.
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Oh, and have three of those atty cover drip sleeve things. Spent a lot time finding them. I just never use them! Ss, aluminum and acrylic. They disguise over dripping, they change the draw and that might mean making it uncomfortably tight. It needs to be right side up and one of mine was pretty hard to get on but I did it!! Yay. I broke threads on my fairly new atty trying to get the damn things off. Also, I think everyone needs an ohm reader device. I got the $20 battery operated digital light display but I think smart people use a multimeter. You might think you have 2.00 and really have 1.5.. Theres more stuff to consider but that's my 2 cents here.
 
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