Another atty "burn out" question.

[AshHole]

I have only been vaping for 4 months and have been fairly sucessful without any major problems. Attys have lasted me 30 days before starting to diminish in production. I have read about atty death here until my mind is mush, so I seek your guidance here at the Shrine of ATE.

I was using a standard 510 setup. I have now moved up to a 6v mod and I am frying attys to the tune of 1 every 2 days when I run 6v.

It finally "clicked" that it might not be the atty being fried, but it may be possible that I am torturing it to death.

You see I chain vape, and drip constantly. I finally ( I am a bit slow sometimes) put 2 and 2 together and realized that all my recent atty deaths happened at 6v after I had a fairly warm/hot atty and dripped on it, the atty emitted a tiny puff of vapor when the drop fell into the atty, smashed the button and voila! no vapor.

Could I be subjecting the atty to a "thermal shock" (ie: hot atty dripping cool liquid upon it...) and thus causing my high failure rate? Therefore, it isnt the HV mod burning up my attys, but me putting cold water in a hot glass.

So I ask you, great experts - am I dripping my attys to death? Am I now a serial atty killer? Will the great 510 in the sky ever forgive me? Will Alvin and the Chipmunks ever become ancient history?

or am I just crazy for this assumtion?

 

[Scubabatdan]

I have only been vaping for 4 months and have been fairly sucessful without any major problems. Attys have lasted me 30 days before starting to diminish in production. I have read about atty death here until my mind is mush, so I seek your guidance here at the Shrine of ATE.

I was using a standard 510 setup. I have now moved up to a 6v mod and I am frying attys to the tune of 1 every 2 days when I run 6v.

It finally "clicked" that it might not be the atty being fried, but it may be possible that I am torturing it to death.

You see I chain vape, and drip constantly. I finally ( I am a bit slow sometimes) put 2 and 2 together and realized that all my recent atty deaths happened at 6v after I had a fairly warm/hot atty and dripped on it, the atty emitted a tiny puff of vapor when the drop fell into the atty, smashed the button and voila! no vapor.

Could I be subjecting the atty to a "thermal shock" (ie: hot atty dripping cool liquid upon it...) and thus causing my high failure rate? Therefore, it isnt the HV mod burning up my attys, but me putting cold water in a hot glass.

So I ask you, great experts - am I dripping my attys to death? Am I now a serial atty killer? Will the great 510 in the sky ever forgive me? Will Alvin and the Chipmunks ever become ancient history?

or am I just crazy for this assumtion?

The canning will begin soon as will an Alvin and the Chipmonks marathon that will last you the rest of you life. You have offended the 510 gods
It seems that I keep reposting this... but in a nut shell yes you are doing two things, running an atty way over its rating and dripping essentially on a hot light bult.

The formula to determine the correct voltage usage is
Votage(V)/Resistance(R) = Current(I)
Watts or Power(P) = Current(I) * Voltage(V)

6.5 watts seems to be the wattage the attys respond best to IMO.
When applied to your set up you are pushing 17.14 watts through your attys.

Here are the the recommended voltages per atty based on their ohms rating. I would challange you to check your specific attys and see what the ohms are. Then run the numbers and determine the right voltage shooting for 6.5 watts.

901 3.3 ohms resistance recommended voltage 4.6
801 3.8 ohms resistance recommended voltage 5
510 2.1 ohms resistance recommended voltage 3.7
Cartomizers 3.0 ohms resistance recommended voltage 4.4
Ceramic 2.7 ohms resistance recommended voltage 4.2

Hope this helps
Dan