Aspire Atlantis popping...
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What ratio juice are you using?
What wattage/power are you vaping at?
What mod are you using?
I run an Atlantis on a ipv2 at 22.5w and it pops a little (but you are applying a liquid to a hot metal surface) but it doesn't spit at all
What wattage/power are you vaping at?
What mod are you using?
I run an Atlantis on a ipv2 at 22.5w and it pops a little (but you are applying a liquid to a hot metal surface) but it doesn't spit at all
When they spit or pop like that you have excess juice in the main tube, run a qtip down the throat. Occasionally you may need to pull the coil and swab the excess juice down there as well.
Seems your using about the same power and mix as me, are you running yours with the airflow wide open? If not you may be pulling more fluid into the coil than it can handle, causing some flooding
I swabbed it with a Q-tip and it got a little bit better. But, there is still one big pop, about 1s after I hit the button and lots of small ones. Maybe a new atty will fix it.
This thing is still awesome, but I'm getting lots of juice on my tongue during the pops.
This thing is still awesome, but I'm getting lots of juice on my tongue during the pops.
my atlantis was doing that, i switched to 80+% vg juice and it's been well behaved since.
Here is something to try (need other people to verify):
- When you use a new coil, put a few drops down the top of the coil onto the wire mesh. To slightly pre-soak the wicking material.
- Fill the tank, and let it sit upright for a couple of HOURS (and maybe overnight).
- During the "wait" time pick it up every-now-and-then, and roll it slowly at a 45 degree angle around a couple of times looking for bubbles to come out the wick holes.
- When no more bubbles show, go to the widest opening on the airflow, put your thumb over the opening and suck HARD (like a sucking a thick milkshake through a small straw). You should see more bubbles, do it a couple more times.
- Now fire it up and take a hit.
I don't believe you need to soak it overnight, or really more than a few minutes. There's really very little wicking material, and if you saturate the coil head before you fill it, as recommended, it's ready to go in short order after a restricted primer puff or two. Notice I said saturate, not "lightly pre-soak". Get it wet, put a drop on each of the juice inlets too. Do it just like the big boys do with RDA and RTA builds. Wet. Juicy. Messy even.
It's also a good idea to be sure the juice inlet holes are visible in the chimney crenulations once it's screwed down, just to give displaced air an easier path to the top of the tank.
It's also a good idea to be sure the juice inlet holes are visible in the chimney crenulations once it's screwed down, just to give displaced air an easier path to the top of the tank.
I don't do anything crazy with the wicking material either. I pretty much just take the head and add drop by drop of juice until I see it soaking the wicking material...especially through the side juice ports. Once I see the wicking material color change due to the juice, I just fill the tank and wait all of a minute before I go nuts with it. This is more to not burn the ceramic material than anything.
I originally believed that it only took a few minutes to saturate, but I tried my above suggestion, and I was quite surprised at how long it took for the bubbles to stop coming out of the coil openings. It literally took a couple of hours.
I was also worried that I might over saturate the coil after the "sucking', but again I was surprised that more bubbles came out of the openings. I was even more surprised at the end when I finally fired the coil it wasn't soaking wet and messy. I just ended up with a nice and smooth hit. No popping or spitting. Just a quiet sizzle of vapor production and great flavor.
Which is why I posted above, I'm just looking for other people who are willing to try what I posted and get their feedback.
The whole idea of this came up on another forum, about someone getting black flakes on top of the wire mesh in the coil. They finally determined that it was the cotton layer next to the heating wire getting burnt because they hadn't waited long enough for the juice to fully saturate the wicking material.
I was also worried that I might over saturate the coil after the "sucking', but again I was surprised that more bubbles came out of the openings. I was even more surprised at the end when I finally fired the coil it wasn't soaking wet and messy. I just ended up with a nice and smooth hit. No popping or spitting. Just a quiet sizzle of vapor production and great flavor.
Which is why I posted above, I'm just looking for other people who are willing to try what I posted and get their feedback.
The whole idea of this came up on another forum, about someone getting black flakes on top of the wire mesh in the coil. They finally determined that it was the cotton layer next to the heating wire getting burnt because they hadn't waited long enough for the juice to fully saturate the wicking material.
I have the Atlantis and hate the wicking in the bvc coil. I re wick with Japanese cotton and have very little issue with it now. If I couldn't do that, I would sell the Atlantis
I'm having the same issue as well. Most times it works perfect and I have no issues at all...once in a while I get the popping, which makes me not want to smoke it at all....i tried to see if there was a pattern to when it happens, bit I can't figure it out. I'm smoking at 30w and my juice is either 35/65 or 30/70...
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