Atty Problems

[patzi]

I've been vaping happily over a year now using the 510 and the pryamid teabag material as filler. It's been quite satisfying until lately. My atty's suddenly seem to be "vacuuming" juice into the atty, thus flooding it. And this isn't even with a full load of juice in there. It seems any juice that's in the filler is sucked right down into the atty and it's so frustrating! I'd drip, but that seems to flood it too, even when the atty is completely blown out and cleaned. This only started recently, and I don't know what's changed to make it happen. Ideas?

 

[Kurt]

This sounds to me like the atty is getting on in age, and the resistance is too high to vape the juice well. If you have a digital multimeter, set to 0-200 ohms, red lead to center hole of threaded end, black to outer threads. If it reads higher than 3 ohms, the atty is probably too weak for the regular 3.1V batt. OTOH it might be perfect for a 5V PV, or even a true 3.7V mod. If an atty cannot vape the juice out, it tends to flood.

Also, while some really like the PTB cart mod, I found it to flood/leak way too easily. I had better luck with other mods, like the zero-filler mod or the buff-puff facial sponge mod. But I didn't have great luck with any cart mod, and I tried many many mods over the course of many weeks. Now I only drip with attys, and use cartos almost always when out and about.