Bizarre ATTY issue

[VaporNebula]

I have a rather new 510 atty. Only about 2mls through it so far. It is taking a very long time to heat up. Flooded right? nope. I blew it out very thoroughly and only got a little bit of juice out. Dead? nope 2.2 ohms. battery? nope, tried other batteries same issue. different atty fixed. So, what is causing it to take so long to heat up? It takes about 4-5 seconds to even heat enough to get any TH and about 8-9 seconds to get any good vapor.

It is on an eGo.

 

[Zelphie]

So far I havent liked my 510 attys when there new as much as after I pull out the wicking material under the bridge, it sounds counterproductive but it gets much hotter. In short, I just dunno.

 

[tornado9015]

Not enough air getting through maybe? make slits on the sides are clear, if all else fails poke a needle through the hole in the top, it may kill the atty completely, but I have heard of it fixing similar problems.

 

[Mr.Self_Destruct]

I had a couple of attys like this. I don't use them. Both were Joye. One was a regular joye that came with a 510 kit and the other was a lr from TW.

 

[VaporNebula]

Not enough air getting through maybe? make slits on the sides are clear, if all else fails poke a needle through the hole in the top, it may kill the atty completely, but I have heard of it fixing similar problems.

The draw is fine that is another thing making it so dang confusing. There seems to be nothing wrong with it. Except for the fact that it is heating up slow. I have even tried lifting the contacts. GRRRRRR so frusterating. I guess I will try posting on one of the Tech forums.

 

[Liv2Ski]

I had one like that about a month ago. They show up once in awhile. Could be a bad solder joint which means minimal current is passing through. I made that one my experiment atty. First bridgectomy, Super flood, dry burn and finally full disection. Full disection was brutal so I could not confirm poor solder joint. It was fun messing with it.

 

[tornado9015]

I agree with liv2ski, only explanation that makes sense to me.

 

[VaporNebula]

Maybe I will try a careful dissection and see if I can root it out. I will let it sit for a few days. Sometime that seems to bring them back to life.

 

[kj4lxw]

Could be all gunked up. I dry burn very regularly and the atty, though not as you describe your's, is slow to glow until some of the gunk burns off. Then it lights up quick.
Should be noted I drip bridge-less so I can see the coil and dry burning has never fried the atty out (standard 510 atty) as many say it will.

If you drip I say remove the mesh and wicking, leaving the bridge in or taking it out is your choice

drippers-remove-bridge

long read but good info in there on dry burning method and also see how easy it is to remove mesh/bridge by watching that video link.

If you don't drip maybe a good cleaning with 90% alcohol, coziccon has a great video on the method.

Just some food for thought.

 

[VaporNebula]

Could be all gunked up. I dry burn very regularly and the atty, though not as you describe your's, is slow to glow until some of the gunk burns off. Then it lights up quick.
Should be noted I drip bridge-less so I can see the coil and dry burning has never fried the atty out (standard 510 atty) as many say it will.

If you drip I say remove the mesh and wicking, leaving the bridge in or taking it out is your choice

drippers-remove-bridge

long read but good info in there on dry burning method and also see how easy it is to remove mesh/bridge by watching that video link.

If you don't drip maybe a good cleaning with 90% alcohol, coziccon has a great video on the method.

Just some food for thought.

Actually it is slow even after initial heat up. If I heat it up to the point of producing vapor and then try to fire it again it will still have the same heat up time.

 

[kj4lxw]

Here's a thread thats informative about the coil

cleaning atomizer / photo evidence

The OP started took it downhill (bizare actually) but the info presented is basically what I have experienced and why I use simple hot water rinse in a small bowl of water thats been heated in microwave followed by dry burn. I use a 5v PT to dry burn and just keep going, by burning for 5 second, then let off the button to rest, then back on, until there are no fumes coming out (several minutes overall).

The coil always looks black before I start and ends up white, like in the photo evidence thread, when done.

 

[kj4lxw]

Actually it is slow even after initial heat up. If I heat it up to the point of producing vapor and then try to fire it again it will still have the same heat up time.

Its possible that the juice gunked it up, some junk up the coil more than others.
there have been times that my dry burn takes a good while before it starts to fire up quicker.
Do you use more than one battery? Same on the others?

 

[VaporNebula]

Here's a thread thats informative about the coil

cleaning atomizer / photo evidence

WOW what an ... hat she was, she was looking for a fight.

 

[tornado9015]

Only read a few posts down but I agree that OP was picking a fight for no reason. What kind of atty was that? doesn't look much like any of my 510 attys.

 

[kj4lxw]

Yeah totally bizarro world material (maybe off her meds?) but nice photos.

 

[VaporNebula]

Only read a few posts down but I agree that OP was picking a fight for no reason. What kind of atty was that? doesn't look much like any of my 510 attys.

Atomizer

 

[redgirl]

Seems like I have been getting more bad 510 attys than usual lately. Not that they take a long time to heat up, but the draw on them has been horrible!

 

[markfm]

If it heats, but slowly, maybe it's high resistance so you're drawing minimal current -- the opposite of an LR. Any chance you have a multimeter?

 

[VaporNebula]

If it heats, but slowly, maybe it's high resistance so you're drawing minimal current -- the opposite of an LR. Any chance you have a multimeter?

2.2 it was vaping fine for about 2 mls then it just started acting weird.

 

[The Big Chief]

its one attitude of the 510's..the lazy piece o' ....You have to heat torque em a LOT to get over that..teh good news is those are marathon runners that seem to last forever...but like the cog wheel..takes some work to get it rolling.