Blowing out my cartos?

[Harrykel]

I'm using C.C.V. Boge 3.0 cartos which seem to blow out on my Joye eGo.

What's going on? Should I be using different cartos?

I load the carto, nothing flows down into the hole in the middle, the paper does look like a snow-cone. I leave them overnight. I put them on the battery. It stars to smoke a little, seeming fine, but before the first draw is complete there's suddenly a sudden taste of burning and then nothing.

Can anyone help me with this weirdness? I absolutely love vaping. I enjoy my 5.0 v. Wow a lot, but I also really like the Joye eGo when it works, and it's much easier for me to stand outside at church and not have people look at me like I'm psycho.

I'm married to an Episcopal priest, and I need to get something working for him, too. The WOW would not.

Thanks everybody. The forum is great.

 

[Retriever]

Not familiar with your setup at all. How are you filling your cartos? I'm sure someone will be along soon with some experience with your problem. Welcome to ECF, and glad you are here!

 

[Harrykel]

I'm filling my cartos by dropping eliquid into them the way numerous people have on videos. Nothing comes out the bottom but the top looks slushy. Thanks!

 

[wendallb]

I'm using C.C.V. Boge 3.0 cartos which seem to blow out on my Joye eGo.

You don't want to use anything higher than 2.5 on an ego..the boge 2.0 work great on the ego

 

[leftfeild]

I would suggest you use 2.5ohm or lower on your ego. You might like the 1.7ohm resurrectors (crystal clear vaping sells them) for your ego as they'll mimick 5v vaping better.

I've used a 3ohm carto on an ego once and it was terrible. It barely worked. 2.5ohms is sort of the baseline to me before it stops performing. Egos only push out 3.2v so you need the higher ohms.

Hope that helps

 

[Jim Bob]

I useBoge 3ohm on e-go without any problems (yet?)

 

[ianlm]

I've had good luck using the condom (bottom-fill) method for my boge 2.0 cartos. this video does a good job of explaining how it's done.

 

[KeysBum]

I would suggest you use 2.5ohm or lower on your ego. You might like the 1.7ohm resurrectors (crystal clear vaping sells them) for your ego as they'll mimick 5v vaping better.

I've used a 3ohm carto on an ego once and it was terrible. It barely worked. 2.5ohms is sort of the baseline to me before it stops performing. Egos only push out 3.2v so you need the higher ohms.

Hope that helps

You mean lower ohms, right?

There is no problem using a 3.0 ohm carto on an ego. It should work fine. Most of us like a warmer vape so a lower ohm carto is used because it will pull more watts (power)from the battery.

What you are describing is a malfunction in either the battery or a carto. Switch cartos and see if it works. Cartos are disposable and only last so long. Batteries too for that matter, but an ego bat (lithium ion) should go through about 150 charge cycles.

 

[leftfeild]

You mean lower ohms, right?

Yeah, that's what I said. Do you mean higher? I might be getting it back to front, I'm no electrician

You make a good point on the connection. Some of my CE2s I have to pull the pins down for them to connect to the battery post properly. Usually they don't fire at all until I do it if that's the problem though.

 

[hairball]

Sounds like you're not getting enough liquid in them. A brand new Boge will hold 25+ drops on the first fill. Make sure you're putting at least that many in it.

 

[KeysBum]

Sounds like you're not getting enough liquid in them. A brand new Boge will hold 25+ drops on the first fill. Make sure you're putting at least that many in it.

+1 Leave it to me to overlook the obvious.

 

[dormouse]

"looking slushy on top" or "stop when juice flows out the bottom (as I have seen others mistakenly do)" are not how you fill cartos. Stuffing cartos must be filled to capacity. That means you have to get 1ml of liquid into a 1ml carto like Boge. 1ml is somewhere between 20 and 28 drops with most juice bottles.

This is how I fill them. You can fill them other ways if you want (just don't jam a syringe into the stuffing or threaded end hole where you can cause wire shorts or breaks). However you fill them, you have to get 1ml into the carto, clean up, settle, then keep them damp while vaping. You also need to use suitable juice. I find, for standard stuffing cartos, the most suitable juice is thin clear juice. I use juices around 80PG/20VG. If you use thick juices they are likely to not flow quickly enough through the stuffing to prevent singeing. And for good carto life I avoid all dark/cloudy/opaque juices that drop flavoring sediment in the stuffing.

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How I fill V4L/Volt/Bloog KR8 cartos and Boge 510 cartos

With the carto off the battery... Pop out the soft cap with an unbent paperclip in the mouth hole, very careful not to catch stuffing or the wire loop.
Shake and open the eliquid

Fill
Hold a bit of tissue on the threaded end hole (or use the carto condom spike to block the hole),tilt the carto, and add 18 drops per ml of capacity into the stuffing (Boges and most KR8 cartos are about 1ml). You may need to wait a bit for the first few to soak in, then continue. After getting the 18 in, wait 15 seconds or so then see how many more drops the carto stuffing will soak in easily.

Cleanup
Clean up the threaded end, tilt open end down into tissue, puff into threaded end to clear air channel (Boges and the KR8 cartos I use have a defined center air channel and I want to see light through that) While the carto is still open end down, touch a soft bunch of tissue to the top of the stuffing to get the loose juice - this will help prevent leaks.

Settle (first fill only)
Cap and let it settle - I lay it on different sides and on the ends for 15-20 minutes to make sure every bit of stuffing gets damp so I won't singe the carto. if you use thicker juice than me (I use 20% Vg or less) then you may need to wait much longer.

While vaping
While vaping, if the vapor gets a bit light or a bit dry or the carto is getting hotter than normal, I take the carto off the battery and add eliquid. Also, I use such light sediment-free juices, I can look at the stuffing and see if it needs juice because the stuffing goes back to near-white.

I often use a plastic or delrin drip tip as a mouthpiece on Boge and KR8 cartos (not to drip into since the juice would head for the central air channel). Easy to pop out to add juice.

 

[Bawn]

i add juice until it drips out the bottom on the intial fill. i clean up the bottom, let it sit for 5 mintues blow gently into mouth peiece side, drip a few more drops in, until it comes out the bottom once again. clean up bottom gently take a quick pull on mouth peice to insure center hole is clear and then vape. never had one cartos go bad.

 

[MaxUT]

Definitely use 2.0 ohm cartos for an eGo. I tried 3.0 ohm cartos once and the performance was pathetic.

As for filling them, I always use a syringe if available, with a sharp 18 gauge x 1.5" needle. I slide the needle down between the carto tube and the stuffing (needle bevel faces the stuffing side), all the way to the bottom. I slowly inject about 0.3mL, pull the needle out about halfway, inject another 0.3mL, pull the needle out nearly to the top and inject the rest. Blow gently through the mouthpiece end to remove juice from the center tube. Immediately put the carto on my PV and vape...works for me.

I have a 15mL juice bottle with a luer lock needle cap which I use at work, since the management frowns upon syringes in the workplace.

 

[Harrykel]

Thanks, everybody, so much! A lot to think about and experiment with!