Burning taste?

[fsnyder350]

I'm getting a burning taste sometimes from my joye510. Almost like a burning paper or even plastic taste. What's causing this?

 

[Docd]

Just a guess but sounds like you melting your atty/carto.

 

[DC2]

The following is an excerpt from this thread, which is also linked in my signature below...
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...buying-using-electronic-cigarette-primer.html


Dry atomizers, flooded atomizers, and wicking
Basically, you want to keep your atomizer happy with plenty of juice, but not too much as to flood it.

A good sign that it's flooded is that it gets a little harder to draw on and you get little or no vapor.
Flooding it, however, won't hurt it at all, and you can just blow out the extra juice.

Letting it get too dry, on the other hand, is not good for the atomizer supposedly.
But regardless of whether it is bad for the atomizer or not, you still don't want to do it.

You can tell it is too dry when it starts to taste like crap.
A nasty sort of burnt plastic type of taste.

One reason it might get too dry is if you burn through the juice faster than it can wick up more.
That is why people experiment with different kinds of filler materials to use in their cartridges.

If you take only a drag or two every now and then, you should be fine.
But if you use these like a cigarette, the wicking process will have trouble keeping up.
There are ways to deal with this, and people have different methods that work better for them.

And of course, when the cartridge is running low on juice, it needs topping off for this reason.

 

[Tiari]

Not sure which you are using, but sounds like a dry cartridge or cartomizer.

 

[fsnyder350]

so i guess i'm vaping so fast that the liquid isnt vaping to the atomizer fast enough? I guess I need to slow it down lol.

this only started happening after I started mixing 2 drops of cvs glycerine in my refills.

 

[DC2]

Makes sense, because glycerin (VG) is thicker than PG so it doesn't wick quite as well.
But it sure does give some good vapor!!

 

[Merwin]

The following is an excerpt from this thread, which is also linked in my signature below...
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...buying-using-electronic-cigarette-primer.html


Dry atomizers, flooded atomizers, and wicking
Basically, you want to keep your atomizer happy with plenty of juice, but not too much as to flood it.

A good sign that it's flooded is that it gets a little harder to draw on and you get little or no vapor.
Flooding it, however, won't hurt it at all, and you can just blow out the extra juice.

Letting it get too dry, on the other hand, is not good for the atomizer supposedly.
But regardless of whether it is bad for the atomizer or not, you still don't want to do it.

You can tell it is too dry when it starts to taste like crap.
A nasty sort of burnt plastic type of taste.

One reason it might get too dry is if you burn through the juice faster than it can wick up more.
That is why people experiment with different kinds of filler materials to use in their cartridges.

If you take only a drag or two every now and then, you should be fine.
But if you use these like a cigarette, the wicking process will have trouble keeping up.
There are ways to deal with this, and people have different methods that work better for them.

And of course, when the cartridge is running low on juice, it needs topping off for this reason.

Looks like I've been I've been letting my atty's get to dry......that might explain why they haven't lasted me too long