Burning Throat ?

[Kakamouth]

Ok, I picked up an eGo and a fistfull of cartomizers this week for various reasons.

The only thing thats left me a little confused, is that I'm getting little to no taste and when I exhale I'm left with a mildly uncomfortable burning sensation in my throat. At first I assumed I was vaping a dry carto by mistake so I put it aside and grabbed a fresh one. Pop'd off the rubber cap and proceded to fill it until it started dripping out. I gave it time to sit and dry up a bit before vaping it but as previously stated I'm left with a mild burning sensation in my throat when I exhale.

When I press the button I can hear the juice being heated and you can smell it faintly but inhaling it is more like getting a lung full of burning pine needles than taking a drag off a cigarette.

So... what am I doing wrong here besides wasteing a bit of ejuice?

 

[NicLiq]

It sounds like the nicotine level is really high in your juice. I started with 14 mg juice and didn't get that feeling, but I noticed it a little when I tried 18 mg.

 

[dormouse]

assuming the nasty primer is off of the atomizer

1 - too much nicotine - nicotine is a skin irritant

2 - and/or not enough VG in the juice - prefilled carts or 100% PG juice w/ medium or high nicotine do little to buffer the irritation of nicotine. That means BIG TH especially if used on LR attys or cartos. If you are using PG juices, get juices with some percent of VG. I like 70pg/30vg. If you want less TH than that try 50/50. etc. You can still get TH but a bit less and VG helps buffer against the irritation.

3 - if LR attys or cartos are too hot for you try standard ones

and drink fluids - vaping can be drying

 

[NicLiq]

Another thing - try drawing in very slowly and take a few short puffs and blow them out before inhaling. It's much different than smoking cigarettes, what you're experiencing might be a lot like over-smoking a cigarette, if that makes sense.

 

[swedishfish]

It could be the quality of the juice. If it's juice that came with your kit it's most likely 100% PG or chinese juice (which I personally find a little harsh- not bad just harsh).

Try some juice from a juice vendor. I get 70%PG/30VG, and I use 18-24 mg. If I go lower, I vape too much.

 

[Captain Awesome]

Quality juice is definitely a good suggestion. I also find the chinese PG juice pretty harsh. Even long time smokers with lungs of steel will cough and choke on a big pull of straight PG liquid. Regarding cartomizers, I always found them pretty flavorless too, and I wonder if you're getting some of the filler burnt on the coil somehow. I sure recommend sticking to dripping or perhaps the Tank systems for the eGo.

 

[dormouse]

And - you can't just wet a dry carto and start vaping it. You need to first put in the capacity of the carto even if some drips out. Hold a tissue on the threaded end hole. If it is a 1ml capacity carto then put in at least 18 drops. An ml should be somewhere between 18-24 drops. Then clean up the threaded end, blow into the threaded end with the other end down if there is a center air channel to clear it out, and sop up any loose juice above the stuffing. Now what I do to help it spread into all of the stuffing is I lay the carto down on different sides. I use 70pg/30vg juices and with that thickness of juices it seems like 15-20 minutes of laying the carto on different sides is enough to get all of the stuffing damp enough so I don't singe the carto when I start vaping it. If you have higher VG juices it may take a lot longer because they don't travel through stuffing as quickly.

 

[mwa102464]

Kakamouth,

I think it is your carto's more so than anything else, I have used different carto's and have had the same thing happen before. Try some different carto's say from Ikenvape or Boge, or a nice 2ohm Atty, bet your problem is solved, like you said wasting juice isn't worth it on those cartos, just my opinion

 

[MotM]

I always put some extra juice in my atty to make sure it won't burn my throat... too dry means more heat.

 

[Chornbro]

Dormouse hit it on the head... too much nic, too much PG, poor quality liquid, possibly a dry wick, possibly a dry body... drink lots of water!

 

[cajen spice]

I get the burning throat with the VG carts

 

[Chornbro]

I get the burning throat with the VG carts

VG should be nice and smooth. Thats the main reason why some people like more/all VG... less throat hit. Some flavors, especially cinnamon and menthol, are meant to simulate throat hit... so it could be your flavor?

 

[DC2]

I get the burning throat with the VG carts

VG is thicker than PG so it might be that you are experiencing wicking issues when you use the VG juice.
And if you're having wicking issues, that can lead to taking dry hits, which equals burning throat.

 

[Kakamouth]

I filled the rest of my carto's before bed last night to let them all sit, when I woke up I placed two more drops in each carto before going for my coffee. Even if the filler wasnt, originally, given enough time to soak 7 hours should have been plenty of time. I vaped a few puffs off of each carto just to see how things went and only a few of them were uncomfortable to use.

They're all 2.5 ohm Bauway carto's which from what I've read are decent cartos, I'm thinking some of the carto's I have are just no good. Thank you all for the feedback, at the very least I have some ideas of what I might have been messing up and I know to look for differant juices now.

 

[unsure]

Another thing - try drawing in very slowly and take a few short puffs and blow them out before inhaling. It's much different than smoking cigarettes, what you're experiencing might be a lot like over-smoking a cigarette, if that makes sense.

+1
It happens when I have a heavy day of chain vaping.