Cart empty? How to tell...

[kristine888]

I've been vaping for a few days and have yet to finish a cart...I think.

How do I tell if a cart is done/empty. I felt that one may have been empty last night because it didn't seem to satisfy my craving anymore, but I tried it this morning and it seems fine now.

I've read that you'll taste a burnt flavor. Is this the only way? I'm trying to avoid vaping on an empty cart and have nic cravings get out of control.

 

[James1215]

The way I tell is loss in production of vapor, and kinda burnt taste, if your using empty cartos and filling them yourself, i just drop juice in untill the material looks a little slushy, and im good to go with my boge cartos.

 

[dormouse]

Are you talking about a cart aka cartridge - the push-on mouth part of a 3-piece ecig? Or carto aka cartomizer, the screw-on mouth part of a 2-piece ecig?

cart - stops making good vapor or vapor seems a bit dry, and if totally dry will eventually taste burnt and may burn out your atomizer from running it with no liquid

carto - stops making good vapor or vapor tastes a bit dry and tipping the ecig carto down for 5 seconds doesn't help (that's when I add liquid). If you keep vaping it long enough without adding liquid you will singe the carto and ruin it for refilling. Throw it out.

 

[drew999999]

I haven't run a cartridge dry yet, but I can definitely say that a dry cartomizer will taste exactly like what a burning house smells like. (Probably not the best analogy, but the closest thing I can explain with...) Very nasty. Caught me off guard as I knew I was probably due for a refill, but the vapor was still good, then the next hit was the horrid burnt taste. No warning that I could tell of.

Took about a gallon of water to flush the taste out of my mouth!

 

[kristine888]

Clarification: Yes, I meant to say cartomizer, "the screw-on mouth part of a 2-piece ecig". I'm buying pre-filled and not refilling them ( for now) so I'm not concerned about ruining them....just trying to figure it out without tasting "burning house flavor"...LOL

 

[WomanOfHeart]

Usually vapor production will start dropping off right before you get that "burnt" taste. Since you said it was fine this morning, it might be that you're "power vaping" and it isn't able to keep up with you. Does the carto start getting warm or even hot when you use it? I know mine will when I'm power vaping, then the vapor goes and then the taste might be off. If I set the PV down for a bit and let the juice rewick, then it's back to normal again.

 

[dormouse]

Nope that's it - burnt flavor and that means it's dry. There really is no other sign. It can vape with light vapor and a bit dry tasting for quite a while. There is no real signal between really almost dry and dry.

You could carry a few with you then add juice or vape them dry at home.

 

[drew999999]

Not sure if there's a sure fire way of knowing, but I notice when I screw on a freshly filled carto, it has really good flavor, but as time goes on and it starts to run out, the flavor kind of falls off to a more muted taste. Right before I did run dry, it still had a bit of vapor, but not much taste at all.

 

[Eclipsed1770]

I've experience that power vaping that WomanOfHeart talks about. Set the PV down when the carto felt hot, picked it up after 1/2hour and had more vapor and flavor than before. I'm leary of running it too dry and I have a feeling one of mine is getting there so I'll refill it before using it again.