CAUTION: Careful with your Atomizers!

[pn0yb0i]

High Definition (recommended): YouTube - Atomizer damage prevention
YouTube - Atomizer damage prevention
(if its not HD, it will be in a few hours)

I just got my first e-cig today. After few hours of use and several refills my atomizer suddenly stopped functioning all together. No heat, no vapor - nada.

So I investigated what may have been the cause. Burnt Atomizer? Couldn't have been, I've tried my best to keep the carts full and made sure each puff had a bubbly sound. Clogged? Nah, I cleaned it out / boiled it dried and even air blasted it.

Whats the cause then? I took the atomizer apart and saw that the silver wall attached to the brass fitting was moving freely.

I then took it apart and saw that the heating coil leads snapped from the atomizer base and no longer made contact. The wire were also twisted.

The Cause? Constant screwing of the atomizer with the cartridge / mouthpiece still attached to the atomizer caused the wires to twist and eventually break.

How do I solve / prevent this? NEVER twist on (or off) the automizer with the mouthpiece still attatched. ALWAYS have a firm grip on the atomizer base and twist the battery, not the atomizer! Maybe some JB Weld can hold it in place (somehow) and prevent the silver casing of the atomizer from moving. I am still looking for a solution to prevent the atomizzer twisting freely.

Thoughts and comments please.

 

[Daniel@P.S.]

awesome video the only wrong is the red font in the middle of the video. You can't read what it say. This is a Great video for all new Pilot owners!!!!! Nice work!

 

[pn0yb0i]

awesome video the only wrong is the red font in the middle of the video. You can't read what it say. This is a Great video for all new Pilot owners!!!!! I will forward this to Steve to put on the site. Nice work!

You have to watch the video in HD (link on very top) and the red font will be more legible.
Ill add youtube embedded subtitles just in case.

Can I get a free atomizer... please?

 

[Daniel@P.S.]

I did watch it and looked alot better. Just really small on here. Great job!

 

[aasupplyny]

I had the same thing happen to my 901 atomizers a few days ago and fixed them without soldering.

I'm not sure if you could do the same with the 401 though.

I just pulled the wire out as far as I could with tweezers. Then I bent the wire and put it through the hole on the atomizer cap. I just made sure the wire was connected to the cap cuz thats where it meets the battery. Bent the wire so that even when the cap is turned, there would still be a connection. But that your atomizer looks beyond repair.

I think I broke my atomizers when trying to clean the juice that was leaking through it to the battery. I used a paper towel in a twisting motion and must have loosened the wire.

Nice video btw. Do you have any videos of the pilot in action?

 

[Parallx]

I have a 901 atomizer with the exact same problem. This atomizer looks different from all the others I have. It says "Mini Cig" right on it in gold print. This one has a sort of mesh "nipple" on top of the arch. It produces WAY more vapor than any other atomizer I own, and I too had to screw with the wires to make them contact.

Still have to redo it every time I change the battery though since it moves so freely.

 

[Vangelus]

Gyahh that's good to know man, thanks for sharing the vid. (And I hope you can fix that atomizer! :O)

 

[Sun Vaporer]

pn0yb0i--Great video and advise--always nice to see the inner workings of these atomizers. If only they would build one made to last.

 

[swanee]

Great video very nice quality...

 

[smog]

pn0yb0i--Great video and advise--always nice to see the inner workings of these atomizers. If only they would build one made to last.

It's not so much as they dont last but the price of them .they only cost cent's to manufacture .I dont mind changing my vaporizer every week but not when they are £7 a time .

 

[tribalmasters]

Try not to over tighten your atomiser to the battery to help prevent this a little

 

[SannerSays]

Greatly informative video!! Thank you!! I always use my cart to twist off my atomizer. That will stop today thanks to you!

 

[Donttasemebro]

Thanks for the info!

 

[Fedor]

Both my M401 and M402 from absolutely ecigs cannot be twisted even if i tried. It seems to be glued/ welded to the death. I even tried taking out the cart and twisting it by the atomiser like in the video but can't get it to move.

Does the video mean that it will become loose eventually if we constantly twist the cart or it is loose by default?

 

[Cage]

Does the video mean that it will become loose eventually if we constantly twist the cart or it is loose by default?

Good question. I'd like to know if this is a defect or something we can all expect. I'm waiting for a good review/comparison of these before I purchase one, but this would put me off as a design flaw.

 

[Deb]

I just checked all my atomizers and thankfully they're ok but thanks for the info, it's something to watch out for in the future.

 

[RllyFstWhty]

you just solved my mystery. i guess it was just a rookie mistake. i had the same thing happen on my rn4081. atleast i know it was my fault now. thank god for spares. ordered 5 just in case