Dangers of direct dripping?

[ghost_inhale]

As the title suggests...What are the dangers/risks of direct dripping. I've been direct dripping all day today trying to break in a new atomizer and I am just curious if I could potentially be doing damage to my battery and/or my atty. I've heard the phrase "flooding the atty" tossed around a lot...can you do that from direct dripping? I've been doing 2-3 drops on the atty all day and still can't seem to get that new/burnt/gross atty taste out! Am I doing something wrong?! Help?

 

[Lightgeoduck]

no real dangers.. except for the flooding which can possibly gunk up your battery if you are not too careful,,,other than that not really.

its important to hit the bridge in the center.. and 2-3 is a safe amount.... as far as the burnt taste try gently blowing the atty from the battery end...into a paper towel.. or clean it..(someone else will chime in on that, I don't bother doing it myself)..

 

[Lightgeoduck]

also there is tons of threads about the burnt atty taste go to the bottom of the window you will see a google search bar type burnt atty taste or just burnt atty and you will get a list of ecf onlythreads that talk about it... hopefully this helps

 

[MHR7331]

Nothing wrong with dripping. You're doing the same thing as a cart, only manually.

 

[Kattdaddy]

The easiest way to take care of your atty .. Is to remove the atty from the unit and blow throw the battery end a few times using your mouth.

If you still experience the metallic or burnt taste, You can put your atty in a glass dish and clean it using hot water. let it soak in that water for 30 mins to an hour, remove it and blowing it out/ dry. Let it dry out overnight and try it out. If you still experience that taste.. It is probably the juice your using or cracks in the element portion of the atty that are creating minor sparks that deliver the taste to the juice.

I concur with Lightgeoduck... I don't personally do this anymore because it is literally worthless. The attys for these are not that expensive and keeping a good stock of attys at hand is what I will always recommend. I order ten at the time and usually have at least twenty available. It is just the nature of the beast. I have had a few that tasted like that from the get go.. and when I got tired of the atty because of this.. I tore it apart carefully to only find minor imperfections in the ceramic barrier at the element. This is the determining factor behind the possibility of these cracks cuasing the problem. I can only think that the possibility of some juice products just not mixed properly display the same effect.

Thats my $0.02 worth, take it for what its worth.
Tom

 

[Kent C]

As the title suggests...What are the dangers/risks of direct dripping. I've been direct dripping all day today trying to break in a new atomizer and I am just curious if I could potentially be doing damage to my battery and/or my atty. I've heard the phrase "flooding the atty" tossed around a lot...can you do that from direct dripping? I've been doing 2-3 drops on the atty all day and still can't seem to get that new/burnt/gross atty taste out! Am I doing something wrong?! Help?

You can flood an atty with 4 drops and maybe 3 if you haven't vaped out most of the last drip. The biggest problem is dripping on auto batts. You can easily short out the switch through the hole that allows either the noise or suction/vacuum switch to activate. I killed three 510 autos that way instantly from being so used to the manuals - then got some autos to try and forgot and dripped. It's possible to kill an manual too but it's harder. There's a seal on the center of the batt, but if you got really messy where the juice is outside of the casing and entered through the button hole - there have been a few reports of killing manuals like that but it would be a rare occasion.

 

[ghost_inhale]

Thanks for your responses! The burnt taste is from 3 brand new attys by the way, so they all have imperfections in them? Anyway, I'll keep at it and hope it goes away. Thanks for calming my direct dripping worries though guys!

 

[Lightgeoduck]

Thanks for your responses! The burnt taste is from 3 brand new attys by the way, so they all have imperfections in them? Anyway, I'll keep at it and hope it goes away. Thanks for calming my direct dripping worries though guys!

no that is usually just the primer that the factory puts on them... pretty harmless but nasty tasting none the less.. all new atties have that taste and there are many ways of getting rid of them

 

[googled]

The only real danger with dripping is liquid getting into automatic batteries..maybe unsealed manual batteries could get gunked up too but that's pretty unlikely. I've gotten away with dripping using auto's but you have to be pretty strict with the quantity of juice and not adding juice before the previous drops have been used up. If you want to drip long term then sealed manual batteries or a mod are a necessity.

 

[DonDaBoomVape]

You can flood an atty with 4 drops and maybe 3 if you haven't vaped out most of the last drip. The biggest problem is dripping on auto batts. You can easily short out the switch through the hole that allows either the noise or suction/vacuum switch to activate. I killed three 510 autos that way instantly from being so used to the manuals - then got some autos to try and forgot and dripped. It's possible to kill an manual too but it's harder. There's a seal on the center of the batt, but if you got really messy where the juice is outside of the casing and entered through the button hole - there have been a few reports of killing manuals like that but it would be a rare occasion.

Kent is correct: theoretically ... and in his experience, obviously. However, in my experience, I've been very fortunate. I have flooded attys (especially with the BE112), but that's just a temporary problem. Others here have adviced how to solve that, i.e., blow (hard) through the battery end into a paper towel or kleenex.

But I have not (yet) shorted out an automatic battery ... and I always drip. Knock on wood.

Proceed at your own risk (i.e., risk of ruining a battery, you're not going to electrocute yourself8-o); I ain't gonna pay for any chances you take.

 

[Lumiis]

From research and trial & error the best way (IMO) to 'break in' a new atty is:

You can either blow, this being the hard way, through your atty to get as much of the primer out as possible.

Easier way, find a straw that fits the battery end of your atty and blow (through the straw) into your atty, much easier - better controlled air flow.

Someone here suggested using a balloon, either wash it out first (powder on the inside) or simply flip it inside out, you can easily control air flow.

DO NOT use pressurized (canned) air, as this will destroy your atty.

After all this drop some PG or VG into your atty and vape it out (don't inhale) - Continue until the primer taste or burnt taste is gone!

Just my .02, your mileage may vary, I would research cleaning and breaking in new atties before you take my advice lol, sorry for such a long post...

 

[matrixdutch]

DO NOT use pressurized (canned) air, as this will destroy your atty.

Uh oh, I didn't know that. I'll have stop.

 

[Lumiis]

Again, this is from personal experience, if it works for you, don't stop.

Have heard from many that the high pressure has blown parts of the atty right out the other side (mainly being the filler thread in it)

Heard about the balloon a couple days ago and really enjoy being able to control the amount of pressure I'm putting through my atty.

YMMV

 

[MissVapor]

Thanks for your responses! The burnt taste is from 3 brand new attys by the way, so they all have imperfections in them? Anyway, I'll keep at it and hope it goes away. Thanks for calming my direct dripping worries though guys!

that burnt taste is probably b/c your attys are new and the primer smells/tastes horrible...it will eventually go away after you've vaped enough juice off of it..

 

[martha1014]

I have been vaping 8 months. I have a ziplop bad I keep all of my bad atomizers and batteries. I have 3 atomizers and 4 batteries that are bad. I don't think direct dripping harms anything. All I do is blow out my atomizers and never do anything to my batteries. I guess I have been lucky. All the batteries that have gone bad are automatic. All of my manual batteries are good.