Does voltage affect atomizer life?

[Benzin]

Getting my Lavatube soon, and besides cartos, i plan to do a lot of dripping into 510 standard atomizers (im allready dripping 510 atties with my ego-c batteries).

Im not planning on vaping at "high" voltage (say over 4v) as im pretty satisfied vaping at 3.5 wich is what i get from my ego battery now, but, supose i vape at say 3.8 volts. ¿will my 510 atty have a shorter life that if i vaped at 3.5 volts?

or in other words, ¿does increasing the voltage shortens the life of an atomizer?

thanks

 

[base234]

Lots of people use 510 atomizers at 5V all the time. I haven't heard any complaints about shorter atty life. (Watch, one will come now.) I'd be more concerned about lack of cleaning attys contributing to shorter life. In your case, I'd fill a shot glass with tequila, drink it, then put in the atty you've used that day, cover it in tequila and soak it overnight.

 

[AttyPops]

Quick answer is probably so (yes), but not that much difference. Better to use vv for what it is for... having a good vape. Why ruin all your vaping just to extend the life by a small %.

The logic behind the "yes" is that more voltage = more watts at a given resistance = more heat. That is more stress to the part so it should in theory fail earlier. However, the whole goal of raising the heat is to make the vape better.

That said, a lot of people like cool vapes and don't want to over heat their juice (better flavor). So, that's what vv is all about... dialing it in to preference.

The SR stuff should hold up better than the LR stuff (as a general rule) since the LR stuff is often made LR by reducing the length of the coil...not by using thicker coils (at least that's the theory). Also you can check into 3.1/3.2 ohm stuff that can be used for quite a while at 5 volts. I use 3.x ohm atomizers at 5 volts and retire them after a month of use (1 atty per month normally). I've had them last 2 months or more. After a while it just gets silly (to me) to keep cleaning that old atty when I like "new atty day" so much!

 

[DC2]

I've been dripping my standard 510 atomizers at 3.7 volts for years now.
I've had atomizers last me a very long time, and some that inexplicably went out quite a bit sooner.

About 5 months ago I switched to 4.8 volts (and higher) using the NiMH batteries.
I haven't been doing this long enough to comment with any certainty on atomizer life.

I suspect their life is shorter, given my experiences thus far, but they still last a fairly long time.
And as a bonus, I believe I can say with some confidence that they don't need to be cleaned as often at higher voltages.

Just my opinion so far...

 

[Unforeseen]

Moved from General E-Smoking Discussion to Atomizer, Cartomizer, and Tank Discussion

 

[Benzin]

Thanks guys.
I think ill try diferent settings once my LT gets here, all the way up to 6v. Just to see how the flavor varies. But ill try to stay at 5v max or below.

base234: i do blow out my atty every night, and i tried the baking soda + white vinager method, and it seemed to work great.

Now i only have to learn how to detect when its time to add more juice while dripping. Im pretty new to it (used tanks and cartos before), and it seems i allways get it wrong. Either i flood my atty, or i get a nasty burnt taste on the last puff hehe.

 

[six]

Now i only have to learn how to detect when its time to add more juice while dripping. Im pretty new to it (used tanks and cartos before), and it seems i allways get it wrong. Either i flood my atty, or i get a nasty burnt taste on the last puff hehe.

This is actually more important to long lasting attys than what voltage you choose to run them at (within reason). Keep your coil wet. -- It takes a little practice, but you'll do fine.

 

[Raah]

My understanding is higher voltage will affect atomizer life but I suppose the affect would be noticeable only if you are sending a very high voltage through a Low Resistance Atomizer i.e. say 5v through 1.5 Ohms. I don't think you would see much difference if you upped the voltage from 3.5v to 3.8v