NYY,
First the Cleaning Cycle, sounds good, but its the Bain of the E-cig world.
If you see the LED flashing for no reason, or hear a sizzleing sound, unscrew the battery ASAFP.
It can over heat the Atomizer and it can Burn the Wick leaving it with a bad taste for a while, it can even singe or melt the cart stuffing makeing the taste even worse.
Next, Dripping (putting a couple drops directly onto the atomizer) can be done with practice. You cont want to over fill it, and you dont want to smoke it dry. Both are possible if you dont watch doing it that way.
Over filling, it can leak down into the battery, thus, gumming up the switch, or battery, or sometimes even shorting it out all together. If you just use a couple drops that normally wont happen, but then you can only hit it a couple times, before needing to drip a few more drops before its dry.
Topping off the cartr is still the best way. For myself, if i hit it about 30+ times, it then takes about 5-6 drops to refill the carts. You can get a couple days without rinseing out the cart stuffing, but if it gets hairy/ratty/or gummy, throw it out and start a new cart.
Useing a Syringe is best for filling a New nerver filled cart for the first time, push the needle down to the bottom, the fill till the cart is full. Its also used to squeeze out the last bit of
juice left over in the stuffing. You only ever ues about 2/3rds and there is always some left you can recycle with the syringe. There is a Video on this is the Noob Help section.
Cleaning the atmizer can be done a couple ways.
The easiest, ive wrote dozens of times.
Thumb on the battery end, use warmwater, or alcohol, water/viniger mix, or just distilled water, put some in the cart end, cover with finger, and shake well, then blow through the atomizer from the battery end to get out loosened gunk, stand and let dry, or use a hair dryer for faster drying. Canned air Can work, if carfull. Drip a couple drops into the atomizer to prime it, add cart and continue.
If that dont work, normally nothing will. Some use steam in the cart end to clean it, some boil it, till hot, not melted. otheres soak it in cleaning mixes.
No matter the way, let dry and re-prime it before useing again.
Only time you really need to clean/rinse out your stuffing is if it gets gummed up, or you want to clean a flavor or bad flavor out of it.
Think that covers it all
