Might be a bad atty. I've used a couple I06s and they leaked very little and could hold a fair amount of drops. The burn taste is either the coil is dry or the watts are too high and burning the juice.
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dripping..not my cup of tea
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Might be a bad atty. I've used a couple I06s and they leaked very little and could hold a fair amount of drops. The burn taste is either the coil is dry or the watts are too high and burning the juice.
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I been using it on 4.2 volts, its 2.0 ohms.
I don't understand what would be wrong with it.
Honestly, I feel like some atties are doomed to burntness. I know what I'm doing with dripping, and there have been a handful of atties I've tried that no matter what you do just burn.
the main thing you have to do with an atomizer that is acting up, is experiment with your draw speed, your draw strength, and how your holding the atomizer. For instance:
1. Try to picture in your mind, the juice in your atomizer right now. Maybe it is all UNDER the coil platform. In which case you may have to take 1-2 quick, hard pulls, to splash some of that e-juice back up into the ceramic coil platform and into the wick/coil.
2. Keeping the many possible juice where-abouts in your mind.... If your atomizer is GURGLING, it probably just needs a loooong, SOFT drag because the coil is flooded. Allow the coil to heat up sufficiently to vaporize the excess juice around it. If this results in burning, try a couple quick, hard drags FIRST, then go ahead and try the long soft drag.
3. Keeping the many possible juice where-abouts in your mind... If your atty is gurgling, sometimes a quick, hard pull or two will resituate the juice. The SAME can be said about blowing into your atomizer if it is gurgling. Don't directly blow into it. Instead, blow at a medium to high pressure through your lips and pass the atomizer through the line of airflow VERY quickly 2-3 times.
4. If your atomizer feels TIGHT and is burning, it is usually that there is not enough juice. If it is leaking when you drip 2-3 drops, and still burning, it sounds like there is already juice in it, and the new drops are connecting with that juice and being pulled out the bottom through force of gravity. Picture raindrops on your car window, coagulating together and then streaming down quickly. Understand?
Tightness- Tightness is usually a tell-tale sign of too little juice in the atomizer and burning comes with tightness's territory. If the juice seems to come out the bottom, you may need to drip 2-3 drops and then QUICKLY take 2-3 FAST, HARD pulls to distribute the juice throughout the atomizer, rather than allowing it time to coagulate at the bottom and drain out. Makes sense right? Before adding juice, try step 3 first. You may just need to pull up the juice in the bottom of your atty into the coil chamber.
5. Atomizer Angle- This is something else to consider when using an atomizer. The juice within your atomizer is running freely like grape juice in a cup. It will wash up onto the surfaces of what is inside of your atty, it will soak into the mesh and the string that your coil is wrapped around, but it doesn't always do this on its own!!! You MAY need to shake, rattle, or spin the juice around inside your atomizer to get your atty to work properly. When all of the above steps fail, try vaping with your device held horizontal to the floor, and if that doesn't work, try upside down. Try shaking, or rattling your atomizer. Try it all. The angle of your atomizer is sometimes the main culprit @ first.
The above is the way I trouble-shoot a new atomizer that is acting up. Keyword NEW. If your atomizer is a couple weeks to a month old and the above steps are not helping, it may be time to get a new atomizer. I have had success with cleaning atomizers. You can try running hot water through it in the sink (make sure you plug the drain) and I've also had success with boiling old atomizers for SHORT periods of time. A lot of people, including grim green, have had success keeping attys clean by dropping them into a high-proof alcohol when switching flavors. To dry the water/boil techniques, let the atomizer stand over night for 1-2 nights, OR, put the atomizer in the oven at 250 for 3-5 minutes at a time until dry.
Hope I've helped in some way.
The main thing I want to get across here is that atomizers ARE tricksters. they ARE finicky. But they CAN be TAMED to a point where you aren't having many problems with them. Once the above steps become second nature, atomizers are one, if not THE, BEST juice vaporizing system we have when it comes to flavor, one of the best for longevity and re-use, and 1 of the top mechanisms for vapor production as well. Just go through the trouble shooting steps above when your atomizer is acting up.
I want to stress that the above steps are basically steps to break in an atomizer. (similar to "breaking" a wild horse) the above steps are to make a brand new atomizer start to work correctly. You will not have to do the above steps for the life of your atomizer, ONLY to break it in, and then the occasional time your atomizer acts up. Thank you for reading.
1. Try to picture in your mind, the juice in your atomizer right now. Maybe it is all UNDER the coil platform. In which case you may have to take 1-2 quick, hard pulls, to splash some of that e-juice back up into the ceramic coil platform and into the wick/coil.
2. Keeping the many possible juice where-abouts in your mind.... If your atomizer is GURGLING, it probably just needs a loooong, SOFT drag because the coil is flooded. Allow the coil to heat up sufficiently to vaporize the excess juice around it. If this results in burning, try a couple quick, hard drags FIRST, then go ahead and try the long soft drag.
3. Keeping the many possible juice where-abouts in your mind... If your atty is gurgling, sometimes a quick, hard pull or two will resituate the juice. The SAME can be said about blowing into your atomizer if it is gurgling. Don't directly blow into it. Instead, blow at a medium to high pressure through your lips and pass the atomizer through the line of airflow VERY quickly 2-3 times.
4. If your atomizer feels TIGHT and is burning, it is usually that there is not enough juice. If it is leaking when you drip 2-3 drops, and still burning, it sounds like there is already juice in it, and the new drops are connecting with that juice and being pulled out the bottom through force of gravity. Picture raindrops on your car window, coagulating together and then streaming down quickly. Understand?
Tightness- Tightness is usually a tell-tale sign of too little juice in the atomizer and burning comes with tightness's territory. If the juice seems to come out the bottom, you may need to drip 2-3 drops and then QUICKLY take 2-3 FAST, HARD pulls to distribute the juice throughout the atomizer, rather than allowing it time to coagulate at the bottom and drain out. Makes sense right? Before adding juice, try step 3 first. You may just need to pull up the juice in the bottom of your atty into the coil chamber.
5. Atomizer Angle- This is something else to consider when using an atomizer. The juice within your atomizer is running freely like grape juice in a cup. It will wash up onto the surfaces of what is inside of your atty, it will soak into the mesh and the string that your coil is wrapped around, but it doesn't always do this on its own!!! You MAY need to shake, rattle, or spin the juice around inside your atomizer to get your atty to work properly. When all of the above steps fail, try vaping with your device held horizontal to the floor, and if that doesn't work, try upside down. Try shaking, or rattling your atomizer. Try it all. The angle of your atomizer is sometimes the main culprit @ first.
The above is the way I trouble-shoot a new atomizer that is acting up. Keyword NEW. If your atomizer is a couple weeks to a month old and the above steps are not helping, it may be time to get a new atomizer. I have had success with cleaning atomizers. You can try running hot water through it in the sink (make sure you plug the drain) and I've also had success with boiling old atomizers for SHORT periods of time. A lot of people, including grim green, have had success keeping attys clean by dropping them into a high-proof alcohol when switching flavors. To dry the water/boil techniques, let the atomizer stand over night for 1-2 nights, OR, put the atomizer in the oven at 250 for 3-5 minutes at a time until dry.
Hope I've helped in some way.
The main thing I want to get across here is that atomizers ARE tricksters. they ARE finicky. But they CAN be TAMED to a point where you aren't having many problems with them. Once the above steps become second nature, atomizers are one, if not THE, BEST juice vaporizing system we have when it comes to flavor, one of the best for longevity and re-use, and 1 of the top mechanisms for vapor production as well. Just go through the trouble shooting steps above when your atomizer is acting up.
I want to stress that the above steps are basically steps to break in an atomizer. (similar to "breaking" a wild horse) the above steps are to make a brand new atomizer start to work correctly. You will not have to do the above steps for the life of your atomizer, ONLY to break it in, and then the occasional time your atomizer acts up. Thank you for reading.
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Bravo, Plumes! Excellent trouble shooting guide! I hope people struggling with finicky atties takes time to read that and learn how to "tame" them before giving up on atties. Like you pointed out, it all becomes second nature to quickly figure out the problem and make corrections for it until the atty starts behaving itself. Many atties work great right away and have no issues, but it's the the finicky ones and the multiple little issues that could crop up that gives dripping it's learning curve. A lot of times it's those hard to tame, finicky atties that I end up liking best.
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You get them in a pg solution (pretty cheap too) and add a drop or a few to a bottle to reach the menthol strength you want, from just a hint to holy coldness. The 10ml bottle I got from RAWR was only a few bucks and is pretty much a lifetime supply, or when the pg goes bad years down the road.
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i finally received my 5pk of boge carto's and my vision ego after 16 days of waiting lol. this vision ego is awesome. so glad i dont have to drip any more lol
I agree, sometimes an atomizer comes out of the mailbox and I have to go through the above steps to get it working... It seems like I will NEVER get it working. This or that is wrong with it, over fill, under fill, gurgling, burning.. UGH! But once I go through the above steps and I figure out exactly whats going on inside of my atty, it works great.
And like I said, I agree, sometimes its the atomizers that I think "this is NEVER gonna work, its a Dead On Arrival atty!" a lot of times its THOSE atomizers that end up working flawlessly for MONTHS and end up my go-to, #1 atty.
And like I said, I agree, sometimes its the atomizers that I think "this is NEVER gonna work, its a Dead On Arrival atty!" a lot of times its THOSE atomizers that end up working flawlessly for MONTHS and end up my go-to, #1 atty.
Now that you have your go-to sytem back in operation...what's your opinion of the flavor after having dripped for 16 days?
Just curious.
I enjoy dripping for the better flavor and vapor, and of course tanks for ease of use.
I have a phoenix v3 on the way, also a igo-L and A7 off the classies I got for a great price. Dripping is good if you just want a couple hits of a certain flavor and your don't want to waste a tank on it.
I have a phoenix v3 on the way, also a igo-L and A7 off the classies I got for a great price. Dripping is good if you just want a couple hits of a certain flavor and your don't want to waste a tank on it.
Your going to like your V3 bro, its dooope. I just saw them being sold for $10. I got mine for $14.99 a while back. I like that the prices are dropping on rebuildables. 10 bucks for a V3 is awesome, I realllllly really like them. Spend 10 bucks on V3 or... 8.99 on a 510 atomizer? hmmmm... V3 > 510 lol. Now I just need a fair priced bottom fed atomizer for my reo mini. All the bottom fed rba i've seen are over 50 bucks. not cool considering I use atomizers on my reo most.
Also Butters, I know your sick sense of humor. This thread is not about an unfortunate mishap on a porno set early morning so don't even ask.
Also Butters, I know your sick sense of humor. This thread is not about an unfortunate mishap on a porno set early morning so don't even ask.
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If your getting better flavor from cartomizers than with dripping, your doing everything right with those cartomizers, and you were doing something wrong with the attys. lol. Give attys another try in a week and tell us if you notice a difference after having gotten used to cartomizers. You should.
Lmao..
My v3 according to tracking should be here tomorrow I'll let ya know how I like it. The A7 I'm getting is supposed to be good for bottom feeders as well. You can always post in the Reo thread and ask them if the A7 works good on them.
i just think the atomizer that came with my starter kit was a crappy brand or something
Debriged/dewicked?
If you're inclined, just try a regular 510 dewicked.
I've never used that particular atty, but just looking at it seems to call for lower wattage for my taste.
That's the answer I thought you would give. Kinda like giving up on the stick shift tranny after burning the clutch.
If automatic tranny - I mean cartos/clearos are your thing, then happy vaping neighbor
I drip at least 95% of the time at home. Dripping to me is the best of the many worlds of vaping. It gives me great flavor and vapor. I can change on the fly between flavors, and I really like that I can do experimental mixes. When I go out, I take a cart tank, or Genisis type.
Dripping isn't for everyone for sure.
Dripping isn't for everyone for sure.
I had a good couple of days dripping on my Sidesho with the 108 atomizer. Think a super high bridged 306. Then I flooded and ruined 2 of my batteries. 
Now I dip with my 108's at home and drip on my eGo-C on occasion. Had to drill out the base of the eGo-C to get it working, but it was totally worth it.
Now if only someone could make a bottom-feeding automatic then I'd be set.
Now I dip with my 108's at home and drip on my eGo-C on occasion. Had to drill out the base of the eGo-C to get it working, but it was totally worth it.
Now if only someone could make a bottom-feeding automatic then I'd be set.
They call it a clearomizer.Now if only someone could make a bottom-feeding automatic then I'd be set.
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