Dry burning?

[teslastick]

I empty out my CE2 then take apart, rinse with water, pat dry with paper towel. I put it back on my battery then dry burn it till it turns red. Then it seems to melt, or burn out the coil and it doesn't work any more. This happens 80% of the time.

Any better way, or am I doing something wrong?

 

[dannoman]

A dryburn works well on the CE2...make sure you don't get a flaming hot red glow...as soon as you get a nice orange glow let off the power button and do this until 'smoke' is cleared...

 

[zer0ith]

I've had the same thing happen. When you are dry burning if you are letting it get too hot the connection from the black wire to the coil will heat up too much and "break" (I believe its soldered from the black wire to the coil wire and it melts).
I have broken a couple doing this, what I find is short power bursts and cool down in between works best.

 

[teslastick]

So how long to press button down, and how long before you do it again? Does voltage matter? Humidity? Blow on it? Just eyeball measure it? Or is there a best way?

I watched the video from GV about it but it kills the cartos. Maybe a better way do do it?

 

[zer0ith]

What I usually end up doing is button press for about 2-5 seconds (depending on how quickly I can start seeing orange glow, if its really bad then its going to take several times like this).
Once I see a bit of orange I let it "smoke" on its own for about 30 seconds (usually it stops smoking after a couple seconds but I let it cool down a tad).
Keep doing this until its almost orange all the way. The trick is if the coil starts glowing red too close to the connection points it will "pop" because you will heat up that connection and it will break.

When I first started doing this I was dry burning just on my ego at 3.2v I have tried at 4.0 with my booster but found that I am more prone to popping them because it heats up a lot more.

Lowish and slow is the key (or at least that's what I have found)

 

[badkolo]

when dry burning you must do this in burts, i do long dryburns on the ce2 becuase i know they can handle them, the ce2 is famous for not popping prematurely but it still is a coil and should be handled with care, normal atomizer would pop after a long dry burn but the ce2 can handle it, so after you wash it off and pat it dry and flick it dry, you place on battery and give it 8 second burst and stop then again then stop for a few seconds, do not blow on the coil as this makes it hotter can could cause it to pop, keep bursting it in 8 second intervals until it gloes red, then its ready to reuse.

 

[haft2doit]

In addition to whats been mentioned, I wouldn't dry burn one over 3.7v. You don't need high voltage to get it hot enough. I have had probably 5 pop during dry burn in the last year. I dry burn a lot of ce2's. Sometimes a coil may just have a weak point and it will just not be able to take it. But for the vast majority they can take many many dry burns. If the coil is getting very bright you need to stop and let it cool. It should just be a nice glow. If the coil gets damaged, like if you're removing the plug and nick the coil, it may cause it to pop during burn. Just need some practice and understand that during dry burn it is a possibility you will pop a coil now and then. Good luck.

 

[robl45]

I've popped one or two, usually they are fine. I guess ill stop blowing on them

 

[haft2doit]

I've popped one or two, usually they are fine. I guess ill stop blowing on them

Yes no need to blow on them. The coil gets plenty hot enough to clean without doing that. You will notice when you blow on it the glow intensifies. This means so does the heat... that can be the straw that breaks the coils back. Good luck.

 

[haft2doit]

Also I only dry burn them on my ego because of the lower voltage. Just to be as safe as possible.

 

[teslastick]

Ok man so 8 sec bursts, don't blow, lowest setting on my vv, no more red hot.....

Thx!

Anything else?