eGo-T Need some help

[Phishman]

I have the eGo-t and am having some issues with it. It seems to me that all my attys are really hard to pull off of. I have 2 reg and 2 LR attys, and all for seem to be really hard to draw off of. I have had them for a week now and compared to my other PV's this seems like i'm sucking a golf ball through a hose. Has this been happening to anyone else? also it seems like my tanks some times dont fill in and i get lots of dry hits. Any help would be great

 

[alldayvape]

clean and dry burn them.. you probably have a lot of gunk on the coil.

 

[swedishfish]

Mine was hard draw from day #1.

 

[MitchellBeans]

DO NOT DRY BURN AN EGO-T ATOMIZER... you will burn the wick!!!!!!!!!!

 

[alldayvape]

DO NOT DRY BURN AN EGO-T ATOMIZER... you will burn the wick!!!!!!!!!!

???? so how in the hell are you supposed to get the gunk off the coil ????

 

[Robert T]

???? so how in the hell are you supposed to get the gunk off the coil ????

When I clean mine I pull the tank bracket out, run hot water through the atty to get rid of residual juice, blow out the remaining water, dry it out with a paper towel and dry burn until all the gunk is burned off then rinse again to get rid of the ash. Then I dry it again and re-install the bracket, put a fresh tank in and vape.

 

[IOU]

It seems to me that there are some manufacturing variations with the attys on the tank system. I have several attys and one in particular seems to pull kind of hard. I think all you can really do is try to take slower draws. It won't make it feel like you are trying to suck a bowling ball through a staw.
The vapor production is still great you just need to draw slower.

 

[IOU]

I didn't think of it until just now, as I picked up my Map tank and took a nice long drw after sending that last post. I have started using the MAP tanks and they draw so easy it is just ridiculous! I think they are worth a try if you just are not satisfied with your exsisting tank attys. If you get the 510 connector they are completely compatible. You may like them better.

 

[jerky666]

take a steampipe pull (drag off atty with tank pulled out) and see if the draw is still difficult, if not, check the 'air chambers' on the tank to make sure they are a good size, i have had some inconsistencies with tanks causing bad pull.

if they had a bad pull out of box, i would try this

I have used a paperclip to hallow out a bigger opening on a tank before

 

[MitchellBeans]

???? so how in the hell are you supposed to get the gunk off the coil ????

Ego-T attys are still a version 1 and when performing 'badly' its just how it is.

If you dry burn an atty and get it to glow like lava, guess what? THE WICK IS IN THERE! burn wick = bad taste / vape. Soon it will be useless...

Ego-T atty's, especially ones in use less than a month, do not need to be cleaned in the tradition we have accepted in a 510 or whatever... its a totally different beast. Unfortunatley, they were rushed out to market and in all honesty are not 'fixable' once they start tasting bad and/or flooding....

 

[Supertaper]

I am still a noob to vaping, and even newer to 3 piece units, so maybe I don't know what I'm talking about, but this is what I have found with the ego-t so far. I blow it out at least once a day, and prime with either PG or diluted VG (no nic, unflavored). I also find that mine need a rinse, or short soak in hot water every day too. But after 4 or 5 days, the coil is just too gunked up, and it really doesn't work very well any more. At that point, only a dry burn will get it working again properly. If you remove the plate with the spike, the wick comes with it, so a dry burn is possible without burning the wick. (Is the stuff that the coil is wrapped around also a wick?) I have read numerous times that dry burns will shorten the life of the atomizer, and I'd rather not do that, but nothing else I have tried gets the gunk off the coil. It is entirely possible that my troubles could have been avoided if I had known to blow it out and give it a rinse regularly, when I first got it, but I didn't. I have also found that no matter how diligent I am about blowing it out, rinsing, soaking, etc, the wick doesn't really get clean. It does get pretty clean once it has been removed and rinsed, but not without pulling the spike plate out and rinsing it all by itself. Every single time I have removed it, it has been brown and icky (no matter what color of juice I'm using), and it always wicks better for me after I have rinsed that off.

I have a love/hate relationship with this thing. When it is working well, I LOVE it. The vapor is sufficient, the TH is just right for me, and the flavor is so clean in comparison to cartos, even brand new cartos. BUT, it isn't always working well. And when I am having to mess with it all the time to try to get it working properly again, I really miss the simplicity of my kr8.

 

[Justice]

I have removed the burn taste soak for while in alcohol and flush vie let soak overnight then several short quick pulls to get wick wet. This also helps on the pull. Keep battery to a tty clean too . Also take paper clip or small wire and run thru side air vents on either side of tank. Hope this helps did for me

 

[Phishman]

Ya it seems now that one of the four attys hits nice but the other three are def hard to pull off of. one of wich is really bad. what about fluid leaking all the way down and out the bottom where the battery meets the atty? anyone have this prob?

 

[smirkette]

I've had a lot of luck with the Robert T's suggestion of remove tank > blow the atty out > rinse under hot water > blow it out again strategy, which I do when changing wildly different flavors of e-juice. Oh, and FWIW, mine had a super-hard draw out of the box and cleared up after doing this.

Re: fluid leaking, yes, I've heard some people have that problem (I've been lucky and only had it once and that was because I hadn't completely snapped on the end of the tank before putting it back on the atty). For some, it's been solved by repositioning the wick in the atty. See Vickie @ CigNot's awesome video.