Extremely high ohm reading on IKV HR510, after 2 days use....

[NoMoreAshKissing]

Hello all,

I have an IKV HR510 that I have used for two days and a very light vaper. Anyway, the atty started off great, but then I started getting very little vapor. So little in fact I feared I had popped the thing. Anyway, this am I started trying to use it and could hear only a low hiss, which lead me to believe that it was NOT popped. I pulled out the ohm reader and it now reads over 19.6 ohms vs the original 3.5. I also checked another atty (old, not ikv) I had and it ohm'd out at its expected 3.0. I am using a 6v device and it is putting out its expected voltage. So the atty's resistance is so high its not getting hot enough to vaporize the juice.

Has this ever happened to anyone else? Is this atty now useless? Do I need to clean a nearly new atty? FYI, I was vaping a light colored, 20% vg juice.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

Brian

 

[Vaporologist]

Something like that has happened to me a couple of times, too. I had one HV atty working great for a couple of days and then without any warning the resistance jumped to over 70 ohms one day. It could be a user error or it could simply be a bad atty in the batch. Unfortunately, I'm not sure that cleaning it will accomplish anything.

 

[Katya]

Very high resistance usually indicates a bad connection or partial break somewhere. Infinite resistance means a dead atty. Sorry.

 

[Switched]

Yup! It's pretty much toast. I get the odd one that will do that. On a good note, the ones that do, do that, are very far and in between with IKVs

 

[atavanhalen]

Hello all,

I have an IKV HR510 that I have used for two days and a very light vaper. Anyway, the atty started off great, but then I started getting very little vapor. So little in fact I feared I had popped the thing. Anyway, this am I started trying to use it and could hear only a low hiss, which lead me to believe that it was NOT popped. I pulled out the ohm reader and it now reads over 19.6 ohms vs the original 3.5. I also checked another atty (old, not ikv) I had and it ohm'd out at its expected 3.0. I am using a 6v device and it is putting out its expected voltage. So the atty's resistance is so high its not getting hot enough to vaporize the juice.

Has this ever happened to anyone else? Is this atty now useless? Do I need to clean a nearly new atty? FYI, I was vaping a light colored, 20% vg juice.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

Brian

Yeah thats a bummer, I never buy the insurance on ikv attys because I have never needed it but this wouldve come in handy on this one. Did you happen to buy the ins.?

 

[NoMoreAshKissing]

Nope, no insurance on this one. Didn't use the website either so did not think about the insurance at the time. I bought these via an email exchange with Isaac. Oh well, live and learn.

Thanks for the replies all !!

Brian

 

[Digs]

Weird. I had the exact opposite happen with my IKV HV 306. When I got it, it was reading at 3.5 ohms like it should. I checked the resistance every so often over a 4-5 day period and noticed that it kept dropping. It went from 3.5 to 3.2, 3, 2.8, 2.6, and finally all the way down to 2.2 earlier today.

I decided it was time to clean it so I rinsed it out and dry burned it a few times then let it soak in vodka for about 40 minutes. After letting it dry and priming it with some PG I checked the resistance and now it's 3.4 ohms again. Very strange.

 

[Katya]

Digs, it's quite normal. The resistance tends to drop with the buildup of gunk on the coil. Cleaning helps. Happens all the time... It's particularly dangerous with LR atties. If the resistance drops below 1Ω, the atty will kill your eGo battery in an instant. Sad but true...

 

[Digs]

Really? I was always under the impression that the resistance would increase as the coil gets gunk built up on it. But my experience with this atty does seem to prove otherwise....

 

[Katya]

I'm not making it up, promise!

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...9915-new-ego-tank-system-203.html#post2745366

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...d-old-sticky-threads-1-a-128.html#post1205584