First attempt at dry burning was a bust...

[RainbowBabz]

Ok so, I can't get a new coil for 2 1/2 more hours... Have no way to vape. Looked online about an hour ago for a video to show me how to dry burn, hoping it would buy me a few hours of use out of this old coil...

I've followed the directions in the video (by OutlawVaper) to a tee, with no luck. Literally killed my good battery and still can't get the coils to glow. It's obviously doing something because I can hear the noise, and the tank is heating up. Why after an hour is the coil still not glowing orange? Any advice?

 

[autobiogphnation]

It's not going to glow if it's still wet... What are you trying to dry burn?

 

[RainbowBabz]

One tank is an iclear 16. The other is some random one with no name. (Packaging was in Chinese.) I gave up on the Chinese one because it stopped even showing any sign of heading in the right direction.
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[edyle]

Ok so, I can't get a new coil for 2 1/2 more hours... Have no way to vape. Looked online about an hour ago for a video to show me how to dry burn, hoping it would buy me a few hours of use out of this old coil...

I've followed the directions in the video (by OutlawVaper) to a tee, with no luck. Literally killed my good battery and still can't get the coils to glow. It's obviously doing something because I can hear the noise, and the tank is heating up. Why after an hour is the coil still not glowing orange? Any advice?

"the tank is heating up"

That's the problem right there.

Not supposed to have the tank on to dry burn

 

[CreepyLady]

You want to take the tank off (empty it first) so that it looks like the part in the middle of this pic (but leave it attached to your battery)

Then rinse and dry it as well as you can with paper towels. Pulse it for about 3-4 seconds at a time until it glows red. Let it cool for a moment, rinse and dry. Put it together, refill tank and GO.

 

[RainbowBabz]

Ah... The video I watched left the tank on...
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[edyle]

with my zmax or vamo, i can set the wattage down to 3 watts and dryburn a coil safely without the risk of burning it out.

with a plain ego batt you have to pulse;
trickier still with a dual coil because one might get dry before the other and get alot hotter faster.

 

[RainbowBabz]

Yay, taking the tank off got the coil to glow very quickly... But now it's reassembled and I can't get a draw off it. U_U I am so annoyed with this process. Can't wait until I can go get a new friggin' head setup. Already been without any nicotine for three hours and still have two more hours to go.........while dealing with a screaming child.
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[CreepyLady]

What is happening now that it is all reassembled and refilled? Is it making the sizzle noise without giving you much vapor? It takes a good few pulls to get the water out and the liquid in from the end rinse....not sure if this may be what is happening here?

 

[RainbowBabz]

No. It wasn't doing anything. Tried about 20 pulls... Nothing at all. Gave up, tossed the coil, will go get the new ones in a few hours, and hope that this kid is nice to me in the meantime. Just glad I actually have money today, at least. Definitely don't have the willpower to go a day and a half without my fix lol.
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[edyle]

After you dry burn the coil, the coil is dry.

After you reassemble, you need to give the coil time to get wet.

You can tilt the tank to wet the coil area.
Press the fire button and listen for the popping sound.


When reassembling you can also add a drop or 3 of liquid to the coil before putting the top on to prime it.

 

[RainbowBabz]

I'm quite familiar with priming the coil. Not the problem.

Edit: Ugh, gave it another shot anyway, and I'm actually able to get something... .... Horrible flavor right now but at least it'll hold me over for now. (It was the tilting thing that helped btw... I had already dropped oil on the coil and let it sit. Sorry for being a bit snappy. It's one of those signs that this really is an addiction... Lol... :/ And that I'm inherently kind of a jerk unless properly"medicated".)

 

[charly1954]

Trying to figure out whats going on here.

I take it her old coil quit working or quit getting hot enough to make vapor. Does the dry burning revive the coil? I would think if u can get it to dry burn, then u should be able to get vapor without doing a dry burn.