Got my 510 today!!!

[Stillwatercreek]

Okay, I am totally excited about this because now I feel I am seriously on my way to quitting analogs.

So far I have invested close to $200.00 in e-cigs. The cost is that much because I didn't come here to this site first. But hey, you live and learn.

In a short period of time I have learned about atomizers, cartridges, e-juice, e-cig types and how to use and clean. I still have alot more to learn because the technology of this product is moving at a rapid pace. But right now I am happy with what I have. Will keep all posted on my new 510.

Would like to thank all who responded so fast on my last post. Love this forum.

 

[WebJunkie]

Okay, I am totally excited about this because now I feel I am seriously on my way to quitting analogs.

So far I have invested close to $200.00 in e-cigs. The cost is that much because I didn't come here to this site first. But hey, you live and learn.

In a short period of time I have learned about atomizers, cartridges, e-juice, e-cig types and how to use and clean. I still have alot more to learn because the technology of this product is moving at a rapid pace. But right now I am happy with what I have. Will keep all posted on my new 510.

Would like to thank all who responded so fast on my last post. Love this forum.

The 510 seems to at least be a good starting point.

I have some frustrations with the carts and such, but I'm waiting on some replacement parts to see if that doesn't clear up before I make a final determination on the 510 for myself. Overall, I like it though.

I've been off of analogs since my 510 showed up 9 days ago.

Small tip, if you got a PPC I just discovered...

If you lay it on it's side with the button on top, on your desk, and press the button, you can make the battery fly out. It's kind of fun.

 

[Lucky225]

My 510 arrived today as well, fist impressions are I must be doing something wrong, seems like after only a few hits you gotta refill the cart again to get a good hit, I must have put at least 20 drops into the filler so far without overflowing it. On top of that the empty cart that came with it on the atty already didn't have any filler in it So I opened a new cart and used that, filled it with about 11 drops and it gave a few good hits and then immediately stopped after maybe 4 hits or so, I pull it out and the filler is stuck in the atty So I get the tweasers and take the filler out and put it back in the cart and open ANOTHER new cart and fill this one up and make sure the cart is in the atty good and it's giving me longer hits, but still seems like it needs to be filled, also the GOLD flavor I got tastes kind of weird, maybe that's just the vegetable Glycerol though or this particular flavor.. so many questions, I wanna make this work because the first hits were good but if I can't puff this like a chimeny like I do with my packs of cigarettes I donno

 

[SusanB]

I have been using my 510 for a couple of weeks (used the 901 for 1 week) so far i am liking it much better than the 901...but i am having a problem with then filler sticking to the atty......anyone else having this problem.....anyone have a trick to fix it

 

[WebJunkie]

My 510 arrived today as well, fist impressions are I must be doing something wrong, seems like after only a few hits you gotta refill the cart again to get a good hit, I must have put at least 20 drops into the filler so far without overflowing it. On top of that the empty cart that came with it on the atty already didn't have any filler in it

The atomizers ship with a blank cart. It's simply to protect the atomizer as far as I can tell.

I also got ~20 drops in a fresh cartridge, which surprised me, as everything I'd read here lead me to believe it'd be 8-10.

I also end up refilling the cart once only ~3 drops are gone (at least that's all it seems to take at the point at which I refill.

So I opened a new cart and used that, filled it with about 11 drops and it gave a few good hits and then immediately stopped after maybe 4 hits or so, I pull it out and the filler is stuck in the atty So I get the tweasers and take the filler out

Haven't had a filter get stuck to the atomizer yet. Don't have any suggestions for you there, except possibly to make sure you keep it topped up, perhaps. Maybe that helps.

and put it back in the cart and open ANOTHER new cart and fill this one up and make sure the cart is in the atty good and it's giving me longer hits, but still seems like it needs to be filled

It's hard to say for sure. I'm too new for this bit to throw any obvious flags at me, and I've only used one atomizer thus far, so I'm can't say if trying to switch them would improve things at all.

, also the GOLD flavor I got tastes kind of weird, maybe that's just the vegetable Glycerol though or this particular flavor.. so many questions, I wanna make this work because the first hits were good but if I can't puff this like a chimeny like I do with my packs of cigarettes I donno

I had the smoke like a chimney issue too. I don't know if the issue is more that PV's simply don't work well for that, or if the 510 isn't the best model for it, or if I'm simply doing it wrong. It's hard to say.

Though I'm thinking my atomizer may not be optimal, because many people have said to treat it like drinking a shake. I don't like shakes, but I have tried to do so, and the results don't work as well for me. What I have found is that a painfully slow draw tends to produce better results, which leads me to think my atomizer needs to be replaced.

 

[Snarkyone]

These things are not intended to be total replacements for tobacco cigarettes. Their original intention was to allow someone to "smoke" where they normally could not, not as tobacco replacement therapy. They are not designed to last forever or to completely replicate a tobacco cigarette. If you can treat them as the replaceable units they are I think people would get a lot more enjoyment out of them. For the person that wants/needs a heavier hit there is always the hv mods that are available, or you can just have a couple of different kits and rotate amongst them. I have a mod and I have 3 different kits so I can have one going pretty much anytime of the day, all day no problem. Yes, the kits cost money but so did the tobacco cigarettes, at least this way I get to KEEP the stuff I spend the money on.

 

[Lucky225]

I have been using my 510 for a couple of weeks (used the 901 for 1 week) so far i am liking it much better than the 901...but i am having a problem with then filler sticking to the atty......anyone else having this problem.....anyone have a trick to fix it

Yep post right above yours, my first cart the filler got stuck in the atty... which is really freaking me out since the filler is basically soaked in nicotine liquid...

 

[Kurt]

Yep post right above yours, my first cart the filler got stuck in the atty... which is really freaking me out since the filler is basically soaked in nicotine liquid...

The stock filler in 510 carts can sometimes stick, just be careful about pulling it out and making sure the little filler fibers are neatly tucked back in.

The relatively short cart time is an ongoing problem with 510s. There are some very simple mods you can do to help this out...some materials wick a lot better than the stock poly filler. If it is a clean atty and not flooded, it should draw about as easy as an analog. Usually gurgling or clogging is the atty, not the cart.

Look up the pyramid tea bag mod. There are threads here and videos on youtube. Basically you open up a tea bag, cut the bag material in a particular way, roll it up in a particular way, and then shove it into the empty cart and cut it off flush with the opening. Filler should, IMHO, be flush at the opening so that the atty bridge sort of pushes it in and makes a little bowl. This keeps the filler and liquid in contact with the hot bridge (it won't generally burn it), and wicking towards the bridge.

The straw mod is another easy one, also here on ECF somewhere. You get a little coffee-stirrer straw and cut it into a diagonal point on one end and flat across at the other end. Then insert it with the point in along with the PTB roll.

I use another material for 510 cart filler, a cotton tissue used for cleaning eyeglasses. I cut and roll it up like the PTB, along with a straw.

You get used to having a little dropper bottle of juice with you to top it off, either by dripping it in, or I sometimes use a blunt syringe to inject down into the straw, thus filling the cart from the bottom up. With the straw you are not wasting juice that is below the few mm that catually vape against the atty bridge, since the straw supposedly creates a sort of siphon effect and cycles the juice more than without the straw. Supposedly.

And as long as you are not using 54 mg juice, there is not really enough nic to be a big problem if it gets on your fingers briefly. Just wash it off.

I love my 510, but it does have issues like the subject of this thread. None the less, it is better than a lot of other models out there, and depending on the website you can get parts with a wide variety of colors and prices!

Happy vaping!
Kurt

 

[Stillwatercreek]

I can see that quite a few people are having problems with the 510. I cannot say, as of yet, that I am. But after the Smoke 51 and Super E-cig models, this has got to be better. I do have to say that the Super E-cig worked for me. I went cold turkey with it and really didn't have a problem of withdrawal or needing a huge hit until the 5th day.

So.................I am hoping that the 510 will provide enough satisfaction for me to completely quit the analogs. Not going cold turkey on this one. My law is for right now, smoke analogs when no one around, keep count and slowly decrease the number of analogs on a daily basis. I know that I can do it after the last episode, but this time will not expect the e-cig to completely replace my analog smoking. Hoping the 510 will prove to be the answer for me.

 

[kristin]

If you're getting threads stuck to the atty, cut off some of the filler. It doesn't have to be flush with the top of the cart - better if it's set inside about 1/16". that should stop the threads from hooking.

Here's some links for new 510 owners:
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...ed-questions-about-electronic-cigarettes.html

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...ps-avoid-harsh-burnt-taste-510-atomizers.html

 

[b00gym4n]

Pyramid tea bags have been working for me great. Sometimes i just pull it out wash & dry and stick it back in. The 510 is great, once you get the hang of hitting it you will get amazing clouds within a short period of inhalation. I hope you bought a PCC (personal charging case) with it, I wouldn't know what to do without one. Also a USB pass through tends to help some of the annoyance with switching batteries every 2-3 hrs in case you havnt got one already.

 

[oldtechno]

Take a round tooth pick or straight pin, slide it down the side of the cartidge, all the way to the bottom of the inner cartridge. Wiggle it around until it makes a little hole. If your juice bottle will let you try filling the cartridge up like that...it should take 20/25 drops.

I use an eye dropper and jam it into that little breather hole I make in the cartridge filler with a round toothpick...and squirt and squirt and squirt until it sparkles in the light of tis room.

When it starts producing little vapor, maybe tasting a 'little' bad, stand the 510 with the cartridge up...this will cause the liquid to pool at the bottom of the cartridge--overtop the atomizer. Or top it off with a few drops.

 

[Marinus]

I bought a "smoking everywhere" e-smoke starter kit from the local mall about a week ago. i have been switching between that and tobacco cigarettes (which i have not completely stopped yet, but i'm trying). I also ordered a 510 today.
do any of you know how a 510 compares to the "smoking everywhere" type?

 

[DC2]

I have been using my 510 for a couple of weeks (used the 901 for 1 week) so far i am liking it much better than the 901...but i am having a problem with then filler sticking to the atty......anyone else having this problem.....anyone have a trick to fix it

Don't twist the mouthpiece once it is attached to the atomizer.

 

[DC2]

To those talking about smoking like a chimney...

Dry atomizers, flooded atomizers, and wicking
Basically, you want to keep your atomizer happy with plenty of juice, but not too much as to flood it.

A good sign that it's flooded is that it gets a little harder to draw on and you get little or no vapor.
Flooding it, however, won't hurt it at all, and you can just blow out the extra juice.

Letting it get too dry, on the other hand, is not good for the atomizer supposedly.
But regardless of whether it is bad for the atomizer or not, you still don't want to do it.

You can tell it is too dry when it starts to taste like crap.
A nasty sort of metallic burning taste.

One reason it might get too dry is if you burn through the juice faster than it can wick up more.
That is why people experiment with different kinds of filler materials to use in their cartridges.

If you take only a drag or two every now and then, you should be fine.
But if you use these like a cigarette, the wicking process will have trouble keeping up.
There are ways to deal with this, and people have different methods that work better for them.

And of course, when the cartridge is running low on juice, it needs topping off for this reason.

 

[Stillwatercreek]

Well, as my original thread says I just got my 510. Problem? Not with the 510 but with me. Last go around I psyched myself out to quit analogs and start with the e-cig. Did so for 5 whole days, cold turkey.

Now I have an e-cig that is so much better and I am having a hard time staying away from the analogs. Yes, I know, I made a law. But since I made the law I can break it, and break it I have done.

Need to re-psych myself I suppose. One thing that I know for sure is that because I had so many problems the first time out I don't have a sense of security this go around. Guess I need to start a new start date and forget the past.

Any advice here?

 

[DC2]

Any advice here?

Oh yeah, most definitely.

My advice is don't worry about it or stress over it at all.
Have a smoke if you want one, but keep working on improving your vaping experience.

Once you get really good at vaping, you'll want those cigarettes less and less.
And once you go awhile without one, you can try one and find out they taste like crap.
Then you're all set.

And that day will come in it's own time.

 

[Reboot]

I bought a "smoking everywhere" e-smoke starter kit from the local mall about a week ago. i have been switching between that and tobacco cigarettes (which i have not completely stopped yet, but i'm trying). I also ordered a 510 today.
do any of you know how a 510 compares to the "smoking everywhere" type?

I tried out the SE e-cig first and it was ok. But I returned it (free trial) and got the 510 (just arrived today). The 510 blows the SE e-cig out of the water. Much better vapor production and it draws alot smoother. I also like the fact that I can refill the carts myself and dont have to rely on prefilled carts. The SE prefilled carts would only last about 1/2 day of medium usage. With the PTB mod for the filler, I expect to get much better results from my 510.

 

[kristin]

Oh yeah, most definitely.

My advice is don't worry about it or stress over it at all.
Have a smoke if you want one, but keep working on improving your vaping experience.

Once you get really good at vaping, you'll want those cigarettes less and less.
And once you go awhile without one, you can try one and find out they taste like crap.
Then you're all set.

And that day will come in it's own time.

Perfect advice!

 

[kristin]

Yep post right above yours, my first cart the filler got stuck in the atty... which is really freaking me out since the filler is basically soaked in nicotine liquid...

I just had this happen to me. It started tasting funky, I took off the cart and there was the filler - all of it - in the atty compartment! I determined that I didn't have enough filler in the cartridge to hold it in, so it was getting sucked towards the atty on every draw.

Cut a new, larger piece of filler and it's sticking in the cartridge properly now.

Sometimes getting the amount of filler just right is trial and error. Too much crammed in there and it won't hold very much liquid, not enough and it goes flying out of the cart! LOL!

If anyone is interested, I posted a comprehensive 510 Guide - you can find the link below, in my signature.