Hello, beginner with some question about the Reomizer

[Nopology]

I purchased a Reo Grand with reomizer last night after hours of searching for my upgrade from the evod/spinner.
It will be arriving Wednesday and I'm doing as much research as possible to get myself ready for it.

Couple of questions regarding the reomizer 2.0 since I have never used a rba before:
1. If I squonk too much, can it be flooded? If so I do end up flooding it, how do I fix it?
2. If the reomizer gets flooded or I squonk too hard, am I going to drinking my juice ?
3. What's dry burning? Is it something I have to do with the reomizer? The coil only without the wick?
4. I used to be a pack a day smoker, how often would I have to rebuild my reomizer? Replace wick/coil or both?
5. Is it possible to short the reo grand? If so, how do I avoid that?

sorry for the dumb questions guys and I'm sure I should have gotten more experience before jumping onto this mod but I really didn't see any other option such as the Reo. I really wish I had found out about this forum a month ago also, any tips for a new user would be appreciated.

 

[super_X_drifter]

Hey Nopology! I typed some answers into the quote below. I hope they help. Peace

I purchased a Reo Grand with reomizer last night after hours of searching for my upgrade from the evod/spinner.
It will be arriving Wednesday and I'm doing as much research as possible to get myself ready for it.

nice! You have made a wise choice

Couple of questions regarding the reomizer 2.0 since I have never used a RBA before:
1. If I squonk too much, can it be flooded? If so I do end up flooding it, how do I fix it?

it can, but it is very difficult to squonk so much that it would do anything more than decrease vape quality for a few hits while you vape thru it. The first giveaway that you have over squonked would be a little juice visible thru the airhole.


2. If the reomizer gets flooded or I squonk too hard, am I going to drinking my juice ?

not likely.


3. What's dry burning? Is it something I have to do with the reomizer? The coil only without the wick?

yes, firing the coil without the wick is a form of dry burning. It's what you can do to clean your coil just before you put in a new wick


4. I used to be a pack a day smoker, how often would I have to rebuild my reomizer? Replace wick/coil or both?

weeks or more on coil if you can go that long before you want to play with it Wick can last a while too. Types of juices can affect coil and wick life. I use unflavored nic base. It does NOT gunk up coils. It's very kind to vaping gear. It tastes like a Marlboro light.


5. Is it possible to short the reo grand? If so, how do I avoid that?

coil loops touching base, sides or cap of RBA will short your REO. The only acceptable metal to metal contact between coil and RBA is where the wire tails go thru the posts. Any other metal to metal will produce a short. The RM2 eliminates one dimension of potential short - it has a ceramic base. It is the most user friendly RBA available!
Other ways to short are defective factory attys / cartos rbas, over tightening any atty / carto / RBA so much that you damage the gasket in the catch cup. I've never had a short

sorry for the dumb questions guys and I'm sure I should have gotten more experience before jumping onto this mod but I really didn't see any other option such as the Reo. I really wish I had found out about this forum a month ago also, any tips for a new user would be appreciated.

they are actually good questions.

Your timeline to ECF / REOs was very similar to mine. A month of wasting time and money, but as soon as I opened the box on my first REO I knew it was "me". Since then, they're all I ever used. Just got into RBA's a few months ago. REO, unflavored nic and RBAs were all game changers to me. In 2 weeks I'll be 9 months smoke free.

congrats and welcome

 

[redeyedancer]

Welcome Nopology

 

[JC Okie]

Good job of answering those questions, super_x_drifter!! Nopology, you're going to LOVE it. Don't worry about anything....the people here will get you started off on the right foot. What color did you order? (Let's cover the IMPORTANT things, LOL!!)

 

[Nopology]

Reo Grand Black wrinkle. Wasn't left with a lot of choices but I wanted the black, flat black would have been perfect

And thank you super_X_drifter again!

 

[Rhapsodies Fire]

Welcome, Nopology

 

[FeistyAlice]

Reo Grand Black wrinkle. Wasn't left with a lot of choices but I wanted the black, flat black would have been perfect

And thank you super_X_drifter again!

Welcome. The black wrinkle is essentially flat but the texture is a bonus. I haven't heard anyone not liking it. Congrats on getting to the best so quickly. Feisty Alice

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[FeistyAlice]

Drifter.... super answers. Thanks, Feisty Alice

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[Mudflap]

My on dry burning:

Pffffffft!

When your wick and coil no longer vapes well, chuck it and build a new one. That's the beauty of a RBA.

Welcome to Reoville!

 

[Gioajack]

Is 'pfffffft' a technical term, I don't see it in the vaping glossary. Maybe I need to update my software.


Jack

 

[Nopology]

I can't wait till tomorrow. Been reading up on Reo with the time I should have been spending on my finals
Thanks everyone for their inputs!
When I start building mine tomorrow I'll be sure to ask here if you guys don't mind

I bought organic cotton balls, couldn't find rolled cotton.

 

[pmoraldo]

Dry burning can be done with the wick in the coil if its silica and your lazy like me I just rinse it under the faucet pat it dry put RM2 back on Reo and pulse fire till all gunk is burned off then rejuice and go

 

[supertrunker]

Commie told me off for dry burning on a Reo! Said i was safer to do it on another (expendable) mod!

T

 

[FeistyAlice]

Commie told me off for dry burning on a Reo! Said i was safer to do it on another (expendable) mod!

T

I really don't understand the reason/logic to not dryburn using REO. And I'm open to explanation.

I've been dry burning attys for going on three years and 2.5 years using REOs without any problems that I can see. I do consider myself quite good at dry burning. Okay..... master level with so much experience under my belt with few popped attys or coils. Some of my 2010 Joye LR attys were in rotaion for a year with regular boiling and dryburning, with two people vaping juices that did and still gunk up any atty or coil within days. Most just got worn out rather than dieing or popping.

I've had very few REO dropped springs and almost all were related to cartos. Only one melted button on first Grand in 2010 that most likely was not related to dryburning.

So someone please explain the logic in not using a REO for dry burning.

BTW.... The early Joye LR attys were tougher than those that came out starting 2012 and, of most factory attys, any maker, the LR 306 is the easiest to pop dryburning.

Feisty Alice

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[redeyedancer]

I really don't understand the reason/logic to not dryburn using REO. And I'm open to explanation.

I've been dry burning attys for going on three years and 2.5 years using REOs without any problems that I can see. I do consider myself quite good at dry burning. Okay..... master level with so much experience under my belt with few popped attys or coils. Some of my 2010 Joye LR attys were in rotaion for a year with regular boiling and dryburning, with two people vaping juices that did and still gunk up any atty or coil within days. Most just got worn out rather than dieing or popping.

I've had very few REO dropped springs and almost all were related to cartos. Only one melted button on first Grand in 2010 that most likely was not related to dryburning.

So someone please explain the logic in not using a REO for dry burning.

BTW.... The early Joye LR attys were tougher than those that came out starting 2012 and, of most factory attys, any maker, the LR 306 is the easiest to pop dryburning.

Feisty Alice

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Hello Alice you can dry burn on a reo all day if you like its not going to hurt the mod
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[Commie]

Commie told me off for dry burning on a Reo! Said i was safer to do it on another (expendable) mod!

T

Not exactly, though I think I may have accidentally confused the issue. Here's what I was talking about:

When creating an unoxidized SS wick, you wrap your fresh rolled untorched mesh into a shape of a wick, wrap your coil around it, and start pulsing your battery. It creates a very hot spot. That hot spot heats up a small portion of your wick, oxidizes it, and moves on. In a few minutes of that, you have a wick with a small area oxidized. At that point, it's safe to put onto a Reo.

If you try to do that on a Reo from the very beginning, the extremely low resistance of your coil has a good chance to drop your hot spring. So I do it on a homegrown copper tube mod. And it gets noticeably hot from that

Apologies for the confusion. I also dry burn my coils on a Reo.

 

[FeistyAlice]

Thanks Robert and Commie.

When I'm doing a batch of dryburning I usually use Buzz Pro or a (I forget the name - Robust maybe) slim, Chinese VV tube mode with digital readout. Both get really hot.

When I dryburn I like to start with fresh battery and then take it off/out to cool/rest before charging, and then put fresh battery in if going to vape using said PV, which in all but rare cases is REO. Can possibly extend life of battery. Tonight I'm finally retiring six AW IMR 18490s, heavily used from 11/11.

If tube mods are not the handiest I pull a REO out of cabinet that I am not vaping and put it up after the dryburning. Rarely use tube mods otherwise except to play with tanks I'm curious about.

Feisty Alice

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[supertrunker]

I'll still do it on one of HRH's "expendable" mods! lol - i am rather fond my my beaten up Reo the way it is now! Thanks guys.

T