How do you know when an atomizer dies?

[radicaljd]

I've read that attys have a life of a few weeks to a couple of months. What happens when the atty dies? Does it just slowly produce less and less vapor, or does it usually go suddenly, like a light bulb? I mean, how can you tell that it is the atty, as opposed to the battery?

RadicalJD

 

[BradSmith]

If it won't heat up anymore it's dead. usually before this happens they seem to heat up the atty itself rather than the juice, but I have had them POP you can actually hear it when it happens and then they are just dead. The ones that are still getting hot but not producing any vapor can usually be fixed with a quick boil in water and then dry them with a blow dryer. They taste a little funky afterwords but it goes away after a bit. If you're a dripper you can remove the bridge and this has saved a bunch of atties for me. But, you can't use them with a cart anymore.

 

[Broken Down AI]

This actually happened to me the other day. I'm very hard on mine, I'm constantly vaping if I'm awake (if I can).

I've got two atomizers, and my first one died. When it did so I was in the car vaping. I had no notice, it just stopped working. I was using a USB pass-through and the LED was responding as normal... but no puff.

My first thought was the pass-through crapped out. But usually if the LED works, it works. I've gone through 4-5 pass-throughs, but never had an atomizer die (in the ~3 months I've been vaping).

After taking the pass-through a part (since that's what I assumed the problem was), I finally decided it was the atomizer. I had no way to tell since I was out of town on a trip and I didn't have my backups with me. I ended up going to a Pilot gas station and getting a new NJoy starter kit. I took the new atomizer on my existing pass-through, and it fired right up.

SO, in my particular case, it was a silent death. One minute I was using it, and the next... gone.

When I was a "newer" newbie, I would do dry burns after blowing out the atomizer to clean it. After reading more about it I found this is bad (can kill the unit or reduce it's lifespan). But none-the-less I did it and that thing lasted like I said for 3 months of hard use. But if you read more posts on here you'll find that experiences can vary WILDLY. It may last a day or it may last much longer.

In the end it WILL die, and unless you've got backups, you're going to go without . Which may lead you on a trip to the gas station for a "traditional" cig, and that's a path we'd best avoid!!!!

 

[jsaveker]

I have experienced attys failing in the following ways:

1) Large popping sound - sometimes you can feel it pop (especially if you are using a drip tip) and then no responce.. does not fire.

2) Suddenly fails to fire.. no hissing sound, nothing.

3) Does fire but does not heat up enough to vaporise the juice (reported to be able to be fixed by cleaning)

If any of the above happens I just bin the atty and put on another. I consider them to be disposable items and replace them. This way you are always vaping happy getting a good hit each time.

People do report good results with cleaning so it may be worth reading up on the various cleaning and reported "resurrection" techniques and making your own mind up.

Just my $0.02