My carts seem to lose flavor fairly quickly so I refill them but I only get in 5 drops or so. If I don't do that I can still get vapor but it is void of flavor. Is this common or should I try puffing on them until they are really empty?
How long should a full cart last?
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Thats about the luck that i have with carts. The bue filler material helps a little but still not worth more than 10 minutes of heavy vaping.
You may want to look into cartomizers, they are cheap and should last much longer than carts.
You may want to look into cartomizers, they are cheap and should last much longer than carts.
You could always try dripping and see if you like it. Just drip directly onto the atty, bridge/coil as long as you have a manual battery. Then if you like it buy a drip tip to make it really easy. don't worry they are cheap. there really is nothing to dripping just put around 3 drops right onto the bridge on the atty and get your ten hits or so. As soon as the flavor drops it's telling you to add a couple more drops. No more filling carts or leaky mess, I haven't had any juice in my mouth since I got it down pat. I get consistantly good hits and flavor.
Did you, perhaps, overstuff the cartridge with poly?
Loss of flavor sound weird, since it's not like as if the flavoring separates from the base glycerine while vaping. What kind juice are you using?
Loss of flavor sound weird, since it's not like as if the flavoring separates from the base glycerine while vaping. What kind juice are you using?
I had this problem to begin with...I was vaping to fast and the filler in the cart couldn't wick fast enough. I use the thermometer flick trick and it seems to help. The reason you are still getting vapor is the bridge still has moisture and if is just vaporizing the moisture away with out any flavoring.
This is an excerpt from the thread linked in my signature below...
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 burnt plastic type of 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.
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 burnt plastic type of 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.
The straw mod is another simple mod that I've had great luck with. The ZFM mod has always leaked for me so I can't recommend it for anything but sit still and vape situations, like working on a computer, watching TV, that sort of thing.
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