Do you wait until they stop working properly, or do you do maintance?
What methods do you use to clean them?
What methods do you use to clean them?
How often do you clean your atomizers? And how?
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When it goes funny, bad taste or bad vapor I clean. I have a plastic tube with a lid, pour 91% alcohol in it, soak a day or 2, shake occasionally. Rinse with water and dry. I have a RN pen atomizer that will be celebrating it's 3 months of use birthday on Sunday.
I've seen it mentioned here before, but is anything special required to "blow out" an atomizer? Like one end versus the other or covering the hole or anything? After a couple months we are still on our original atomizers but we've got a bunch stockpiled and the original ones are just now starting to have some issues.
i use about 30 psi on from my compressor (or just pucker and blow if I'm not at my shop)
So far I have just been blowing through mine when it seems to not vapor like I prefer. It always tends to have a little liquid in there.
You left out the choice of "Never". I think I may be the only one on here that never cleans an atomizer. Never had a need to. I've never had one fail in 4 months either and I pretty much only use 2 at a time. One on a USB all day and one on an SD all night.
I mostly use a 510 and an 801. I blow them out at night and leave them battery side up over night.
That's pretty amazing when you consider how many failures are reported here.
Do you have some secret there?
After the testing I have completed, I think a viable, safe, cost effective, and easy cleaner is within reach--just need a little more time and then I will post results up close and personal because a lot of this Cleaning is either to harsh or simply does not work --that is if we are talking about getting the residue off the coil----postings and photos to come very soon---Sun
Anxious to see what you come up with Sun. Hopefully you'll take some of the suffering out of this whole thing.
I hit them with 40 psi from the compressor and nuke them with my homemade passthrough.
YouTube - Cleaning a Totally Wicked 901 Atomizer with a 4.5 volt DC Adapter
YouTube - Cleaning a Totally Wicked 901 Atomizer with a 4.5 volt DC Adapter
Ditto here.
My next try is going to put some H2O2 in the ultrasonic cleaner and give that a go, maybe once a week.
I'll second Houdini's version. I don't clean them. The two I did clean when performance dropped were killed by cleaning them. Never again. I'm on three months with a number of them and only blow them out when flooded.
I simmer in boiling water then dry. Then hook it up to 5v DC on the terminals to burn off the black residue on the element using 30 second burst with a cool down in between. Then I sprinkle a few crystals of caustic soda directly into the bridge/element core of the atomizer and a dribble of hot water (a few drops really) to dissolve the caustic soda then let sit for a while this loosens the ash (was once a hard black reside) off the element. Then rinse thoroughly followed by a bath of 50% white vinegar in water, this neutralizes all traces of the caustic soda. Final rinse and dry and it works like new again!
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