Immediate Throat hurting, nausea, feel of passing out, my heart hurts. All after vaping
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If you are getting a burnt taste (we call those "dry hits"), if usually means your wick cannot pull the eliquid fast enough to keep up with your battery. There are a couple of things you can do:
1. Dial down your voltage. This will vaporize the eliquid at a slower rate (if your battery allows you to do this)
2. Decrease the airflow, if your tank has adjustable airflow. The decrease in airflow will increase vacuum inside the tank's atomizer, which should increase the flow of juice to the wick..
3. Take a sharp draw (or two) on your drip tip (without engaging your battery). This will pull more eliquid into the coil so that it will be available when you press the battery button and take a draw.
You will get the feel of this over time and develop a sense of how often you will need to do this to avoid "dry hits". The PG/VG ratio of your eliquid also comes into play, as VG is thicker than PG . If you use high VG try adding a few drops of distilled water to your tank to thin out the eliquid.
1. Dial down your voltage. This will vaporize the eliquid at a slower rate (if your battery allows you to do this)
2. Decrease the airflow, if your tank has adjustable airflow. The decrease in airflow will increase vacuum inside the tank's atomizer, which should increase the flow of juice to the wick..
3. Take a sharp draw (or two) on your drip tip (without engaging your battery). This will pull more eliquid into the coil so that it will be available when you press the battery button and take a draw.
You will get the feel of this over time and develop a sense of how often you will need to do this to avoid "dry hits". The PG/VG ratio of your eliquid also comes into play, as VG is thicker than PG . If you use high VG try adding a few drops of distilled water to your tank to thin out the eliquid.
But u can see the actual coil and it doesn't look gunked up at all. Yet it doesn't glow red
Did you open them for cleaning?
Never mind. I tried to do some research--they seem to be clones/knockoffs/off brand coils.
If you have a lot of them, use them up but DO NOT CLEAN THEM.
In the future, I suggest you get better hardware--kanger clearomizers would be a good place to start. And if you want to clean those, please watch a good instructional video on Kanger coil cleaning--there are many good ones on YouTube.
You can't just pour some water on a coil and heat it up a bit and proceed to vape it again. Please do some research first.
And if you don't feel better tomorrow morning--see a doctor.
I haven't had issues with having my hits tasting burnt yet. Until today cause I didn't prime the coil.
I still don't know exactly what you did to dry burn your coil, but if you didn't open the coil head unit first to expose the heating coil and that coil didn't glow a soft, uniform orange (indicating clean coil--no crud left), you may have inhaled something nasty from that overheated and still dirty coil.
Here's one for PT3--similar coil, I think.
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Hey there I hear your problem and I've been there. My question is what mg of nicotine are you smoking? Also what ohms are you running at? Gauge wire may have a part of the problem too. I would wire brush your coils and replace your cotton/wik weekly to avoid your problem
There is the possibility that your PG level could be too high, on top of the level of your nicotine
I use gambit 5 pawns eliquid 18mg. But was so ...... last night I upgraded to the apire nautilus
From what I can gather from the google machine, your Ecto BDC is a clone/similar design of the Aspire BDC.
Looking at various Aspire BDC "dry burning" or "cleaning" responses on the internet, it appears many people have trouble dry burning or cleaning this design and many of those threads recommend just using fresh replacement coils. It sounds like it's difficult to get everything dried out enough after rinsing and it's apparently difficult to get enough water to the coils to properly rinse them. There are a bunch of posts on various websites with your similar description of not being able to get the coil to glow, which either means the design is holding a lot of moisture that takes forever to burn off or you have a defective coil.
I don't have an Aspire BDC or an Ecto, but my concern with your severe reaction is, in addition to not being able to get it totally clean, you may have also melted an insulator with a hot leg trying to push power through a gunked up or burned out coil and inhaled it. That's just speculation on my part. I don't know what kind of insulator this design uses, but I can tell you that a burning an insulator on a Protank and inhaling it is a lot like you describe. A normal dry hit or hit from a dirty coil will taste bad but shouldn't make you feel like you're going to die.
Back when I was dry burning silica wicked devices (I cut my teeth on Vivi Nova's and CE4's) I made it a habit to never actually inhale (just mouth hit and blow it out) until I was confident I was getting a clean juice vapor and not steam or burned gunk coming off the coil. It was always hit or miss on whether an attempt to clean a used coil was going to be successful or not, but I always insisted on getting it to the point where I had a clean, glowing coil before I considered filling it back up and using it again.
Read up on the Aspire BDC and see if it looks like the Ecto you're using. You might find some useful tips.
Here's a Ripp Tripper video describing crossed leads, shorts, and only a 40% success rate with new Aspire BDC coil heads due to shoddy manufacturing. It wouldn't surprise me if the Ecto has the same issues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwgkYUgZXHI
Looking at various Aspire BDC "dry burning" or "cleaning" responses on the internet, it appears many people have trouble dry burning or cleaning this design and many of those threads recommend just using fresh replacement coils. It sounds like it's difficult to get everything dried out enough after rinsing and it's apparently difficult to get enough water to the coils to properly rinse them. There are a bunch of posts on various websites with your similar description of not being able to get the coil to glow, which either means the design is holding a lot of moisture that takes forever to burn off or you have a defective coil.
I don't have an Aspire BDC or an Ecto, but my concern with your severe reaction is, in addition to not being able to get it totally clean, you may have also melted an insulator with a hot leg trying to push power through a gunked up or burned out coil and inhaled it. That's just speculation on my part. I don't know what kind of insulator this design uses, but I can tell you that a burning an insulator on a Protank and inhaling it is a lot like you describe. A normal dry hit or hit from a dirty coil will taste bad but shouldn't make you feel like you're going to die.
Back when I was dry burning silica wicked devices (I cut my teeth on Vivi Nova's and CE4's) I made it a habit to never actually inhale (just mouth hit and blow it out) until I was confident I was getting a clean juice vapor and not steam or burned gunk coming off the coil. It was always hit or miss on whether an attempt to clean a used coil was going to be successful or not, but I always insisted on getting it to the point where I had a clean, glowing coil before I considered filling it back up and using it again.
Read up on the Aspire BDC and see if it looks like the Ecto you're using. You might find some useful tips.
Here's a Ripp Tripper video describing crossed leads, shorts, and only a 40% success rate with new Aspire BDC coil heads due to shoddy manufacturing. It wouldn't surprise me if the Ecto has the same issues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwgkYUgZXHI
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I would add to what he did that during the rinsing and/or soaking I highly recommend doing it over a fine strainer or colored dish towel so if there are any tiny o-rings or other small parts they do not go down the drain. I learned that the hard way.
What mod are you using? I have an itaste MVP 2 that I bought in a starter kit and it came with an ECO tank which is a knock off from an Aspire Vivi Nova clearomizer and it took aspire BDC coils. You would have to remove the tank from the mod and fill the tank from the bottom. I was using 1.8 ohm coils and honestly they would at best last only two days, and then they'd have a burnt taste and the flavor would suck. It gets annoying having to replace coils every two days and it would cost $16 for a 5 pack of new coils. Not to mention, the tank would leak all the time. I never once even tried to clean the coil, I'd take the old one out and throw it away and pop in a new one.
I ended up getting a Reos mods low profile reo grand and went totally mech mod, gave the MVP to my wife and I ditched the tank and bought a Magma rda, and started using that on the MVP. It's so much better than swapping out coils and having a leaking tank. Id recommend ditching the tank and clearomizers and just buy an RDA you like and attach it to your device. Keep in mind, when building a coil you need to build one around 1.5 ohms or higher for it to even be effective.
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I ended up getting a Reos mods low profile reo grand and went totally mech mod, gave the MVP to my wife and I ditched the tank and bought a Magma rda, and started using that on the MVP. It's so much better than swapping out coils and having a leaking tank. Id recommend ditching the tank and clearomizers and just buy an RDA you like and attach it to your device. Keep in mind, when building a coil you need to build one around 1.5 ohms or higher for it to even be effective.
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