I'm seeing more and more people talking about how they try to avoid the cleaning cycle. Lots of comments about it creating a bad taste they can't get rid of or damaging the atomizer. Why is this and how can you avoid it if needed?
Is the cleaning cycle bad?
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apart from anything else,it makes the atomiser taste like crap-and thats no exaggeration-for ages afterwards...no matter what liquid you try to use to drown it out...
its supposed to burn the crud off your atomiser,but frankly id rather live with the crud...
all you can do is unscrew your battery very quickly when you hear the hiss and see the light blink rapidly for longer than if youd just took too long a drag...and pray you made it in time...
its supposed to happen every 1500 inhales...personally i think this varies wildly...
there is a puff count going on in the battery...so even if youre using a brand new atomiser with not new batteries,theres a chance that it could self clean first puff...you have to be vigilant...
plus they always closely follow one another for me,because i regularly swop my batteries,so its roughly the same puff count on both...im always watching out for that other one...i know its coming...
there is a puff count going on in the battery...so even if youre using a brand new atomiser with not new batteries,theres a chance that it could self clean first puff...you have to be vigilant...
plus they always closely follow one another for me,because i regularly swop my batteries,so its roughly the same puff count on both...im always watching out for that other one...i know its coming...
The auto clean cycle is one of the most idiotic pieces of design. Uncontrollable, unpredictable, totally useless.
If you see it happening, unscrew the battery as quickly as you can.
If you see it happening, unscrew the battery as quickly as you can.
I let it clean once and will never, never let it happen again, as my fellow members say unscrew or suffer the consequences 
and boy will you sulphor those conciquences! Imagine the nastyest tasting eliquid in the world mixed with a shrivelled up and burnt worm and cut with battery acid and some crusty old chicken remains now you have the taste of the nasty cleaning cycle - yuck!!!!
lol I've only seen it happen once before, out of like.. so many atomizers. Anyone else? How come mine never do it?
Thank you all again. My first e-cig should be here no later than Thursday and i'm trying to gather all the info I can.
Ya need to puff harder, smoke more, and drip like a fiend, then, no problema, you will get a cleaning cycle.8-o
I just got hit with this today....yetch!
Does anyone know a way of cleaning the amomizer though? Don't want to try anything just incase I damage it.
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Alot of people have report sucess with steam cleaning - I pickup a steamer at a 2nd hand store yesterday and steam cleaned both my atomizers and WOW it worked really great and tasted better too.
Some people have used one called a penguin - Mine is a shark bottle steamer.
See here.
Shark Steam Bottle : As Seen On TV Store
I paid alot less $7.95 at Goodwill
Oh yeah - hold on to the atomizer with a hot pad that stam is real HOT.
Some people have used one called a penguin - Mine is a shark bottle steamer.
See here.
Shark Steam Bottle : As Seen On TV Store
I paid alot less $7.95 at Goodwill
Oh yeah - hold on to the atomizer with a hot pad that stam is real HOT.
a little tip regarding the cleaning cycle.. when it happens re-prime your atomizer directly..
three or four drop straight into the atomizer will do this.. its not the perfect answer but it helps get rid of the nasty taste as quickly as possible..
trog
three or four drop straight into the atomizer will do this.. its not the perfect answer but it helps get rid of the nasty taste as quickly as possible..
trog
Thanks Madog, I'll look into that. And Trog, which end do you mean? I've got a 901 which has a small hole where the battery goes or the cart end? I want to be ready because it seems to happen every other time I change the battery at the moment!
It's the cart end you want to drip into. Nice and easy, even on a 901.
Rat'll show you how to do it:
http://www.e-cigreview.com/index.ph...ls&id=47:toppoff&option=com_content&Itemid=29
Rat'll show you how to do it:
http://www.e-cigreview.com/index.ph...ls&id=47:toppoff&option=com_content&Itemid=29
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oh my. I had no idea it did this! batteries out ands panic if the lights flash lots!
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