Just exhaled some black smoke

[LittleMerced]

I just took a nice, long, morning pull off my ecig only to start choking and coughing and exhaling black smoke. It was a very weird experience and now I am coughing. Should I be worried about this? It was seriously unpleasant, like taking a hit off an exhaust pipe. I assume the thing had something in it that it needed to burn off or got dry. Regardless, am I gonna die?!

 

[Uncle Willie]

You'll live .. but actual black smoke .. ??

 

[LittleMerced]

Yes, black smoke. It was bizarre. I'm kind of afraid to touch the thing. Thanks for the reassurance though

 

[twohandedcreations]

I've had some pretty nasty, burnt, painful, choking drags but never black smoke! makes me wonder if something foreign might have gotten inside it...!

 

[Dougiestyle]

You will die. Eventually. From this? I doubt you'll die from this. Remember analogs?

I'm baffled by black smoke. AFAIK e-cigs give off vapor. If it was definitely smoke, somthing's wrong. What equipment are you using?

 

[DaveP]

It probably wasn't a dry atty where caked on juice was burned off. That's always been white/grey smoke during a dry burn. Even charcoal produces grey smoke. I'd get a new atty or carto and toss that one.

What battery and atomizer were you using? What juice? Did you lose vapor production right before that happened?

 

[Rocketman]

Try it again and put up a video.


NOT



Sounds like plastic.
Insulator maybe?
Melting plastic filler?
Maybe like
Burning plastic mod bucket , makes you want to puke taste?

 

[LittleMerced]

Okay, definitely not trying it again, Rocketman! I was using a brand new LR atty with an ego battery. Juice was my usual from Virgin Vapours. I don't want to trash the atomizer, but I am seriously loathe to try it again.

 

[Rocketman]

Ooooh,
LR and eGo.

Brand new attys sometimes have a preservative on the heater.
Bad taste, but not smoke.
Drip into the atty no cart. Dry spot in filler (plastic) could do it.
Plastic insulator in bottom of atty (some are plastic, some are ceramic) could do it.
Overheated Mosfet switch on eGo circuit board (little plastic component inside battery).

Atty or Cartomizer?


alldone

 

[Bdbodger]

Some of the time a bit of an oring can break off and fall in that might be what it is .

 

[wfx]

Some of the time a bit of an oring can break off and fall in that might be what it is .

yep that was my thought also. burning rubber gives off a distinct black smoke. see what useless info you can glean from watching 'man v wild'.

 

[LittleMerced]

Man vs Wild will come in handy someday. I hope, or else I've wasted a lot of hours. Anyway, the atty works fine now. My guess is that it got dry, although even when I've accidentally let it get dry, it's never done that before. My lungs feel slightly irritated, so hopefully I will live!

Thanks for all the advice

 

[egodzilla]

Hmm, maybe the smoke appeared darker than it was due to some light condition?

 

[Rocketman]

Black light ?

 

[egodzilla]

No, a black eye ...