Just got my first pv,510. Need some help please.

[IronEagle]

Hello everyone and thanks for reading. I just received my brand new 510 today with 10 ml of black tea juice. First thing I did was clean the attys out. I have read so much about primer I ran em under a faucet, let them dry, and used compressed air to make sure. They came soaked in primer so bad the small plastic bag was wet! Primer serves a purpose I guess. I then emptied one of the prefilled carts, washed the batting, dried it, and cleaned the cart. I charged the first battery for 2 hr even though the charger light was green. The other has been in the charger all day.

I put the atty back on and dropped about 5 drops of the black tea liquid right on the wick. I filled up the cart I cleaned with black tea fluid, and proceeded to vape. Quite a few of the first puffs were harsh and kinda left the back of my tounge tasting burnt. So I kept doing primer puffs for a few and eventually added more juice to the atty. Now im not getting the enormous ammount of vapor like alot of the reviews but I chock this up to inexperience and atty not being broken in.

Now I find myself getting light headed often and still craving a analog. Not to mention the taste of the juice isnt something im crazy about. So my question is does anyone have any suggestions on juice flavors that are a bit smoother? And if I smoked a pack of marlboros a day what should my nic content be? Im guessing the nic content is whats making me feel like crap a bit. Currently im using 18 mg black tea nic juice from altsmoke. The juice tasts just like black tea, I just dont care much for it.

Sorry if these questions have been asked to the point of beating your head against the wall. Just cant seem to come up with anything on search. thanks in advance!

 

[DC2]

Sounds to me like you might still have enough primer left in there to mess up the flavor.
And it also sounds like you might have one of the atomizers that needs breaking in a bit.

I would just keep at it for a little while longer and see if it improves.

Another thing that concerned me was that you put 5 drops on the atomizer AND put on a full cartridge. That sounds like a recipe for a flooded atomizer, because I'm not sure the 510 can handle that many direct drops. But it necessarily SOUND like your atomizer is flooded.

You might try this though...

Take off the cartridge and press the manual button to light up the atomizer, and hold it until you see the atomizer glowing orange down below the atomizer bridge.

This could help wake up your atomizer if it is sleeping, it could help burn off extra primer taste, and it could help burn off extra juice if the atomizer is flooded. And if you can't get it to glow orange, then I think that might mean your atomizer IS flooded and you need to blow it out.

Just some thoughts...

 

[DC2]

Oh yeah, and one more thing about the lightheadedness...

You MIGHT be drawing in too hard and/or too frequently, which could also lead to flooding your atomizer, and eventually cause you to get lightheaded, which is what I think happened to me at first .

 

[Levi]

From what ive read 1 cig = about 1 mg of nic. 1 ml of 18mg fluid = 18 mg of nic. 1 ml = about 20 drops. If you put in 5 and smoke it dry thats roughly 5 mg of nic. Now my numbers may be a bit off.

As for the cravings and the light headed feeling. Your probally getting more nic then your used to. But your not getting the other 4000 some odd chemicals that your used to. It took me 3 days to switch over completely but some people take weeks.

My advice if you crave a smoke have a smoke. All those other times when you would normally smoke but arn't "craving" one. Vape. 3-5 days go by and you will wake up in the morning and light a cig. it will taste like crap and then go another 2-3 days having a few puffs of nasty and putting it down and picking up the pv.

 

[IronEagle]

Awsome feedback thanks guys. I put 5 drops on the atty because thats what a video i was watching said to do. Anyone know where I can find a post with things like this in it? Also should i drop the nic down a bit?

 

[DC2]

From what ive read 1 cig = about 1 mg of nic. 1 ml of 18mg fluid = 18 mg of nic. 1 ml = about 20 drops. If you put in 5 and smoke it dry thats roughly 5 mg of nic. Now my numbers may be a bit off.

As for the cravings and the light headed feeling. Your probally getting more nic then your used to. But your not getting the other 4000 some odd chemicals that your used to. It took me 3 days to switch over completely but some people take weeks.

You didn't factor in the apparent fact that we only absorb 1/10th of amount of nicotine from these devices as we do from normal cigarettes.

 

[DC2]

Awsome feedback thanks guys. I put 5 drops on the atty because thats what a video i was watching said to do. Anyone know where I can find a post with things like this in it? Also should i drop the nic down a bit?

A pack a day of Marlboro reds, I seriously doubt your 18mg liquid is too strong.

 

[DC2]

Another problem I have is that sometimes after I clean an atomizer, it almost seems to not work at all. In fact, this happens to me almost every time I clean an atomizer. The first time I thought I had ruined it, but I think the problem was that I just didn't let it dry out enough and it still had water in it.

I picked it up later that day and it was working much better.