Low Resistance Cartomizer experieince

[sargasm]

So... I got some of these clear cartomizers and over all really like them.

The main problem with with them is the burning flavor and brownness they get over time. At first I was a little freaked out that it was the wicking substance that was burning (yay carcinogens). It turned out to be the juice.

I've been vaping VR's organic RY4 juice and it does tend to gum up with the higher temps and you run into burn flavor country.

My solution has worked out really well. I mix the juice with about 25% water and blammo... burns clean with better flavor the whole way through. Very little burning. I would presume that it A) transmits the heat a little better through the wicking medium and B) serves as a solvent to maintain liquidity of the juice.

It'd probably be a little unpleasant and maybe a little unhealthy to dissolve the burned juice into water and smoke it. I found the methodology posted elsewhere in the forum on cleaning cartomizers to be fantastically effective.

Basically, use a syringe and force water through the medium until it is white again. Then place on a baking sheet at 200 degrees for 2 hours to dry. Let um cool and blammo good as new.

So yeah. A little water + vape juice = no more burning.

My juice is 50/50 pg/vg if that helps you with info.

Hope this information is helpful to someone vaping out there.

I am a super big fan of cartomizers over the atomizers I've got. Better hit. Easier to keep stocked with juice for me. No leaking like the atomizer with a low tank.

 

[sargasm]

Well... not NO burning... but greatly reduced...

Sorry to exaggerate a bit. Overall they do work dramatically better.

 

[dormouse]

Juices that leave a lot of flavoring residue will gunk up cartomizers and atomizers faster. One member has a test - he shakes up the juice and drips it on hot aluminum foil. After the drop sizzles away, if there is a lot of "slag" left then that juice is going to gunk up cartos and attys. I use stuffing type cartomizers and their drag really suffers with high-sediment juices so I try to find juices I like that are also light and clear and leave little sediment.

Re 50/50 - that's a bit thick for clearomizers without thinning. Those reservoir cartos favorite thickness is around 20-30% VG. You can thin with distilled water or edible pure grain alcohol (the alcohol preserves hit better but I can taste it and it might evaporate quicker leaving the juice thick again). In stuffing cartos like Boge I as 20% Vg or less. I can feel even 30% VG slow the drag.