TURBO HIT I coughed too, doing exactly what you said, but it was from scorched juice. Forget that stuff. EEEUUUU. "Throat Hit" sounds something like WaterBoarding!!!
Sherid, did you get that thing to fire yet?? It has to be that the Atomizer is not all the way screwed onto the post. I used a rubber-coated pen to turn it in all the way, could not do it with that mouthpiece. Or a rubber knitting needle tip if you've got one laying around. Was just a thought. Then, make sure your well saturated cart wick is sticking out from the cart just a little bit. And make sure that cart/mouthpiece is all the way on and don't twist it on or off, that will force the wick back up into the cart too far for that little bridge to reach it. Sometimes they feel tight but they're a little click away from being all the way on, the wick won't reach if it's not. Unless you got a real honest to goodness dud it should work. And yes the light will come on even if you don't have an atty in it, so you've got battery power. Check to see if there's any little glob of something on the bottom of the atty, or on the connection inside (flashlight!) Try to drip a drop in there and see if there's any heat at all when you switch it on, there should be almost an instant vapor forming if it's heating. Well, heck, by now you went to bed mad, oohh don't do that! I had an 801 battery that wouldn't work, but there was something crooked about the threading, couldn't see anything wrong, but it had to be turned one more 1/2 turn to connect with the Atomizer. Had a little catch, once you turned it beyond what you thought was tight it was fine. Well, that's the way these attys feel to me, seems like they're all the way in but another quarter turn makes the difference. With my crippled up fingers it was hard to do till I found a "tool". After it's been in and out a couple times it seems to work easy enough even for me. Boy, I can't even imagine how frustrated you must be. I'd probably be in tears. The more I use this Manual Stick the better I like it. It's a nice, easy smoke. But forget about that throat hit, I don't know what that is, but I find it unpleasant as all get out. Sorry, this got a little wordy, again!