My atties lose performance very quickly...I just got a LR 306 Monday and Teusday..it wasnt working well ..I debridged it...worked good for a few hours...not so good now.
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If the atty does not heat up at all or have any glow or sizzle extra after five seconds on a good battery..it is dead isn't ???Thanks
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Ya, if your certain the coil is 100% gunked up and you get absolutely no noise or heat, its dead.
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If your atty does not heat up at all, then it is either dead or the battery is not making an electrical contact. If it glows or sizzles for only 5 seconds, then you may have a battery with a 5 second cut-off.
Thanks.....Im using Joy mega 520's for my dry burns.....some of my atties are glowing..some dont glow or get hot at all..so I think those are dead dead dead. But...I am very thankful I can save some now!!
But...I am very thankful I can save some now!! br I have some of those cartomizers as well....but you clean them the same way??? Aren't they full of wick?? Wont that soak up a lot of water?? Thanks
After washing, I sling the water out and then use a hair drier to get the wicks dry.
My first guess would be old dried up juice getting baked into the mesh surrounding the atomizer coil pot little by little over time.
I'm not sure if that can actually happen or not, as the atomizer would have to be getting really hot I would think.
If that is actually happening, though, I'm not sure you can fix that.
Do you vape and/or do dry burns at really high voltages?
Do you rinse the atomizer out thoroughly with really hot water before doing dry burns?
My second guess would be that the little hole underneath the coil pot could be melting closed...
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Well, that's all I got.I rinse very well and I'm vaping with a joye 510 at 3.1
Hopefully someone else will have some ideas.
I rinse very well and I'm vaping with a joye 510 at 3.1
Hey, got another idea...
I usually blow my atomizer out from the open end, but conventional wisdom has always been to blow it out from the threaded end.
This is just in case there are some loose particles of anything in the atomizer, you don't want to blow them down into the atomizer mesh.
I've been blowing mine out from the open end for a long time now, with no problems.
But I have recently started blowing from the battery side first after I do a dry burn, just in case.
This is because doing a dry burn could theoretically knock some small chunks of baked on gunk from the atomizer coil.
So maybe you are getting some chunks lodging in the mesh and restricting airflow?
Just a thought...
Well, that's all I got.
Hopefully someone else will have some ideas.
Honestly I think it's just bad atty design. I've noticed it a lot more with lower quality attys. The REAL cisco 306 LR have yet to do it to me. Those are some nice attys!
What a great idea. I always use a hair dryer, but it gets super hot on my fingers! I'll have to give this a shot.
I was actually just about to post on the drying in here, didn't think it warranted a new thread. I've been doing this for the last month on a single atty, about once a week or whenever I change flavors.
I set the oven to 200F, once it preheats I shut it off and put the atty on a little piece of aluminum foil on the rack so that I can stand it up on its end. Wait about 5 minutes, flip it, a few more minutes. Take it out and once it cools off virtually every hint of isopropyl is gone. Put some juice in and it's vaping like new in seconds.
I set the oven to 200F, once it preheats I shut it off and put the atty on a little piece of aluminum foil on the rack so that I can stand it up on its end. Wait about 5 minutes, flip it, a few more minutes. Take it out and once it cools off virtually every hint of isopropyl is gone. Put some juice in and it's vaping like new in seconds.
I've had a lot of success cleaning attys doing the dry burn. I usually just rinse with hot water and blow out the water about 10 times. Then I wipe the atty off and blow the rest of the tap water out.
However, I've heard that tap water leaves residue and undesireable minerals. Can anyone substantiate this? It seems to me like alcohol would be more harmful but I'm honestly not too knowledgable about the rinsing liquid. Thanks for the help!
However, I've heard that tap water leaves residue and undesireable minerals. Can anyone substantiate this? It seems to me like alcohol would be more harmful but I'm honestly not too knowledgable about the rinsing liquid. Thanks for the help!
Yeah I've had atties in the past slowly lose performance when using water to dry burn. I didn't really think about the mineral content until I realized some of the particulate junk coming out of my atties was actually coming from the water heater I used.
Now I just use isopropyl and as long as you let it all evaporate it's fine. The higher concentration (91%+) the faster it will dry out. Remember, isopropyl alcohol is just that; isopropyl alcohol and water. Make sure you steer clear of denatured ethanol, as that has other ingredients besides alcohol and water.
This method worked great for me, now my juice tastes like it should with out the remaining flavor of the pomegranate that I originally put in it.
I've never had and issue with tap water leaving residue but I can see where it would have more potential. I've done it both ways and prefer isopropyl alcohol simply because it's faster for me. I do a quick rinse with tap water than an alcohol soak regularly. After the soak I blow it out and do a dry burn which doesn't take long due to how fast it evaporates then they are ready to be used. When I use just water it takes alot longer to get the atty to glow because the water doesn't evaporate as quick.
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