my first provari ... really tight draw

[thyssen]

hi, i bought my first mini provari a couple weeks ago .. today i bought an AVA atomizer to drip into .. and at the store .. it was fine. draw was nice .. and then when i got home i would drop 2-3 drops .. take 2-3 drags and so on.. and then it tightened up .. i thought maybe i flooded it cuz there was more gurgling and it just seemed like a heavy pull whenever i would inhale... so i decided to take it apart (drip tip off , unscrewed the little extension thing). and then tried blowing the juice out from the top.. a little juice came out but not much .. and then i put it back on the provari ..and now the draw is really tight. i called the store and the guy said try blowing out from the bottom > up .. and i did that but still no change. He said to bring it back tomorrow but i was wondering if anyone had any suggestions before i do that. ( i have it turned up to 5.9 right now)

 

[b06gordo]

I have tighten my DC tanks down to much and it made the draw very tight. I dont know if that is your problem because I have never used the AVA atomizer. hope this helps, I'm sure you'll get it figured out either way. and hey.. atleast you have a retail vaping shop in town that you can go to for help, there no shop with 3 hours of me...

 

[thyssen]

ya i know what you mean .. i started with a depth charge tank and carto .. and i thought of that too .. but it doesn't seem that way with the atty and extension

 

[Motoman101]

Same with me and my provari if tank is to tight no draw. Try using a cart for now.

 

[elothen]

Keep in mind that I'm only 3 weeks into this.

That being said, my wife's provari has a very clean, effortless draw. If anything it feels like it's spraying the vapor into my throat. My suspicion (nearly baseless theorycraft) is that you're running a little too hot for your atty and quickly building up 'gunk' on it, restricting the air flow. I'd say check the resistance on the atty with your ProVari. For running at 5.9v I think you're going to need around 2.8 - 3.0 ohms resistance. If you're resistance is less then I'm pretty confident you're just burning juice and it's building up on the atty. Now if you really have your resistance/voltage way out of whack you'll throw an error code but I still believe you can overheat your atty regardless. Also, from what I've read, different juices will react differently based on their pg/vg ratio. In conjunction with this your juice may be heavy on the VG which is said to be thicker.

I say all of this based on my LIMITED experience with my clearomizers on my EGO Twist and the Provari. I've been experimenting with a variety of resistances and voltages and what I've seen makes me believe the above is true. YMMV.

[edit] Oh yeah, and get a tank! They can kind of be a PITA but out of 5 different atty/cart combos nothing hits like a tank with boge carts on the Provari so far. I'm currently fielding recommendations on something better myself though ;-) [/edit]

 

[DaveP]

Draw on any ecig is pretty much the same process. When you draw on the mouthpiece, the make-up air comes through the slots on the threaded end and through the threads and the two holes in the sides of the threaded area. If the atty is screwed down too tight, the threads get closed off and one path for the air flow is blocked.

An atty only needs to be tightened until it stops on the threads, plus a minute additional force to seat it. If you turn it more, you run the risk of driving the center contact into the atty, the atty goes down further into the threads, and eventually you will lose contact with the battery or short the threads to the battery contacts. At that point it's "lights on but nobody home" or three flashes and no vapor when you vape.