I've searched and read through the forums, and have come across quite a few posts that mention a break-in period for Pilot atomizers. I'm hoping that someone can provide some more details to help put my mind at ease regarding my new purchase!
I just received today a pair of Pilot kits from Puresmoker (thanks, Steve and crew!), and they're my first. I already have what I think would be called a super mini from another retailer, and have been really disappointed with its vapor production, one of the problems I'm looking to the Pilot to correct.
My research on the Pilot tells me that it should have a relatively easy draw. My super mini has what I'd call inconsistent draw, meaning that depending on the particular cartridge installed and other factors, it often feels like trying to suck a marble through a straw.
Playing around with the 2 Pilots after taking them out of the box, the draw was extremely hard on both, worse even than my super mini, and I'm getting only fair to poor vapor production. Admittedly, this is with the batteries at whatever charge level they shipped with - I do have 2 on the charger but they won't be ready till morning.
Regarding the draw, I blew the primer fluid out of the atomizers before assembling, and after playing a little I also used a can of compressed air on one of them. To somewhat take the battery charge level out of the equation, I took the batteries off so that I was left with cartridge and atomizer, and it still seems like a hard draw. With a battery on, I have trouble getting the LED to light up consistently, it comes on dimly after a couple of seconds of drawing, but turns off again until I struggle harder to draw.
Dripping without a cartridge gives me a significant improvement on both draw and vapor - not quite what I'm looking for, but if I was getting those levels with a cartridge in, and it improved a couple of notches in a few days, I'd probably be mostly happy.
To try to wrap this up into coherent questions:
1. Should the draw indeed get easier after using the Pilot for a while, and if so, how long?
2. Should the vapor production also improve significantly after a while, as well as with fully charged batteries, and if so, how long?
3. For both of the above, to what degree should they improve after a breaking in period? For example, on a scale of 1 to 10, without much of a reference point I'd say the draw is currently at around 2 and the vapor production is a 4, with a higher number being better in both cases.
I'd appreciate any feedback, since after doing my research I'm really counting on the Pilot to get me switched completely over to e-smoking. I know I can blame some of my difficulty on low batteries, but I'm not sure I can for all of it.
Thanks!
Tim
I just received today a pair of Pilot kits from Puresmoker (thanks, Steve and crew!), and they're my first. I already have what I think would be called a super mini from another retailer, and have been really disappointed with its vapor production, one of the problems I'm looking to the Pilot to correct.
My research on the Pilot tells me that it should have a relatively easy draw. My super mini has what I'd call inconsistent draw, meaning that depending on the particular cartridge installed and other factors, it often feels like trying to suck a marble through a straw.
Playing around with the 2 Pilots after taking them out of the box, the draw was extremely hard on both, worse even than my super mini, and I'm getting only fair to poor vapor production. Admittedly, this is with the batteries at whatever charge level they shipped with - I do have 2 on the charger but they won't be ready till morning.
Regarding the draw, I blew the primer fluid out of the atomizers before assembling, and after playing a little I also used a can of compressed air on one of them. To somewhat take the battery charge level out of the equation, I took the batteries off so that I was left with cartridge and atomizer, and it still seems like a hard draw. With a battery on, I have trouble getting the LED to light up consistently, it comes on dimly after a couple of seconds of drawing, but turns off again until I struggle harder to draw.
Dripping without a cartridge gives me a significant improvement on both draw and vapor - not quite what I'm looking for, but if I was getting those levels with a cartridge in, and it improved a couple of notches in a few days, I'd probably be mostly happy.
To try to wrap this up into coherent questions:
1. Should the draw indeed get easier after using the Pilot for a while, and if so, how long?
2. Should the vapor production also improve significantly after a while, as well as with fully charged batteries, and if so, how long?
3. For both of the above, to what degree should they improve after a breaking in period? For example, on a scale of 1 to 10, without much of a reference point I'd say the draw is currently at around 2 and the vapor production is a 4, with a higher number being better in both cases.
I'd appreciate any feedback, since after doing my research I'm really counting on the Pilot to get me switched completely over to e-smoking. I know I can blame some of my difficulty on low batteries, but I'm not sure I can for all of it.
Thanks!
Tim
. I've read that a weak battery, dirty atomizer, or matted down cart filler will cause hard draws. After a while, I ran the Pilot atomizer under hot water in hopes of cleaning it but instead it killed it, batts are fully charged, and cart fillers look okay. Now, even with a diff brass atomizer, I am having the same results - a hard draw. I haven't figured out what the problem is and am leaning toward just a poorly constructed atomizer. I'm wondering if most vapers are so used to the draw of a 2-hole atomizer that they don't have a point of comparison like I do with my micro.
