Popping an atty

[zer0ith]

So over the course of the past 2 weeks I have managed to pop about 5 attys on my woodvil. Not fun.
Each time this has happened it has been while changing juices. I'll unscrew my atty, remove battery, remove bottle and replace with another, replace battery and then atty and try and vape and I get nothing. I remove said atty and measure it on my multimeter and I get a 1 on the display (no connection).

My question to the masters is why would I pop an atty from just screwing it on and off my reo? The button is not activated while unscrewing the atty and I'm using a Red AW IMR 18650 battery.

 

[mlinky]

Only reason I can think of is that the atty is releasing the juice when you take it off, and you are firing it dry. Have you been adding more juice when you put it back on?

 

[zer0ith]

Yup, once I put the atty back on I make sure I give it a good squonk to make sure there is juice there

 

[Rhapsodies Fire]

oh dear. that is weird. so did you meter them before you put them on the REO? What brand of atty are you using? Normally, if the center post of either the atomizer or the connector are off kilter to a point where the post comes into contact with the threaded body...a short would occur and that would affect the mod. I take it that your spring is still intact and not discolored in any way. It could be that the batch of atties you have might have abnormally thin wires....we've had bad batches through our house before.

 

[zer0ith]

oh dear. that is weird. so did you meter them before you put them on the REO? What brand of atty are you using? Normally, if the center post of either the atomizer or the connector are off kilter to a point where the post comes into contact with the threaded body...a short would occur and that would affect the mod. I take it that your spring is still intact and not discolored in any way. It could be that the batch of atties you have might have abnormally thin wires....we've had bad batches through our house before.

Yeah I've metered them all around 2.3-2.5 they were all smoktech attys from madvapes. The spring looks normal from what I can tell

I have a new order coming in as I'm down to my last 2 I hope it was just a bad batch but got concerned when I popped another one today

 

[Rhapsodies Fire]

Just to be on the safe side....why don't you PM Rob and see what he says. Might be something I'm not familiar enough with.
While I'm guessing its just a bad batch...and I hope it is...it sucks. I hope your next batch works better for you. Do you have any other types of atties or cartos you can throw on there to see how they do?

 

[redeyedancer]

Sounds to me like you got some bad atomizers .I always keep a atomizer on my mode while changing fluids you don't have to but it is a good practice This keeps the center pin locked in place this is a bottom feeder after all everything is connected . Keep me informed

 

[zer0ith]

So I really think it was a bad batch of attys.

I had my most current atty on my reo for the past 5 days. I did not remove my atty at all during those 5 days. Today just after leaving home I had a semi dry hit so I did a squonk and tried to get some vapour and nothing, another dead atty

Either I'm not keeping them wet enough or they were just a little poor quality.

 

[redeyedancer]

So I really think it was a bad batch of attys.

I had my most current atty on my reo for the past 5 days. I did not remove my atty at all during those 5 days. Today just after leaving home I had a semi dry hit so I did a squonk and tried to get some vapour and nothing, another dead atty

Either I'm not keeping them wet enough or they were just a little poor quality.

I would say its a bad batch of atomizers or you not keeping them wet enough. Your welcome to send it in I will go through the mod but I honestly don't think its the mod

 

[Mudflap]

Rebuildable bottom feeder attys are coming.

 

[nerak]

So I really think it was a bad batch of attys.

I had my most current atty on my reo for the past 5 days. I did not remove my atty at all during those 5 days. Today just after leaving home I had a semi dry hit so I did a squonk and tried to get some vapour and nothing, another dead atty

Either I'm not keeping them wet enough or they were just a little poor quality.

My first two LR 306 attys did not last long, maybe a few hours on one and a couple days on the other. What happened was when I would get a semi-dry hit I would quickly squonk. Then nothing. What I did was to basically squirt juice on a hot coil and popped it. I learned to soak them. They keep a lot of juice going to get a great vape. If I do get that dry hit I wait a little before I squonk and vape again. I can now use them for weeks at least.

 

[zer0ith]

Thanks for the offer Rob, I'm going to wait and see if my new attys make a difference. Down to my last new atty right now, my order of new ones should be any day.

I think you might be on to something nerak. The atty I popped yesterday was most likely due to the cold weather/hot atty/cool juice combination.
I left home (nice and warm), went to the car. Left my Reo there while I ran into the drug store and coffee shop (gone maybe 10 minuets). Once I returned and had a couple of pulls and got that dry hit, then squonked and that's when it popped.

Oh this is going to make for an interesting winter.... any suggestions from the experienced users here?

 

[Rhapsodies Fire]

Aside from changes in juice viscosity, I have not noticed any negative effects from cold weather vaping. Perhaps someone in Minnesota or Illinois might have a different experience.