QUESTION - TOPIC: Tips, advice to attempt restoring a DEAD ATTY?
Started vaping and experimenting today, my first day with the GGTS. Many here are familiar with it and it seems great so far. I do have a techie question, I found an existing thread about dying attys, somewhere else on this site, but it went off topic quickly and so got no responses. I read a few opinions about the subject, but nothing so far has worked, so it's possible it is just a bad new Atty, and gone for good.
Purchased along with the GGTS, a 901 HV and 801 HV atty for 6 volt vaping. Being a "newbie" and getting my first mod today, I filled my first new "empty" 801 cartridge. I kept adding drops of juice and counted 40 drops from the original supplied 10ml plastic e-juice bottle. I did not know how many "drops" to put in, but I had read how to look for "pooling" at the top of the wick and then stop, but the foam/wick seemed to keep sucking it up, and with a light behind the white plastic part, backlighting it, appeared to keep taking juice and filling up. So I thought, the more it could hold the better. Guess I was wrong, as it worked "vaped" at first and not long after, maybe five minutes or less, it stopped working totally. When working at first, this 801 HV atty made a kind of gurgling - bubbling sound, my very first vape was from a 3.7v. cartomizer, so I just assumed in my first filling of a empty cart, that these sounds were normal, and different then the cartomizer which did NOT have those odd sounds. I stopped all 3.7 volt usage as the batteries were too tight going in the tube, so all I had left was 6 volt vaping and one working HV atty.
Switching to the only HV atty I had left, the 901 HV, I hear a good hissing sound when I press the power button, works fine, but with the "bad" 801 HV atty, NO sound anymore of any kind. I assume I OVER-FILLED the empty cartridge, and flooded the 801 HV atty. I did not think that this alone should kill it forever? Some sources say 20-25 drops should fill an empty 801 cartridge, but I did not know that then.
I began searching to see if there were any "fixes", and then tried one of them. I used a tiny can of compressed air, with the little straw attachment to blow it out from the battery connection side, let it air dry for an hour. FWIW: 3.0 volt batteries x2, are strong as well and the GGTS is working fine. Switching to the 901 HV, works fine, 6 volts. Air can and normal room drying did not work at all, so I thought I would post this here.
Should I try soaking the atty in vodka? Or are there any other tips worth trying? This atty may just be one of those that simply "died", electrically, even though brand new, I don't know if I brought on it's very fast death or not. Of course I can buy more, but hope to learn from my early mistakes. Been vaping the rest of the day with the with the 901 HV. Thanks for any help and tips, I'm at the beginning of the learning curve, other then that, all is well!
Started vaping and experimenting today, my first day with the GGTS. Many here are familiar with it and it seems great so far. I do have a techie question, I found an existing thread about dying attys, somewhere else on this site, but it went off topic quickly and so got no responses. I read a few opinions about the subject, but nothing so far has worked, so it's possible it is just a bad new Atty, and gone for good.
Purchased along with the GGTS, a 901 HV and 801 HV atty for 6 volt vaping. Being a "newbie" and getting my first mod today, I filled my first new "empty" 801 cartridge. I kept adding drops of juice and counted 40 drops from the original supplied 10ml plastic e-juice bottle. I did not know how many "drops" to put in, but I had read how to look for "pooling" at the top of the wick and then stop, but the foam/wick seemed to keep sucking it up, and with a light behind the white plastic part, backlighting it, appeared to keep taking juice and filling up. So I thought, the more it could hold the better. Guess I was wrong, as it worked "vaped" at first and not long after, maybe five minutes or less, it stopped working totally. When working at first, this 801 HV atty made a kind of gurgling - bubbling sound, my very first vape was from a 3.7v. cartomizer, so I just assumed in my first filling of a empty cart, that these sounds were normal, and different then the cartomizer which did NOT have those odd sounds. I stopped all 3.7 volt usage as the batteries were too tight going in the tube, so all I had left was 6 volt vaping and one working HV atty.
Switching to the only HV atty I had left, the 901 HV, I hear a good hissing sound when I press the power button, works fine, but with the "bad" 801 HV atty, NO sound anymore of any kind. I assume I OVER-FILLED the empty cartridge, and flooded the 801 HV atty. I did not think that this alone should kill it forever? Some sources say 20-25 drops should fill an empty 801 cartridge, but I did not know that then.
I began searching to see if there were any "fixes", and then tried one of them. I used a tiny can of compressed air, with the little straw attachment to blow it out from the battery connection side, let it air dry for an hour. FWIW: 3.0 volt batteries x2, are strong as well and the GGTS is working fine. Switching to the 901 HV, works fine, 6 volts. Air can and normal room drying did not work at all, so I thought I would post this here.
Should I try soaking the atty in vodka? Or are there any other tips worth trying? This atty may just be one of those that simply "died", electrically, even though brand new, I don't know if I brought on it's very fast death or not. Of course I can buy more, but hope to learn from my early mistakes. Been vaping the rest of the day with the with the 901 HV. Thanks for any help and tips, I'm at the beginning of the learning curve, other then that, all is well!
The 510 doesn't have enough taste.. laudie, if ONLY the 901 had the same general longevity, I'd be such a happier bunny.
