Seven joye 306's in two months..

[MXBNW]

LOL, I have no idea, I'm just keeping it wet. I have had no dry hits, and I'm not flooding them anymore. I think the most noticeable thing that I have been doing is taking a sharp unpowered hit before I take a powered hit. It pulls the existing juice (it is NOT accompanied by squonking) up into the atty and I can feel if there is juice ready for the hit, or if I need to squonk.

Sounds like you got your Technique down.

Like I said before I am a believer as to when a person get the proper Technique dialed there attys last a lot longer.

 

[Gristle]

Did you blow out the atty after you got nothing? Often times, when a 306 is flooded...it will seem like its dead, but might not be. ...this is a fickle atomizer to be sure.

Yes, it's dead Jim.

 

[Rhapsodies Fire]

Bummer.

 

[FeistyAlice]

I have been using the 306 attys for a long time some for over 18 weeks at a time. the trick to the 306 is keep them wet.
Two drags and then wet again. With proper technique a 306 should last just as long as any other atty out there.

I have used many brands Cisco is the one I use most, Joye. Boge, even Bauway I can get just as long of life from all of them.

Popping a few may be manufacture defect but any more then that I would have to say it is user error.

Technique some times can take a while to master. Every ones technique is different. I vaper my attys almost at the dry point, My wife Vapes hers as almost a flooded state.

What you wont out if your vape will also dictate your technique.

I like a dry warm TH But I am also using a strong tobacco flavor (Havana Gold) The wife wont's less TH and more flavor.

Play with your technique a bit to see if you can get more from your attys.

Hope this helped in some way.

+1,

Mine last for months, mostly 1.5, and different brands. I use sweet, light colored juices, 50/50 and go through no less than 3 ml a day. I usually have 2-3 in rotation.

I do clean them regularly. I used to boil but now do three 3 min rounds in PGA, in a sonic jewelry cleaner, after blowing them out well. After I take them out of cleaner I give them a couple of gentle slings and blow out. I usually let them air dry for a few minutes to days. Then a very careful pulsing dry burn for 20 seconds, cool a bit, and repeat until no more vapor/smoke comes off of them.

I still have those I purchased in fall 2010 and put into rotation three different ones every month or so. The last one I used, was a Cisco, 1.5, and I did not take it off to clean for over two weeks use.

I've never dewicked them or needed to and I've never gotten any burned taste despite using 100% VG sweet juices at times. I use clear DTs and keep them pretty wet. There's usually about 3 mm or so that the mesh sits in. Much of the time i don't have to squonk very often.

I've only blown one. It was a pretty new IKV and I pushed the pulsing dry burn beyond 20 seconds.

I think I've purchased just about every brand sold by US suppliers.

So I think successful vaping and longevity has a lot to do with user skills and care an/or cleaning.

Alice

{edit} Ever since I got my technique perfected I don't ever need to clean for at least a week of use. Like Rhaps said, I let the quality of taste and draw determine when to put a clean one on. Occasionally, one will get flooded so I do take it off and blow it out.

 

[birdbrains]

Thanks for all the tips. I've been really enjoying switching up flavors on my REO by dripping into the reservoir cup a bit but was generally trying to vape the atty pretty dry between switches. Now I've been using a few drops of BWB Malty between flavors (figured it was the closest thing to clean PG/VG I had, very little flavor) and then switching juices. Been working well, I haven't even really taken the drip tip off once or blown it out or cleaned it. I leave it wet over night with a carto condom over the drip tip.

 

[mlinky]

Yes, it's dead Jim.

I'm a doctor dammit, not an engineer!

 

[emus]

Perhaps my experience is rare....but I haven't found that one color of juice performs better or worse than another with my setup.

You are lucky.

I do the slag test to get an indicator which liquids burn clean.

Drip liquid on hot aluminum foil for a visual of slag residue.

Flavor West (FW) Coffee leaves nasty slag on hot foil and it kills coil/wick quick.
FW Menthol leaves no residue on foil and will not foul coil/wick after weeks.

 

[Rhapsodies Fire]

You are lucky.

I do the slag test to get an indicator which liquids burn clean.

Drip liquid on hot aluminum foil for a visual of slag residue.

Flavor West (FW) Coffee leaves nasty slag on hot foil and it kills coil/wick quick.
FW Menthol leaves no residue on foil and will not foul coil/wick after weeks.

interesting...I'll give that a shot with my juices and see what I find.

 

[Bogey]

I'm a doctor dammit, not an engineer!

My favorite ever was when he was helping carry someone up a hill and gave the immortal "I am a doctor, not an escallator!"

 

[rebar]

Old thread.. But I'm having much longer life (at least one month) not cleaning them at all. Maybe the everclear I was using softened the epoxy?

 

[mlinky]

Old thread.. But I'm having much longer life (at least one month) not cleaning them at all. Maybe the everclear I was using softened the epoxy?

Good to know. Thanks for the update