So this is weird... Just got some shocks to the fillings in my teeth while vaping on my Kanger Aerotank Mini / Ego-C Twist Battery at 4.8 volts.. Before it happened, I started to get a metallic taste in my mouth, kind of like when you bite down on a foil gum wrapper. The shocks were similar, too. It happened a couple more times, so I turned my battery down to my usual 4.2 volts, which made it mostly go away; but I'm still getting that awful tart/metallic taste. Has this happened to anyone else?
Shocking My Fillings
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seems like that is what you're having, i duno tho im not a dentist or doctor but it says usually a metallic taste in the mouth occurs as well.
seems like that is what you're having, i duno tho im not a dentist or doctor but it says usually a metallic taste in the mouth occurs as well.
Ive had that happen while welding lots of times Mostly when it was wet out. You are getting a short some how make sure your insulator is in place and in good shape inside of your ego. I have never had it happen while vaping.
perhaps you are using a metal driptip? could be contacting with saliva then to your fillings. It also could be nothing to do with vaping perhaps
I know exactly what shes talking about as I mentioned tasting your fillings is a good description. Anyone who has welded out doors in damp or rainy weather has experienced this low level shock. If it is a drip tip thats still not good your set up should not be grounding like that.
What are your fillings made of? Amalgam I'm guessing. Probably a good idea to get exchange the stuff for plastic composite instead. Amalgam has a lot of mercury, which isn't a good idea unless you're in medieval times and into alchemy. Still, most clearos are chromed brass and shouldn't conduct electricity that well (plus the less than 4v of Egos shouldn't give much of a shock anyway).
thats kind of what I was thinking, because if her setup was grounding wouldnt that mean her coils wouldnt be working in the first place, her setup is the same exact setup I used before i swapped to VV/vw. Aerotank mini and ego c and Never had issues with it shocking or anything, was thinking compared to welding, those ego batteries shouldnt really cause that kind of stuff
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you can have a hotspot, or minor short that while it still works does leave you with a somewhat of a metal taste in your mouth.
Now that I think about it, I supposedly did have my metal fillings replaced with the composite. I guess I'll have to go check the mirror and see for sure. Would I still feel it in my teeth without metal filings? It was DEFINITELY the vaping that was doing it. Everytime any saliva got on the drip tip, especially if my tongue touched it, I'd get that icky galvanic jolt. It's a stainless steel drip tip, btw. And I've had a shorted coil before, but all it did was burn through the wire (because it was touching the metal coil housing) and stop working. I'm using a plastic tank now, and I'm having no problems. I'm afraid to try the stainles steel one again. Bleh! Anyway, thanks guys... Apparently this isn't normal. Haha! I'll play around with different batteries and take a look at the coil and give y'all an update later.
How old is your coil? I have had somewhat metallic taste from a coil that (I guess) was starting to fall apart, but that was on an RBA, though. Shock to fillings can have something to do with ionized substances (matter with extra or missing electrons), which I would also suspect the coil for. Just a theory though, but it can't hurt to try a new coil.
oh metallic taste from coils, back in the day when all we used was the 'real' 510 dripping atomizers and all we got was dryhit metallic taste. The shocking though is some kind of telltale, I was thinking it may be the driptip passing current through the saliva to your fillings if you did have some kind of short or grounding issue. To remedy that you can use delrin/pom teflon/ptfe driptips instead of metal drip tips, id suggest those driptips even if you didnt have fillings though, since they feel much nicer on the lips and arent conductors. Also doesnt get as dirty as metal driptips.
I had a similar experience and found out the filling was loose, trip to the dentist to have it redone took care of the issue
Its the Drip Tip--for me anyway. Maybe its the electricity in my body or something. I can take an ordinary carpentry nail and touch any tooth in my mouth with it and I get a shock. Just like chewing on a piece of tin foil.
Swapped out my drip tips to wood glass or plastic--no more shocks.
Swapped out my drip tips to wood glass or plastic--no more shocks.
I wonder after reading the posts if maybe it may be caused (worsened) by the modern pulse width modulated power supplies in some regulated mods. The mods get their power by boosting the voltage drawn out of the battery, and then pulse-regulating the output power. I wonder if it is possible for the voltage spikes, very fast in nature, to be seen by the body as significantly higher intensity.
Using a non-metallic drip tip should help if electrical currents are the problem.
Using a non-metallic drip tip should help if electrical currents are the problem.
Could be... it's called induction; the phenomenon where a current passing through a coil induces a similar current through a coil of the same properties without any physical contact; in short, that's how the wireless telegraph and radio were discovered. Some people have reported, and it is a proven fact, that they could receive remote radio transmissions in their amalgam fillings. All you need is one length to be real close to the wave length or the general mass to be compatible with the said wavelength... I reiterate that you should check for any old fillings based on this suggestion.
As for actual electrical current going through your mouth... not likely with most people as battery current needs to get back into the battery (do you get electrocuted very easily?). A pass-through, on the other hand, will need to find the easiest way to ground itself, namely through salty watery bodies with their bare feet on a conductive floor or their hands on some metallic medium.
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