Silver Bullet Overheating Atomizer help!

[kyleminus2]

Last week I cleaned my silver bullet with a dry q tip, and now when I try to vape the coil inside the atomizer glows bright red hot and produces terrible tasting vapor, almost smoke like. I purchased a new LR atomizer from altsmoke and im having the same problem, so I know it's the silver bullet.

Is there something i've done to cause the mod to output a higher amount of power to the atomizer? I am really stumped and quite anxious as i've already waited 3 days for a new atty only to find out that the problem isn't fixed. Any help would be great. I just opened a customer support ticket with altsmoke.com but i'd like to know if anyone else has experienced this problem before and if so how to remedy it.

Thanks for any help!

 

[dormouse]

You're not using LR on 6v are you? SB has two battery configurations, 3.7v w/ one battery and 6v with 2 smaller batteries.

 

[kyleminus2]

I'm using a single 3.7v battery with LR atty.

 

[thepassionofchad]

Stuff like that always makes me nervous when vaping. I've had dreams where they exploded while in my mouth.

 

[kyleminus2]

Yeah, I can't imagine it blowing up on me but I have had shorted batteries in the past.

 

[dormouse]

If an atty isn't getting wet enough it will get really hot. What PG/VG juice? The coil needs to be wet and the juice has to keep flowing at leat as fast as you are vaping it. LR will vaporize juice faster and due to its heat also has a bigger need to be kept damp. A thicker juice that kept a high ohms atty damp enough may not keep an an LR atty damp enough.

 

[kyleminus2]

Well, i had no idea the thickness of the juice was the culprit here! Thanks so much for your help. I was using a thicker juice and usually dropped 3 times into a drip tip to get it working. I'm so happy for your help. I can't believe how simple the fix was.

 

[dormouse]

Yay!! Glad to be of help. if you find the juice is too thick to keep up with your vaping, add a couple of crops of distilled water to it.