Trying to figure out how to attach picture ok looks liek I got it- anywqays- here is a picture of the guts of the SmartFixx atomizer- as you can see, there is very little to it other than a bunch- and I do mean a bunch- of wire mesh (which you can see inside hte white ceramic housing on the right, and in the tube housing in upper part of picture where the ceramic is housed. The wire mesh on the left lays over the 'bridge' and under htis bridge is a black burnt piece of somethign with a very very thin wire wrapped around it which you can just barely see if you look hard at hte picture. This wire that wraps the compound is thinner even than a strand of hair. I find it very hard to imagine this cheap little device is worth the advertised $39 as it is only two wires for contact, and a filament wire so thin it looks liek it would break if breathed upon. The wire looks bigger in the picture than it actually is bleeive it or not as I zoomed in and magnified it a bit with the camera.
Note: IF you look down inside your atomizer, you will see a bunch of white that is beneath the wire mesh that sticks up which contacts the cartridge filter- the White that I saw I imagined was ceramic & thought 'Hmm- looks like a nice healthy blob of ceramic' but when I broke the atomizer apart, I leartned that this white is NOT ceramic but rather is a white silicon! apparently the silicon is used to mush everythign together and hold stuff inplace as well as seal the edges I guess
In the second picture, you can see all the parts in the assemblage, so you can see what your $39 is buying.
Now, I had one of my old atomizers go through a 'cleaning' that apaprently is programmed by microchip I guess every so many puffs- This resulted in a burnt smell and flavor for a good period of time, but now hte atomizer is workign pretty well- much better than it did previous to the 'cleaning'. I'm not exactly sure what happens when a 'cleaning' occures, but it woudl seem to me that perhaps the compound that the filament wire wraps around might burn off accumulated gunk, or perhaps the device heats up so much that the wire mesh burns off somehow, and gets cleaned- but whatever the process does, it seemed to work pretty well. I almost wish htere was a way to manually initiate this cleanign process as a couple of my atomizers are not performing well at all and are very hasrd to get good vapor from.
One more note- I wouldn't recommend cleanign hte atomizers with Hydrogen Peroxide as the oen atomizer i had which was not workign very well completely died right after the cleaning- but the thing was workign so poorly before it that I thought I'sd give it a try- bad idea apparently- but didn't really lose anythign as it was unusable in the condition it was prior to hte cleaning
