Smoke GONE!

[wiscoking13]

So as some of you know I've had my troubles with the E cig, but the primer taste finally went away and I thought I was in the clear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But than yesterday night and this morning the smoke is almost gone!!!

I changed the battery out and the cart but still almost no smoke.

When I suck really hard I get a little bit more smoke but I hear a sound kind of like a .... so I just stopped using it..

Any ideas??

 

[Scottbee]

Sounds like you may have flooded your atomizer. Do you have a spare atomizer or just this one?

Have you tried blowing out the atty from the battery end to see if you have excess fluid in there?

 

[Kate51]

When I suck really hard I get a little bit more smoke Any ideas??

Read This: STOP THAT
Inside your atomizer is a little tiny wire not much bigger than one of your hairs rolled around a wad of insulation. Just how much do you expect your little atty coil to take!!
Long, gentle puffing, a full but not dripping cartridge making proper contact to the bridge of your atty, which is firmly attached to a well charged battery with a nice, dry, clean, connection.
Long, 5-second puffs, as gently as you can. If you are using an automatic battery (lights up when you puff) puff only hard enough to light the LED. If you use a manual battery, push the switch for a count of two (one-one thousand, two one-thousand), then a long 4-5-second puff until you start making vapor. Then wait a minute or two between puffs, don't rush it.
When you puff harder you're only sucking more juice from the cartridge that your atty already can't heat properly to make vapor. If you're puffing too many times/per minute, you're going to either flood the atty or dry out your cartridge. NEVER power up a dry atomizer either, it will burn it out. Re-prime a dry atty with a couple drops of liquid.
Blow the excess liquid from a gurgling atty, start all over.
This is not like having a cigarette under duress, strong hard pull does not more vapor make.

I hope you have on hand a couple of extra atomizers and batteries. Sounds like you may have killed something, I never heard an e-cig go "....".

 

[DC2]

Atomizer is flooded, blow it out.

You probably either filled up a cartridge with too much juice.
Or you dripped on the atomizer bridge too many drops.
Or you sucked way too hard.

Just blow it out.

 

[alvitae]

If I'm not mistaken the "...." noise he is refering to is more like a gurgling akin to an old percolator coffee pot.

 

[wiscoking13]

thanks guys its fixed

 

[optsmk]

So what was the problem and what was the fix?

 

[Kate51]

If I'm not mistaken the "...." noise he is refering to is more like a gurgling akin to an old percolator coffee pot.

Shows where I'm coming from, Geez, that never occurred to me!
Sorry
I can be kinda dense! (Innocent!)

Ok, wisco, fess up, what was it? This is called pay ahead, when we figure out all the things we did wrong, we tell! That's why there's about 6 thousand posts on here every day, getting bumped off the server!

 

[optsmk]

The .... sound is a good sound in an e-cig. when mine makes that noise, I know I'm gonna get a good hit.

 

[Porphy]

So what was the problem and what was the fix?

Issue: Lack of vapor.

Symptoms: Gurgling noise. Low vapor production.

Diagnosis: Flooded atomizer.

Solution: Blow out the atomizer by blowing through the battery end and catching the excess liquid in a napkin or towel of some sort. Continue this process until you stop seeing liquid flow out.

This solution is oftentimes simply called "blowing out the atomizer".

 

[plantlvr]

Good one op!

 

[optsmk]

Issue: Lack of vapor.

Symptoms: Gurgling noise. Low vapor production.

Diagnosis: Flooded atomizer.

Solution: Blow out the atomizer by blowing through the battery end and catching the excess liquid in a napkin or towel of some sort. Continue this process until you stop seeing liquid flow out.

This solution is oftentimes simply called "blowing out the atomizer".

I know that, but I wanted to know what the OP did.

 

[Porphy]

I know that, but I wanted to know what the OP did.

By the OP's reply I'm going to risk an assumption and say they followed the advice and fixed it.

 

[wiscoking13]

So what was the problem and what was the fix?

I put compressed air down the atty and it smoked just fine!

Thanks again guys, I'm still getting used to this

 

[Kate51]

All's well that ends well...don't do it again!

 

[QueenInNC]

I blow my atomizer every night!


You really should too.

 

[jerrydon10]

A thousand lashes with a wet 510 cartridge filler for doing that!!

 

[kristin]

I put compressed air down the atty and it smoked just fine!

Thanks again guys, I'm still getting used to this

Yep, he blew out the atty!

I wish I had compressed air! I tried one of those cans for computers, but it has a bittering agent to discourage "huffing" so it had to be cleaned out again!

 

[LoBo]

There have been a few time where I have wanted to throw my PV against a wall lol. Be patient.