My Vmod is an atty-killer!
I've had it for a little over 3 weeks and I've run through 4 "silo" cartomizers and 4 "hybrid bottom feeder" atomizers. They typically last 2 days, sometimes 3, 4 is the 'record'. I'm a heavy vaper but My Vmod is NOT my all-day device. I have it on my desk and I use it as a "break" from other flavors. Strung all together, I may vape it a maximum of 3 hours each day so, chain-vaping, the lifespan of an atty/carto would be about 9 hours for me. This cannot be normal. I've sent an email to Vapage and they've replied:
"The VMOD doesn’t sound to be defective; it just takes a battery, carto or atty, and juice. It sounds like it is working successfully with new attys/cartos.".
Well... yes. I can't deny that. The problem is I have to BUY a new atty/carto every couple of days. I guess, from Vapage's point of view, that's hardly a problem.
Assuming, then, that this must be some sort of user-error, and one of you happily SUCCESSFUL users can help me correct it, here's what's happening:
I currently have the bottle filled with BWB RY4, if that's relevant. I've also used Boba's and ECOPure when an atty expired on me. I don't have a big leakage problem, though there's always a drop or two to mop up off the inside chassis when I change batteries or refresh the bottle. These small leaks do not seem to have touched the battery side of the enclosure. I notice no gurgling, no "burnt" or "dry" taste. There's no appreciable decline in vapor production. There's no "pop". One toke is fine, the next one won't fire. I take the atty off the Vmod, put it on my Darwin and, yep, it's dead. I see 0ohms, 0amps, 12.something volts (same thing it displays when I fire it with nothing attached). Blow out the atty, there's juice in there, so I wasn't dry-burning. I wait, let it dry out a little, try again: still dead. ...on an KGo? No joy.
It's possible I'm flooding them but then I don't understand why I'm not seeing more leakage or why flooding would so suddenly and completely kill these attys. I should be able to dry out a flooded atty and keep using it, no? I mean, I submerge other attys in alcohol to clean them and they still work. I've used (abused?) both "silos" and "hybrid BFs" at a couple different resistances, with the same results. I'm rotating 5 different 14500 batteries, 2 of which I purchased from Vapage just last week and I make certain my batteries are reasonably freshly charged. It is not one, specific, battery that is frying my attys.
What on earth am I doing (or failing to do) that is killing these things so quickly? Pretty soon, I'll have spent more on these "special" atomizers than I did for the mod. I really like the form factor, it feels good in my hand. I'd like to keep using it but the maintenance costs will be absurd, over time.
Urm... help?