Trouble with 100% VG and Clogged Cartomizers...

[cmccl]

Hi Everyone,

I am pretty new to vaping and to the forum but am having trouble with my cartomizers clogging up with 100% VG juice. I am addicted to Bobba's Bounty (I basically vape it all day long) and after about a week I get a constant slurping sound when I vape. When this happens, I clean out the drip tip, and blow through the cartomizer. It helps a bit but starts being "slurpy" after just a few more puffs (do we call them puffs? drags? vapes? LOL!)

Also I notice that the cartomizer gets pretty hot! Eventually if I keep going it kind of clogs up completely- meaning I have to draw really hard to get any vapor. Then I get sick of it and put in a new cartomizer. This happens about once a week which I think is pretty short life for a cartomizer.

I am using a volcano inferno with the inferno tube tank and cartomizer. Does anyone else have this kind of experience? Is it the VG juice or is this typical for a cartomizer to clog after about a week of pretty continuous use?

Thanks for your help!

 

[Vapoor eyes er]

Actually using a dark 100% VG juice that's not too bad for a carto IMO. When I was using a carto with 70/ 30 PG/ VG my cartos would last before tight draw began:
50- 60 ml- dark juice
80- 90 ml- light juice
Some add a small amount of distilled water to thin the juice out.

Edit:

Also I notice that the cartomizer gets pretty hot!

The coil is getting coated in VG and dark juice (flavoring) gunk and is overheating but not enuff heat getting thru to vaporize the juice so after a certain point more juice is flowing into the carto than can be handled/ vaporized by the coil.

 

[Uncle Willie]

You're doing pretty good to get a week out of one with that liquid .. I get maybe three days if I'm lucky ..

 

[dradeel]

If I understand your problem correctly, I think it's the tank-setup doing it. Either the holes in the cartos are too big (although they kinda need to be when you use 100% VG), or, perhaps more likely, the heat of your coil heats up the air and juice inside the tank and creates higher pressure that forces more liquid through the holes, making the carto more likely to flood. Also, VG juices will decrease quite a lot in viscosity when heated up, just making the transition from a cold device to a hot one that much more noticeable in terms of risk of flooding.

That's my guess. Next time it floods, check how much liquid that's left in the tank. See if it works better when it's full. If so, then I think that's it. Solution? Hard to say. Vape slower, try smaller holes (probably the best solution, and combine it with hard, dead drags to soak the carto, since smaller holes won't do as good a job of soaking them automatically), perhaps keep refilling liquid a little more often to remove the airpockets inside the tank, or you can also vape at a lower voltage (which I know perhaps isn't a good solution, since a warmer vape is nicer).

These are just some things to try though. It could also be the juice that simply wears out the carto, or a combination of all of these things. My cartos will last me everything from a few days to a few weeks, so a week really isn't too bad, depending on how much you vape.

 

[vibestyle]

What carto's are you using? I've tried Smoktech cartos and I wasn't a big fan of them. I vape high VG juices and I use 801 Fusion Cartos without any problems. But you'll need an 801 adapter if you have a 510 device. Boge Fusion 801 Cartomizer-Steel

 

[cmccl]

I'm using the carto from Volcano for the Inferno tank... I think the dark 100% VG is in fact gunking up the carto coil causes it to burn hot and that in turn causes the viscosity of the juice to decrease, hence the slurping! I guess I just have to live with it. Thanks to all of you for the detailed explanations. I appreciate it!

 

[vibestyle]

I usually have 2 holes in my carto for 100% VG juices. I took a look at the Volcano cartos and they only have 1 hole, so you need to take harder draws to keep your carto saturated, which might be the reason your carto floods. You may want to try a low resistance dual punched carto from a different vendor to see if it fixes the issue.