What am I doing wrong?

[DC2]

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It's finally dawned on me -- when you say "mouthpiece," you're talking about a fourth component that I don't seem to have. I just have the cartridge, atomizer and battery.

I refer to the mouthpiece as the part that the cartridge comes in.
So inside the mouthpiece is a cartridge with filler where the juice goes.

The whole thing slides onto the atomizer and the bridge of the atomizer touches the filler with juice.
At that point the bridge will wick up juice from the filler to feed the coil deep inside the atomizer.

If more juice gets into the atomizer than the wicking material can hold, it can flood the atomizer.
This means that the little coil deep down there can not get hot enough to vaporize it.
Then you are pretty much guaranteed to suck liquid.

And if not enough juice is getting to the coil, you will taste dry metallic atomizer taste.
This can happen from the atomizer bridge not making contact with the cartridge filler.
Or this can happen from not having enough juice in the cartridge.

Unfortunately, it can also happen if you are taking drags too frequently, and not giving the wicking material time to pull up juice to replace what is being vaporized by the coil down inside the atomizer.

This is the main problem, as I see it, with how these things work.
There are many strategies to overcome this issue.

One way is to take more time between drags.
One way is to top off the cartridge more frequently.
One way is to have two working units that you alternate between.
One way is to drip on the atomizer directly.

Some day someone will come up with a way to do a direct feed of juice to the atomizer.
At that point in time, the world as we know it will end.

 

[Elphaba Thropp]

Thanks, everyone. Little by little, I might get this thing to work.

One way is to take more time between drags.

That would kill me. That’s probably my main problem.

“One way is to top off the cartridge more frequently.” I’m probably already doing that too much.

“One way is to have two working units that you alternate between.” I have that. But one of them seems to be ailing.

“One way is to drip on the atomizer directly.” I’m afraid. I’ll get to that eventually.

See “Allergy?” www, e-cigarette-forum.com (slash) forum/new-members-forum/27757-allergy.html

That was a rough night. This whole e-cig thing doesn’t seem to be working.
Rumor has it that there’s a real-world store about a half-hour from me. I might need to drive my brother-in-law to the doctor tomorrow, which would take us right by the place. I think I need to go there and see what’s what.

I have a half-empty bottle of “Marlboro” juice, “high” nicotine.
Is there a brand or flavor of juice with more throat hit?
If I find one with no nicotine at all, can I mix it with my half bottle?