Im realizing what duffous I am. ( is that how that is spelled?) I have noticed that sometimes my atomizers dont work as well, poor vapor production etc. I thought something was wrong with ELA, of course. Took all apart and cleaned, etc.
Still sometimes it was acting like there was a short, decided to check my atties connections. Took some apart and realized how long it had been since I really cleaned the connector pins etc. Some of them were real gunky where the positive wire gets screwed tight. I cleaned with little soft brushes, used alcohol etc. Now they are working great.
I tend to forget that the Odysseus's need some maintenance once in a while too. I also found that one of my ceramics was cracked in 4 pieces, also affects performance.
I guess my point is that I should not jump to conclusions and accuse ELA of being "uncooperative" Ive had times where my atty gets real hot and my button also gets hot. I freak out thinking something is wrong with ELA and take my atomizer apart and all seems fine, but only to look under my magnifying light and see that my positive wire has a tiny piece sticking out enough to short or that I dont have it wound around the pin properly.
Sometimes even if we have been building our atomizers forever we make little mistakes, especially in my case where I hand twist my wires, I do a dang good job, but sometimes I twist those little suckers a bit too tight and actually cause them to break enough for them to read fine on the meter, but it will misfire because of the wire being broken.