What are you inhaling anyway?

[thecollector]

Hi,

Most of my vaping is dripping and my question is, "When you get the burnt taste what are you inhaling"? Are you inhaling metal? Sometimes you just don't have a choice to take a big hit of nastiness.

THANKS!

 

[thecollector]

"BUMP" Anyone?

 

[Caddyman]

you're not inhaling metal, your inhaling burnt juice.

think of it like a car, your engine gets hot and burns oil just fine, no smell, but once your oil gets low or real dirty it starts to stink. your engine isnt burning, the oil is.

 

[thecollector]

Thanks! That makes me feel better.

 

[mccawley]

Ummm.... you might want to investigate the uses of oil in combustion engines.

 

[thecollector]

I am sure it was just a point he was trying to make.

 

[WomanOfHeart]

A burnt taste means that you've vaped your cartomizer dry and possibly burnt the filler. If you refill it and it still tastes burnt, toss it and get a new one.

 

[mccawley]

Yeah I direct drip and still can taste that nastiness... So it cant be the filler?

 

[mccawley]

Hey! is that a duck in the Cadillac emblem?

 

[Caddyman]

yeah back in the day there was ducks in the cadillac emblem (really)

i drip too, no filler or anything, and you will get a gross hit sometimes when you run your atty dry.

 

[Vermonster13]

There is still a wick in there if you don't remove it.

 

[DC2]

I asked this question in the Inter-Vet Tech Questions section and there was no conclusive answer...
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...838-what-causes-burnt-dry-atomizer-taste.html

Personally, I think these answers are the leading candidates...

My theory has always sort of been that the burnt tastes comes from starting to "smoke" the built on gunk on the atomizer coil.
But if that were true then it should only happen with older atomizers, which is not the case.

Is it that there is not enough juice left at this point, and you are "smoking" a thin layer of juice and burning it?
Anybody know what's up?

i suspect the atty coil is partially dry and burning whatever is on the dry and over heated portion of the coil.
i direct drip about every 10 puffs to avoid the burnt taste.
i store ecig LED up so any excess liquid drains away from battery.

I got to think that it is just the metal heating up - perhaps ceramic. A smell you might get when you first turn on your heaters in the fall (like I may do today ;-) or a cutting torch on metal they way it smells - likely worse when inhaling directly. Some may be gunk on older attys, primer on new ones but mainly metal and vaporized air.

 

[mccawley]

I dunno? but it sure is nasty when you take a nice long 5 second drag and end up inhaling what tastes like and electrical fire.

They should put the ducks back!