What exactly is a dry hit?

[Tanman54]

The dry wick or atomizer burning itself. It's bad and you will know when it happens

 

[Orb Skewer]

Where I'm from it was that thing you did with your girlfriend when you were both 14 yrs of age, and kept your jeans on
And walked home feeling and looking like John Wayne

 

[DC2]

If I was a betting man I would say most of that dry hit taste is juice that is burning rather than vaporizing.
And that is because there just isn't enough juice at the coil to keep the temperature from elevating too much and too rapidly.

If your device is using silicon wicking material that stuff does not burn, so it isn't that.
But I suppose there could be some sort of taste coming from the overheated coil wire as well.

 

[Coastal Cowboy]

I fear that one day in the not too distant future, we're gonna be reading about AskJoey's most unfortunate incident in the newspaper.

 

[vapo jam]

The local shop sells AW batteries for 14 bucks I'll pick a couple up. Funny you should mention efest. I put one in my pocket and it touched a quarter and it started sparking up in there so I tossed that thing like I was in 'Nam and that thing blew up! (well all the acid quickly squirt out!

definitely pick up the aw's, they are a little pricey, but they're (rightfully) considered the best and safest batteries that you can use for an apv. you can get them cheaper online, but the extra few dollars to get you started right away is worth it. once you have a couple, two great places to order some more are:

AW IMR 18650 2000mAh LiMN Rechargeable Lithium Battery

https://rtdvapor.com/online-store/batteries/aw-imr-18650-3-7v-2000mah-detail

was the efest that blew up a high-drain, unprotected imr? if so, THAT is exactly why you want to use this type of battery - an icr is much less forgiving if it fails...

 

[Ken_A]

Dry hits are easy to recognize. Just think about shot-gunning a cigarette filter. It's like that.

 

[Crash Moses]

Oh yea I know about that but didn't know the term for it. I can't get the legs to not glow on my 2 wrap single coil lol.

Once you've armed yourself with a good multi-meter for measuring resistance and a deeper understanding of the limits of your batteries the key (or at least one of the keys) to minimizing hot legs is to make sure that both the positive and negative legs are the same length. This will go a long way to eliminating the hot leg issue.

 

[Rocketpunk]

I see a lot of clearomizer users come in and complain about dry hits. They say they have to constantly slosh the wicks around once it gets low.

Is it too difficult to keep the thing topped off and not let it get low?