What is the inside of a bridgeless atty supposed to look like?

[mayamason]

(And I don't mean the 3-hole ones, I googled and could see those.)

I picked a bridgeless atty (my first) to try out dripping for around the house. When I look down into it, there's a little white cup with coils either across it or in it (I can't tell), with gray-ish meshy fluffy stuff around the outside. I say "I can't tell" because there is something over the top of the cup/coils - at first glance it looks like more of the gray filler (I thought maybe some had just come out of place and needed to be nudged back over to the sides). But if I nudge it, it's pretty firmly there, right in the center. Sort of clear-ish, arching right over top of the coils (seems like it would keep the juice from dripping onto the coils).

So - assuming this thing is there on purpose - I drip right onto it. But I'm not getting any flavor and barely any vapor. Am I doing this wrong?

 

[Unforeseen]

Only thing you should see when looking down a bridgeless atomizer. Is a ceramic cup with wick/coils in the middle and mesh surrounding it. Shouldn't be anything around it but, it would probably help if you had a pic.

 

[JD1]

.....So - assuming this thing is there on purpose - I drip right onto it. But I'm not getting any flavor and barely any vapor. Am I doing this wrong?

If you haven't done so already, blow it out good, drip in a couple of drops and start from there. About all I can think of at the moment.

 

[Firestorm]

Perhaps it's not bridgeless and you're looking at a bridge? There shouldn't be an obstruction between your eye and the wick and coil with a bridgeless atomizer.