What was the reason that this happened with my clearomizer?

[lostgypsy]

I had a few of them. I tried to clean them and dry burn, but that is what they all look like after awhile. Are they all like that or may be I just did something wrong? I really liked my clearos, but it is so frustrating: lots of maintenance and at the end I've got those pictures. Any advice on that issue?
Thanks!

 

[Infinite]

Hi there. It is in my experience best to leave the "dry burning" to ss mesh. Cotton, silica and other fibrous materials don't dry burn well, otherwise u do exactly that--burn them. With that said, with a careful eye and nose, u can speed up the drying process by firing them at low voltage ( if u have a vv dev.) but personally when I do use fiber, I am cleaning one and vaping on another coil. Overnight is typically good, sped up in a toaster over set to bake at 350 or so does it nicely. My 2 cents. Good luck!

 

[lostgypsy]

Thanks, Infinite!
I am using regular ego and tgo. This stuff that built up at the center, how would one to prevent it from happening? That is what is destroying wicks and it seems for me that there is no cleaning or burning can remove that much of...of... sh&#. The one on the photo was never dry burnt. I just cleaned it, let it dry for 2 days, then started using it and after only a few vapes it gave me a burnt taste with very low vapor and my juice became much darker. So I decided to disassemble that bad clero. It is horrifying how it looks! Where all that charcoal comes from?

 

[StereoDreamer]

Hi there. It is in my experience best to leave the "dry burning" to ss mesh. Cotton, silica and other fibrous materials don't dry burn well, otherwise u do exactly that--burn them.

Silica wicks should be heat-resistant up to several hundred degrees F--high-tech synthetics or ceramics like Nextel even higher. If you are destroying silica wicks when you dry burn, you are doing two things wrong:

1) you are dry-burning them for too long. You want to hold the button on your PV JUST long enough to get the coil to glow. AS SOON as it starts to glow completely, let go of the button. If the coil is still gunky-looking when it stops glowing, then hit it again--ONLY until it glows, and then stop. Repeat this until the coil looks clean. If you just hold the button on your PV down until the coil stops smoking you will probably destroy the coil, and damage the wick. It is better to o three or four (or more) short burns than one REALLY long one.

Tane your time. Even if it takes a dozen short bursts, it's faster than rebuilding your coil. But if you just hold the button down, trying to dry burn all the gunk off your coil all at once, you're going to NOT save any time, because you'll be spending the next 15 or 20 minutes re-building your coil...

2) turn own your voltage to the lowest setting if you are using a VV or VW PV. Using high settings is just wasting power, and again, you run the risk of overheating and damaging the coil or wick.


Try that and see how it works for you...

 

[DesertHogRider]

I had an issue with regular clearo'c when I first started using them. hubby's would last nearly a month & fried them in a few days if not less. It was my Winston juice. The shop kept telling me they had problems with cinnamon juices as well as darker juices. I switched to a lighter colored tobacco Virginia juice & they lasted weeks & weeks.

When the juice starts to darken & get thick it's burning. Just before that stage I clean them 91% isopropyl alcohol. It dries way faster then water, eliminates the need to burn dry & cleans out that icky taste & the gunk that build up. You need to have a spare while it dries though. They are disposable so a few weeks is a decent life span.

I got tired of the expense & went to the V3 with the changable wick...gets nasty & I clean or change the wick (1.50). I'd be back on the cigs without the clearomizers & I could never go back to dripping...you may want to changing juice or try the V3 or the ViVi Nova so you can change out the wick instead of throwing away the disposables. Good Luck...I remember the frustration well

 

[Burp]

Sorry to sidetrack peeps..... But what is the dry burning for?

I usually wash my clearos and flush the wicks clean, wipe them dry... Then load up w new juice, and fire away. I do this every few days, or when I get lesser "pops" from the coils.

Am I doing anything wrong?

 

[Thomasis]

Just a thought, but is there a possiblity that you are accidentally firing your pv while your carrying it in your pocket or something?
That looks to me like your pv has been on dry burning for VERY long periods of time.

 

[lostgypsy]

No dry burning. Just regular vaping causes this kind of problem. I am now using T2 and T3, all of them having the same issue. I have to replace the heads every 3 to 5 days, and all those heads are burnt. I am cleaning them, soaking in vodka,which helps somewhat, but still, those black charcoal is growing all around wicks and coils all the time. The questions are how to prevent it and is it normal for everyone else to have this problem?
I am not going to get anything bigger then EGO and I do not want huge Vivi Nova. It is just some pain in the a$# to take care of those clearomizers. I was able to replace wicks in T3, but it takes time and it is complicated. Life is not getting easier here...

 

[terry w]

hi gypsy,
you could always get a mini vivi nova which sits just right on an ego,(same diameter).They are really good and fairly low maintenance.I have been using the vivi along side my dct`s for over 3 months with no issues.Just a thought.

Terry

 

[lostgypsy]

Thanks, Terry W., I will think about it. One day may be I'll give it a try.

 

[WorksForMe]

When the juice starts to darken & get thick it's burning. Just before that stage I clean them 91% isopropyl alcohol. It dries way faster then water, eliminates the need to burn dry & cleans out that icky taste & the gunk that build up. You need to have a spare while it dries though. They are disposable so a few weeks is a decent life span.

Isn't isopropyl alcohol poisonous?