Why do people think you shouldn't let the atomizer get too hot?

[dtm]

I received some defective manual 510 batts from Strictly e and they would sometimes stick in the ON position with the light off!

More than a few times they melted the plastic cartridge casing (and filter material) after I set the 510 down, unaware that the atomizer was still ON. The atomizers themselves never died.

 

[martha1014]

If you want to destroy some 510 atomizers just try to use them on 6.0 volts. I destroyed 8 of them. Then I got some XHV atomizers and this works great.

 

[SlowsIsFast]

I burn the hell out of my 510s - I have 2 that are 6 month old and still kicking though they're slowly dying.

Hey where did you get that pic from? I have those wheels!

I can't remember. Found it along time ago it's on a Spoon S2000 if that helps.

 

[Papagoatee]

I could have sworn I smelled something burning about a minute into the vid!!!!!!!!! LOL. Where did you buy that atty?

Not my video. I found it off youtube.

 

[greyfox]

I'm not sure if letting the atty get too hot is bad or not. As long as you keep it wet, I think everything should be fine. I put my 510 down for a bit when it gets too warm for my tastes, but that's because the pause helps me to conserve my juice, not worry about the atty itself. I'm a frugal vaper

 

[sanfordf]

The purpose of the attie is to achieve vaporization temps. Any more is excess. Keep it wet enough and keep the air flowing enough and it will work enough.

 

[jerrydon10]

Yep, wet is the definitive word. Keep them wet enough and they won't even glow red. I think that is the key to atty life. Heck, I just hold my button down constantly for 3 or 4 drags, or until I get all the nic I want. I Don't think I burn through as many atties as most on here seem to.

 

[DC2]

So keep them wet, except for when you want to clean them with a dry burn, in which case you want them bone dry and then burn them hot until all the baked on gunk has been burned off?

Hello, is this thing on?

 

[AlexTM]

Well, it was the very same thing with my old water boiler … there wasn't much of a point to use it without water, unless I wanted to get the limescale off.

 

[bushmaster]

Yep, wet is the definitive word. Keep them wet enough and they won't even glow red. I think that is the key to atty life. Heck, I just hold my button down constantly for 3 or 4 drags, or until I get all the nic I want. I Don't think I burn through as many atties as most on here seem to.

Hey, I tried holding the button down for consecutive drags and that does work really well on my box mod. Not on my 510 pt though--appears to have a cut-off after a few seconds. Thanks for the heads-up, jerrydon.

 

[Scottbee]

So keep them wet, except for when you want to clean them with a dry burn, in which case you want them bone dry and then burn them hot until all the baked on gunk has been burned off?

You are correct sir!!!

Give that man a Cupie doll!

 

[David Bruno]

A good video showing how much your 510 can take.

YouTube - 510 Dry Burn

Your atty will never be this hot even with chain vaping.

Awesome. Thanks for that video. I would have never guessed they could take that much abuse.

 

[Rosa]

i've been riding my atty's like an old VW; someone once told me VW's like to be tested and driven hard - that's what I do with the atty's: keep 'em juiced up and make them earn their keep. Only been vaping less than 3 weeks, but still using the same atty I started on: not cleaning it out (blow through it once in a while if it seems sad) don't mess with it much, don't baby it much, and yeah - I let it get pretty hot. Sound o.k.?

 

[Blaze]

I vape so much when I'm at home my attys occasionally get too hot to touch. I've also found that the hotter you get em and the longer they are at least fairly warm, the less chance of residues and build up. I could be wrong about this, but that's the way it appears to me from mileage.

 

[AaronCooper]

Whenever i use my 510 PT constantly and the atty body gets real hot.. The performance of it changes, i still get great TH and flavor but when i vape it from cold i get clouds of vapor, when it's hot i get a little mist so to speak..

I've got 5 more attys i will try eventually anyway, maybe it's an odd one.

 

[bestthingever]

So keep them wet, except for when you want to clean them with a dry burn, in which case you want them bone dry and then burn them hot until all the baked on gunk has been burned off?

Hello, is this thing on?

Yes, that is exactly right.

 

[Kent C]

So keep them wet, except for when you want to clean them with a dry burn, in which case you want them bone dry and then burn them hot until all the baked on gunk has been burned off?

Hello, is this thing on?

You can (well, I did) burn out an atty doing a dry burn - the 510 wicking/thread (almost certain it isn't fiberglass) that weaves through the metal mesh can get burnt rather than cleaned during a dry burn. Pretty sure the 901 and 801 doesn't have that wicking so it might be a better cleaning technique for them but imo, not the 510.

I think a 'wet burn' on 510 w/a 3.7v mod - iow, using it as you normally would ;-) is a better cleaning technique. I'll 'clean' my Tornado attys by putting them on the Bartleby for a few sessions. And I use both the cart and drip 2 drops on the bridge with the Bart.

 

[brandon555]

I burned out two Bauway 510 attys within two days because I was hammering on them with 10 second monster hits off my V2.

But when I'm vaping at 3.7 volts I really have to give er hell to even get my attys to warm up. Especially BE112s, they barely heat up at 3.7 volts.

 

[Ryan Toupal]

Yeah, the Bauway attys burn out very easily. I do dry burns with my regular 510's all the time. Just to burn off the gunk left that's on the coil after regular usage. I clean with water first to get out any juice on them so it's not burning the fresh juice.

I hate it when my atty gets too hot while chain vapeing(say at a wet 5v), it's kind of this warm wet chemical taste. I think you "cook" the liquid.

 

[brandon555]

Yeah, the Bauway attys burn out very easily. I do dry burns with my regular 510's all the time. Just to burn off the gunk left that's on the coil after regular usage. I clean with water first to get out any juice on them so it's not burning the fresh juice.

I hate it when my atty gets too hot while chain vapeing, it's kind of this warm wet chemical taste.

Yeah I feel like an idiot for just buying a whole bunch of them.

I should have bought some BE901s instead.