Experienced electronic cigarette users all know the feeling – suddenly your beloved e-cigarette goes from tasting wonderful to bad, or even stops putting out vapor. To understand why this happens, and how you can unclog it, read on!
An atomizer, regardless of shape or size, is a wire attached
to a resistor, which is attached to a battery. That’s the essence of it. The
battery delivers a voltage (most e-cigarettes operate at 3.7 volt) and this
voltage hits the resistor, gets “reduced” by the proper amount, until it then
meets the wire that gets glowing red hot, and produces vapor
There can be many reasons for why your favourite atomizer
suddenly works bad, some of these include:
“Gunk” is building up around the wire and chamber
Essentially these are impurities, either from your e-liquid
or maybe even pocket lint. Basically anything that can somehow get inside your
atomizer, but won’t vaporize ends up building up in there.
Too much e-liquid
If you are using a tank system, the punched hole in the
bottom of the filter could be too big allowing for too much e-liquid to run
out, effectively drowning your atomizer. If you are using a drip system, maybe
you are simply a bit heavy on the squeeze once you put new e-liquid in, making
a suppository of excess e-liquid build up, and drowning the atomizer
Too little e-liquid
The punched hole in your tank system could be too narrow,
feeding too little e-liquid to the system – or your wicks could be old, and
unable to soak any more e-liquid. All of this results in your atomizer getting
too little e-liquid, making it become extremely hot, but producing very little
vapor.
Your atomizer could be dead!
No glow, heat or sound comes from your atomizer when you
activate it; it is now dead – sorry.
Note: All atomizers should be treated, and thought of as
disposable. Some atomizers can live for up to 6 months, but in most cases an
atomizer has a typical lifespan of somewhere between 3 to 6 weeks for the
average user. We like to look at them as if they were disposable lighters.
You use them until they are dry, and then you buy another
one.
As for how to prevent the above failures, there are only a
few steps you can and should do:
Always buy high quality e-liquids. Low quality e-liquid will
have a lot more impurities, which will end up choking your atomizer to death.
Make sure you perform maintenance and cleaning rituals
often.
If your atomizer begins producing less vapor than you think
it should, instead of keeping on using it, you should stop, and clean it.
So how do we maintain and clean our atomizers?
That’s a hard question to answer, because there are so many
variants out there; but we will give it a try:
Unscrew your atomizer from everything else.
For a clearomizer/puromizer, put your lips to the screw
thread end, and blow all excess liquid out the other end (where the
mouthpiece/opening normally is) – for the puromizer, remember to open the
silicone flap on the side before doing so, as this is where the liquid will
need to come out.
For any other atomizer, put your lips to where the
mouthpiece is (but without the mouthpiece on) and blow until all excess liquids
come out at the screw thread end.
Make sure you follow this process with your mouthpiece,
every time you rinse your atomizer: De-attach your mouthpiece from any other
peripherals, and put it in your mouth as if you were about to use it, then blow
as hard as you can, and any excess liquid that could be trapped inside the air
vents, will shoot out at the opposite end.
Dry off the atomizers, and mouthpiece, and re-insert onto
e-cigarette.
The above will work for most atomizers out there – however
some atomizers can benefit from further cleaning. Puromizers, and cartomizers
can be cleaned extensively by doing the following:
Insert puromizer or cartomizer under a running faucet – use
cold water. Make sure you get it all wet.
Blow out the puromizer/cartomizer with the method described
above.
Then use a hairdryer to gently heat up the entire unit,
until every last bit is bone-dry.
And then you should be set!
So to sum up, use high quality e-liquids, rinse whenever you
change your battery or when a problem occurs – and you should be good!
Article Credit: http://www.janty.com
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