So, I have been very frustrated with their product. I am on my 16th cartridge and about to send my 3rd, 4th, and 5th atomizer back to them tomorrow. got one back on RMA, and put #2 in the mail to them 1/27. I am also expecting a call from them this week regarding atomizer issues as per my request with their help desk which has been great all along.
The following is based on a fully charged battery according to their chargers.
I'm sure this will sound familiar. Pop a new cartridge in, get 10 good puffs if you're lucky(I've had as few as 3) then nothing. A different atomizer sometimes helps and gives the illusion of having a bad atomizer. You may get a few good drags from an atomizer change and then nothing again and want to pull your damn hair out. You may truly have a bad atomizer but did you ever pull out the inner cartridge and wick and see it's fully saturated with juice? WTF! No matter how many atomizers you stick in the cartridge, nothing, or a couple hits then nothing once again.
If you bought juice to refill cartridges you think, Ah Ha! add juice yet still nothing. You think back and wonder what the heck is going on. You've probably had an elite cartridge or two, as I like to call them, they seem to last for days and produce truly excellent hits.
You think to yourself, OK dirty atomizer. Blow through it and see juice come out. Suck in through the back of it and get juice in your mouth and see the juice pool at the end that connects to the battery. So you think, a good alcohol bath will clean this puppy out. So you soak it, see how the alcohol has changed color and think..cool should work great. So you pop it in a new cartridge and still, nothing. You may have blown the atomizer out with compressed air and got some performance but then quickly back to wanting to stomp it out of frustration.
Well, here is what I stumbled upon tonight. I figured the atomizer mesh is getting clogged and an alcohol bath doesn't help too much. Blowing them out with compressed air helps for a few drags but pisses you off when you see the juice get blown all over your kitchen. I thought, why does what appears to be a saturated cartridge produce nothing, yet other cartridges can be smoked bone dry? Maybe the poor performing saturated cartridge is dehydrated?
First test : Add a few drops of water to the current cartridge that stopped producing and stir with a paper clip or needle nose tweezers. Ah, life is good.
Second Test: I save all my wicks and squeeze the remaining liquid out of them. I proceeded to give them a little bath and squeeze all the liquid out of them. I let wicks dry for an hour. Then, I took one of those rinsed and dried out wicks and put it an empty inner cartridge insert. I then added water to it. Then I stuck an atomizer I was about to return on the cartridge and on a freshly charged battery. Holy crap it works! I did previously give the atomizer an alcohol bath and good blow out with compressed air but it still wouldn't perform well in a cartridge another atomizer did fine with. The "baths" are not enough alone. Seems you need heat, air, and a liquid with very low viscosity, like almost pure water, to clean them. Don't be stupid and suck alcohol through them.
Give it a try if you think an atomizer is dead. Alcohol bath, blow out with compressed air, and vape mostly water through it. When a cartridge seems dead, pull the inner cartridge out, add a few drops of water to re-hydrate, and see what happens.
It seems to me the juice gets thick from the heat of the atomizer and the movement of air. This leads me to believe that cartridge hydration varies greatly and is why you can smoke some of them bone dry and others remain saturated. Even refill juice from their provider seems a little too thick to perform well.
Hopefully their switch cartomizers will ease this issue. Next they need to tackle battery performance. That also seems to tail off quickly.
The following is based on a fully charged battery according to their chargers.
I'm sure this will sound familiar. Pop a new cartridge in, get 10 good puffs if you're lucky(I've had as few as 3) then nothing. A different atomizer sometimes helps and gives the illusion of having a bad atomizer. You may get a few good drags from an atomizer change and then nothing again and want to pull your damn hair out. You may truly have a bad atomizer but did you ever pull out the inner cartridge and wick and see it's fully saturated with juice? WTF! No matter how many atomizers you stick in the cartridge, nothing, or a couple hits then nothing once again.
If you bought juice to refill cartridges you think, Ah Ha! add juice yet still nothing. You think back and wonder what the heck is going on. You've probably had an elite cartridge or two, as I like to call them, they seem to last for days and produce truly excellent hits.
You think to yourself, OK dirty atomizer. Blow through it and see juice come out. Suck in through the back of it and get juice in your mouth and see the juice pool at the end that connects to the battery. So you think, a good alcohol bath will clean this puppy out. So you soak it, see how the alcohol has changed color and think..cool should work great. So you pop it in a new cartridge and still, nothing. You may have blown the atomizer out with compressed air and got some performance but then quickly back to wanting to stomp it out of frustration.
Well, here is what I stumbled upon tonight. I figured the atomizer mesh is getting clogged and an alcohol bath doesn't help too much. Blowing them out with compressed air helps for a few drags but pisses you off when you see the juice get blown all over your kitchen. I thought, why does what appears to be a saturated cartridge produce nothing, yet other cartridges can be smoked bone dry? Maybe the poor performing saturated cartridge is dehydrated?
First test : Add a few drops of water to the current cartridge that stopped producing and stir with a paper clip or needle nose tweezers. Ah, life is good.
Second Test: I save all my wicks and squeeze the remaining liquid out of them. I proceeded to give them a little bath and squeeze all the liquid out of them. I let wicks dry for an hour. Then, I took one of those rinsed and dried out wicks and put it an empty inner cartridge insert. I then added water to it. Then I stuck an atomizer I was about to return on the cartridge and on a freshly charged battery. Holy crap it works! I did previously give the atomizer an alcohol bath and good blow out with compressed air but it still wouldn't perform well in a cartridge another atomizer did fine with. The "baths" are not enough alone. Seems you need heat, air, and a liquid with very low viscosity, like almost pure water, to clean them. Don't be stupid and suck alcohol through them.
Give it a try if you think an atomizer is dead. Alcohol bath, blow out with compressed air, and vape mostly water through it. When a cartridge seems dead, pull the inner cartridge out, add a few drops of water to re-hydrate, and see what happens.
It seems to me the juice gets thick from the heat of the atomizer and the movement of air. This leads me to believe that cartridge hydration varies greatly and is why you can smoke some of them bone dry and others remain saturated. Even refill juice from their provider seems a little too thick to perform well.
Hopefully their switch cartomizers will ease this issue. Next they need to tackle battery performance. That also seems to tail off quickly.
