OK, I've been vaping for quite a while now and never had much trouble with atties dying on me. They'd normally last me a few weeks then pop, I was fine with that. I've been vaping on a Darwin for maybe three months now, running my atties somewhere in the 8.5W - 9.5W range. Lately I've been killing them like no other.
My last Joye 510 from litecigusa lasted me a week
Really bad mojo started with a 5-pack of the RIVA 510 from Liberty Flights - one lasted two weeks, the next one lost vapor production and flavor (coils got gunked up) so I switched to a fresh one. This one lasted less than 24 hours so I put the old one on...still crappy performance, but it works fine. Got tired of the performance, put on another fresh atty, popped it in less than 24 hours again. Put the gunked-up old one back on, still going strong.
By now I'm thinking I need to score some premium atties. I ordered up 4 of the Ikenvape cannon stealths (1.8, 2.0, 2.5 and 3.4 ohm varieites) and a HV 306. Got these yesterday, put on the 2.0 cannon and it was good. Damn thing popped on me this afternoon. I was not happy.
Now I'm back on my ill-performing RIVA 510, it's still working fine. All of the atties above are certainly dead, not just dirty, they read 0 ohms on my Darwin. This is getting annoying, expensive and frustrating. I really thought the purportedly premium IKV atties would fix my problems, they just cost me more when they fail it seems.
A bit of background: I'm direct-dripping, not flooding and not running dry. I de-wicked the RIVA 510s but left the IKV cannon alone. I generally chain-vape, but I try to let my atty cool down between bouts of vaping. Juice consumption is probably around 3mL a day, almost exclusively from BWB, AVE and Vaperite.
Does anyone have any ideas what in the heck is going on lately?
My last Joye 510 from litecigusa lasted me a week
Really bad mojo started with a 5-pack of the RIVA 510 from Liberty Flights - one lasted two weeks, the next one lost vapor production and flavor (coils got gunked up) so I switched to a fresh one. This one lasted less than 24 hours so I put the old one on...still crappy performance, but it works fine. Got tired of the performance, put on another fresh atty, popped it in less than 24 hours again. Put the gunked-up old one back on, still going strong.
By now I'm thinking I need to score some premium atties. I ordered up 4 of the Ikenvape cannon stealths (1.8, 2.0, 2.5 and 3.4 ohm varieites) and a HV 306. Got these yesterday, put on the 2.0 cannon and it was good. Damn thing popped on me this afternoon. I was not happy.
Now I'm back on my ill-performing RIVA 510, it's still working fine. All of the atties above are certainly dead, not just dirty, they read 0 ohms on my Darwin. This is getting annoying, expensive and frustrating. I really thought the purportedly premium IKV atties would fix my problems, they just cost me more when they fail it seems.
A bit of background: I'm direct-dripping, not flooding and not running dry. I de-wicked the RIVA 510s but left the IKV cannon alone. I generally chain-vape, but I try to let my atty cool down between bouts of vaping. Juice consumption is probably around 3mL a day, almost exclusively from BWB, AVE and Vaperite.
Does anyone have any ideas what in the heck is going on lately?
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