How often should you change/clean an atomiser?

[whit77]

I've also just found out that my tanks also fit on my itaste MVP that I just bought. Happy days

Yep they all share the common ego thread

 

[piggyproducts]

Glad to hear you dry burning worked OK.

The biggest indicator as to when you need to clean a head is lack of vapour/flavour. If you're not getting as much vapour or flavour as you expect then the coil isn't getting hot enough.

Thisis caused by 2 things. i) low power from the battery, either the device is turned down too low, or the battery is about to run flat and not fire at all.

ii) The coil is gunked up and the burnt on gunk is stopping the heat from the coil getting to the juice that's on the wick. (same as if your saucepan bottoms are dirty they don't conduct heat as well so cooking takes longer)

If the coil is gunked up then as well as the coil not getting the juice hot enough the gunk also contains more of the heat in the coil itself, which means it wears out a bit faster and usually what people do to counter this is turn the power up which burns more gunk onto the coil and makes it worse...

If you dry burn clean a coil every 2 or 3 tankfuls then it won't take as long and should keep things nice and clean before you get to the reduced flavour.

As blue says - you can keep cleaning them like this until they go pop. Eventually no matter how careful you are the coil will overheat and break, so when you push the button nothing will happen. That's when you need to throw them away* and screw in a new one.

*If you're using something like an evod or a vivi nova then don't actually throw the heads away - you can buy wick and wire and rebuild them for a fraction of the cost of new heads. It's a lot easier than it sounds.

That's very true and building something like a vivi nova is a great confidence step towards rebuilding

 

[martyge2010]

Just tried dry burning a T2 and it now works even better than it did when it was new

 

[Soldier Blue]

Just tried dry burning a T2 and it now works even better than it did when it was new

There's a good reason for this. When building coils you can get residue on them from your fingers (depending on how much you handle them) which is why most will choose to 'torch' the wick and wire with a blow torch, wind proof lighter or cooker etc'. When you dry burn them it essentially does the same thing and removes the residue from when they were first made. I rarely use a factory coil without dry burning it first and I don't build coils without burning them either. To be fair, even if you didn't do it, the taste doesn't last for long anyway but it can make a new user think the juice is off when in fact it isn't.