New 510 atty and a mini nova breaking in

[fergus77]

Hey all,

I know this must have been covered many times, but please enlighten me.

I got a 510 SR atty for dripping and read somewhere that you need to dry burn them a few times to get rid of the coating on the coil. Did a few short bursts and then added a few drops of juice. It fired once and then calved!!

Did I do it wrong?

Also got a mini nova, running the LR atty on an ego battery. I didn't dry burn this as i don't want it to feck up. So, filled with juice and started puffing but not inhaling to get rid of the coating.

Is this the right process as well?

Cheers all

 

[Purplefowler]

When I'm breaking in a new wick I normally put a couple of drips of juice onto the coil and burn it off a couple of times. Not sure what the official way to do it is though, but this works for me

 

[fergus77]

Thanks Purple

 

[Ace Vapers]

Hey all,

I know this must have been covered many times, but please enlighten me.

I got a 510 SR atty for dripping and read somewhere that you need to dry burn them a few times to get rid of the coating on the coil. Did a few short bursts and then added a few drops of juice. It fired once and then calved!!

Did I do it wrong?

Also got a mini nova, running the LR atty on an ego battery. I didn't dry burn this as i don't want it to feck up. So, filled with juice and started puffing but not inhaling to get rid of the coating.

Is this the right process as well?

Cheers all

Dry burning can reduce the life of the atomizer, and also leave it with a burnt taste. If you want to get rid of the coating blow the excess out into a tissue then add 6/7 drops of ejuice then vape without inhaling, do this a few times and the coating will be gone
and you should be left with just the taste of your desired e-juice.

 

[DarthVaperUK]

I have always dry burned my coils. You don't have to dry burning them before use, the atties are normally primed with a little PG so it won't hurt you.... It just won't taste of anything! But why you would try and vape on an atty without putting juice in is a little weird.

I have atomizers that are over 4 months old and they work like new. If you know how to clean and dry burn properly you can make a £6 306 last months?

You will get a burnt taste if you don't dry burn all the gunk off. Other than that you shouldn't get a burnt taste....unless your using a cotton wick.

You can put silica wick over an open flame and it won't touch it

 

[fergus77]

Hi Darth,

It wasn't I tried vaping with no juice. Put new atty in, fired it quickly and it stunk to high heavens. Fired a few more times to burn off what was there. Added some juice and the thing died after that. Wouldn't fire at all.

VapeEscape said they'd send me another one, great guys that they are, so just waiting in that before the dripping commences.

New Mini Vivi Nova is working pretty good now though. Put plenty of juice through it today and the flavour is coming through nicely.

 

[DarthVaperUK]

Ye the Atty could have been sat in storage for months and months with that primer on it.

 

[AnnaLaw]

I used to dry-burn until I did it with a clearo I'd washed out and still had some of my very hard tap water on it. Dry burned OK so put some juice in and it died. Of course that may have been a coincidence but ever since I've put a little juice on coils before first firing and also left them to dry naturally after cleaning. You may just have had a bad atty though. Some vendors will only replace if they're DOA, although I'm not sure of the legality of that policy. They are consumables but under Sale of Goods everything has to be fit for purpose and I wouldn't think an atty that died so quickly would be. You can't use a dead atty and it would be normal to expect it to last a little longer.
I have some cheap ones that have lasted months with nothing but cleaning.