Has anyone gotten a cart that doesn’t work at all but after a few months out of the blue, you try it and it works? It’s happened to me twice this year and it’s tripping me the fuck out. Same battery, same cartridge, different day. I’m hoping someone can think of a logical explanation so I don’t have to believe in magic. Right now I’m thinking it’s either my own personal “Mandela effect”, like I swapped to a universe where it worked. OR it’s some kind of magic, whether that’s an angel or a goblin or a ghost or something idk.
The TLDR is that most carts are filled with oil, and oil is a wicking substance. It moves around.
If your cart stops working because it’s empty, over time whatever tiny remnants of oil are in the container can wick their way back into a place where the coil will vaporize them again. All of a sudden your dead vape will give you a couple hits if you’re lucky.
510 carts are great at flooding the wick/coil area with oil and clogging up too. There’s a million ways to reflow the oil to get them usable again but sometimes just forgetting about them somewhere gives them time to fix themselves. If you think it might be clogging you can try something like soaking it (in a sandwich bag or similar to prevent damage) in hot water.
Sometimes the position the cart is in will encourage oil to flow in or out of places.
Sometimes auto draw batteries cause chamber flooding if they don’t shut down promptly.
Sometimes the cart gets left somewhere warm and the oil goes anywhere but where it needs to be.
These devices are just prone to issues in my experience, but they aren’t that hard to troubleshoot.
Ah this explains it. I always figured the coil was faulty which is why I was so confused how it could just suddenly work after not working out of the box. But the wick being dry makes more sense. I’m glad I hung on to them
I think the resistance of the coils are finicky too, I’ve fixed some carts by putting it on a battery with adjustable voltage and turning it to max. Makes it work with the other batteries again. So try a newer fresher battery, older batteries loose voltage over time and may not be able to trigger the coils with current charge.
Could likely be partly to do with the wicking as well affecting the coil resistance.
I’ve had so many troubles with carts over the years. I’m slowly learning more and more.
At first, it seemed like ALL of my carts would break before they were used up. I got a better battery with a display screen, and knowing for sure when the battery is dead/dying or if it’s not connecting to the cart has helped me stretch the life of my carts.
Also, overheating the coils seems to be a huge issue. Don’t take super long hits, or pass it between people quickly. Hitting it over and over before it can cool back to room temp, will cause your oil to leak into the battery or up into the sucking tube(? I don’t know what to call the part you put your mouth on).
During last week’s heat wave I left one in my car and found half the oil in my cup holder. Stickiest, messiest stuff I’ve ever dealt with!
Oh! If the cart hits really hard and even the tiniest hit causes you to cough, unscrew the cart and get a qtip dipped in rubbing alcohol to clean out both the male and female parts of the cart and battery. I just learned that one, and it worked wonders!
