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How To Avoid Breaking Your Vape
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Key Takeaways
- Always set your vape down somewhere safe, away from edges, pockets, sun, and pets.
- Hand your device to friends carefully rather than tossing it, since vapes are not built for hard impacts.
- Use the charging cable that came with your device, never charge unattended, and unplug once it is full.
- Clean your vape regularly to prevent build up that can clog airflow and hurt performance.
- Small, consistent maintenance is easier and safer than dealing with damage after the fact.
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- What are the most common ways vaporizers get damaged?
- How should you charge your vape safely?
- How does regular cleaning help protect your device?
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In order to get the most out of your vaporizer investments, it goes without saying that you want to avoid breaking them. But when it comes to the practicalities of protecting your devices from an early demise, things can get a little bit murkier.
That’s why to assist with your sessions and help you avoid watching your vaporizer go full on Humpty Dumpty, Sutra Vape is here to provide you with some simple tips that will make a huge difference in helping you avoid breaking your vaporizer.
Keep reading in this exclusive to get more out of your vaporizing and ensure that your devices keep providing you clouds for many a session to come!
Practice Safe Placement
Starting off our crash course on how to keep your vaporizer from crashing on you, we wanted to reiterate the core tenets of a little thing called “safe placement theory” an ancient methodology studied by monks of yore that simply states “place your vape somewhere safe”.
What may seemingly appear to be the easiest step of all, is in fact the most deviously insidious of them all. Without a strict adherence to the credos, you can easily find yourself forgetting about a device in your pants pocket, only to be reunited with it after its met a watery grave at the hands of your washing machine.
So how do you apply safe placement theory? Well simply make a note that every time you are done with your vaporizer for the time being, to place it in a safe place that’s away from any and all potential hazards.
This rules out your back pocket, the edge of a table, and even just out in the sun - as all of these improper placements can result in your precious device going from cloud hero, to zero clouds in the blink of an eye.
All of this is a round about way of saying please don’t place your vape in precarious situations, even if you think you’ll remember, with enough time you're bound to forget and it only takes one slip up to ruin things forever.
That’s why if you're hitting your Sutra Vape DBR Pro Portable Concentrate Vaporizer on the couch, it’s always worth the 10s to get up and place it on a safe table, away from any potential hazards (including pets).
Pass Your Vape Carefully
While this may seem obvious, it bears repeating that vaporizers are not designed to withstand any sort of heavy impacts - especially those caused when you try to trick shot your battery across the room to a friend, only for it to take a hard turn and go straight into the wall.
When that happens its bye bye vapie, and hello no more clouds because despite your heart being in the right place, vaporizers require the utmost of care in order to get the most out of them and ensure no accidental breaks.
Despite devices like our Sutra Squeeze Cartridge Vaporizer maintaining a small hand held size, we recommend taking the time to hand it to your friend as this will ensure that the hand off goes as smoothly as the clouds you are enjoying from the Squeeze’s primo 650mAh battery.
By sticking to the classic puff puff and passing (by hand), you are crossing off one of the number one ways that vaporizers get damaged over time, all the while maintaining classic passing etiquette.
Maintain Proper Charging Protocols
In order to protect the internals of your vaporizer, we recommend following proper charging protocol by always using the charging cable provided with your device, never leaving it charging unattended, and always making sure to unplug once full.
First off, using the charging cable that comes with your device (when applicable) such as with our Sutra Vape Auto Cartridge Vaporizer, is a great way to ensure you are always keeping things compatible for optimal power transfer.
The cables that come with your Sutra devices have been specially rated to work exactly with that specific vaporizer and will always offer you the most efficient and reliable charging capabilities, while also avoiding potential short circuits.
In tandem with this, you should never leave your vaporizer unattended while it is charging. This allows you to keep an eye on things and ensure that no accidents happen while live currents are flowing.
This will help you accomplish the last step, which is to always promptly remove your vaporizer from the charger once it’s full. Batteries don’t like to be over charged, as it can lead to them malfunctioning over the long term or in worst case scenarios over heating.
That’s why keeping an eye on things is essential, as even if you think you know when your battery should be full, things can pop up and before you know it your vape has been left in far too long.
Keep Your Vaporizer Clean
Rounding out our top tips on how to avoid breaking your vape, we have good old fashioned cleanliness as a means to ensure proper function and avoid any potentially session ending issues like severe clogging.
Due to the high temperatures of vaping and the natural origins of the materials we like to enjoy, many byproducts can be procured that when left unattended will gunk up and restrict the very functions of your battery.
Luckily with periodic maintenance of your device you can nip this issue in the bud, removing the small amount of build up before it starts to snowball. While slightly annoying, it is far better to stay on top of cleaning than to have to deal with it all at once.
To do so, we recommend checking out purpose built tools like the Wulf Mods Wipes Alcohol Cleaning Wipe 100pk and Wulf Mods Cotton Dab Swab 300pk. Both of these are designed to specifically work with dry herbs, concentrates, and cartridges to ensure you are fighting fire with fire for the easiest of maintenance.
This way you can use a wipe to clean the exterior of your Sutra Vape SILO Auto Draw Cartridge Vaporizer, before swapping to a swab to clear out your 510 threaded connections for better airflow and heating.
Enjoy Your Sutra Clouds!
With a much better idea on how to avoid breaking or damaging your vaporizer, it's time to get out there and enjoy your clouds! With only a little bit of Summer left - the time is now to grab your Sutra Vape and start having some fun with your friends!
For more handy tips and new product updates, make sure to check out the rest of our postings over at the Sutra Vape Blog! Thanks for checking in with us and stay cloudy!
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Is it bad to leave your vape charging overnight?
How does cleaning help protect your vaporizer?
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