Sigelei Zmax V3 Telescopic (flat top or other) reports: one week later

Jakarta_Colony;12225050 said:

timastyle;12223378 said:

I was hoping some of you guys can help me with some issues I'm having with my Zmax. I was going to start a new thread, but figured I would get more help here. I've gone through some of the pages in here, but not all (130 is a bit much), so any help would be greatly appreciated.

A little backstyory:
I have been using a PT2 tank since I got the telescoping V5 and constantly got burnt taste, so I would have to bring it down to 7-8w to avoid this using the standard Kanger head coils (2.4 and even 1.5 ohm coils). I then got into building my own coils and have been using 28 gauge kanthal wire to build them. My current coil is a 1.5 ohm coil with 28 gauge and cotton wick on my PT2 and I also have a IGO-L that's at 1.3.

Here are my problems:

1. Sometimes the fire button doesn't work. It looks like the black button under the fire button is not completely aligned. Is there a way to fix this?
2. When I try to get up to the higher wattage (11W+), the mod and the tank get really hot. Last night when using the IGO-L (the PT2 as well) at 12W the top cap got so hot I had to wait a little while before touching it to take off. What can be causing this?
3. As the battery gets drained, it automatically lowers the wattage output on me. Isn't the purpose of the VW to keep it consistent until the battery is fully drained?
4. If I'm trying to get to higher wattages (i.e. 11W+), what resistance would you recommend? I bought what I was told was a 30 gauge Kanthal to build some 2.0-2.4 ohm coils to try out, but with 9-10 wraps, it reads out to 3.4 ohms. That and the fact that the wire seems considerably smaller than the 28 I have, makes me think that it's a 32 gauge.

Thanks for your time!

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Hi Timastyle,

I had my zmax v5 for 2 months now.. And it's been dropped 2 times from 1.8m heights.

I am using a unitank (using the same coil like your protank 2), an evod, a boge f16 (original and clone), and a ehpro trident clone.

1. I've had never have the same problem like yours. The button is still working great..
2. IMHO, a clearomizer tank could not hold the power to 12 watts. I'll get a burnt taste if I tried to set it at >9.5 watts.
I believed that you've burnt the coil and the wick too much with 12 watts. And I think it's normal if the tank gets hot..
3. Nope.
4. Try to build on 28 gauge kanthal. You can get 1,6-1.8 ohm with 12 wraps on an RBA tank.

Regarding the battery's output :

I'm using 2x Efest V1 18350 800mah and a panasonic 18650 2900mah.

a. On 2x Efest 18350 : It will deliver the maximum output of the zmax v5 (15 watts - I had checked the display by pressing the fire button)
b. On a single 18650 2900mah : The maximum output is around 12.x watts. It's not even went to 13 watts.

Cheers,
I'm and Indonesian, so we say it.. Terima kasih,

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