Right. So, I have been in contact with Vicki from Cignot, and she gave me this great method by which to test my atomizer's resistance....
"Atomizer resistance:
"Turn the dial to the Ohms area symbol= Ω
go to the lowest setting (200) You will notice that when you have the leads apart the reading is 1 that means there is an open circuit (infinite resistance)
"touch your leads together... you will subtract that number from your atty resistance as that is the resistance of the wires...
"touch one lead to the center pole of the atty and the other to the threads... do not allow the leads to touch each other or the outer housing... if you get 1... then the coil is broken... otherwise subtract the wire resistance and the magic number is??"
I'm going to have at this, right now.
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Right, I think this voltmeter is busted. The instructions say to touch the leads together to test it, and I just get fluctuating and random numbers as the reading. It doesn't settle on a single number. I tried putting the leads on the atty, and the same thing happened. Damnit. I'm in my pj's for the evening.
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"cheap... touch toward the tip... an be still... should be .5 or .6"
Right. That helps. I get readings from 1.8 to 1.3..... It sure as heck isn't steady, though.
Nope, nope, now it's 3.4 and 3.5. Nope, nope. 130. What the hell? Oh man, this voltmeter SUCKS.
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Right, I took the crappy voltmeter back to the store, got a refund, and went to Radio Shack. I got a spiffy little analogue voltmeter. It's working just fine.. so I've taken readings and sent them to Vicki. I'll let y'all know what she said when I hear back. For now, I'm going to eat some delicious chicken that m'man just cooked up.
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Vicki wrote back, saying I should set the voltmeter from x10 to x100 for a more accurate reading. I'm not sure what that does, but I'll do it.
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Right. Ran it at x100, and that just gave me a reading of zero. It looks like x10 is more sensitive when it comes to small numbers than x100. Well, at least I know what the difference between those two is, now.
By the way, the atomizers are all reading at something like 2 ohms, which is normal. Now, my voltmeter won't read any more sensitive than that, unfortunately. At x10, it reads at .2, which is 2 ohms. The dial only reads to tenths, so .. well.. that's what I get.
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"Atomizer resistance:
"Turn the dial to the Ohms area symbol= Ω
go to the lowest setting (200) You will notice that when you have the leads apart the reading is 1 that means there is an open circuit (infinite resistance)
"touch your leads together... you will subtract that number from your atty resistance as that is the resistance of the wires...
"touch one lead to the center pole of the atty and the other to the threads... do not allow the leads to touch each other or the outer housing... if you get 1... then the coil is broken... otherwise subtract the wire resistance and the magic number is??"
I'm going to have at this, right now.
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Right, I think this voltmeter is busted. The instructions say to touch the leads together to test it, and I just get fluctuating and random numbers as the reading. It doesn't settle on a single number. I tried putting the leads on the atty, and the same thing happened. Damnit. I'm in my pj's for the evening.
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"cheap... touch toward the tip... an be still... should be .5 or .6"
Right. That helps. I get readings from 1.8 to 1.3..... It sure as heck isn't steady, though.
Nope, nope, now it's 3.4 and 3.5. Nope, nope. 130. What the hell? Oh man, this voltmeter SUCKS.
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Right, I took the crappy voltmeter back to the store, got a refund, and went to Radio Shack. I got a spiffy little analogue voltmeter. It's working just fine.. so I've taken readings and sent them to Vicki. I'll let y'all know what she said when I hear back. For now, I'm going to eat some delicious chicken that m'man just cooked up.
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Vicki wrote back, saying I should set the voltmeter from x10 to x100 for a more accurate reading. I'm not sure what that does, but I'll do it.
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Right. Ran it at x100, and that just gave me a reading of zero. It looks like x10 is more sensitive when it comes to small numbers than x100. Well, at least I know what the difference between those two is, now.
By the way, the atomizers are all reading at something like 2 ohms, which is normal. Now, my voltmeter won't read any more sensitive than that, unfortunately. At x10, it reads at .2, which is 2 ohms. The dial only reads to tenths, so .. well.. that's what I get.
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