Props to Bumpi ! Thanks Bro. He walked me through field stripping my Z-Atty-Pro. He learned to rebuild from Zen, so I figure I received good advice, tips, and tricks. I really suggest that those new to rebuild-able Atty's find a good walk though to follow, if an experience expert isn't sting in the same room. I could have figured it out on my own, but there are a couple techniques that would have taken several rebuilds for me to discover on my own. With a rebuild per month, that would take a long time for those realizations to occur without the guidance. So, once again, thanks Bumpi for the insight and guidance.
Pretty easy to do. There wasn't anything difficult. I'd taken it apart to clean it between tanks, but had never rebuilt the atomizer.
Please excuse the mess in the pics. I would have like to have a nice black velvet backdrop for the pics, but you're sitting in a hotel lobby there's not a lot of room to spread out the tools and make a great presentation.
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Stripped Down! And check out Bumpi's SideWinder in the background. I love the SideWinder's profile, but don't think I could do without the electronics in the ProVari.
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First Atty Wrap
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All put together. I had some issues though. It was throwing an E1 (Short Circuit). Before I rebuilt it, I had the V's set to 6.0 just to check out the wick/coil under a large load. The original coil had 6 wraps and registered at 2.3 Ohms. The new one is 1.7-1.8 Ohms with 6 wraps. The 6V setting was too high. I tried pulling the battery out, thinking this would reset the V setting, but it didn't. I had to play with the with it a little to get the electronics to let me back into the V setting w/o throwing the E1. Once I had it lowered, it was all good. I'm hoping he Ohms will climb a little, maybe back to 2.3, as the coil seasons. We'll see.
The taste wasn't very good. I attribute this to the juice I was using, as I didn't like it in the first place. It was a combination of the juice and the unseasoned coil. I cut the juice with a little bit a leftover juice that I liked. It's vape-able now. Lesson leaned. Don't rebuild thinking it will taste better, and don't waste the good juice you like on the first couple of tanks after a rebuild. Save it for when the coil is nice and seasoned.
Pretty easy to do. There wasn't anything difficult. I'd taken it apart to clean it between tanks, but had never rebuilt the atomizer.
Please excuse the mess in the pics. I would have like to have a nice black velvet backdrop for the pics, but you're sitting in a hotel lobby there's not a lot of room to spread out the tools and make a great presentation.
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Stripped Down! And check out Bumpi's SideWinder in the background. I love the SideWinder's profile, but don't think I could do without the electronics in the ProVari.
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First Atty Wrap
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Nearly Done
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All put together. I had some issues though. It was throwing an E1 (Short Circuit). Before I rebuilt it, I had the V's set to 6.0 just to check out the wick/coil under a large load. The original coil had 6 wraps and registered at 2.3 Ohms. The new one is 1.7-1.8 Ohms with 6 wraps. The 6V setting was too high. I tried pulling the battery out, thinking this would reset the V setting, but it didn't. I had to play with the with it a little to get the electronics to let me back into the V setting w/o throwing the E1. Once I had it lowered, it was all good. I'm hoping he Ohms will climb a little, maybe back to 2.3, as the coil seasons. We'll see.
The taste wasn't very good. I attribute this to the juice I was using, as I didn't like it in the first place. It was a combination of the juice and the unseasoned coil. I cut the juice with a little bit a leftover juice that I liked. It's vape-able now. Lesson leaned. Don't rebuild thinking it will taste better, and don't waste the good juice you like on the first couple of tanks after a rebuild. Save it for when the coil is nice and seasoned.
