New tank from Joyetech: Ultimo

[J ulti]

Hi. The coloured ones I understand. There are some smaller thin ones. Similar size to the rings that go on the bottom of the coils. Is that what they're for? They're not the same size as the transparent ones on the tank cap and around the airflow base.
Thanks

 

[J ulti]

The coloured ones, the seals I understand. There are another four which are much smaller. But they're smaller than the ones that seal the cap to the tank glass and the airflow base to the glass.

 

[Eskie]

Aren't the little transparent ones for the drip tip? If you pull the DT off (yes, it does pull off as it's more like a cap for the DT on top) you're left with a short drip tip like barrel on top that has 2 o rings on it. If you pull the DT cap off, you can actually use your own DT on the end of that barrel.

 

[J ulti]

No. They're bigger than the ones on the drip tip. I don't know.

 

[Ales Simunic]

Ok. To give my 2 cents. My mate and I both ordered an ultimo tank from FastTech and a 5 pack of ceramic coils. And both had the exact same experience. The first coil, that came inside the ultimo package as a spare was leaking like hell, giving dry burns, inconsistent flavour and so on. On both tanks that is. After we both switched to a new one from the pack of 5, it is like a totally different story. Zero leaking, no dry hits, consistant flavour. Like putting in a different brand coil. So I believe there was a problem with first batches of coils, that they have since fixed. I find no other explanation. And another thing. Both original coils were reading 0.50 ohms, and both replacement coils read 0.57. So something is definitely different.

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[Eskie]

Ok. To give my 2 cents. My mate and I both ordered an ultimo tank from FastTech and a 5 pack of ceramic coils. And both had the exact same experience. The first coil, that came inside the ultimo package as a spare was leaking like hell, giving dry burns, inconsistent flavour and so on. On both tanks that is. After we both switched to a new one from the pack of 5, it is like a totally different story. Zero leaking, no dry hits, consistant flavour. Like putting in a different brand coil. So I believe there was a problem with first batches of coils, that they have since fixed. I find no other explanation. And another thing. Both original coils were reading 0.50 ohms, and both replacement coils read 0.57. So something is definitely different.

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Interesting experience. Thanks. I have a box of ceramics that I got at the time I ordered this tank, but after the first disastrous ceramic leak, I've stayed with the rewickable notch. I guess I should try throwing another ceramic in there and see what happens.

 

[Ales Simunic]

Interesting experience. Thanks. I have a box of ceramics that I got at the time I ordered this tank, but after the first disastrous ceramic leak, I've stayed with the rewickable notch. I guess I should try throwing another ceramic in there and see what happens.

Yes try it. I did not mention before, but the entire setup is also not heating up as it did with the first coil. I sometimes chain vape and with the first coil the entire mod got very hot sometimes. Not a case now. It did get hot once after 10 days or so of use. But I took the tank apart, cleaned it, dry burned the coil and is working again like a champ. What was interesting is that although the coil was only 10 days old it was dirty like hell, and I could dry burn it at 25w to almoust white again. I also used an ear cleaning tip to clean the air hole after dry burning and I pulled so much black dirt out of there, that I could not believe. So the case they are making about these coils lasting for months without cleaning is not really believable.

EDIT: and make sure you screw the coil in really tight. So tight, that the black oring is not visible anymore. I read somewhere, that not tight enough also leads to leaking.

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[Eskie]

Nice to hear the dry burning actually works. That was always the one plus I felt about these as I usually don't like factory coils. I can deal with the notch because it is easy to rewick as well. Otherwise, I'd rather build my own.

 

[Ales Simunic]

Nice to hear the dry burning actually works. That was always the one plus I felt about these as I usually don't like factory coils. I can deal with the notch because it is easy to rewick as well. Otherwise, I'd rather build my own.

Yes. Was a little afraid at first, because my attempts to dry burn a ceramic ccell from vaporesso in my melo 3 was unsuccessful. I burned the wick on two of those. But here it worked quite well.

EDIT: So you say the notch coil is performing better. I was looking at getting a set of these as it seems to be an easy rewick (I just don't like making my own coils, don't have the time), but what is putting me off is the high working wattage for those. 60 watt minimum is going to kill my battery even faster and sip even more juice. As it's already very thirsty at 45 watts. And also wanted to try TC, .... I see here it's not working even though its SS coil.

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[Ales Simunic]

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[Eskie]

Yes. Was a little afraid at first, because my attempts to dry burn a ceramic ccell from vaporesso in my melo 3 was unsuccessful. I burned the wick on two of those. But here it worked quite well.

EDIT: So you say the notch coil is performing better. I was looking at getting a set of these as it seems to be an easy rewick (I just don't like making my own coils, don't have the time), but what is putting me off is the high working wattage for those. 60 watt minimum is going to kill my battery even faster and sip even more juice. As it's already very thirsty at 45 watts. And also wanted to try TC, .... I see here it's not working even though its SS coil.

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Yeah, it does need some wattage to get going. I run it about 50W with a 70/30 VG juice and it's a good vape for me. Rewicking is easy, dry burning the notch if necessary is a little tricky but doable, and the amount of juice consumed is not terrible for me. But yes, 50W (and up) is needed to get it rolling. I do use it on a Pico at that wattage, and if I'll be out all day with it, I do need an extra battery in my pocket. On a multi-battery mod it would be far less of an issue.

And no, I haven't gotten TC to work with it, but in this case I'm fine in power/wattage mode.

 

[Troll from behind]

I really think you SHOULDN'T dry burn notches.
Since the heating part is made of SS (must kinda be, don't think there are other notches) it produces some bad stuff when heated glowing unless you dip it into water.
Or so was I told 'bout stainless steel as an heating element.

 

[Sugar_and_Spice]

Yeah, it does need some wattage to get going. I run it about 50W with a 70/30 VG juice and it's a good vape for me. Rewicking is easy, dry burning the notch if necessary is a little tricky but doable, and the amount of juice consumed is not terrible for me. But yes, 50W (and up) is needed to get it rolling. I do use it on a Pico at that wattage, and if I'll be out all day with it, I do need an extra battery in my pocket. On a multi-battery mod it would be far less of an issue.

And no, I haven't gotten TC to work with it, but in this case I'm fine in power/wattage mode.

Using a pico at that wattage, doesn't the tank heat up quickly? I am using the notch on a Wismec 2/3 with 2 batteries and run it a little lower W than you. It starts to heat up if I am not paying attention to how much I am toking on it.

 

[Troll from behind]

With 60 watts can't chainvape @60 watts with me old Evic VT, device starts to cut off simply because it gets too hot!
Not the mod, but the atty.

 

[TrollDragon]

I put a Kepler 510 heat sink on my Ultimo as it does get quite hot.

 

[Eskie]

I've been lucky with the notch as far as heat. I imagine the ceramics get very hot. They simply do not dissipate residual heat all that well. As for dry burning, you can do that with SS, just not heated all hot and bright glowing. Just a soft pulsed glow and a rinse to remove the residue. I do that on all my regular SS coils as well.

 

[Troll from behind]

Sulplise, sulplise, my second ceramic head has behaved nicely for the past couple of days!
Maybe the leaking is indeed a QC-issue.

 

[cooladdict]

Sulplise, sulplise, my second ceramic head has behaved nicely for the past couple of days!
Maybe the leaking is indeed a QC-issue.

It's weird that a lot of us are having an issue with the coil that comes with the tank, right? I'm so glad I ordered a 5-pack when I ordered my tank because this coil is great when it works properly!

 

[Troll from behind]

Well damn, yet another leaker!
This one does only leak a bit if I fill her up while she's hot, but this flaw wasn't there in the begining.
Must be cotton slowly going bad or something though I DO vape 15-20 mls a day.

 

[Troll from behind]

Even after all me rambling this is still the tank to get, if you are after a good vape in category "less than 100 watts".
Smok is still king of the hill, but for ones not wanting to have 100ml of juice and fistfull of batteries along Ultimo is the right choice.