Quick update:
1) Bought a CCTS from Hoosier today, 29 bucks shipped, helluva deal, (caused me to cancel my interest in the ChiChi CoOp thread). Still have the lavafire on the way too, can't wait to go unregulated with 18650s.
2) Been firing a 0.8 ohm coil, 4 wrap, 28ga, on the 7x7 wire rope wick with a 7x9mm 400mesh hybrid wrap, (7 mm tall, 9-10mm wide...goes around ~1.3 times the wick). I'm firing it on a modified Old Goat with a 14500 batt, and keeping them pretty highly charged, (4.2-3.8 volts), and have had zero issues. I have to tip the tank to a bit below horizontal once the juice gets down to about a mm above the lower tank plate edge, (less than ~0.4mL of juice left in a 3.2mL tank, I'd say), or else vapor production starts to suffer a little, but I've yet to have a single dry hit. Gone through about 3 tanks, last tank I vaped right down to only a drop or two left in it.
No dry hits, and still lots of vapor. I've started doing a quick water rinse and dry burn in between tanks, as I'm going through a little flavor changeup right now, and as a result I haven't had any juice discoloration that I've noticed throughout a tank. I'm also chain
vaping pretty hard - I go through about 1.3 mL an hour, at a guess, and am charging my 14500s after around 45min of
vaping. The SS drip tip will get decently warm by the end of the hour, but no burning flavor at all.
Have run the same piece of wire rope through, oh, 8 tanks so far, and at least 4 tanks on the recent hybrid wrap of mesh, and it's still looking and firing like brand new. The wire rope was originally torched for a bit until red hot through and through, then juice burned a couple of times. The juice burning is not necessary now that I'm doing the hybrid setup, but I didn't know that at the time. The small piece of mesh was just juice burned 3 times, no torching.
Anyone else had luck, opinions, advice?
