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    RDA HELP - Keep Getting Bad Flavor on Freakshow Mini

    It may be too hot. Some things to consider... Is this a single or dual parallel build, what is the net resistance and what wattage is applied? What is the drip tip ID? How dense is your cotton, and how tight a fit in the coil(s)? How open is the AFC?
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    Help me understand how power affects the vape experience

    With the included sample Steam Engine links, I hope that I've explained this adequately... if not, you may want to read my blogs on the above variables, for a more in depth understanding.
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    Octa coil questions

    On the negatives. The one I'm referring to is the one that appears to stick up, at 9:00 on the positive post. All the others are under the screw, but that one... with no clear end, at least that I can see. Good catch, 93. I was wondering how long it'd take for someone to actually...
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    Octa coil questions

    If you are referring to this photo... Take a standard Poseidon with 4 parallel coils... and double it. With this, you have two coils per negative post, one on each side, which makes two coils in series... times four negative posts, in parallel. Or... 4X series by 4X parallel. It...
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    Vacuum in Orchid V2

    Yes... you can fit an o-ring under the 510 pin to better seal it... but in theory, it doesn't matter because the chamber, AFC and 510 pin orifice are all exposed to positive pressure. Chinese RTA makers can sometimes play "fast and loose" with critical dimensions. If the juice channels are...
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    Already I can't deal with high nicotine.

    I smoked Camel "straights" for 45 years. When I started vaping, thinking that I needed to start with high nicotine, 24 to 36 mg/ml was my common juice... but that was with clearos and carto tanks. Now, with RBAs, I use 6 mg/ml, and suspect that I'll be using 0 nic before the year is out...
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    mod recommendation VV/VW Usually run Nautilus mini!

    From a technical and personal preference perspective, you should consider what wattage is required for you typical resistance, build type and juice blend.... to produce your desired vape temperature, or "heat flux". Heat flux is a value representing coil radiant heat, expressed in mW/mm²...
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    RDA EHPro Clone Marquis any good?

    That's pretty much how I do it, if the drip tip is "normal" ID. If it's a big bore... well, you don't need to take anything off if you can see the coil(s) through the tip. :laugh:
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    RDA EHPro Clone Marquis any good?

    No RDA is "leak-proof"... only varying degrees of leak resistance. The Marquis, Veritas, K.loud, Buhawi, Nomad, Omerta, SV, Cascata and Hobo... to name but a few, are all highly leak resistant. The Nomad may be the most leak-resistant, in that the only way one could get a leak would be to...
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    Problems with over wicking?

    Considering the potential variables in the builds of just this one thread... it's still all rather subjective. Loose density and only very slight drag in-coil... which still adds up to "less is more". ;-)
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    A few years away yet? Aluminum-graphite batteries

    Found a interesting article in Stanford News... Stanford University is working on a cheap, flexible, safe and environmentally friendly battery. Recharges in minutes... with a near unlimited recharge cycle life span. The experimental (currently 2V) battery is comprised of an aluminum anode...
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    Problems with over wicking?

    I don't think that qualifies as "over-wicking"... perhaps it just appears that way because your coils have such a large ID. I suppose that, in theory, over-wicking would take longer for the coil to reach a vaporizing temperature, as the possible over-abundance of juice would act as a heat...
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    Derringer coil is killing my kogendo!

    That would be around a 1.4mm ID to get 14 wraps from 28 gauge for 0.8Ω... pretty small, but not unusual. Your Ohm's law heat flux is a pretty cool 120 mW/mm² +/-... so it's definitely not too hot. You might try going up on the ID (which will allow a larger wick/juice surface area in the...
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    Derringer coil is killing my kogendo!

    Bruce's - too tight a wick fit - is a real common error with wicking, and one of my first points as well. Another is those coils look to have a very small ID... where it wouldn't take much coil radiant heat (what wire gauge, what net resistance?) for too long to completely consume the...
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    How To Shorten 510 Connection

    Anything you do physically will have some level of bad news. See the 510 screw in the photo below? It has a shoulder on it at the base of the threads, which bottoms out in the offset positive block... so unless you want to remove material from the screw head, and perhaps re-cut the screwdriver...
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    New Samsung 25r and Efest LUC S2

    Nope... put them in, take them out when charged. The LUC chargers, like most other digital display chargers, have protection circuitry for short-circuits, reverse polarity and volt over-charge... and stop charging when a fully charged battery is detected. If the battery sits in the charger for...
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    Kayfun V4 - no Vapor problem!

    Sounds like a 510 conductivity issue... that being, you don't have any. ;-) Innokin is notorious for sinking their 510 positive pins too deeply into the female negative collet. You can try a few things... several actually, in varying degrees of difficulty and permanence. Look at the Kayfun...
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    Questions on a Freakshow Dual Coil Build

    Replace cotton as often as it gunks up and is detrimental to performance. Coil? Coils can last for months if the juice vaporizes cleanly and doesn't gunk up the coil. If you have to dry burn the coil often (assuming Kanthal A-1 here), it can lead to a loss of alumina content (the part that...
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    Help!!! Brass caravela by hcigar will not patina!

    Welcome to EFC, Chris... does the tube have a paint clear-coat on it? If it does, you'll need to strip that first.
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    Liquid coming up to fripper

    Your coil size is fine... other than with a smaller ID coil, folks have a tendency to roll and/or fit them too tight, so they can get the wick in the ID. I usually run around 2.4mm ID myself - finding that ID allows me a good feel of fit-in-coil. Cuts down a bit on wrap count... but short or...
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