A little help with Griffin ?

[asd]

Hello everyone, I need some help with the Griffin. I get dry hits and my ZMAX keeps showing ohm reading after every other hit and won't fire off.

This is my first rba and first attempt at oxidizing mesh. I will give a bit information of what I have done so far.

It took me a lot of time to roll the mesh small enough to fit the hole since the hole is very very small. Mesh is a tight fit, then I kept holding the mesh on top of my zippo lighter (I don't have any torch lighters) until slightly red and quenched it in water multiple times getting every part of the mesh a few times. I couldn't get the mesh to light bright red because of low heat maybe that is the problem.

Then I soaked the mesh in some juice and light it on fire until it went out by itself. Then I rolled the coil around the mesh but I kept getting low ohm warning from my ZMAX. After fiddling with the coils it fires once but won't fire again. To make it fire I have to fiddle with the coil every single time.

After each time I move the coil a bit, my zmax would read 1.3ohms and fire but if I try to fire it again right after, it will give me 1.2 or lower ohm display and won't fire until I mess with the coil again, very weird.

I am guessing mesh isn't oxidized properly and shorts out but it looks all black like it should.

What do you experts think ? Will oxidizing with a torch lighter until bright red stop giving me burned taste and work like it should ?

 

[ckone180]

It could be that the end of the mesh is frayed and shorts the coil. It would be easy to use a torch lighter, get the mesh glowing and see if there are really small orange pieces brighter than the rest. That would be the tiny frayed pieces and if you use a small screw driver while the mesh is hot, you can knock the pieces off. Try again!

 

[Big Screen D]

This is how I've been doing mine. http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...nesis-coil-every-time-petar-k-todd-video.html

 

[junkman]

Hello everyone, I need some help with the Griffin. I get dry hits and my ZMAX keeps showing ohm reading after every other hit and won't fire off.

After each time I move the coil a bit, my zmax would read 1.3ohms and fire but if I try to fire it again right after, it will give me 1.2 or lower ohm display and won't fire until I mess with the coil again, very weird.

Sounds like you may not have enough loops in you coil. What resistance are you trying to achieve? Seems like you would want a resistance which gives you more margin above your zmax cutout, say 1.8 or more. Do you have a multimeter to check the resistance of your coil? How many loops in your coil? With the wire that came with my DUD (I think the same atty as the griffin) you need about 5 or 6 loops to get to 2 ohms.

Now if you have 5 loops and are getting zmax shut down and 1.3ohm reading at best, then could very well be a short.

 

[TamJeff]

Zippo fuel is naptha, a petroleum distillate. Naptha leaves a residue when burnt. Not as much as say, charcoal starter fluid, but a residue nonetheless.

 

[dennis_j]

I did not roll the mesh up before i heated it ,make sure to get the outer edge red hot, and use at least 6 coils, see if this helps you out,i thinkyournot getting it hot enought