Hello everyone,
I've been having what feels like a fairly trivial problem, but is hugely affecting my vaping pleasure, as well as my supply of kanthal.
I'm currently trying to get a setup working on my A7 atty using cotton from cotton balls rolled tight (as in, damp cotton strips squeezed with as great a force as my hands can apply). Unfortunately, all of my attempts at getting a good, solid, well-working wick have been thwarted. I feel like the Cotton Gods are trying to force me to commit seppuku with silica.
Here's my method - I unroll a cotton ball, strip half of the parallel fibers off, roll that into a wick, wet it lightly and roll it tight. I then wrap my coil around the cotton and a needle so that it slightly depresses the cotton. I usually get a resistance between 2.4 and 3.0 ohms. After this I insert my coil into the atomizer with the wick at a slight angle to the air-hole (as in, next to the air hole, but half way between a horizontal and a vertical wick). I fully saturate with e-liquid and begin to vape.
My coil diameter is about 3mm and my coil spacing is about 1.5mm. I'm using Kanthal A-1 32AWG.
After about ten pulls in this configuration above 6.5 watts my wick begins to burn.
If anyone can help me figure out what's going wrong, it would be much appreciated.
I've been having what feels like a fairly trivial problem, but is hugely affecting my vaping pleasure, as well as my supply of kanthal.
I'm currently trying to get a setup working on my A7 atty using cotton from cotton balls rolled tight (as in, damp cotton strips squeezed with as great a force as my hands can apply). Unfortunately, all of my attempts at getting a good, solid, well-working wick have been thwarted. I feel like the Cotton Gods are trying to force me to commit seppuku with silica.
Here's my method - I unroll a cotton ball, strip half of the parallel fibers off, roll that into a wick, wet it lightly and roll it tight. I then wrap my coil around the cotton and a needle so that it slightly depresses the cotton. I usually get a resistance between 2.4 and 3.0 ohms. After this I insert my coil into the atomizer with the wick at a slight angle to the air-hole (as in, next to the air hole, but half way between a horizontal and a vertical wick). I fully saturate with e-liquid and begin to vape.
My coil diameter is about 3mm and my coil spacing is about 1.5mm. I'm using Kanthal A-1 32AWG.
After about ten pulls in this configuration above 6.5 watts my wick begins to burn.
If anyone can help me figure out what's going wrong, it would be much appreciated.
