well tried to recoil my aga today.... thought I had it figured out but I guess not. wick is semi oxidized and got the top coil hot spot. loosened coil. still there. added a washer. still there. reoxidized wick. top coil hot spot still there. tightened coil. yup still there. loosened again and doubled back the pos lead. yup still there. made sure wick doesn't touch bottom of tank. still there. started over. wrapped loose enough to be able to slide the wick in and out carefully. still there. poked prodded squeezed and in other way violated coils. yup again still there. finally bounced it off the coffee table and gave up. seems I have tried every suggestion and every idea. tried the drill bit method and doesn't work for me as my hands aren't steady enough to move things around without destroying them.....any last suggestions before I huck this thing in the trash?
aga hot spots back!!!! can't win
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Is the resistance wire well used?
I was having constant problems last night, doing what I always do & what I've found works. But nothing would get rid of it.
New kanthal today, all issues disappeared.
That coil had been in there 2-3+ weeks.
I was having constant problems last night, doing what I always do & what I've found works. But nothing would get rid of it.
New kanthal today, all issues disappeared.
That coil had been in there 2-3+ weeks.
If you are willing to try something different, see if you can get a hold of a ceramic wick. Say goodbye to shorts and hot spots for good and enjoy flavors that are out of this world. They are incredible.
i have better luck with 28ga wire it will also get hot spots i just keep doing short burst add a drip of juice so it has a little something to burn ( i e thats where you get build up so the hot spots go away) some times i can grab the wick and give it a slight turn inside the coil and the hot spot will go away that doesent mean it will not come back keep doing the burn just do it longer now and see if it comes back if it does its ok it means you are getting there just have a little more burn cycles / drops b4 it goes away completely ....you can do it
wrapping your coil using the drill bit method really works well with AGA's. If that isnt working, the only thing I can suggest is leaning your wick into the centre post whilst securing the wire. It's important that you push the wick rather than pulling it with the wire, as this makes your top coil too tight. A good mantra is "Make the coil hug the wick, not strangle it". As for the wick touching the bottom of the tank...that's a myth. Practice makes perfect...you WILL get this down pat.
When I get a hotspot I hold my mod vertically with most of the juice sucked out and I fire it untill the coil glows evenly again, refill and vape away.
You're adding washers and doubling up on wire and playing the tighter/looser game...but you never mentioned just poking the coils.
Did you do that?
On the off chance you don't know what I mean, while pulsing power use a needle, pair of tweezers, anything small and metal really, to poke and prod at the coils. Concentrate on the point where the hotspot is, and work your way down until they all glow evenly. Poke at the coils, move them up and down a bit, poke at the wick to break it free from where it temporarily "welded" itself to the coil and is shorting....just be patient and keep fussing with it. You've got to coax it into burning evenly.
Once you get a proper coil cooking right, you don't need washers, or bent wicks, or any of that. My AGA-T+ is unmodified, with the original 5mm+ positive leg from the big gap between wick and center post, and once a coil is set up right I've never had a hot leg.
If all that doesn't work, wrap a looser coil and try again.
Did you do that?
On the off chance you don't know what I mean, while pulsing power use a needle, pair of tweezers, anything small and metal really, to poke and prod at the coils. Concentrate on the point where the hotspot is, and work your way down until they all glow evenly. Poke at the coils, move them up and down a bit, poke at the wick to break it free from where it temporarily "welded" itself to the coil and is shorting....just be patient and keep fussing with it. You've got to coax it into burning evenly.
Once you get a proper coil cooking right, you don't need washers, or bent wicks, or any of that. My AGA-T+ is unmodified, with the original 5mm+ positive leg from the big gap between wick and center post, and once a coil is set up right I've never had a hot leg.
If all that doesn't work, wrap a looser coil and try again.
I ended up getting it right last night in kind of a weird way. I had to wrap the top coil around to the other side of the wick and then just kind of bend it back to the positive post. So it stays on the wick almost to the point where you would add a coil then makes a hard turn to the pos post. I don't know how else to explain it but it worked. I really really wish the gap from the wick to the pos post was smaller but it's up and running again. Thanks guys.
yes you wrap the wick one way then wrap around positive post the opposite way, this way you get a little bit more contact with the wick with the wire.
That isn't really what I meant. I already had that going on but what I meant was that the last coil goes all the way back to the side of the wick next to the neg screw then turns hard and goes to the pos post. It's not the prettiest looking thing I've ever done but so far it is working fairly well.
hmmm, sorry, i thought that you were talking about something else. so like you bent the wire, then made like a U-turn? anyways if its working good thats all that matters. keep on vaping
Once you have learnt all you can, just keep doing over & over & over &over. With that attitude you will never get it. It won't happen on its own or by abusing it. Just saying
I have both the aga-t2 and the aga-s and i honestly like the aga-s better. the downfalls would be the plastic plug on the s and its smaller tank size. maybe its just that the last coil i did on her was so nice it made it seem better. i dont know. anyway just like the before mentioned, poke at it and adjust the coils til they all fire nice, then juice it up
It's a little more than an L lol. I've had it going now all day fairly well. Only had to adjust a little bit once after the tank ran dry. I think I might give a thicker wire a try tomorrow as my meat hammers are not well suited for the thin stuff. I prefer low ohm anyways. I bought a ngp hybrid off the classifieds yesterday so I'm looking forward to giving a better quality rba a try. maybe I'll have better luck with that. if not then I still want to try ceramic and nextel as well. I do like the rba as rebuilding is way cheaper than buying a carto box every couple days and when it's working the taste is much much better.
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