I am so thrilled with the service I just got, I had to repost this response from a Blog I replied to earlier! Check out the great pics and review in the blog!
Nice man, I just got my AGA T from SteamMonkey as well, and I have to say that Lance went above and beyond in this kit.
First thing I checked when I opened mine today was the alignment of the cap... the common thing in the AGA's reviews seems to be often these top caps do not line up with the wick which turns a Great device for the price into a Must Modify to use... I was all ready to have to wait and grind/sand down the cap fit, delaying my setup until tonight... Alas NO NEED!!!! Lance knew this coming in and spent hours at home matching these things up one by one, I found out after! Not only that, but he is the ONLY vendor of the many I have looked at who upgraded the AGA T's package, not only giving you the small wire and wick that came with it but actually adding in his own supply of 400 and 500 mesh and 3 different wires! Man, he just made the first Rebuildable User's life so much easier! No need to buy sheets and yards of all the different options, he gives you a sampler of everything!
Way impressed by this guy and already had another person order from him and waiting for tomorrows delivery!
Onto your build Killnine, that coil looks awesome. I am not surprised the 28 gauge took that many wraps [9?], it's way lower resistance than a 32 which is more typically used. I had one phoenix esque RBA and I have rebuilt a couple Vivi Nova heads and the one I did with 28 came out under 1 ohm at I think a 5/6 wrap... On the other hand I think it may be nearly an indestructible coil! I can rock it on the itaste MVP at 3.3v and it rocks, and it can handle the full 5v setting and still doesn't scorch anything, only run dry quicker, though there may be an amp limitation coming in on that 5v. Either way after a week of use the 28 rinsed off and looks great!
I am glad you caught the idea of prewrapping the coil around another object, a 7/64'ths drill bit is almost a perfect fit for the hole in the AGA, but I recommend wrapping it before you attach it to the device, its easier to manage during the wrapping and you can spin the drill bit or whatever instead of the wrapping wire around the object dodging atomizer posts. That reduces minor kinks and changes the way the wire lays a bit. Think of it like a water hose being wrapped on a wall hanger vs one of those rollup carts, on the wall you constantly are adding twists to the remainder of the hose and kinks as it lays over, whereas the rollup ones do not.
A tip I caught in a video that I cannot re-find... after you get your coil wound, set the 'drill bit' into the hole and attach the negative, then tug the positive end to tighten it. I twist the bit with the coils to help get out any slack and make sure each round is even and tight. After attaching the positive, its time for the wick which should be as close to exact size of the inside of the coil, as you can get... I tighten the bottom end of the wick a bit extra to make it easy to feed in but the top needs to touch the whole coil side to side. Any gaps become hotspots potentially if your juice flow lags.
Finally to the actual specific tip I mentioned... once the wick is in and trimmed a bit above the coil, go back to the positive and negative leads and use a screwdriver or other flat tool and kink the wire inward just a bit. Basically you are trying to wrap just a bit more of the wire to the curve of the coil so that it looks kind of like the leg off of a capital letter Q where it curves along with the wick all the way until it makes a sharp turn to go towards the contact post, instead of gently curving off of the outer side to the post. The kink keeps the coil tighter to the wick and causes the heat transfer to focus after the kink onto the coil instead of the tight straight leg. That hot spot that many vapers get, going from the top coil to the positive post, is eliminated with this method.
Sorry for such an extended response in a blog, I will probably repost this as a review in the rebuildables section for SteamMonkey, he deserves the credit for such a package! I just had to type on the first relevant posting I saw tonight, this AGA T is making me so giddy!
Hey did I mention not only did Lance up the package, but he still is only charging 23$ for one of these!!!
Aga-T Rebuildable Atomizer Kit
Nice man, I just got my AGA T from SteamMonkey as well, and I have to say that Lance went above and beyond in this kit.
First thing I checked when I opened mine today was the alignment of the cap... the common thing in the AGA's reviews seems to be often these top caps do not line up with the wick which turns a Great device for the price into a Must Modify to use... I was all ready to have to wait and grind/sand down the cap fit, delaying my setup until tonight... Alas NO NEED!!!! Lance knew this coming in and spent hours at home matching these things up one by one, I found out after! Not only that, but he is the ONLY vendor of the many I have looked at who upgraded the AGA T's package, not only giving you the small wire and wick that came with it but actually adding in his own supply of 400 and 500 mesh and 3 different wires! Man, he just made the first Rebuildable User's life so much easier! No need to buy sheets and yards of all the different options, he gives you a sampler of everything!
Way impressed by this guy and already had another person order from him and waiting for tomorrows delivery!
Onto your build Killnine, that coil looks awesome. I am not surprised the 28 gauge took that many wraps [9?], it's way lower resistance than a 32 which is more typically used. I had one phoenix esque RBA and I have rebuilt a couple Vivi Nova heads and the one I did with 28 came out under 1 ohm at I think a 5/6 wrap... On the other hand I think it may be nearly an indestructible coil! I can rock it on the itaste MVP at 3.3v and it rocks, and it can handle the full 5v setting and still doesn't scorch anything, only run dry quicker, though there may be an amp limitation coming in on that 5v. Either way after a week of use the 28 rinsed off and looks great!
I am glad you caught the idea of prewrapping the coil around another object, a 7/64'ths drill bit is almost a perfect fit for the hole in the AGA, but I recommend wrapping it before you attach it to the device, its easier to manage during the wrapping and you can spin the drill bit or whatever instead of the wrapping wire around the object dodging atomizer posts. That reduces minor kinks and changes the way the wire lays a bit. Think of it like a water hose being wrapped on a wall hanger vs one of those rollup carts, on the wall you constantly are adding twists to the remainder of the hose and kinks as it lays over, whereas the rollup ones do not.
A tip I caught in a video that I cannot re-find... after you get your coil wound, set the 'drill bit' into the hole and attach the negative, then tug the positive end to tighten it. I twist the bit with the coils to help get out any slack and make sure each round is even and tight. After attaching the positive, its time for the wick which should be as close to exact size of the inside of the coil, as you can get... I tighten the bottom end of the wick a bit extra to make it easy to feed in but the top needs to touch the whole coil side to side. Any gaps become hotspots potentially if your juice flow lags.
Finally to the actual specific tip I mentioned... once the wick is in and trimmed a bit above the coil, go back to the positive and negative leads and use a screwdriver or other flat tool and kink the wire inward just a bit. Basically you are trying to wrap just a bit more of the wire to the curve of the coil so that it looks kind of like the leg off of a capital letter Q where it curves along with the wick all the way until it makes a sharp turn to go towards the contact post, instead of gently curving off of the outer side to the post. The kink keeps the coil tighter to the wick and causes the heat transfer to focus after the kink onto the coil instead of the tight straight leg. That hot spot that many vapers get, going from the top coil to the positive post, is eliminated with this method.
Sorry for such an extended response in a blog, I will probably repost this as a review in the rebuildables section for SteamMonkey, he deserves the credit for such a package! I just had to type on the first relevant posting I saw tonight, this AGA T is making me so giddy!
Hey did I mention not only did Lance up the package, but he still is only charging 23$ for one of these!!!
Aga-T Rebuildable Atomizer Kit
