AGA-T+ Problem or Me?

[The M4n C4nn0n]

I've been rockin' a 1ohm micro coil for about the last three weeks and noticed I was getting some burnt flavor and decided to change my wick and coil. The nuts on the positive post are all burnt with gunk like the coil gets over time, the bottom nut is stuck completely. I managed to get the other two off some how. Somehow the wire was heating up between the nuts and cooking my liquid...

 

[pdib]

pro'ly just the heat of the micro. I've had that with some low res stuff. It's like the pos. post is the oven rack and the coil is the broiler.

 

[Road_House]

I just did my first ever coil and stainless wick that comes with the AGA-T2. It ended up around 2.5 ohm and after tweaking to get an even glow on all the wraps I notice the first half wrap and over to the center post glows bright orange and I can't seem to do anything to prevent that.

Is that normal? If not then maybe M4n and I have the same problem. Any suggestions out there?

 

[pdib]

That leg of wire is under too much tension. When you tighten your top nut, it sometimes pulls the wire over. Relieve that tension by tightening with a combination of top nut tightening and 2nd nut "back-tightening"; while keeping an eye on wire tension. A little too loose is better at first. Then you can ease up to just-right-tight.

 

[The M4n C4nn0n]

My wire was glowing in between the nuts, from the nuts to the wick was fine. I don't know what was going on with it. I guess I need to look for some long SS screw and nuts to fit.

 

[Road_House]

Thanks pdib, I wrapped my wire around the post clockwise so it probably did pull it too tight when I tightened the nut. I'll tweak it and see what happens.

If you overlap the wire under the nut could that cause the hot spot like M4n is experiencing?

 

[The M4n C4nn0n]

It's not overlapped at all. But I just tossed the AGA-T+ into my vape bin. I took the cap off and fired it, the whole post was burning juice, the silicon thing is all blackened. I think that one is going to be out of order. Good thing I still have this DuD.

 

[pdib]

Could that happen if the tail of your neg. lead (after the screw) was touching the pos. post?

 

[The M4n C4nn0n]

Nope. I've had this thing for about 6 months or longer. Swapped out the positive post from my dud and all is good again. I don't know why it started doing that...