Jeebus. Those are some purty coils you've built there.
Here's a few shots of my V9 with the stock wick setup that it came with
from fasttech.
It "works" but not very well. One set of coils heats up MUCH quicker than the other.
I'm about to do my first rebuild on it and am looking for any tips.
I've got some ekowool and some 2mm silica. I'm thinking I'll double (or triple?) up each
silica wick and do 2/3 wraps with .16mm (not sure of the guage but it's VERY thin) kanthal.
I've also got some 28 guage kanthal but that's probably not gonna fit in the post holes, heh.
Should I use the ewok fur (ekowool) instead of the silica? I was saving that for my next
genesis rebuild and I've got way less of that than I do 2mm silica. But if you guys tell me
it'll vape better, I'll use it.
Guide me!
almost forgot the pics.
I'm no expert at building coils, just a lot of professional experience bending small wire. There are a lot more experienced to listen to around here before listening to me.
I think it was the V9's stock FT wicks that were total crap with mine, one of them was parts of wicks. I didn't even try firing either the V9 or the IGO-L clone's stock coils.
You would probably do better wrapping the coils around something and then threading. The above were wrapped on a 16ga needle and used 2mm silica. It was an OK fit but I think next time I'll use an 18ga needle or try doubling my 1mm eko. To make a needle for threading I take a very small piece of masking tape and take one turn around the very end of the cord and twist the rest to a point.
If you want to double you can take a very small wire and fold it over the center of your cord. Twist the wire so it makes a needle.
With both needle types pull your cord(s) through to the far end and cut off the length you desire.
I torch the coil and wick at the same time. I had a problem with the wicks getting brittle and fuzzing with too much handling after torching and don't really want to spend the time (or dish washing) to boil.
If you must wrap on the wick put a needle in the bundle because there's a real potential to get it too tight and choke the flow.
I like ekowool better but there's no real reason. I'll be getting some thicker next time and eventually switch to it but I'll use up my silica.
If you are making duals make them as close as possible to the same ohms (measure at roughly the same point in the legs) before putting them in. Then test burn to make sure they are heating the same. Adjust them until they are before adding liquid.
I probably won't go with duals again. At least not with the ribbon and while I'm stuck above 1.2Ω, it takes a long time to heat up and I don't see much benefit over my IGO-L clone running as a single.
