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I'm glad they didn’t go the mtl route or I never would have tried it. I'm having good luck with the alien coil and short wicks. Coil is sitting low, just for curiosity I'll raise it next wick.
No doubt the one promoted by the collaborator of the Intake
Hmm, doesn't sound good. Is it a big deal?
Princess Auto sells multi pack T tape pretty cheap. Should I go stock up.
IMO no you don't need the tape. While I have my doubts about raising the coil I will give it a go out of curiosity. The air comes up directly under the coil so there is really no need to mess with the air stacks. Again just my opinion.
Does Mike pimp the Famili FM 8000 too? I dunno, Amazon doubled the price of the stainless steel splendor one I actually wanted so I just grabbed the cheapest one that didn't look like complete junk. Works really well on watch bands (and getting the China elbow grease out of hard to reach places).
I think I effectively proved to myself at least that seam leaks weren't the issue. Plug the pipes with some rubber foam and find out for yourself though? I'd say a mouse farts less, which wasn't what I was expecting.
Me too, with the doubts. No one who's review I ran across has had good things to say about a high coil, so it kinda surprised me that it went better instead of worse... could be a residual heat thing, or less places to collide with stuff, or just the fact I put it higher made me do something different with the wicking. I mean, usually muted flavor to me means I dun wicked it bad.
Don't know. 2 years ago it was the coilmaster. Now I mute the volume for him and most other reviewers.
I'm following along for comparisons to the 25 for flavor and airflow.
Figured I'd give it a go, washed the tank in an ultrasonic (just in case) and tossed in a 24G 316L 2.5mm with around 8 wraps... got the exact same flavor as I had from the triple core clapton. Like an Engine Nano with the coil severely out of place (airy/watery/weak). I even tried flooding it by closing the air and pulling until lots of bubbles had passed into the tank... it spit a lot and gurgled a little but changed nothing. The coil gunked much much faster than it should have, too.
So, I did a series of (amateur) experiments... started with thinking "where could air be coming from and bypass the coil". So I got out my o-rings, wasted a bunch of time finding out I don't have ones small enough to fit between the pipes and the chamber walls... and settled on trying plumbers tape and making this mess (edit: yes, that rayon is much thinner than it looks here)
Well clearly those pipes aren't sealed that well as some tape didn't get pushed down by them, and perhaps even the edges of that plate as it has some side to side travel and apparently nothing is physically holding it up to the seam behind it. I vaped it and got denser clouds than without it, but not much of a difference in flavor. I carried on and plugged the pipes to see just how bad it really is and it's nowhere near enough leakage to ruin the vape. Good to know!
I had tried leads straight out from the post at first, then lowered as close to the air at the bottom as is sane and that didn't make much of a difference. Since I did the tape stuff and took pics so I can easily ballpark where the top ends up, I figured try high. Just now pulled the 2.5mm 26G coil up as high as I could (so about 1/4 or so of it is above the screws, maybe 1mm clearance to the top of the chamber) and rewicked it yet again with rayon. Wasn't expecting much, but I'm getting a lot more flavor, it's a much warmer/wetter vape too. Next up, going to try a clapton built for the chimney and placed high. Tomorrow is another day, my thanks to those who took the time to read this wall o' vent.
Those are some smart and useful tests. I’m going to try higher placement. Thanks
Oh yeah, up is definitely the sweet spot on this one for me. I'm having a hard time putting this down long enough for it to cool so I can calibrate temp control. Put a 3.5mm of the wire I started with (28x3+38 316L) up about 1mm below the chimney/top plate and it really shines, nice saturated moist and outright tasty vape... even puts my drippers and reload clone to shame. Might have to put the bubble glass back on it though... it's really chugging through the juice at 53W.
@Wayneo if I force my ammit 25 to stop at about 1/3 open, that is about the same amount of air I get out of this wide open (both with the same 3.5mm coils in them.) I haven't tried many flavors yet, but if it keeps this up my Ammit 25 is definitely superceded. I always liked the 25 at half, but that made it messier sooner for me so I've been using it wide open for months. I saw that coilmaster one when I was looking... mine is kinda bottom of the barrel but that one makes it look good.
@Wayneo if I force my ammit 25 to stop at about 1/3 open, that is about the same amount of air I get out of this wide open (both with the same 3.5mm coils in them.) I haven't tried many flavors yet, but if it keeps this up my Ammit 25 is definitely superceded. I always liked the 25 at half, but that made it messier sooner for me so I've been using it wide open for months. I saw that coilmaster one when I was looking... mine is kinda bottom of the barrel but that one makes it look good.
I'll have to try this set up. See if your just blow'n smoke (vapor) LOL. No, seriously I've got some time today to do a rebuild and LOTS of Alien wire as well as some other pre-wound coils that just may fit the bill. So much wire, so little time.
Are you thinning your tails? Or just laying the majority on the deck? That would be a lot of wick to put in the channel opening if you fill a 3.5mm snug (almost tight) through the coil, which is how I like to wick usually.
Yeah, mine is pretty low also. I wind the coil so the legs are on the bottom and the coil is laying above the clamps. So it does have some nice airflow space below and around it.
In that regard, that's why I love the Zeus much better. In the single coil, air is taken down by the grills that go into the upper chamber. I don't like those tubes, eventually they'll come down. I prefer side airflow as in the Zeus or Crius.Figured I'd give it a go, washed the tank in an ultrasonic (just in case) and tossed in a 24G 316L 2.5mm with around 8 wraps... got the exact same flavor as I had from the triple core clapton. Like an Engine Nano with the coil severely out of place (airy/watery/weak). I even tried flooding it by closing the air and pulling until lots of bubbles had passed into the tank... it spit a lot and gurgled a little but changed nothing. The coil gunked much much faster than it should have, too.
So, I did a series of (amateur) experiments... started with thinking "where could air be coming from and bypass the coil". So I got out my o-rings, wasted a bunch of time finding out I don't have ones small enough to fit between the pipes and the chamber walls... and settled on trying plumbers tape and making this mess (edit: yes, that rayon is much thinner than it looks here)
Well clearly those pipes aren't sealed that well as some tape didn't get pushed down by them, and perhaps even the edges of that plate as it has some side to side travel and apparently nothing is physically holding it up to the seam behind it. I vaped it and got denser clouds than without it, but not much of a difference in flavor. I carried on and plugged the pipes to see just how bad it really is and it's nowhere near enough leakage to ruin the vape. Good to know!
I had tried leads straight out from the post at first, then lowered as close to the air at the bottom as is sane and that didn't make much of a difference. Since I did the tape stuff and took pics so I can easily ballpark where the top ends up, I figured try high. Just now pulled the 2.5mm 26G coil up as high as I could (so about 1/4 or so of it is above the screws, maybe 1mm clearance to the top of the chamber) and rewicked it yet again with rayon. Wasn't expecting much, but I'm getting a lot more flavor, it's a much warmer/wetter vape too. Next up, going to try a clapton built for the chimney and placed high. Tomorrow is another day, my thanks to those who took the time to read this wall o' vent.
@Heartsdelight my gunmetal one came with a blackish/pearl topped chuff tip too. Much better matching than the blue one I thought came with these.
@Susaz I'm not sure I'm getting what you mean by "come down"? The only side airflow I've had experience with are the Engines and various RDAs and in my experience bottom air is where the flavor is best.
@Susaz I'm not sure I'm getting what you mean by "come down"? The only side airflow I've had experience with are the Engines and various RDAs and in my experience bottom air is where the flavor is best.
I went with Rayon which pretty much means cutting instead of thinning, really should try cotton with the higher coil though too... I've always had better flavor on a GTA style hole with cotton. Worked it like this. I had tried lowering that 2.5mm coil by 1mm increments twice, and the flavor lessened each time. Probably not for everyone as it does increase the vape temp a lot especially with the bigger coil, but I'm enjoying it with everything I've tossed in and I'm glad to be rid of that weird dryness I was getting with the coil lower.
I think the first batches had the blue tips. I’m not sure though cos like u said everyone was reporting getting the blue tip. Thank goodness it’s apparently changed now.
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