Baby beast rba

[Robert Hearne]

Okay...all I know is it's 26gauge clapton with 32 gauge kanthal..

 

[Izan]

Hello and welcome to the community. I never could twist 28g, can barely twist 26g, so settled on 24g. I found it was easier to twist a contact coil with thinner wire. I actually prefer spaced in rta and contact in rda. Not much help I know.

Twisting wire is super easy.




cheers
I

 

[Izan]

Okay...all I know is it's 26gauge clapton with 32 gauge kanthal..

Hi mate,
Where did you get the wire and how much wire do you have?
If it has a Kanthal wrap, chances are good the core is also Kanthal.



Cheers
I

 

[NealBJr]

Okay...all I know is it's 26gauge clapton with 32 gauge kanthal..

Ok, I build with 28/26 gauge claptons depending on my mood at the time. 28 gague is not that difficult, just dont force too much cotton in to where it deforms. 24 gauge and lower is pretty tough, but I still wouldn't stuff too much cotton through the coils.. more cotton = less room for the juice, so, less cotton = more wicking.

Now, as far as your original post, my first yellow flag is the 3.0mm post that you are wrapping your coils around. The coil cannot touch the posts, deck, or the sides of the chamber. That is the most common mistake, especially when building around a large post. I think the Baby beast can take that large of a coil, but it will be a tight fit... especially if it's a clapton., which take up more RBA room due to it being three wires thick on each end.

Something to not that might explain your intermittent problems, is as kanthal heats up, it actually expands just a bit. That could cause intermittent touching of the posts/sidewalls.

To test, Just put the deck on your mod, remove the cotton and dry fire it until it glows. pulse it quick to see if one area is hotter than the other. IF pulsing works, pulse it longer until it glows. It should glow from the inside out, and not glow anywhere else first. If it does glow somewhere else, then it's probably shorting against the RBA deck itself. If you want to test to see if it's touching the side walls, then keep the cotton off, put on the deck walls, and try reading the ohms to see if it's changed. Pulse it and repeat the above process to see if anything changes with the side wall.

Hope this helps.

 

[Letitia]

Thanks for video, when I say twist I mean building coil. 1st vaper's I hung out with used that term. I keep forgetting here I need to change my normal terminology.

 

[Izan]

Thanks for video, when I say twist I mean building coil. 1st vaper's I hung out with used that term. I keep forgetting here I need to change my normal terminology.

Got ya...
I twist wire and wrap coils.

And I drink Soda, not POP...

Cheers
I

 

[Robert Hearne]

Hi mate,
Where did you get the wire and how much wire do you have?
If it has a Kanthal wrap, chances are good the core is also Kanthal.



Cheers
I

Gothic vapor..15 ft...

 

[Robert Hearne]

Ok, I build with 28/26 gauge claptons depending on my mood at the time. 28 gague is not that difficult, just dont force too much cotton in to where it deforms. 24 gauge and lower is pretty tough, but I still wouldn't stuff too much cotton through the coils.. more cotton = less room for the juice, so, less cotton = more wicking.

Now, as far as your original post, my first yellow flag is the 3.0mm post that you are wrapping your coils around. The coil cannot touch the posts, deck, or the sides of the chamber. That is the most common mistake, especially when building around a large post. I think the Baby beast can take that large of a coil, but it will be a tight fit... especially if it's a clapton., which take up more RBA room due to it being three wires thick on each end.

Something to not that might explain your intermittent problems, is as kanthal heats up, it actually expands just a bit. That could cause intermittent touching of the posts/sidewalls.

To test, Just put the deck on your mod, remove the cotton and dry fire it until it glows. pulse it quick to see if one area is hotter than the other. IF pulsing works, pulse it longer until it glows. It should glow from the inside out, and not glow anywhere else first. If it does glow somewhere else, then it's probably shorting against the RBA deck itself. If you want to test to see if it's touching the side walls, then keep the cotton off, put on the deck walls, and try reading the ohms to see if it's changed. Pulse it and repeat the above process to see if anything changes with the side wall.

Hope this helps.

So maybe do 2mm?

 

[Coastal Cowboy]

Got ya...
I twist wire and wrap coils.

And I drink Soda, not POP...

Cheers
I

We call'em Cokes. Grape Cokes. Lemon-Lime Cokes. Orange Cokes. Diet Cokes and Coke Cokes.

 

[Letitia]

@Izan I to drink soda. When we moved to southern Illinois I had ask what pop was. Not as bad as the 1st time I heard the word sodi. Evolving language. Wrap it is.

 

[NealBJr]

So maybe do 2mm?

2mm is kind of small for me, but good on others. It's kind of like a catch 22. The diameter also measures how much juice gets to the coils. I like a 2.5mm.

But as I said, others have used a 3mm. Just make sure there's clearance between the coil and the sides of the cap, deck, and posts.

One last note, is also make sure the leads that come out on the other side of the posts aren't touching anything. Try to clip those as close to the posts as possible.

 

[Izan]

Gothic vapor..15 ft...

 

[Robert Hearne]

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That's it

 

[BrotherBob]

I'm lost here...I just purchased a smok al85 with the rba deck ..I know with dual coils if I want a .8 ohm I have to build 2 1.6 ohm coils...whatever I do my ohms jump around bad and I get either a low ohms,high ohms or an error message...i used 28 gauge wire with 7 wraps on a 3mm bit...any help please...so frustrating...thank you...and thanks for having me

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[Eskie]

Best way to work is with the proper calculator. SE does it under Steam Engine

Wire wizard | Steam Engine | free vaping calculators

 

[Robert Hearne]

If the clapton wire is pre wrapped how do you put it in the wizard

 

[Robert Hearne]

If the clapton wire is pre wrapped how do you put it in the wizard

 

[Eskie]

If the clapton wire is pre wrapped how do you put it in the wizard

Not sure what you mean. Like you buy a Clapton 26G/32G 3mm ID 7 wrap? Just enter all the numbers into that wizard it will tell you the expected resistance on the lower left (along with other useful stuff).

 

[MisKate]

I just ordered the RBA coil for the Baby Beast. Happened across this video on YouTube.

It is titled "SMOK BABY AND BIG BABY BEAST RBA FIX....MUST WATCH" So, even though I don't even have mine yet, I watched the video. Your jumping ohms reading is common, and it's from loose center pin.

 

[Robert Hearne]

I just ordered the RBA coil for the Baby Beast. Happened across this video on YouTube.

It is titled "SMOK BABY AND BIG BABY BEAST RBA FIX....MUST WATCH" So, even though I don't even have mine yet, I watched the video. Your jumping ohms reading is common, and it's from loose center pin.

I saw that today too..very helpful..thank you