Sure... But..... I Figured you'd go for the sausage, Pepperoni, and anchovies...
Ummm Aren't Ocelots Carnivores???
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Sure... But..... I Figured you'd go for the sausage, Pepperoni, and anchovies...
Ummm Aren't Ocelots Carnivores???
I used to think so. But then I took a hard look at the amount of time I was spending cleaning and dry burning the heads to extend their useful life.
So I bummed some wire and wick from a friend and practiced on a couple of heads. Be durned, it takes about as much time to recoil one as it does to properly clean and dry burn.
It's not hard to learn. There are a number of videos out there & people here are so knowledgable with wrapping coils that you'll have plenty of information for doing it right. With a little practice you will be able to rock them out with ease. Also, considering the juice you prefer it will be a lot easier for you to keep a cotton wicked coil working for a longer period of time. And I agree about the microcoils. That technique has made wrapping coils much easier for me.
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Interesting article, I would have never suspected...
Me, I'm a bunny person!
Meet Molly:
Okay, you're right! Molly has no desire to wrap coils either... She's perfectly happy with my old Njoy Pen style and cartos!
But she has tiny lungs, so I guess that makes sense!
Not really crying, just resistant to change. I know what I'm missing out on that's the problem. A guy at our B&M let me try a drag off his RSST and I couldn't believe the taste. Just personal preference, can't stand anything more than 50% PG.
I was terrified of the thought of making my own coils. I was the only guy in high school electronics whose radio didn't work. I got a Rio Mini 2.1 this week, and then decided to get a Reomizer 2, at the gentle urgings of several Reonauts.
I built my first coil yesterday, using 30 gauge Kanthal, it was too high, my second one came in at 1.1 ohms, and was excellent, up until I tried adjusting it and messed it up today. Tonight I made two coils, the first was higher than I wanted, but the second was 1.4 ohms, which is where I like it.
It's not easy for me yet, I don't have the most steady hands, and I've never been good with tiny screws and such, but I'm comfortable building coils, and I'm getting a really great vape from them.
You know, I've got a REO mini sitting around here somewhere, maybe that would be the simplest to start with.
Wow, thank you all for your input, I'm emboldened a little bit more than before. It's not the cost at all, I have a whole spool of 30 ga kanthal, a whole bag of organic cotton and some 400 mesh just sitting here. I was more worried about ruining a mod. My Tesla attempted to fire the coil even though it was way sub-ohm instead of just giving an error code. It acted weird for 2 days. Not worried as much about the batteries since I use AW IMR's.
The thing with the VG juice is this: It's like GM making an accessory for all their cars, that will work in none of them. I actually think that's their policy come to think of it.
Just personal preference, can't stand anything more than 50% PG.
You know, I've got a REO mini sitting around here somewhere, maybe that would be the simplest to start with.
Wow, thank you all for your input, I'm emboldened a little bit more than before. It's not the cost at all, I have a whole spool of 30 ga kanthal, a whole bag of organic cotton and some 400 mesh just sitting here. I was more worried about ruining a mod. My Tesla attempted to fire the coil even though it was way sub-ohm instead of just giving an error code. It acted weird for 2 days. Not worried as much about the batteries since I use AW IMR's.
The thing with the VG juice is this: It's like GM making an accessory for all their cars, that will work in none of them. I actually think that's their policy come to think of it.
Get yourself a multimeter!
Get yourself a multimeter!
Testing ohms on one of my several Vamos, at least until my cartometer arrives.
There are other vendors that sell pre-made coils who are local if you don't want to wait for Chinese and willing to pay more.
ok on one of the first posts someone mentioned a jig for coil making and thought they knew where to buy it I know there has been some made out of wood blocks but I'm talking about the ones made on aluminum blocks or something like that any ideas?
Why would you need a jig? It's a piece of wire wrapped around a wick. If you can wrap a string around your finger, you can wrap coils.
I'm with the OP . .except I did learn to wrap coils and now I don't wanna learn to wrap them *well*. Wrapping coils is so annoying. I spend anywhere from 5-15 minutes wrapping a tiny piece of wire around a tiny wick and then installing it into a tiny little spot . .all while trying to make sure everything touches what it should .. and nothing that it shouldn't. Then I fire it and I get hot-spots from poor wick contact, burning rubber grommets, the occassional short, etc . .and I have to start all over. I went back to buying attys and replacement heads. Worth it to me vs the time/frustration of DIY coils.
I use a paper clip. Lay the wick along the paperclip and then wrap a bit tighter (not much, just a bit) around your wick material. Once you have things where you like it, insert the coil into the head, put in the plugs and then remove the paperclip. Adjust if necessary. Voila! Perfect coils, every time.
I made one out of some spare 1/2" aluminum square stock from the garage. It took me 5 minutes. Put the wire in at the top, tighten the set screw, and wrap. I've got extra holes for different diameter coils.
The only time I really use it is when I'm wrapping micro coils with 26 gauge wire, as it's really stiff and hard to hold while you wrap around such a small bit.
Testing ohms on one of my several Vamos, at least until my cartometer arrives.
Agreed!
I frequently will test on my MVP v2, SVD, SID, or even a robust, because all of those read dead on the same as my multimeter!
I would however, caution everyone against doing this with an eVic... They're simply flaky. I own 4 of them (2 v1 no screw controller heads and 2 v2 2 screw "improved" controller heads) and they always read as much as 2 ohms higher or lower than my meter, and they're inconsistent on which way they're going to read, and by how much... Even with the same eVic, much less between the 4 with the same coil...
Once the coil has broken in, and the eVic has been powered off and on several times, or the batteries changed, or the coil removed and put back on several times, it seems to settle in and might eventually find the correct resistance and hold it there... But it's not a good device for testing resistance!
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