Can't work out what is wrong with my Mod :( :(

[franny95]

Post # 5 photo # 2 has too much cotton. Do not block the front and bottom of the coil with cotton, it restricts airflow. Just let the cotton only protrode from the sides of the coil (put enough cotton in so it sites on bottom of juice well to soak up the e-liquid). Wick both coils the same. Watch a few videos on YouTube on how it's done.

Looking at this build closer, one coil has 4 wraps and the other has 6 or 7. Make them both the same. I would also try to get the coils closer to the center posts, and even them up between the posts the same on each side.

both coils are actually exactly the same, theres just cotton wool covering the end of one in the picture which i now know is due to me stuffing FAR too much cotton wool in there. I will try and get them closer to the posts though

 

[franny95]

Keep playing with it, sometimes it takes a few buids to get it right but once you get there it gets easier with each attempt.

Are the coils starting to glow from the middle and working their way outward? How long after you push the button until they are glowing llike they are in the pic?

yeah they heat up in the middle first and they take about 0.6 seconds to heat up to that pic

 

[TaketheRedPill]

My first observation is it looks like a tampon exploded in a cheerio..

For the stillare I usually bring the coil up just a touch more, as we suck the air doesn't come into the chamber in a straight line but heads up towards the drip tip. So you have to let just a little slip under the coil as well as hit the face


The stillare has like no well so its easy to flood but the wick looks a bit undersaturated and just too much in general. Combine that with the airflow sliding over the coil and you get poor vapor


My elm is almost the same build style, it took a bit of poking to find the best heightView attachment 458662

and @DaveSignal and @franny95 and @roxynoodle

ok, one thing I see is, on Dave's build, the leg ends that wrap around the post are invisible (clipped very tight). On Thrasher's build the leg ends are a little longer but look bent up and free of the wick. On the OP's build it looks like the leg ends are pointed down towards the base/towards the wick. Could some slight arching be going on in the OP's build, or does it matter where the leg ends are?

 

[Thrasher]

Na don't matter. I'm lazy.an just bend em up

 

[LVThundercat]

To OP: girl, you need to get your nails did.

 

[roxynoodle]

OP probably should clip the extra lead closer or push them against the posts but only to ensure one doesn't touch another post and cause a short. But, they won't affect resistance. Sometimes I do a check before I even clip mine.

 

[DaveSignal]

I use wire clippers to get them close so it doesn't get caught on the cotton (easier wicking). Also, If you start putting more coils in, if one of those free legs touches a coil it could pop the coil and wreck the build... so I think its a good habit. And certainly it can't touch the deck or other posts.

Clip em off.

 

[k702]

both coils are actually exactly the same, theres just cotton wool covering the end of one in the picture which i now know is due to me stuffing FAR too much cotton wool in there. I will try and get them closer to the posts though

The pic you posted does look like a little bit much cotton.. but if you spread that cotton out so that there is an open space under the coil and raise the coil up off the deck far enough that the airflow on the mod hits it a little lower than the center of the coil it should vape just fine.


To me everything you said in the opening post says this is simply a wicking/airflow issue. that's it. your wraps look fine for a first time.


You can work on cleaning up the coils and making them look prettier with practice. Longer legs to lead to more chance for hot legs which is not a good thing.. but they don't seem to be lighting up in the picture of you firing it so..

 

[Cacique]

Try cutting the cotton wick after you put it in the coil so that it just touches the deck, and push the tails of the wick towards the walls of the deck to create an open are under the coil. This should give you much better airflow, letting you get bigger clouds. Taking long, strong drags straight into your lungs is also part of the technique for big clouds.

 

[Bunnykiller]

im gonna say too much wick.... its too tight in the coil, pinches off the juice flow.

 

[b14ckd34th]

heres another observation..your coils dont look very tight make sure you squeeze them together(try using ceramic tweezers). and make sure they are both positioned the same distance from the posts and sit the same height, ive experienced the ohm will change ever so slightly if the coils arent both the same, identical on both sides.

 

[b14ckd34th]

make sure the legs are not bent try to get them as straight as possible.

 

[Phassat]

Dave coil looks good... OP coil looks uneven for the number of wraps... Too much leg left, and it looks too far away from the post...

 

[edyle]

I have nemesis clone mod by AtmomiXani and a stillare clone atty. It houses a 18650 IMR High Drain 2500mAh 3.7 LI-MN battery. My coils are 0.25 Kanthal wire coming up at 0.6 Ohm's and organic cotton wool. I have made sure the firing pin in tights, spring on the firing button is fine and the battery doesn't rattle. The coils seem to heat up fine but there's just no clouds, only a small amount of vapour, the same if not less than my ****ty old E-Cig. The cotton wool is fully soaked in juice but it just tastes overly strong/burnt. It's my first build and i don't know if i'm missing something stupid but i've racked my brain and have come up with nothing. Could it be ****ty juice or a counterfeit battery or something?

usually the problem is airflow.

on the top coil there it looks to me like you might have wicking obstructing the airflow.