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-use enough cotton
-don't stretch the cotton inside the coil
-don't use too much power, your cotton will smolder and crumble (I've seen people with essentially mostly air remaining inside their coil)
Last point may be hard with a slow coil like that.
-don't stretch the cotton inside the coil
-don't use too much power, your cotton will smolder and crumble (I've seen people with essentially mostly air remaining inside their coil)
Last point may be hard with a slow coil like that.
Just so-so. Not so tight i guess because when i pull the cotton, it feels quite smooth rather than hard to pull due to thick cotton
Btw, what is atty? hahaha. sorry i dont understand. im using Kylin Mini single coil Rta. I almost use a plier though same with the Norwegian guyWhat type of atty are you using? In an rda it's almost impossible to use too much cotton. There's a Norwegian guy wicking his cotton through the coil with pliers
Atty = short for atomizer.
In an RTA like the Kylin the liquid flow channels dictate how much cotton you need and that in turn will tell you what inner diameters are making sense for your coil.
In an RTA like the Kylin the liquid flow channels dictate how much cotton you need and that in turn will tell you what inner diameters are making sense for your coil.
I have an aromamizer plus and tend to use a lot of cotton in coil but this was not letting enough juice through wicking slots so i would get dry hits. Did some research and use same amount of cotton but now once i wick i thin out the ends a lot, raking with tweezers to remove cotton on ends. This lets more juice through to the coil without having too much on the coil, so it doesn't spit and pop too much. When my cotton is too loose too much juice sits on the coil and causes problems, and the coils heat more quickly, like when you burn off with no cotton.
Oddly enough, in 3 years of building, i have not burned my cotton once. Coils always gunk up first and i change cotton and burn them off.
Yeah, that's the "pro" version. I took it OP isn't very experienced and thus only gave the easier method.
Each additional step can make it harder for new builders to get it right consistently, they won't know where to begin to look for an error.
can you give me a tutorial on the liquid flow and also diameters of the coil
Measure the area of one "cotton bucket" at your liquid ports (doesn't need to be exact, just approximate, eg by (inner rectangle+outer rectangle/2)). The coil should have a similar cross-sectional inner area (pi*radius², again doesn't have to be exactly the same but shouldn't be significantly different either).
Then all you need to learn for each RTA is to put in an amount of cotton that doesn't block the liquid flow and doesn't lead to flooding. I use an amount that needs a bit of force to move in the coil, slightly tugging won't budge it.
That should be a good rule of thumb for a beginner to gauge what size the coil should be. If everything works you can start to experiment with changing things up (or not if you're satisfied
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Wicking is an art. Best way to learn more about methods to do it are YT videos. The visuals are a lot easier to grasp. You can usually find tutorials specific to the tank you have as well.
Agree. I’m new to RTAs/RDAs too. Have seen some good videos on installing coils, but will be looking for ones that focus on wicking. I’ll try to figure out how to link them here when I do.
Would if I could, grasshopper. Just came naturally I guess. I vape pretty hot too so it always surprised me my cotton never really burned up. I did a "juice challenge" once to help prove how clean a friends juice was and didn't change my cotton for a month. Cotton and coils were pretty gunky and blackish but the cotton was not burnt, it was just colored from burnt sugars coming off the coils. I was using a Velocity rda with dual 24gauge twisted coils at 120 watts. That was some good stuff.
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