Cthulhu RTA V2 (similar posts to the velocity rda)

[TheWestPole]

Nope. I use the whole thickness. I have found that different J-Cotton Pads (KGD, Muji, Puffs and such) have a different thickness, so I might adjust my width depending. I haven't gone all the way up to 40, 50, 60, 70 Watts with my method as I don't vape that high of a wattage, and sometimes I will fan out the tails or leave them straight, you know. On my Lemo's I fan them out and just lay them on the deck not blocking the juice holes, on my Cthulhu V2 I leave them straight and put the front half down in back of the wick ring cut to the bottom of the ring and the back half cut to just lay on the deck (like on my Lemo's), two different lengths of the same wick tail. I find that if I go any less than 5mm (like you) on a 3mm coil then I start tasting Hot Coil taste (not burnt taste), and if I go beyond 10mm in width I start getting Dry Hits (too much cotton clogging up the juice flow), so I have settled on 7-8mm in width for 3mm ID coils (that's with Double Twisted 30g Kanthal A-1 and Quad Twisted 32g Kanthal A-1) for the way I vape on my single coil deck, good for 13-25 watts (25 watts chain vaping 3 or 4 hits works good with wide open air flow as does 13-16 watts for tight MTL and really tight air flow). I'm gett'in there I think with my wicking.

I might have to try a bit more to see if it does anything for me.

 

[52anddone]

I might have to try a bit more to see if it does anything for me.

I keep forgetting to put in stuff in my post. I use KGD most of the time @ 7-8mm wide strips. I am always experimenting with my vape stuff and learning new things I see on these threads.

 

[52anddone]

I will be going back and re-reading ALL ya'll's posts on the Velocity deck once I master this Single coil deck. That should be a trip. Now I see that there might be a pre-order coming up for a tri-post deck for the Cthulhu V2. I'll have to think about that one, but would be nice to have the complete set I guess.

Oops, My Bad. A Triple Coil Deck, not a Tri-post deck. Interesting !!

 

[52anddone]

Looks like the New Triple Coil Deck goes up for pre-order this coming Wednesday @ Smogdistro.com. I just got the email notice.

 

[sahsah]

Kind of with you, for the first month or so was working extremely well and favorite tank, then something went south and nothing but problems. Started screwing with it over last week again and getting better. Fairly certain something is F'd up, not gaskets. When it seems to be working flavor is not up to pay with Goliath v2, Crown, Bellus, etc.

On topic looking forward to black Cthulhu, had some issues with v1 version bit Smog was great in resolving hardware problem. Keep forgetting to put in pre-order, maybe remember today.

Ya same, I was pretty impressed with the first coil head and rba build I put in her, but pretty much for the month or two since then it's just been utter disappointment and headaches...

 

[Vapin Dave]

Yeah, my cthulhu may be my favorite tank now. I still haven't got my aromamizer built right yet, and the air flow not aligning with the coils right is kind of annoying. But the cthulhu is putting out some top notch flavor.

 

[Vapin Dave]

Looks like the New Triple Coil Deck goes up for pre-order this coming Wednesday @ Smogdistro.com. I just got the email notice.

have a link? i hope there are pics!

 

[Vapin Dave]

I found a pic on their facebook

looks interesting!

 

[Jdurand]

Call me stupid, but am I seeing this right? You would trap all three positive leads on the center post and then trap each negative on the three outside screws? Kind of a tough build compared to the velocity deck isn't it?

 

[ojmalik]

Call me stupid, but am I seeing this right? You would trap all three positive leads on the center post and then trap each negative on the three outside screws? Kind of a tough build compared to the velocity deck isn't it?

Looking at their other tri coil iterations on their facebook page, it looks like one positive lead goes to the screws up top and negative leads are trapped under screws on the bottom side of the deck, not visible in that picture. This is underside of a previous design:

 

[Vapin Dave]

I'm flabbergasted. And I really wanted to use that word.

 

[ojmalik]

Looking at their other tri coil iterations on their facebook page, it looks like one positive lead goes to the screws up top and negative leads are trapped under screws on the bottom side of the deck, not visible in that picture. This is underside of a previous design:
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I'm also assuming the coils fit vertically into each of the large holes in the deck after being wrapped with wick. TFV4 triple coil style

 

[stormjib]

 

[TheWestPole]

Looking at their other tri coil iterations on their facebook page, it looks like one positive lead goes to the screws up top and negative leads are trapped under screws on the bottom side of the deck, not visible in that picture. This is underside of a previous design:
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Do you have a link for this? Can't find it.

 

[ojmalik]

Do you have a link for this? Can't find it.

Not the same as the render above, but the concept appears the same:

 

[TheWestPole]

Not the same as the render above, but the concept appears the same:

Okay, I see it better. Vertical coils surrounded by wicking material, air flow through the center. Thanks.

 

[sos2001]

I see coiling complications upcoming.....

 

[stormjib]

Cthulhu is not for the faint of heart.

 

[Vapin Dave]

Yeah, that looks like a beast in its self

 

[52anddone]

Yeah, that looks like a beast in its self

Yeah. It will be FUN seeing what you guys come up with for builds on that one. Should be Interesting for sure.