Yeah well i was trying to make myself a new coil for my mech and when i tested it the first time on my vamo it said 1.0ohms then i screwed it on my mech and nothing happened... I then screwed it back onto the vamo that now says 0.8 ohms the coil works but since my 2cents died i dont trust the coil enough to vape with it... The mod is a kts from fasttech and it looks as if it has a gold spring... But is it safe to vape on now?
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sounds like a short in your coil. Keep fudging around with it until you get the same reading every time. I wouldn't vape it, I'd just try making a new coil all together.
Make sure the coil isnt prematurely touching any posts or overlapping anywhere.
Make sure the coil isnt prematurely touching any posts or overlapping anywhere.
It sounds like you have a hot spot or a short somewhere, most likely in your coil. The fact that your mod fuse died means you had a hard short.
I wouldn't personally vape with a RBA on a mechanical mod without some sort of fuse protection with sub ohm coils. Then again, I wouldn't be making sub ohm coils to begin with. But you didn't ask my opinion about that.
The Two Cent fuse is a one shot deal - one short and it's done and can't be used again. Pay a few bucks more for a Vape Safe mod fuse which can be used repeatedly even after it trips. Batteries : Vape Safe Mod Fuse 2
If you vape without fuse protection on your mechanical mod, you essentially are depending upon the quality of your battery and your own judgement of not over-extending your battery's amperage limit with the resistance of your coil to prevent frying your mod or sending your battery into thermal runaway.
Do you know if the gold spring in your mod is "just a spring" or a collapsable hot spring? You probably don't know. Even if it is a hot spring, it doesn't collapse until a battery overheats and decides it would rather be a fire cracker. They are a weak attempt to slow down a venting battery and keep your mod from being a pipe bomb.
Does your mod have vent holes to allow a venting battery to release its hot gases? If not, you're holding a potential pipe bomb.
What batteries exactly are you using? Do you know their amperage capacity limit? If you don't know their amp limit, you shouldn't be doing sub ohm. Being "told" that a battery is safe does not put responsibility on that person, after all it's your face that your bringing the mod to, right? Not his.
Do you own and know how to use a digital multimeter? Home made coils have the potential to drastically change in resistance, which give you very little wiggle room to avoid a hard short if you are using sub ohm coils.
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Below are some links to resources of important information that you should know by heart:
Short circuit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...-ecf-metal-tubemods-safety-specification.html
Mechanical Mod Proper Usage Guide
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...4690-protected-batteries-vs-imr-safety-5.html
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...-battery-failure-imr-18650-a.html#post3265928
Trouble-shooting hot spots and shorts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdGUN0sgYCo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdGUN0sgYCo
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You don't want to end up like this guy...
I wouldn't personally vape with a RBA on a mechanical mod without some sort of fuse protection with sub ohm coils. Then again, I wouldn't be making sub ohm coils to begin with. But you didn't ask my opinion about that.
The Two Cent fuse is a one shot deal - one short and it's done and can't be used again. Pay a few bucks more for a Vape Safe mod fuse which can be used repeatedly even after it trips. Batteries : Vape Safe Mod Fuse 2
If you vape without fuse protection on your mechanical mod, you essentially are depending upon the quality of your battery and your own judgement of not over-extending your battery's amperage limit with the resistance of your coil to prevent frying your mod or sending your battery into thermal runaway.
Do you know if the gold spring in your mod is "just a spring" or a collapsable hot spring? You probably don't know. Even if it is a hot spring, it doesn't collapse until a battery overheats and decides it would rather be a fire cracker. They are a weak attempt to slow down a venting battery and keep your mod from being a pipe bomb.
Does your mod have vent holes to allow a venting battery to release its hot gases? If not, you're holding a potential pipe bomb.
What batteries exactly are you using? Do you know their amperage capacity limit? If you don't know their amp limit, you shouldn't be doing sub ohm. Being "told" that a battery is safe does not put responsibility on that person, after all it's your face that your bringing the mod to, right? Not his.
Do you own and know how to use a digital multimeter? Home made coils have the potential to drastically change in resistance, which give you very little wiggle room to avoid a hard short if you are using sub ohm coils.
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Below are some links to resources of important information that you should know by heart:
Short circuit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...-ecf-metal-tubemods-safety-specification.html
Mechanical Mod Proper Usage Guide
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...4690-protected-batteries-vs-imr-safety-5.html
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...-battery-failure-imr-18650-a.html#post3265928
Trouble-shooting hot spots and shorts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdGUN0sgYCo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdGUN0sgYCo
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You don't want to end up like this guy...
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The batteries are panasonic cgr18650ch and i have no idea what the amp limit is but i was told they were safe to 0.7ohm... But my intentions was 0.9-1.0... No i do not own a multimeter but ive been considering getting one...
And the mod got 3 1-2mm holes in the bottom
No idea if its a safety spring or just a spring all i know is that its golden
And the mod got 3 1-2mm holes in the bottom
No idea if its a safety spring or just a spring all i know is that its golden
Like the others said, be very careful running a rba that's shorting out on a mech mod. My Cobra arrived the other day and it's been giving me absolute hell to get going on my VV/VW devices. Shorts, hot spots, ohms jumping like crazy. It's the most expensive RBA I've ever bought and the biggest pain in the .... to set up for some reason too. I've had my mods getting really hot for the first time ever while constantly firing and trying to fix the shorts and hot spots and it took me a good 8 hours of effort combined within 2 days to get it working right. If it was on my mech mod, I'd be scared to think how things would have gone. I wouldn't have been surprised if the battery exploded or at best, leaked.
A) you have good batteries - never have an issue with my Panisonig CGR's
B) You Should absolutely get and learn to use a DVOM
C) Walk, then run Work with 1.2 - 1.6 coils until you are comfortable. They vape VERY well.
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