So I want to give a big public thanks to Coldpunk, who spent hours chatting with me last night, and helping me brainstorm solutions to my problem (page 199, post #1983). We talked on Facebook, for a few hours, and he was guiding me through different setups, and displaying incredible patience as I ruined coil after coil after coil. There was no need for him to invest so much effort into helping me with my problem, but he did anyway. I appreciate it greatly, because I was feeling really lost and frustrated with my new $200+ build.
After ripping through almost half a spool of NI200, I/we made a few discoveries:
- 32g wire is certainly not the way to go. It is way too thin and soft, and is especially difficult when dealing with post holes. Unfortunately, it's currently all I have to work with.
- I appears as though I may in fact have been plagued by a loose connections at some point, if not the entire time, while experiencing my issues. After paying closer attention, and building at a more meticulous pace, I was finding that my margin for error with my postitive post was considerably thinner than that of my negative post. I could tighten down the negative all the way without it cutting my wire, and it would be perfectly secure. With the center post, I found that it would not secure easier at all, which obviously led to me tightening further, and then it would cut my wire. I wasn't until we made a double leg with 2-strand twist that I was able to finally get my coil secure to the center post without breaking. I am no longer seeing my resistance drop after waking my device from sleep. So that particular issue seems to have been resolved.
- Now comes the issue of vape quality. I think I may have been expecting a little too much from TP. I seemed to enjoy the vape much better when I was tricking the chip into thinking my coil numbers were different than they actually are. I don't know how I am going to achieve those results when running with a pure reading, because I have tried adjusting my settings up, but TP just constantly takes over. For example: right now I am running a .16ohm, 32gtwisted 2-strand, single coil, at 19watts, 440dgs. I would put the quality of this vape somewhere in the middle of the road. Vapor production is just ok, flavor is average, throat hit is below average, and I'm not getting the cracking and popping I was getting after pulling my battery. All in all, I just can't get it back to that point, regardless of how I adjust my settings. Unless I'm still doing something wrong, this is fairly discouraging.
- I experienced something completely new on the way to work today. I had my VaporShark charging on my car cigarette lighter (oh, the irony), and I noticed the it was getting very warm. It was not near the heat, nor was I holding it, and it didn't cool off after i let it set for a while. However, I took the battery cover off, and the battery did not really feel overly-warm. I guess I'll have to keep a closer eye on this - I'll see how it behaves when I charge it on something else. Just figured i'd share that for the hell of it.
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at the set wattage (22W) and temp (420 F).
