Ego-t new revision atty

[Rimau]

Hi all,

Picked up an atty from Nhaler that said "latest revision...stainless steel wick". Impressed so far. basically it eliminates any fooling around with the wick, like adjustments and replacement. I have only put about 8 tanks through it, but it has been perfect from the get go. To be fair, all of my previous attys started off great, after a wick adjustment first, so only time will tell.

I just blew out the primer and put in a tank, no adjustments. I didn't want to do anything other than plug and play in order to evaluate it as a comparison to previous revisions. I picked up a few tanks that are more designed to fit this revision, but in reality they are the same tank but with the soft cap instead of the plastic. I used an old tank but replaced it with a soft cap (I had bought a pack of soft caps from myvaporstore). So far I have been trying to do things like taking light draws to see if it burns, and hard long draws to see if it floods or leaks. So far so good, no harshness except after the first few initial draws, and no flooding or leaking either.

I have been fooling around with a CE-2 XL 5th revision that has been outstanding and hold around 1.8 ml. It seems that I run through a tank much faster with this new atty than I remember, and I keep checking to see if it is leaking or something, but I think it is more a false perception due to the larger capacity XL I have been using that lasts for hours. If they could come out with this new revision atty in a mega, I'll be first in line.

Haven't seen this new revision anywhere else, and I haven't seen anything about it on the forums, so I thought I would do a quick "first impressions" review.

Just in case you are wondering I forgot to mention that I am using 50/50 juice.

Saludos

 

[billo]

Maybe you can edit and say exactly which ATTY you bought. Tank ? A tank ? B Tank ? Nhaler model number ?

Thanks for noting 50/50 juice since composition of juice seems so important with tanks.

 

[Tom10]

Another question: is it a genuine Joye or a knock-off clone type?

I just came from Nhaler and saw nothing resembling this. Could you give us a link to what you bought please?

 

[count dragula]

I looked on the nhaler site, and the only thing I saw that talked about a new model with a "steel wick" was the eGo/Riva tank atty. Another site's description of the Riva tank also talks about the "steel wick" that punctures the tank.

I think they're talking about the wick spike being steel, not the wick itself.

 

[kpms0n]

$9 per atty? cheaper than what i've seen the ego-t attys being sold for. now im curious about the "revision" since I did like the ego-t but hated the leaking, adjusting, and longevity.

 

[Katya]

I think they're talking about the wick spike being steel, not the wick itself.

But the spike has always been steel, AFAIK.

Fidel, could we see a link?

 

[vsinner]

is this the one? eGo / Riva Tank

 

[kellie]

I use to love the the ego tanks till I tried the dual coil cartos. How is the flavor with these

 

[Rimau]

vsinner -- yep, that's the one. The plate and spike are the same as the regular smaller type A ones. They look original but just because they have ego-t printed on it means nothing I guess, it may not be joye, just someone else's revision. If you remove the plate, you see that the only difference between that and the original A atty is that there is no wicking material, per say, it is just wire mesh. After some more trial and error, it looks like it feeds right down to the cup walls to feed the coil, but it has a tendency (on one anyway) to saturate the cup and needs to be blown out occasionally (after a couple of tanks). Other than that, it has been working fine, when it needs a cleaning we'll see if the wick cleans out too.

So far not any leaking at all.

It seems that the flavor is better that the "wicked" ones. Cleaner flavor and a bit stronger.

Here is the location: EGO/RIVA-TANK

Hope that helps.

 

[Rimau]

I just wanted to also note that on one of them you need to hit it a bit harder to make the flow increase or you get a semi-burned hit. On the original attys, if you hit it too hard you ended up flooding it and increased the possibility of leaking.

It could be that if the mesh begins to foul, then the wicking decreases, hence the need for a harder draw.

 

[Katya]

These are not Joye though, are they?

 

[Rimau]

I asked the vendor, but I haven't gotten a reply yet. I'll let you know when/if they get back to me.

Interesting note: they make a little noise when you draw on them. Not much, but the original ones didn't make any noise, except for a gurgling now and then. If i starts to taste like it is going to burn on the next hit, I take a starter draw before hitting the button and it gets back to normal.

 

[Rimau]

Update: one of the attys started to flood but I was getting dry hits, so I adjusted the wick (pushed it down further into the spike) like I do all my other attys and it fixed the problem.

Still making that wheezing sound. I think it has to do with the rubber cap, it is a bit bigger than the plastic cap and air being drawn past it wheezes.

 

[count dragula]

I've been thinking of making a steel mesh wick for my atty, but I'm a little worried that the steel would conduct heat better than the silica, and the extra heat transferred from the coil might cook the tank cap around the spike, making the hole too large.

Are the "rubber" caps maybe a high temp material?

 

[Rimau]

I haven't had any problems with the cap overheating. I did start having a bit of a problem with one atty and pulled the plate/spike out. The mesh was made into the cup! Obviously I ripped off the sides where it connected to the sides of the cup. I took some of the mesh, made a cap with it around and old piece of wick I had from a CE-2 cart, and man, it's giving me the best hits I have ever had with the tank. the flavor is better, hits great, plenty of vapor, and no leaking, flooding, or dry burns yet. I think I found a winner.

I remember someone posting that an online store sells a "repair" kit that looks primarily like a coil kit, but comes with wicks, and possibly some mesh. I would love to get some more mesh and if there is a $7 kit with mesh and wicks, it would be incredible.

I have looked for the web page again, but can't find it. I will have to start going back through the forum for it. Someone posted that the kit came with some great wicks, "better than the rope" that we buy for wick mods, and that they used some of the wire mesh to make a cap. It was implied that the kit came with mesh, but when I looked at the description on the website, it wasn't mentioned. This mesh is really delicate and other than having a good piece of it from this new revision atty that I dismembered, I have never seen it anywhere.

Any ideas anyone on where to get it in larger pieces?

 

[count dragula]

This mesh is really delicate and other than having a good piece of it from this new revision atty that I dismembered, I have never seen it anywhere.
Any ideas anyone on where to get it in larger pieces?

I think this is the page for the wicks and nichrome wires:
ATo-Miser Xtra Wicks and Wires
Or, at least, one of them.

It doesn't look like there's any mesh in that kit (unless you use the coil wire for wrapping).

Another suggested source for wicking is to burn the flammable part off a Zippo lighter wick.
I was toying with the notion of using a bundle of bare core 62u optical fiber, but that stuff is pretty brittle and I wouldn't want to inhale anything that broke off from it.

For my eGo-T atty where the factory wick fell apart, I just pulled a doubled over CE2 wick through the spike, without any wrapping. (The wrap part was tiny, and I've got big fingers. )
I think I might have left too much wick below the spike, but it vapes, and doesn't seem to flood the atty.


For wrapping mesh, you might try the wire mesh suggested for making an all steel wick:
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/atomizer-mods/183131-atomizer-wicks-period.html
McMaster-Carr

That stuff is made with 0.001 inch diameter wire, which is about 50 AWG -- pretty thin.
They carry thinner stuff -- down to 0.0008" -- but that gets pricy.

A 12 x 12 inch sheet should provide enough mesh to wrap a few wicks.

 

[Rimau]

Count D -- Thanks so much. The links were perfect, exactly what I was looking for. Going back to the post and thanking Devilmama for all the work she did.

For some reason I have been using the metal cart rev.5 XL a lot lately. I ran across a beta testing that ikenvape is doing on a cart for the ego system, but I can't find it on their site yet. The trials looked like they found a winner.

Still using the modified wick/mesh combo and it is doing fine, but I would like to start fooling around with different wick/mesh combinations to find a good compromise. Thanks again Count, now I at least know where and what to pick up as far as the mesh goes. I get my wicking material from McMaster-Carr already, but the wicks that come in the cartomizers are really nice. I will have to pick up a wire kit from nhaler and try the wicks out. With all those extra wires, I might just have to make a 40 wire mega vapor PV that could the whole room a buzz. haha

--saludos