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I need more coffee, I don't think more pictures is going to help me at the moment.
I'm trying to get up enough gumption to pull out my refrigerator and clean the fuzz off the condenser. My electric bill look like I have AC (don't).
I've been noting that it's run time is too much. It may be low on gas instead but I'll try cleaning the coil first. I have a lot of things using electricity but they do it all year long and my bill says "you got AC".
Pulling out the fridge is nothing, it' getting all the other stuff out of the way.........
No AC? How is that possible? I'm from Texas, AC is mandatory where I'm from.
 

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I have never drilled out the holes. I get plenty of juice feed. Just dont pack the rayon in tight over the holes, you want to just cover them without packing.

I am using dual TI coils ohming out at 0.15 to 0.16. I find that 450 is usually a good starting point, and sometimes I have to inch up as far as 510. I think the inching up occurs as my coil gets buildup on it.

I use vertical coils. I have learned that it is a mistake to allow too much rayon sticking out the top of the coil, I get better results trimming the top more/less even with the top of the posts.

I have a very hard time building vertical Coils, or more specifically wicking vertical Coils. How are you wicking them? Or what is your process to get the verticals in there?
 
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I have a very hard time building vertical Coils, or more specifically wicking vertical Coils. How are you wicking them? Or what is your process to get the verticals in there?

Basically I thread a string of rayon in through the top. I use a length of rayon with a long taper, tapered to a fine point, and the fat end so thick that any thicker would bend the coil. I stick the skinny taper through the coil until it comes out the bottom, then I use a pair of tweezers to grab the piece at the bottom and pull it through the coil. Grabbing from the bottom of the coil and pulling it towards the deck. Each pull only gets about a mm so it takes several pulls.
 

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I have a very hard time building vertical Coils, or more specifically wicking vertical Coils. How are you wicking them? Or what is your process to get the verticals in there?
Start at the 30 minute mark for an example of what I am talking about:
 

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Just tinkering with some coils and thought there's got to be something I can come up with to hold the base so I can move it around while I work on it. I have those flex joint tubes I used for soldering helping hands, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008O14864
took an old t3 clearo base
http://easyvapors.com/clearomizers-tanks/t3s-base
and came up with this.

I just clamp the orange bottom piece in my vise. :)

I'm much more "elegant" for my coiling stand. I have a rough cut piece of 2x3 about four inches long with a 3/8" hole in the center of one side, but that looks like a good idea and I have some of those flex tubes. More stuff to fool with! Thanks, I think, Willie :blush:
 

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I'm much more "elegant" for my coiling stand. I have a rough cut piece of 2x3 about four inches long with a 3/8" hole in the center of one side, but that looks like a good idea and I have some of those flex tubes. More stuff to fool with! Thanks, I think, Willie :blush:

That ts base screwed right onto the ball joint of that tubing, got lucky! I was screwing decks into that base and clamping it in my mini-bench vice and that's handy but when you want to turn or tilt it (and you always when have your hands full) you have to loosen the vise and move it with two hands. With this flex pipe I can move and turn it with one hand, quickly.
 

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Advice needed.

One of my new black DX200 is currently having a problem. Out of the box the battery was half way charged. I plugged it in overnight, it charged to 100% not a problem.

Today I hooked it up with 1.0.42 Escribe, updated firmware, installed the theme I wanted to use, looked at it and the battery bar shows EMPTY 0%. Hooked it up to device manager saw 2.0v, 0.79v and 0.09v on the cells respectively.

Disconnected the black battery from the black DX200, attached the black battery to the white DX200 (different dna200) and saw 38% battery (I think it was). Checked device manager and saw cells 1,2,3 now showing 3.79v across each of them.

Re-connected the black battery to the black DX200, and dna screen still shows 0% empty, but device manager shows only cell 3 at 0.09v (the other 2 were 3.79v I think)

So does this mean a battery issue or a dna board issue?
 

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Advice needed.

One of my new black DX200 is currently having a problem. Out of the box the battery was half way charged. I plugged it in overnight, it charged to 100% not a problem.

Today I hooked it up with 1.0.42 Escribe, updated firmware, installed the theme I wanted to use, looked at it and the battery bar shows EMPTY 0%. Hooked it up to device manager saw 2.0v, 0.79v and 0.09v on the cells respectively.

Disconnected the black battery from the black DX200, attached the black battery to the white DX200 (different dna200) and saw 38% battery (I think it was). Checked device manager and saw cells 1,2,3 now showing 3.79v across each of them.

Re-connected the black battery to the black DX200, and dna screen still shows 0% empty, but device manager shows only cell 3 at 0.09v (the other 2 were 3.79v I think)

So does this mean a battery issue or a dna board issue?

Sounds like a connection problem on the jst connector of the new black dx you have. Did you try the white battery on the black dx?
 

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Advice needed.

One of my new black DX200 is currently having a problem. Out of the box the battery was half way charged. I plugged it in overnight, it charged to 100% not a problem.

Today I hooked it up with 1.0.42 Escribe, updated firmware, installed the theme I wanted to use, looked at it and the battery bar shows EMPTY 0%. Hooked it up to device manager saw 2.0v, 0.79v and 0.09v on the cells respectively.

Disconnected the black battery from the black DX200, attached the black battery to the white DX200 (different dna200) and saw 38% battery (I think it was). Checked device manager and saw cells 1,2,3 now showing 3.79v across each of them.

Re-connected the black battery to the black DX200, and dna screen still shows 0% empty, but device manager shows only cell 3 at 0.09v (the other 2 were 3.79v I think)

So does this mean a battery issue or a dna board issue?
I like Willy's answer.
See my post in Taifun thread, going to post it next.
 

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