Experimenting with my new Penelope

[MickeyRat]

I have 3 other rebuildables on the way from coops or individual makers and they've all been delayed. I'm cursed or something. I was shocked to find the GG Penelope in stock and jumped on it. This is my first rebuildable but, I've done a lot of research (I've had plenty of time.) on things like kanthal vs nichrome, different wick materials, winding techniques, etc.

First try was winding the one coil (nichrome?) wire it came with using the provided silca wick. It was a great vape but, it gunked up in 3 days probably due to my sloppy winding.

Last night I wound one using a different technique and different materials. The NR wire is 30GA .999 fine silver, the resistance wire is 32GA kanthal and the wick is from sterile roll cotton. I wound the coil around an appropriate sized metal screw I had in the garage to make nice even windings, screwed the screw out of the coil, and sort of screwed the wick through it. It made for nice even coils at around 2ohms. So far, I'm getting a great vape. Time will tell whether it'll hold up.

As for the device itself, it's a winner. No leaks at all, clouds of vapor, excellent flavor, it's not hard to make a coil and given my experience, it seems to be pretty forgiving. I'm really enjoying it.

I know GGs are all about all mechanical but, I'd really love a simple stainless steel VV that just had a knob or a wheel. It would go so well with my Penelope.

 

[Torqueguy]

The gunking could be from the juice. I only get 3 maybe 4 days when vaping VG like Bobas, but if I vape Halo stuff, I get well over a week. Too bad IKV is down, I loved that juice

 

[CromsDog]

Get yourself a GGTS and a Kick. All mechanical when you want but The Kick gives you a variable wattage option as well. Set it to the wattage you want and vape away. You won't even care what your coils ohm out at after a while.

 

[MickeyRat]

The gunking could be from the juice. I only get 3 maybe 4 days when vaping VG like Bobas, but if I vape Halo stuff, I get well over a week. Too bad IKV is down, I loved that juice

I DIY...Only myself to blame for the juice. 70/30 not too dark. I might try some unflavored for a while to see if that makes a difference but, I'm pretty sure it was my sloppy coil.

Get yourself a GGTS and a Kick. All mechanical when you want but The Kick gives you a variable wattage option as well. Set it to the wattage you want and vape away. You won't even care what your coils ohm out at after a while.

I actually have a kick that I've been using in a Bolt. Despite what people say, it does work. I haven't tried it with the Penelope yet. That thing swallows batteries though. Less than 5 hours on an 18650.

 

[Mosin_Sergei]

This is important. Aroma of dark colors give the scale of the spirals and the wick. If you use a transparent aroma, you can not worry about the scale on the spiral MickeyRat

I DIY...Only myself to blame for the juice. 70/30 not too dark. I might try some unflavored for a while to see if that makes a difference but, I'm pretty sure it was my sloppy coil.

 

[pho]

I know GGs are all about all mechanical but, I'd really love a simple stainless steel VV that just had a knob or a wheel. It would go so well with my Penelope.

Actually, Imeo is developing "Proteus", a new mod that will have VV and is developed specifically (but not exclusively) to match the aesthetics of Penelope.
I believe it's coming in the next few weeks!

 

[MickeyRat]

Actually, Imeo is developing "Proteus", a new mod that will have VV and is developed specifically (but not exclusively) to match the aesthetics of Penelope.
I believe it's coming in the next few weeks!

If if just has a knob and no menus, I'll probably jump on it.

 

[imeothanasis]

proteus is a GG with same diameter like Penelope, it goes up to 7,4 volts and its electronics are removable so it can be transformed to a mechanical GG (button that makes it mechanical is sold separately). It will be your everyday e-cig Mick

ps....... it has a button and no menus as you like it buddy

 

[MickeyRat]

proteus is a GG with same diameter like Penelope, it goes up to 7,4 volts and its electronics are removable so it can be transformed to a mechanical GG (button that makes it mechanical is sold separately). It will be your everyday e-cig Mick

ps....... it has a button and no menus as you like it buddy

Sounds great!!! Now if I can just manage to get one before they are all gone!!!

Loving the Penelope so far!

 

[Fanky]

That sounds amazing Imeo. Any idea when we will getting a first look at Proteus? Not like Im being impatient or anything, its just that I CANT WAIT.

proteus is a GG with same diameter like Penelope, it goes up to 7,4 volts and its electronics are removable so it can be transformed to a mechanical GG (button that makes it mechanical is sold separately). It will be your everyday e-cig Mick

ps....... it has a button and no menus as you like it buddy

 

[imeothanasis]

I am glad that you like Penelope Mick and be sure that you will like even more the PP combination

Sounds great!!! Now if I can just manage to get one before they are all gone!!!

Loving the Penelope so far!

 

[imeothanasis]

I am sure that before the end of the month I will be ready for the first demonstration Fanky

That sounds amazing Imeo. Any idea when we will getting a first look at Proteus? Not like Im being impatient or anything, its just that I CANT WAIT.

 

[Mosin_Sergei]

A little bit more, a little .....: Пальцы:

I am sure that before the end of the month I will be ready for the first demonstration Fanky

 

[MickeyRat]

Next experiment...On another thread someone told me you could use an oxidized stainless steel mesh wick on a Penelope or an Odysseus as people do on genesis style RBAs. If you know someone that managed it, that bow down before them. They must be an electronic god or something. For me it was an exercise in frustration. I did manage to get it to work for a few seconds before it shorted but that's about it.

Current experiment: I unrolled a portion of my failed SS wick and wrapped it around a cotton wick under the coil only. My hopes is this will help keep the coil from gumming up. So far, that's working. The taste is slightly muted compared to just the cotton alone but, it may take some break in. Most of my coils are showing a substantial drop in performance in just 24 hours. Time will tell if this will help.

 

[Setzer]

Hi Mickey, I had ss mesh running in my Ody a while ago and it was ok but I personally prefer the taste of fg or silica wick.

If you are going to go for the ss in your Penelope I would roll the ss over some wick as I was having flooding problems as I had mesh only. Wick would hold back the flow of juice and prevent flooding and would feed the coil more consistently.

I preferred the taste of normal wick and wasnt going to go back to mesh but I think when I need to do another coil I might try out the mesh again with some wick in there to help even out the flow of juice to the coil.

 

[VPDownunder]

Sounds great!!! Now if I can just manage to get one before they are all gone!!!

Loving the Penelope so far!

At least by grabbing my Penelope from Cam I'm guaranteed a reserved Proteus otherwise I'm sure I'd miss out

 

[c8h10n4o2x2]

At least by grabbing my Penelope from Cam I'm guaranteed a reserved Proteus otherwise I'm sure I'd miss out

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/gg/243047-official-gg-production-status-39.html from #384 on
I believe if your name was not on the list from March? there will be 300 or so that have not been reserved in the first run that you could get.

Hope this helps

 

[VPDownunder]

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/gg/243047-official-gg-production-status-39.html from #384 on
I believe if your name was not on the list from March? there will be 300 or so that have not been reserved in the first run that you could get.

Hope this helps

I wasn't on any "list" but on Cams site it states that when I preordered my penelope that a proteus will automatically be reserved. I don't care about serial numbers which is why I never reserved one on the list

 

[c8h10n4o2x2]

VPDownunder - Read from #388 on
Karlos #388 - "On goldengreek UK they say whoever bought Penelope had the Proteus reserved. I hope so. I do not care for specific serial number. Just for Proteus itself and I hope I will get at least one. (I bought two Penelopes from them)"
imeothanasis # 389 - "Things are not like that Karlos. I never said that. I said that all people on the list have the Proteus reserved. I dont know why Cameron says this, its wrong info"

 

[VPDownunder]

I'd say Cam is doing it on his own, it's not part of the reserved serial number list. There should be the same amount of Proteus as Penelopes made or close to it so it shouldn't be an issue.