fc-2000 porous ceramic wick

[lightandmind]

Hello all, thought I'd share my experience with AGA-T+ and Vamo with the FC-2000 wicks.

Dude, thanks, this will be my exact setup too so now I know what to lookout for.

 

[lightandmind]

Yowza, could THESE specs be included in the next generation of vaping? Who knows! But it is kind of exciting. Some real pioneers of the craft over here!


"Man, I ONLY vape DP43e with 40-50 μm at 40 V/V%."

 

[ricks]

do you have the aga? if you do then drilling would be one way, or just use the smaller 3/32 wicks. i did the latter and although you need to be more careful, the small wick really performs well with the gap between wick and wick hole. i will wait to see some more results of people who have drill out, and see how the 1/8 work in this new hole.

Its a Genesis style

 

[turspedie]

Dude, thanks, this will be my exact setup too so now I know what to lookout for.

You are most welcome!

 

[vapdivrr]

Hello all, thought I'd share my experience with AGA-T+ and Vamo with the FC-2000 wicks.

I was using a Vivi Nova and the constant burning of the wicks drove me to try rba's. I researched a set-up that would minimize fumes/health issues which drove me to this thread in particular, and I was lucky enough to find the 3/32 wicks and the AGA -T+ in stock at discountvapers second day I looked.

My first coil with the 32g nichrome that came with the AGA tasted terrible, with a sporadic tasty puff here and there that kept me hopeful. Broke the first wick trying to coil it tight.

Couple of days later I received my order of cheesecloth and 30g A1 kanthal. I definitely got a much better result doing the coil before inserting the wick. It makes it much easier to coil evenly, and the cheesecloth helps a ton with keeping it tight. I am getting 1.2 ohms with a 4/5 wrap and I believe this is the lowest I can go with the Vamo. The vapor is just heavenly clean and tasty. The one issue I have noticed is a stingy metallic taste when I first fire it up in the morning or when I get home from work. Popping the lid and burning a few seconds at 10+ watts while holding it sideways before puffing seems to help... But so far I haven't been able to fully avoid that bad taste with the first few puffs. I have a perfectly even coil with a constant 1.2 ohm resistance, that lights up from the center with no hot spots, so I doubt it's the coil. Is anyone else experiencing this?
Other than that one minor issue, the vapor is fantastic, and I feel a bit skeptical about the benefits I could be getting with a pricier RBA or mod.

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i have the same exact set-up on my aga-t. 3/32 wick, 30g 4/5 wrap 1.2 ohms. this has been performing great. this is the set-up in the video that i had done. at 4volts it really rocks, with thick clouds. i have not tasted anything even close to metal. your set-up looks nice, although is the wick touching the center post in the tank? from the photos it looks close, but doubt it would do this. is the kanthal wire a-1? and i am sure the wick doesnt touch the bottom, although its not ss,so this shouldnt matter, what did you do before using wick? did you boil? the only difference is my aga is the older one, but doubt even this would make a difference

 

[vapdivrr]

also does it make any difference if the tank is completely full? and you do have the air hole lined up perfect?

 

[vapdivrr]

Its a Genesis style

i hope so, no i mean what genesis atty do you have?

 

[vapdivrr]

about being skeptical about buying a more expensive atty or mod, dont be. these aga's are great for the money, but i am having issues with certain things, but no complaints because they are inexpensive. now my ac-9 or DID's are built for the long run. i know they will last. as for the performance, well my aga is vaping about the same as my expensive ones. if set up correctly the devices are very close, its just a matter of the parts being of quality materials.

 

[turspedie]

i have the same exact set-up on my aga-t. 3/32 wick, 30g 4/5 wrap 1.2 ohms. this has been performing great. this is the set-up in the video that i had done. at 4volts it really rocks, with thick clouds. i have not tasted anything even close to metal. your set-up looks nice, although is the wick touching the center post in the tank? from the photos it looks close, but doubt it would do this. is the kanthal wire a-1? and i am sure the wick doesnt touch the bottom, although its not ss,so this shouldnt matter, what did you do before using wick? did you boil? the only difference is my aga is the older one, but doubt even this would make a difference

Thanks! As a newbie, it's good to hear it looks nice to you. The wick is not touching the post. The kanthal is A1 purchsed from Amazon. I washed and boiled the wick for a long time. Maybe the flavor isn't exactly metal, but it's definitely not good. I am using WTA infused juice, so I'm not sure if that may be the source.

 

[vapdivrr]

Thanks! As a newbie, it's good to hear it looks nice to you. The wick is not touching the post. The kanthal is A1 purchsed from Amazon. I washed and boiled the wick for a long time. Maybe the flavor isn't exactly metal, but it's definitely not good. I am using WTA infused juice, so I'm not sure if that may be the source.

i have heard about that juice before but never have tried it. it is very possible that this is just the taste of it and because the ceramic is so pure, you just never noticed it before. i guess you need to try something else and see if it too tastes this way, if it does then you know it does in fact have something to do with the atty or coil. it sounds like you have done everything correct, so i am guessing it is the juice.

 

[turspedie]

also does it make any difference if the tank is completely full? and you do have the air hole lined up perfect?

The fullness of the tank hasn't been a factor, although I've seen the flavor pop back up if I switch batteries, and it was there now after I fired it up to take that picture. The button , wick and airhole are all lined up to face down as I puff at a 3 o'clock. Maybe what Im tasting is dry hits? But priming doesn't seem to help. Maybe it will happen less as I break in the wick more

 

[vapdivrr]

The fullness of the tank hasn't been a factor, although I've seen the flavor pop back up if I switch batteries, and it was there now after I fired it up to take that picture. The button , wick and airhole are all lined up to face down as I puff at a 3 o'clock. Maybe what Im tasting is dry hits? But priming doesn't seem to help. Maybe it will happen less as I break in the wick more

they do take sometime to break in, the losser the coils the longer for break in. priming might dry the coil even more, but i always seem to prime. how long has this wick been going? i have had my wicks get better after days, not that they were bad, but kept on getting better. it is possible that they havent broke in 100 percent. now that you mention the fact that it happens after a long break, it has to be the fact that the wick is not saturated yet, hense the dry hit like you said. ok this is definatly it. the wick will get better at this, just have some patience and youll see. at the start these will vape good but will not saturate very quikly, after some time they will. and by keeping the tank always close to full helps this.

 

[turspedie]

they do take sometime to break in, the losser the coils the longer for break in. priming might dry the coil even more, but i always seem to prime. how long has this wick been going? i have had my wicks get better after days, not that they were bad, but kept on getting better. it is possible that they havent broke in 100 percent. now that you mention the fact that it happens after a long break, it has to be the fact that the wick is not saturated yet, hense the dry hit like you said. ok this is definatly it. the wick will get better at this, just have some patience and youll see. at the start these will vape good but will not saturate very quikly, after some time they will. and by keeping the tank always close to full helps this.

Yea they must be dry hits then. I am also thinking that perhaps the WTA dries out within the exposed part of the wick when it has been sitting there for a while, impeding saturation. I didn't think they were dry hits because with a clearomizer it works the opposite, the more you let it take a break the better. All in all it is a very minor issue because once it gets going I can chain vape for hours with no dry hits until my body says "ok buddy enough nicotine". I'll have to try a lighter juice with no WTA and perhaps go from 24g to 12g nicotine. having quit analogs less than 2 months ago, I'm ecstatic to finally have a setup with which to vape to my heart's content!
Thank you kindly vapdivrr for all your tips and all the info you have layed out on this thread! You're the man!

 

[FrogHat]

No worries about sanding the 1/8" ceramic down a bit, I had to do it so I could get better wicking in the ZAP. I recoiled mine this morning after boiling the wick for 3 or 4 minutes and got 1.7ohms on a 3 wrap coil using 32 gauge Kanthal.....worked good from jump.

 

[EDO]

come on edo, do you really think that makes sense? i just call it adding a tiny bit of thread to the end of the wick, its not a hybrid. and by doing this it doesnt change the taste of the ceramic. so how can this compare to ss mesh? one is metal and one is ceramic, its two different materials. now if you were to totally encapsulate ceramic with a batting of cotton, then i can see your point, but if you were to actually see the ceramic wick after adding this very tiny thread, you couldnt even see it, it just dissapears.

OK....sorry I thought everyone knew what a hybrid wick is. When making ss mesh/cotton hybrid wick....you actually use less cotton than RIP Trippers showed in his video. It is thinnest layer of cotton possible....it makes the ss mesh completely non conductive.

Mesh/Cotton hybrid wick Bluegrasslover's method - YouTube

I love the ss mesh hybrid wick, while it performed great for a couple of days it would get funky fast. When I saw RIP Trippers video I was hoping the cotton with a ceramic wick wouldn't gunk up fast....but its seems from Dsmooches and your response it does get gunky fast.

 

[vapdivrr]

OK....sorry I thought everyone knew what a hybrid wick is. When making ss mesh/cotton hybrid wick....you actually use less cotton than RIP Trippers showed in his video. It is thinnest layer of cotton possible....it makes the ss mesh completely non conductive.

Mesh/Cotton hybrid wick Bluegrasslover's method - YouTube

I love the ss mesh hybrid wick, while it performed great for a couple of days it would get funky fast. When I saw RIP Trippers video I was hoping the cotton with a ceramic wick wouldn't gunk up fast....but its seems from Dsmooches and your response it does get gunky fast.

yes it does. its just to bad that the outside of the ceramic wick is so bumpy, this is just something that i have not come across yet. so i did try the cloth and it does work, but the side affect is the gunk, the set-up before trying this was just wrapped and it stayed very clean for a very long time, but had that break in period. so today i tried sanding the sides of the wick a little, just to make it more smooth for a better seat on the wick and it seemed to work, for after a very short time was performing very well. so for now i think this is what i will be doing, this way you dont get alot of gunk. so this is why i have started this thread, just to give it a try and figure out what works and what doesnt.

 

[vapdivrr]

No worries about sanding the 1/8" ceramic down a bit, I had to do it so I could get better wicking in the ZAP. I recoiled mine this morning after boiling the wick for 3 or 4 minutes and got 1.7ohms on a 3 wrap coil using 32 gauge Kanthal.....worked good from jump.

hey froghat, i just had taken a small piece of sand paper and just sanded about a half inch around the top part of wick, it doesnt come out real smooth, but you can notice a difference. it definatly makes the coil a little more in contact for sure.

 

[zygote]

Thanks for the pionnering peeps, gatta get some wicks, gatta get some wicks!

 

[FrogHat]

hey froghat, i just had taken a small piece of sand paper and just sanded about a half inch around the top part of wick, it doesnt come out real smooth, but you can notice a difference. it definatly makes the coil a little more in contact for sure.

Well as you know I was having wicking issues....so I sanded mine pretty good.

 

[EDO]

yes it does. its just to bad that the outside of the ceramic wick is so bumpy, this is just something that i have not come across yet. so i did try the cloth and it does work, but the side affect is the gunk, the set-up before trying this was just wrapped and it stayed very clean for a very long time, but had that break in period. so today i tried sanding the sides of the wick a little, just to make it more smooth for a better seat on the wick and it seemed to work, for after a very short time was performing very well. so for now i think this is what i will be doing, this way you dont get alot of gunk. so this is why i have started this thread, just to give it a try and figure out what works and what doesnt.

I am still trying to find some place that has the 3/32 wicks for my Cobra....BTW the Cobra is a great atty...I saw that you were thinking about getting one....I highly recommend it.