finally happy with the protank !

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rogergendron1

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I never under stood the protank ... Well the idea of it is awsome a bottom coil clearo right? and it is well designed, except for the quality of the coils .
Nearly every coil I ever got metered way of wack, nearly half an ohm up or down and was wrapped like a drunken ape with cerebral palsy made it in a dark room . I have a real problem with shaky hands here and I never thought I could wrap a good coil at sub ohm with 28 g kanthal and get it in there and have the protank work like it should. I have tried many times and ended up going though a lot of replacment coils using them first ... Tben trying to rebuild them to make them actually work lol to no avail ... That is untill now .

What I do to wrap coils is to wrap kanthal around various sized and thread count machine screws to get the coil I want then tbread the wick through. I never thought this would work with the protank 1 because the space is to small for a conventional sized hand built coil 2 28g kanthal looked way to thick to get enough wraps in there to make .8 to 1 ohm my sweet spot and 3 because I failed to use the power of the micro coil !

the protank I pulled from the vape draw of crap has been reborn . I sanded it down to a brushed brass finishand cleaned it all up then pulled apart my last stock coil and rebuilt it witha single strand of 3mm silica from sunnyvapors and a 4/5 wrap of 28g kanthal wrapped around a tinny tiny fine thread machine screw that meashured OD slightly less than 3 mm and then threaded the wick through it then cut to size. It metered out to almost exactly 1ohm slightly over wavering at 1.1 . All I can say is that for the price I paid for this thing it is finaly working the way it should ! Great flavor and lots of vapor!
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All I need now is a nice thin brass mec mod to run my sub ohm protank
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I th even runs fine on my mvp with no problems so far, witch is strang because you would think the mvp had some kind of override to prevent running coils that are below 1.2 or somthing and not have enough amp output to fire it correctly ... But it fires just fine and heats up real quick at 3.7 to 4 volts on my mvp with more flavor and vapor than any other topper I have put on it aside from a real dripper or genny . I wonder if its right there at the top of the amp limmit ? Idk but its working untill I make a dedicated brass tube mod for this
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And I love the brushed brass look cant wait to start on a brass tube mod with polished ss accents.
Picks of coil in a few min:D
 

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Alright apparently the camera on my tablet stinks soo her is the best of like 15 pics lol

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Well all I can say is the coil I built looks 10times better than the factory one and preforms 10 times better too.
If you got a protank and want to try sub ohms give it a go just make shure you use heavy gauge wire wrap a real tight micro coil just big enough to slip a 3mm piece of silica in and thats all you need no flavor wicks and no flooding at all.

Flawless victory !
 

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Just wrapped a microcoil myself with 28 ga, 8 wraps, 3mm silica, came out to 1.1 ohm. Wrapped on a 5/64 drill bit. Warm solid tasty vape. 1st impressions are great. Vaping right now with my mech. My typical wraps are 1-1.3 ohms on my genny and for the most part my drippers. Vape is rating right up there with them. It's the best vape my protank ever gave me. I'm truly surprised with the flavor. No gurgle, no flooding.
 
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I like the brass look a lot on a black mod or even a brass or copper mech . I am loving this thing now

Thinking of some more sanding till its polished and nice and shinny although the brushed look makes it look tough .

Yes its a stock protank i sandes down .there are 3 llayers chrome plating then copper anealing then thr brass stock . Takes a little time unless u have a dremal tool . Then once its down to brass just scotch bright sand it with a rough then fine pad anf u will have that brushed look .
 
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