First coil build!

[lm7nyne]

My wife did her first build yesterday on a magma so I felt I needed to try my hand at it also. This is my first attempt and it is on a rsst dual coil. I see a lot of mistakes but I'm sure it will get better. Oh, and it is at 0.6 ohms. (Sorry, the pics are sideways).

 

[KenD]

I hope you mean 0.6 ohms

 

[lm7nyne]

Yep, I fixed it. Thanks for pointing that out.

 

[wLyFbR9i]

Looks great! The vapor looks very smooth - how's the flavor/heat of the 0.6 ohm with tight coils? Are you happy with it?

One thing I found useful with my RSST is to make coils that leave a few millimeters of wick accessible between bottom of coil and build platform. Then when the coil gets dirty, I use side cutters to snip the wick just below the coil, lift dirty portion of wick out, dry burn, and draw more (clean) wick up out of the tank. Saves me wick and juice.

If you want to try something different later, I'm really enjoying a twisted coil build. 4 strands of 32 gauge twisted, coil diameter a little smaller than the wick hole. Coils are spaced slightly, not tight. Puts out lots of cool vapor and has good flavor.

 

[lm7nyne]

Thanks for the advice. The flavor is pretty decent but the heat is lacking till I fire it a few times because I'm only using it at 25w. I'm using steel cable to wick from the tank and just have a small bit of cotton wrapped around the top. I drop the cables in the holes and then just slide the coils over. Kind of a pain though. I'm interested in the twisted coil builds but I think I need a lot more practice with the basics first, and possibly a different mod.

 

[WharfRat1976]

Just put this parallel on mine with Koh Gen do. .6 ohm beast mode with Halo Tribeca ...gawd....nice job on your first build and on a genni tank no less. What is the ID, inner diameter of your coils? It looks like they do match the deck holes. I make mine a bit smaller so there is no pressure on the wicks going into the juice chamber...it makes for better wick flow. Bring that left wick up a little bit to cover the top of that coil for better wicking. With your Cap on, the juice and moisture comes off the inner Cap and can reabsorb into the tops of your wicks which is a good thing. So you want 2 poofs of wick, about 3-4mms poofed up above your coils. That right side coil got a little distorted on you. Do your best to make the coils identical. Also, I cant tell if you have a left sided and a right sided coil wind. This makes it easier to mount the coils. For gennys, usually I wrap the coil first then the wick goes through. ..you need a right sized mandral with the correct ID to do this. I think my genny deck holes are 3mm so I use a 2.5mm mandral to wrap the coils....great first build!! You cannot let your old lady out build you bro!

 

[FFPetz]

For first time coils, they look a lot better than my first time coils (and even some of the coils I build now...). That's a tough build. It's always hard to wrap the wires and keep your coil straight. Biggest thing is as long as there aren't any shorts or hotspots, and it tastes good to you, there's no mistakes!