First Time RBA - Kayfun Lite Clone

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I live 300 miles from the Cali origin point, San Francisco.... Can take Items 3-5 days to get to me from there. FWIW regular first class mail take 1 day to deliver from San Fran. Takes longer for fastech items to get from California port to my house 300 miles, than it generally does to ship from China to California.

Well it turns out the USPS just wasn't updating the status. My ohm meter went from arriving at the USPS facility in CA to my doorstep today. So I have everything I need (I think)! I think the o-ring in the top piece that goes over the top of the chimney may be sketchy but I'm not sure. It just seems a little loose. Guess I'll find out this weekend when I try out my first build.

Thanks for all the help. I'll try to post some pics of my first build.

 

[Chromag9]

Well I just completed my first build! Forgot to take pics, though I followed the directions from the video posted by VaPreis on the first page. The first few coils ended up in the garbage. I could never get the screws to bite down on the wire. I finally decided to wrap the wire one full turn around the screw and then it worked fine. I tested it on the ohm meter and its showing 1.4 ohms (10 wraps around a 5/64 drill bit). After some research I decided to just fill it via the bottom screw fill hole rather than the top fill method he used in the video.

I maxed the MVP2 at 11 watts and it's working great (also works at lower wattage as well). I'm very impressed so far. At first I wasn't sure it was working right. I'm so used to my Protank2 crackling, gurgling and popping that I was worried it wasn't doing anything! It definitely is and the taste is fantastic with my Ahlusion apple house blend juice.

So far so good! Thanks for all the help. Hopefully it continues to work this great.

EDIT: Also, for anyone reading this thinking about getting into RBAs I would absolutely say to try it. At least with a cheap clone first like I did. There is something really satisfying about building it yourself and using it. Much more so than getting annoyed at replacing coil after coil on my Protank2 after just replacing them days before, etc. Then realizing that I'm almost out and it's time to pay up for another pack of coils.

Here is a pic (had to use some adapter I got with the Tobeco ohm meter to get it to work so it's really ugly)...