First vape
Utter failure! No one has ever paid closer attention to instructions than I did meticulously (neurotically) piecing my AW IMR 18650 battery charged to exactly 4.19V, bottle of e-juice exactly 3/4 full, and new (first time using one as a previous cartomizer then clearomizer guy) LR 1.5 ohm atomizer into the reo. Pressed the button. Nothing. Pressed harder. Nothing. Went through the whole trouble shooting list and checked off every one. Nothing. Tried a new atomizer, then new battery. Nothing. Lotta sadness as I thought about the long wait sending my reo back and waiting on a new one. Then I screwed in the first atomizer again, but really (thought I'd break it) tight, and CRACKLE! it came to life. Actually scared and I jumped the exact same way I would have if someone had broken in through the window.
Took a few drags and got a little vapor, and it tasted like that terrible solvent or lube that they ship the atomizer in. Kept trying, but the thing was flooded and tasted so bad (I even had blown it out before) that I didn't want to try and fix it. So I figured I should jump straight to building a coil.
First Coil
I followed the video of the simple coil wrapping 30 g Kenthal around a 2mm silica wick double over on itself. I did about 7 wraps. Put it in the RM2 and got out my new multimeter to check the resistance. My expectations were pretty low. Did I mention that I couldn't get a "made for noobs" atomizer to work? It came out at 1.8 ohms. It was the first thing that had gone right. I squonked and made sure it was soaked. Put on the drip tip and after a few puffs, did a long slow draw and produced a cloud that looked like it came out of a fog machine. It was amazing. I am happy.
Questions I have now that it worked
Why am I so slow witted that I can't use a simple atomizer? (the other two still wouldn't work no matter how tight I screwed them in)
The vapor tasted different (worse) than it does out of the Halo Triton clearomizer set up I was using before this. Actually, it tasted kind of like that garbage from the atomizer, like a sweet, alcohol-y, astringent taste. I thought it would go away after a bit, but it seems to still be there. I get the occasional vape that I can't taste it, but only like 1 in 5 and it seems to always be a first drag after squonking. Do you think I sucked some of that stuff into the bottle and messed up the juice? Should I be squonking more than every 4-5 draws?
With the RM2, it seems like it is pretty hard to overflow with squonking even if you suck at it (as I do). Am I doing it wrong or is it just built to only spill juice if you squeeze it all the way up to that air hole?
My silica has a little bit of a char mark already. Does that mean I should just ditch this one or does that not matter if it is soaked for each draw.
Okay, that's all I've got. Thanks for any help you might have. Oh, and here are the photos of a proud father's first coil.
Utter failure! No one has ever paid closer attention to instructions than I did meticulously (neurotically) piecing my AW IMR 18650 battery charged to exactly 4.19V, bottle of e-juice exactly 3/4 full, and new (first time using one as a previous cartomizer then clearomizer guy) LR 1.5 ohm atomizer into the reo. Pressed the button. Nothing. Pressed harder. Nothing. Went through the whole trouble shooting list and checked off every one. Nothing. Tried a new atomizer, then new battery. Nothing. Lotta sadness as I thought about the long wait sending my reo back and waiting on a new one. Then I screwed in the first atomizer again, but really (thought I'd break it) tight, and CRACKLE! it came to life. Actually scared and I jumped the exact same way I would have if someone had broken in through the window.
Took a few drags and got a little vapor, and it tasted like that terrible solvent or lube that they ship the atomizer in. Kept trying, but the thing was flooded and tasted so bad (I even had blown it out before) that I didn't want to try and fix it. So I figured I should jump straight to building a coil.
First Coil
I followed the video of the simple coil wrapping 30 g Kenthal around a 2mm silica wick double over on itself. I did about 7 wraps. Put it in the RM2 and got out my new multimeter to check the resistance. My expectations were pretty low. Did I mention that I couldn't get a "made for noobs" atomizer to work? It came out at 1.8 ohms. It was the first thing that had gone right. I squonked and made sure it was soaked. Put on the drip tip and after a few puffs, did a long slow draw and produced a cloud that looked like it came out of a fog machine. It was amazing. I am happy.
Questions I have now that it worked
Why am I so slow witted that I can't use a simple atomizer? (the other two still wouldn't work no matter how tight I screwed them in)
The vapor tasted different (worse) than it does out of the Halo Triton clearomizer set up I was using before this. Actually, it tasted kind of like that garbage from the atomizer, like a sweet, alcohol-y, astringent taste. I thought it would go away after a bit, but it seems to still be there. I get the occasional vape that I can't taste it, but only like 1 in 5 and it seems to always be a first drag after squonking. Do you think I sucked some of that stuff into the bottle and messed up the juice? Should I be squonking more than every 4-5 draws?
With the RM2, it seems like it is pretty hard to overflow with squonking even if you suck at it (as I do). Am I doing it wrong or is it just built to only spill juice if you squeeze it all the way up to that air hole?
My silica has a little bit of a char mark already. Does that mean I should just ditch this one or does that not matter if it is soaked for each draw.
Okay, that's all I've got. Thanks for any help you might have. Oh, and here are the photos of a proud father's first coil.
