Okay screw it. Couldn't resist and drained my tank. Dual vertical microcoil with cotton.
10 wraps of 28 gauge, around 5/56. Net resistance = 0.9 ohms.
Always make sure coil and airholes are lined up
The following side views are "wrong". I proceeded to shift the coils down so that the bottom of the coil is aligned 0.5 to 1mm higher than the center deck. Didn't take a picture of it though
Wicking: 2 strands of cotton used. Each strand starts from a channel on one side, travels diagonally across the centre to the coil on the opposite side, wrapped around the outside of the coil, and back diagonally to the starting side's other juice channel.
Waaaay easier to mould the cotton when it's wet
This is how much cotton I have in the channel. The important thing is this: previously when I used the amount of cotton perfect for a 5/56 drill bit and shove the entire end down the channel, the wick always gets choked. This time what I did was to cut the end of the cotton wick to form a downward pointing V shape, and pushed that into the channel (halfway down)
With the chimney on
Results:
VAPES LIKE A }*|%\*]| CHAMP. currently at 27 watts on my zna30. AFC at the largest and tbh the vapor is pretty ridiculous.
Issues:
1) took me 17x 2 seconds drag before the cotton broke in. Before it did, flavor and vapor production was worse than the crap blu ecigs put out. Then all of a sudden I got the nicest lung fill and it was heaven. I guess using boiled cotton would've cut short the break in period
2) unfortunately, it'll start to flood once I close the AFC more than halfway. Not an issue for me since I vape it wide open, but could be an issue for some others. An option would be to either trim off less of the ends of the wick, or use a longer wick in the channel. I do still think the V trimming is important though.
@Tbev, give it a shot! I'm thoroughly shocked that it worked so well.
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