Watch this video. Build it just like Phil does. Works everytime. FWIW. 0.5Ω is a little hot, even for me. Did you fire and compress the coil? Sometimes the resistance reads low before doing so. The coil needs to fire evenly from the center outwards.
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Watch this video. Build it just like Phil does. Works everytime. FWIW. 0.5Ω is a little hot, even for me. Did you fire and compress the coil? Sometimes the resistance reads low before doing so. The coil needs to fire evenly from the center outwards.
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Your Russian is not one of your RDAs, and doesn't work the same as your RDAs. The Russian has a smaller vapor chamber than your RDAs. So don't expect the same resistance to work the same.
Your Russian will produce a very nice vape, but it's up to you to find the build that delivers what you want.
My simple trick that I use when sorting a new device is to always have a favorite vape sitting at my elbow while I do it. You wouldn't believe how many times that has kept a new kind of atty from ending up outside in a snow bank!
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Yeah. I have temper problems already. I stole my husband's to vape on. The urge for a cigarette and not being able to have one was strong. One of my biggest triggers to smoke is frustration. And I'm plenty frustrated right now. Patience is a virtue I have always lacked.
Yeah, I did some research online and they said take the air flow screw out and just tuck it away sonewhere.
I went to my local vape shop, 2 minutes away. He toyed with it (didn't build it. I'm back at home and already ...... again). He said the same thing, to go up and that .5 is too hot.
He checked my build, and said other then the ohm being .5 it was perfect. Cotton too. But building on this thing is hard. And I don't know enough yet to know how many wraps yields what.
The 26 was too big. So now I'm using 30. Just did 9th raps with 30 on a 3/32 and it was 2.0 something. My battery can't do that.
I'm starting to think me and the Russian are not going to be friends. I'm about ready to eject it over the balcony.
How many wraps of 30 gage on what size drill bit gives you 1.0 or .9 ohms?
Same for 26 gauge?
Same for 26 gauge?
I use this as a guide, it's not perfect but it will help you get closer than a wild guess.
Coil Toy - Online calculator for e-cigarette resistance coil building
Good luck!
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I use this as a guide, it's not perfect but it will help you get closer than a wild guess.
Coil Toy - Online calculator for e-cigarette resistance coil building
Good luck!
Trying it now. Crossing my fingers. My husband is doing it this time cause he is tired of hearing me curse and yell at the hell spawn Russian.
I use a Kayfun lite + on a mech mod all the time and vape NET exclusively. Air adjustment screw is removed and stored away. For me a single 28 gauge 0.7 ohm microcoil wrapped on a 0.52" bit is perfect and I use 20 amp batteries although a 10 amp battery would work just fine. Wicking is the key to obtaining the best flavor, if the wick covers the juice channel it WILL impede the flow. I use Japanese cotton and with cotton too much is....bad. Cotton swells when saturated with juice and if too tight the portion inside the coil can cut off flow and become scorched (burnt taste). When re-wicking I ALWAYS wet the new wick with juice prior to installing the chimney cap, that way (like a dripper), it's ready to go. After filled with juice and installed on my mod I cover the air holes with a finger and give a quick/light draw on the drip tip to "prime" the vacuum and wet the chamber. Careful though, to hard or long of a draw can flood it causing minor/temporary leaking from the air hole. Kayfun style RTAs can be a little tricky/fiddly but with experience comes reliable satisfaction. Dual coil Orchid V4s provide better flavor/vapor IMO but are even trickier to build right. Best of luck to you.
.5 on a kayfun with a mechanical mod could possibly melt the positive post insulator, kayfuns work great at around .8-1.2 ohms. Good luck
#/!& this thing. All the way to hell.
Built a .9 coil. Still warm. And you can suck the air in all you want. Barely any vapor. A whisper of it. Hardly any air getting to it.
And I took the screw out. Triple checked my wick making sure it didn't block the channel. Still crap.
It no longer tastes burnt. But it is the most unsatisfying experience I've ever had. Wasted so much liquid today.
Built a .9 coil. Still warm. And you can suck the air in all you want. Barely any vapor. A whisper of it. Hardly any air getting to it.
And I took the screw out. Triple checked my wick making sure it didn't block the channel. Still crap.
It no longer tastes burnt. But it is the most unsatisfying experience I've ever had. Wasted so much liquid today.
DITCH the 26 ga!
to get the ohms you need your coil will be huge and you wont be able to clear the chimney top.
28 gauge kanthal is what you want although I'm having good luck with Nichrome 80.....
6/7 wrap and ... cotton....tuck the tails and vape on.
to get the ohms you need your coil will be huge and you wont be able to clear the chimney top.
28 gauge kanthal is what you want although I'm having good luck with Nichrome 80.....
6/7 wrap and ... cotton....tuck the tails and vape on.
I like to use a plastic tip syringe, like what comes with children's medicine. You can salvage most of it this way.
I usually use a syringe to to that.
So, with 30g, on a 2mm brace, you'll want a 5/4 wrap, one leg up, one leg down. Once mounted, dry burn and compress to be glowing even inside out. Now after that, thread your wick, pull wick ends up, set and tighten down lower chamber section. Trim wick 1/16th to 1/8th above the chamber top, wet the wick, and carefully tuck it down into the chamber, and mold it to rest against the positive and negative blocks, leaving the juice channels uncovered in an "L" shape. Test fire the coil, reprime the wick, put the upper chimney on, then assemble and fill the tank. This should give you a 1.1 to 1.3 ohm resistance, and be pretty good performance, if your juice is thick, you'll probably want the airflow screw in and tighten the air flow up a bit to get enough suction to pull liquid into the chamber.
Ok. So I took it apart after the advice it might be too far off the deck. And it is. So I put it 1 mm away, not touching but almost. It vapes a little better. Not as warm but still warmer then I'm used to.
And the flavor compared to my RDA is half.
But at least it is vapable now. Even if an annoying draw. When I'm out of juice in it again, I'll try a chimney build. Thank you all for your help and patience during my rage against the machine.
Edit to add: And the vapor production is better. Not great.
But better.
Much appreciation.
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Coil wrapping | Steam Engine | free vaping calculators for wraps and sizes..I've made nice vapor on 1/8th and 9/64ths size coils....much bigger then that and room gets to be an issue.
If the Russian is like a KFL in that the chimney comes off when you unscrew the deck here's what I do. If you have a plastic dropper bottle, take the dropper top off. Remove your drip tip and the dropper fits right in the hole. Flip it and put the juice bottle on it, now unscrew the deck and your juice runs right in the bottle.
As far as your 30ga coil.. Use a 5/64" drill bit, 8 wraps, perfect.
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And the flavor compared to my RDA is half.
.....
Edit to add: And the vapor production is better. Not great.
But better.
The Russian is not capable of delivering the flavor and vapor production of your RDA. The only Kayfun style tank that will come close, in my experience, is the Orchid.
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