Frustrations with Penelope...

[Xaiver]

..we're getting along fine, but she frustrates me to no end. My coil came in the mail on Thursday, it's now Sunday and I've rebuilt it at least once a day.

It was working wonderfully one day, and then I dropped my rig and it stopped working, so I had to rebuild it, and since then I keep having wicking issues. I generally will mess with the liquid control to try and get it so that I can just leave it there and go, but I get dry/burning hits very frequently. I'm getting frustrated.

I would like to be able to build it once a week or so, and I'm hoping that this is just a learning curve that I'm having trouble with.

Am I still strangling the wick? Am I drawing too hard on it? Is there a magic way to do something that I'm missing?

When I first fill it, it's awesome, and then suddenly it just stops being awesome and starts tasting dry and burnt, with the occasional good hit and or flooding.

 

[Huffelpuff]

I'm sure that someone more experienced will come along soon and cannot say if you are wrapping mesh to tightly without seeing your wick.

When I build a new wick I make sure to drip 2-3 drops of juice in the top like a dripper. If you start with a dryish wick, you may find that you get dry / burnt hits. Also double check that your mouthpiece is screwed down firmly to the Penelope and that the inner screw of Penelope is screwed together tight enough.

Hope that this helps.

 

[Mosin_Sergei]

Can you show pictures coil built Xaiver?

 

[Torqueguy]

What voltage and wires are you using?

 

[Xaiver]

Using Imeo-wick, got about 2 feet of it left. 34AWG Nichrome R wire, .999 30g Dead Soft Silver for the NR.

Kicked SB set at 7.8watts.

She's all snugged together, and I just rebuilt it.. I would take a picture, but it's full right now. Will take a gander once it runs low.

 

[Mosin_Sergei]

If you hit dry, then turn the mouthpiece clockwise 1 \ 4 turn - make puff .... if you hit a dry continues after 3-4 puffs, then unscrew the mouthpiece of another 1 \ 4 turn .....
If you have a flood, then twist the mouthpiece clockwise until it stops, and drags on "dry" wick. Once the hits start dry, then try otvorayivat horn at 1 \ 4 turn ....
So you can find the optimal position of the horn.

 

[imeothanasis]

It happened to me 1 time and the solution is a new wire Xai. I never managed to find what I did wrong. The most possible is the way I made the coil. There is no other explanation

..we're getting along fine, but she frustrates me to no end. My coil came in the mail on Thursday, it's now Sunday and I've rebuilt it at least once a day.

It was working wonderfully one day, and then I dropped my rig and it stopped working, so I had to rebuild it, and since then I keep having wicking issues. I generally will mess with the liquid control to try and get it so that I can just leave it there and go, but I get dry/burning hits very frequently. I'm getting frustrated.

I would like to be able to build it once a week or so, and I'm hoping that this is just a learning curve that I'm having trouble with.

Am I still strangling the wick? Am I drawing too hard on it? Is there a magic way to do something that I'm missing?

When I first fill it, it's awesome, and then suddenly it just stops being awesome and starts tasting dry and burnt, with the occasional good hit and or flooding.

 

[Xaiver]

Something I noticed while doing this last rebuild: I was doing a couple test fires on the wick before I put the mouthpiece on, and I noticed that there are a couple spots on the bottom of it that will start to glow red. Is this an issue? Could that be causing a problem?

I also trimmed the bottom of the wicks back a little more than I normally do, maybe that will help a bit.

 

[Mosin_Sergei]

If the spiral tempered unevenly over all the turns, then it shows a weak winding.
. Due to the fact that the spiral begins to glow appear dry hits. In this place there is burnout juice.

 

[Xaiver]

So it could be that the curve of the wire has different curves in it?

 

[Mosin_Sergei]

If you can make a photo reel Xaiver

 

[Mosin_Sergei]

With a photo is easier to understand that you have not.

 

[Xaiver]

I just filled the tank before you asked, trying to see if this wire works better. Once it gets closer to empty, I'll take a couple pictures.

 

[Mosin_Sergei]

Maybe pour the juice into an empty bottle ......
Why vaping if you dry it hits, the flood???

 

[Xaiver]

I was hoping that it would go away. Been playing with the liquid control to see if that would help. Gimmie a minute.

 

[Xaiver]

How about one better? I tried to get all of the angles that I could.



It's a link to 45 second video of me turning it round and round and firing the coil.

 

[Mosin_Sergei]

Do you have dry hits gives the bent end of the nichrome (Kanthal).
In the last frame shows that the curved end of the heated rapidly at a sufficiently moist wick.
You need to rewind the reel for the new.

 

[Mosin_Sergei]

This wire did you do to yourself?

 

[imeothanasis]

so your twisted piece of wire was not properly made and some pieces of it got red? Thats a problem of course Xai. Wires must be twisted very well to avoid this to happen again.

Now that you made a new coil, things are going ok as you said, yes?

 

[Xaiver]

I made the wires, yes. I'd been trying to do the twist together thing and it didn't work, would come apart whenever I touched it, so I made an elbow on both of them and hooked them together that way. Could that be the problem?

Is there an easier way to put the Nichrome and the Silver wires together? Could that be the whole problem?