I kind of agree. And if the sleeve were glass instead of steel, would it be easier to call it an RDTA?
Still, it is a bit of a hybrid.
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I kind of agree. And if the sleeve were glass instead of steel, would it be easier to call it an RDTA?
Still, it is a bit of a hybrid.
If I don't use a tip in the top, yeah... with the tip in the top, no.
I know I didn't need to write it out like that, but tip in the top was just too fun not to repeat a couple times...
After about a week of use, I remain impressed. I only wish I had been I had been able to procure a stainless one. If that's the extent of my complaints, it must be OK!
While my Medusa is in the delivery, I was looking for information about using 510 drip tip. and I found it
Now I am calm and happy
Thank you!
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Got mine in stainless.
The ultem wide bore tip is to short. You'll burn your lips on the exposed top cap metal if not careful. A 510 DT is a must.
The top cap oring is too loose, wobbles and spins too easily which of course misalignes the afc.
The lock/unlock symbols are buried in the laser etching and barely visable.
The deck is velocity style which works great.
Flavor is very good but my Lush+ and Cigpet Eco RDAs are just as good with better drip tip designs. It disgusts me to have to use a 510 DT with large format RDAs.
The ultem wide bore tip is to short. You'll burn your lips on the exposed top cap metal if not careful. A 510 DT is a must.
The top cap oring is too loose, wobbles and spins too easily which of course misalignes the afc.
The lock/unlock symbols are buried in the laser etching and barely visable.
The deck is velocity style which works great.
Flavor is very good but my Lush+ and Cigpet Eco RDAs are just as good with better drip tip designs. It disgusts me to have to use a 510 DT with large format RDAs.
The o-rings suck big time.
The preinstalled are too thin, the replacements are too thick.
The driptip is ok for me, but I just use some Kanthal Claptons at around 0,5 ohms and 50 to 60 Watts. A 510driptip just mutes the flavor.
The filling on the Medusa is not as good or easy as advertised. If you fill it with the 3ml, you'll have liquid everywhere when you put on the topcap. It's even hard to see, how much liq is already inside.
The only pro is its taste, which is really topnotch, and the hardened grubscrews.
P.S: Install coils with an inner diameter of at least 3,5mm and a lot of cotton or you'll get some extremely hot spitback.
The preinstalled are too thin, the replacements are too thick.
The driptip is ok for me, but I just use some Kanthal Claptons at around 0,5 ohms and 50 to 60 Watts. A 510driptip just mutes the flavor.
The filling on the Medusa is not as good or easy as advertised. If you fill it with the 3ml, you'll have liquid everywhere when you put on the topcap. It's even hard to see, how much liq is already inside.
The only pro is its taste, which is really topnotch, and the hardened grubscrews.
P.S: Install coils with an inner diameter of at least 3,5mm and a lot of cotton or you'll get some extremely hot spitback.
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Hi all. This is my first tank, and I got pretty serious leak issue. I've watched tons of YouTube videos for wicking technique, and done several wicking. I've tried not flooding the reservoir and just drip my liquid to the coil and cotton, and it's still leaking when I fire it.
I use fused clapton coil and open half airflow. Because of this leaking issue, I have bought myself a Pharaoh RTA so I can vape on the road. Please help.....
I use fused clapton coil and open half airflow. Because of this leaking issue, I have bought myself a Pharaoh RTA so I can vape on the road. Please help.....
The Medusa is not a dripper!
It just doesn'n work, because the liq gets caught between the posts and coils. Then, when you fire the mod, the liq gushes out.
The Medusa has insane liquidslots and therefore needs a lot of cotton. Try building it with two 4mm coils and feed some cotton through. The wicks have to be tight in those coils, but still not too tight. Its hard to explain, so you have to try that on your own, but I use about a third of a standard Mujipad per coil.
Cut the wicks so that they reach about halfway into the resrevoir.
That should stop the leakage.
It just doesn'n work, because the liq gets caught between the posts and coils. Then, when you fire the mod, the liq gushes out.
The Medusa has insane liquidslots and therefore needs a lot of cotton. Try building it with two 4mm coils and feed some cotton through. The wicks have to be tight in those coils, but still not too tight. Its hard to explain, so you have to try that on your own, but I use about a third of a standard Mujipad per coil.
Cut the wicks so that they reach about halfway into the resrevoir.
That should stop the leakage.
Oh, and don't fill the tank all the way up to the deck. Maximum is halfway from bottom to deck.
I bought a prebuilt 3mm fused clapton. I'll try finding a prebuilt 4mm then. Do you recommend clapton or simple kanthal wire?
I enjoy wicking but not wiring. I've learned wiring on 10ft of kanthal from my coil master toolkit, the result is I bad coil and I run out of wire lol
I wick my cotton until it reaches the bottom. Maybe it was another reason of the leak?
With a 3mm coil you don't have enough cotton in those juice channels.
You can of course try to fluff out the wicks without thinning them out.
Just hit them with your finger multiple times and they become a bit fluffier and larger. But that just helps if you use high VG-Liquid and requires a lot of tinkering to get it right. Too much tinkering in my opinion.
It doesn't matter which kind of wire you use. Use whatever wire you prefer tastewise.
Using the coiling-kit from Coilmaster, you should get near perfect contact-coils though. And as long you don't do tempcontrol, there's no reason to build spaced coils. At least in the Medusa in my opinion.
Most coils you can buy online don't state the inner diameter as far as I know, thats why I started to build my own coils in the first place.
No. Wicking it to the bottom just diminishes the tankcapacity.
You can of course try to fluff out the wicks without thinning them out.
Just hit them with your finger multiple times and they become a bit fluffier and larger. But that just helps if you use high VG-Liquid and requires a lot of tinkering to get it right. Too much tinkering in my opinion.
It doesn't matter which kind of wire you use. Use whatever wire you prefer tastewise.
Using the coiling-kit from Coilmaster, you should get near perfect contact-coils though. And as long you don't do tempcontrol, there's no reason to build spaced coils. At least in the Medusa in my opinion.
Most coils you can buy online don't state the inner diameter as far as I know, thats why I started to build my own coils in the first place.
No. Wicking it to the bottom just diminishes the tankcapacity.
I don't have the problems you mention. It is most certainly a dripper. It is definitely not a tank, tanks are not supposed to leak while on their side (at least not poor juice out). This rda will leak immediately when placed on it's side no matter how big the wick tails are because the the deck does not seal anywhere. It's not a tank and therefore not an rdta either. It's just an rda with a deep well with a deck design that has similarities to a Limitless plus.
I still haven't found a drip tip that I like on it so it has been drawered for now.
The Medusa is back in daily rotation now with the addition of a 510 drip tip (no more burnt lips) and some dental floss under the top cap and sleeve orings (to firm things up).
Alternatively one could buy an Ultem 510 dt for the matchy-matchy thing.
Psyclone Hadaly Replacement Drip Tip (Standard 510)
Unfortunately with the smaller 510 dt dripping through the dt is no longer an option so removing the top cap is required. Removing both the top cap and sleeve is necessary to fill the juice well, squirting juice past the wicking into the well with a needle tip bottle seems to work best. It does hold 3ml if you don't have huge wick tails in the well and it can be tilted quite far while vaping without leaking as long as you're not using thin juice ie at least 70%vg.
Overall, with a tweak or two I like it, great capacity and great flavor.
Alternatively one could buy an Ultem 510 dt for the matchy-matchy thing.
Psyclone Hadaly Replacement Drip Tip (Standard 510)
Unfortunately with the smaller 510 dt dripping through the dt is no longer an option so removing the top cap is required. Removing both the top cap and sleeve is necessary to fill the juice well, squirting juice past the wicking into the well with a needle tip bottle seems to work best. It does hold 3ml if you don't have huge wick tails in the well and it can be tilted quite far while vaping without leaking as long as you're not using thin juice ie at least 70%vg.
Overall, with a tweak or two I like it, great capacity and great flavor.
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