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the nova head came to 1.4!!! not bad. dont have juice with me to fill it, sooooooooooooo ill report back tomorrow on it.
i def wanna try the vert coil!!
how do you bend the top wire back down thru the bottom? does it touch the coil?
tonight, we will get the xmas tree. after dinner alst night while en route to get a tree we realized we left the base at home.
this holiday season feels so much more chaotic than previous years.....
Good job on the nova head, 1.4 might be kinda low but it depends on the gauge wire used. 32g wire heats up fast and hot, thicker wire isn't so bad. If the wick can keep up it's all good.
Vertical Protank coil: the positive leg comes from the bottom of the coil and goes almost straight down to the center pin, the negative leg comes from the top and bends way out before going down. It will look like a "P", if you use a 1/16 drill bit it will fit through the bottom/center pin and the removable top/chimney. Try to keep the negative leg inline with a wick hole, anywhere else and you'll have a hard time getting wick around the coil. As long as the top leg is the negative, it wouldn't matter so much if it contacts the side, that's the ground/negative so if it shorts out there it won't matter. If the bottom/positive leg touches any metal other than the center pin (past the grommet), that would be a bad short stopping electricity before it gets to the coil. Same goes for the standard, horizontal coil wrap technique.
I use 2 pieces of 2-2.5mm silica, one around each side of the vertical coil. I'm sure you can use whatever wick material you like, just don't skimp on material as you're more likely to have flooding than a dry wick. If this description needs pics to make sense, I apologize. I won't have time to make a descriptive blog post with pictures until late tonight at the soonest, it may have to wait until later this weekend.
So much time, so little to do... ...od ot elttil os ,emit hcum oS. Something like that.
