Hot Spots

[AlexF2294]

Hey guys, I have a quick question. Well I keep getting hot spots on the legs of my coils going to the posts in my atty. How do ai fix that?

 

[jaxgator]

Compressed micro coil? Fire the coil until it glows orange. Release fire button and gently squeeze the coil with a pair of needle nose pliers or tweezers.

 

[AlexF2294]

I did that, but I'm still getting the hot spots

 

[TCombinator]

Sometimes I get hot legs and coil heats from outside in. I've found that "messing" with it helps. Saw the technique in a video (don't remember which!). The guy would pulse the coil, see hot spot or uneven heating, ang just touch it gently (still hot, but powered off) with a tiny screwdriver. Takes some patience, but does some magic.

 

[edyle]

Both sides?

 

[edyle]

The coil wasn't torched so the coils while touching each other are shorted out and conducting very well so only the legs are getting hot.

If you were building on a regulated mod, you'd have noticed the short automatically.

 

[Yiorgo]

Take whatever you used to wrap your coil and keeping pressure constant pull or push on coil just going back and forth (called cueing, as in billiards) should resolve any hot legs.... Checkout a YT video done by SuperXdrifter. "look mom no tweezers - - - -" something like that..... Then I've even seen others strum it with a metal dental pick, dragging the point along the coils....... *lightly