I need to make these posts shorter or no one will care XD.
I love me some genesis rba's, I have a russian and a prometheus. Stock I'd have to say I preferred my russian because it has gravity helping it and I'd almost never get a dry hit, if anything it flooded and I just blew the excess out the airhole (a good think to me, I always have vaper towel nearby anyway). My prometheus on the other hand (a bottom fed genesis) gave me twice the vapor due to the awesomely large airholes, however it would dry up in 2-3 hits and I'd have to hold it upside down for half a minute to get it to re-wick (using cotton), I used ss mesh and it worked awesome but I didn't care much for the caramelization taste or the initial metal taste (it wicked the same speed, it just didn't matter if I burnt the ss or not), so I was determined to make the prometheus the best of both worlds, AND I SUCCEEDED!
Experimenting with the prometheus I found out the stock holes were too small to allow enough pressure change to let the juice out even while upside down, the thick juice I prefer (VG80/20PG or 100% VG) to use wasn't able to climb fast enough through the relatively tiny holes compared to the massive airholes. So pretty much what I did was:
-used cotton for wick (I believe it's the fastest wicking that I've tried so far, anyway)
-drilled the wick holes to 9/64 and the FILL HOLE as well to 7/64 (pretty much the max width I could get the prometheus to without coming close to the posts)
-used a relatively high ohm dual coil setup so as to spread out vaporizing surface area of the wick. (also allowed me to use a mechanical mod without burning)
-wicked cotton through the wick holes loosely (making the coils actually "grip" the wick above the hole in place), cutting the wick protruding from the top of the coils to not have much excess, and wicking a really long and very skinny wick (about half the diameter of the fill hole) through the actual fill hole itself to act as a wick hole, this "fill wick" is then coiled around the middle post to help feed the actual coil wicks.
I've found with a .8ohm dual coil (6 wraps on 1/8th"'s, 1.6 each), with with huge wick holes to match the air-intakes plus a widened spare wick hole (fill hole), this improved my prometheus 5 fold, I almost prefer it over my trident now (not my brass monkee though) simply because it's an auto-dripper that produces GOBS of vapor, and really decent flavor too considering the big airflow and chamber (Sometimes I prefer a lighter flavor it works out.).
-I hope this helps any noobs to RBA's such as myself, I'm still perfecting the craft to essentially get dripper quality vapor from a tank system (I have the tatroe T1 on the way; I'm hoping it will be the answer to my vaprayers
), and this modified prometheus from Grand Vapor is close enough to make me one happy camper. Hell the fact that I can still take the drip tip off and assist it is enough to make it my absolutely perfect out-and-about rig, however with the freak holes I made now I can just tip it upside down and be ready to blow tasty clouds again!
I love me some genesis rba's, I have a russian and a prometheus. Stock I'd have to say I preferred my russian because it has gravity helping it and I'd almost never get a dry hit, if anything it flooded and I just blew the excess out the airhole (a good think to me, I always have vaper towel nearby anyway). My prometheus on the other hand (a bottom fed genesis) gave me twice the vapor due to the awesomely large airholes, however it would dry up in 2-3 hits and I'd have to hold it upside down for half a minute to get it to re-wick (using cotton), I used ss mesh and it worked awesome but I didn't care much for the caramelization taste or the initial metal taste (it wicked the same speed, it just didn't matter if I burnt the ss or not), so I was determined to make the prometheus the best of both worlds, AND I SUCCEEDED!
Experimenting with the prometheus I found out the stock holes were too small to allow enough pressure change to let the juice out even while upside down, the thick juice I prefer (VG80/20PG or 100% VG) to use wasn't able to climb fast enough through the relatively tiny holes compared to the massive airholes. So pretty much what I did was:
-used cotton for wick (I believe it's the fastest wicking that I've tried so far, anyway)
-drilled the wick holes to 9/64 and the FILL HOLE as well to 7/64 (pretty much the max width I could get the prometheus to without coming close to the posts)
-used a relatively high ohm dual coil setup so as to spread out vaporizing surface area of the wick. (also allowed me to use a mechanical mod without burning)
-wicked cotton through the wick holes loosely (making the coils actually "grip" the wick above the hole in place), cutting the wick protruding from the top of the coils to not have much excess, and wicking a really long and very skinny wick (about half the diameter of the fill hole) through the actual fill hole itself to act as a wick hole, this "fill wick" is then coiled around the middle post to help feed the actual coil wicks.
I've found with a .8ohm dual coil (6 wraps on 1/8th"'s, 1.6 each), with with huge wick holes to match the air-intakes plus a widened spare wick hole (fill hole), this improved my prometheus 5 fold, I almost prefer it over my trident now (not my brass monkee though
) simply because it's an auto-dripper that produces GOBS of vapor, and really decent flavor too considering the big airflow and chamber (Sometimes I prefer a lighter flavor it works out.).-I hope this helps any noobs to RBA's such as myself, I'm still perfecting the craft to essentially get dripper quality vapor from a tank system (I have the tatroe T1 on the way; I'm hoping it will be the answer to my vaprayers
), and this modified prometheus from Grand Vapor is close enough to make me one happy camper. Hell the fact that I can still take the drip tip off and assist it is enough to make it my absolutely perfect out-and-about rig, however with the freak holes I made now I can just tip it upside down and be ready to blow tasty clouds again!Again hope this can help anyone, I'm more than open to any suggestions, and here's some pics of the widened holes and wicking etc. Vape on bro's and sis's! 
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