I just got an I-Atty v3 kit for a gift today (first rba). After tinkering with it, I ended up with a 1.5 ohm coil...or so I thought..It will not stay at 1.5...it has been jumping around from 1.5 to 1.1, to . 7, all over the place. I am wondering if anybody could tell me why it is doing that and possibly have a tip to help me remedy it's inconsistency. by the way, I used the .25 kanthal wire and steel mesh it came with. Thank you for your time.
I-Atty v3. Ohms are jumping around
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Your resistance wire is shorting through the mesh to ground. This is very common and will go away once it is dealt with.
There are two main ways people get rid of this. The first is thoroughly oxidizing the wick, the second is not oxidizing and just pulsing out shorts. The pulsing oxidizes the wire and wick, but only where the wire is. I started out trying to oxidize the wick and that did not work well for me. I found I still had to pulse out shorts so I switched to just doing that from the beginning. This is working very well for me now.
eHuman has a great tutorial on how to set up wick and wire in a Genisis atomizer here. If you want to go straight to the section you need scroll down to 'Hot Spot annihilation'. I do recommend you read the whole tutorial as other little details will affect how easy it is for you to get rid of shorts. Unlike what I do, he uses a combination of oxidizing the wick and pulsing out hot spots (shorts). There is nothing wrong with either way, so use what ends up working best for you. Like many things in vaping what works for one person rarely works for everyone.
I use a mechanical mod which will fire no matter what the resistance is (which could become a concern if the coil is shorted and drawing too much power from the battery). If you have a regulated mod oxidizing the wick is more important to help avoid shorts as much as possible so your resistance doesn't go too low and stop your mod from firing. I typically have the shorts pulsed out in about 5 minutes with a new wick. I take my time and if the RBA gets too hot I let it cool down. There is typically a plastic insulator around the positive post that I don't want to degrade. Once I've got rid of the shorts I continue to 'bump' the wirer a bit longer to make sure all the coils are well oxidized. I will typically get another short in the next couple of days which I pulse out and then it's usually good until it needs cleaning.
Best of luck with it!
There are two main ways people get rid of this. The first is thoroughly oxidizing the wick, the second is not oxidizing and just pulsing out shorts. The pulsing oxidizes the wire and wick, but only where the wire is. I started out trying to oxidize the wick and that did not work well for me. I found I still had to pulse out shorts so I switched to just doing that from the beginning. This is working very well for me now.
eHuman has a great tutorial on how to set up wick and wire in a Genisis atomizer here. If you want to go straight to the section you need scroll down to 'Hot Spot annihilation'. I do recommend you read the whole tutorial as other little details will affect how easy it is for you to get rid of shorts. Unlike what I do, he uses a combination of oxidizing the wick and pulsing out hot spots (shorts). There is nothing wrong with either way, so use what ends up working best for you. Like many things in vaping what works for one person rarely works for everyone.
I use a mechanical mod which will fire no matter what the resistance is (which could become a concern if the coil is shorted and drawing too much power from the battery). If you have a regulated mod oxidizing the wick is more important to help avoid shorts as much as possible so your resistance doesn't go too low and stop your mod from firing. I typically have the shorts pulsed out in about 5 minutes with a new wick. I take my time and if the RBA gets too hot I let it cool down. There is typically a plastic insulator around the positive post that I don't want to degrade. Once I've got rid of the shorts I continue to 'bump' the wirer a bit longer to make sure all the coils are well oxidized. I will typically get another short in the next couple of days which I pulse out and then it's usually good until it needs cleaning.
Best of luck with it!
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