Using the SS mesh that came with my RSST I had no problem. I bought mesh from meshwizard .com and now I cannot make a coil that won't short. I have tried oxidizing it 4 and 5 times and then burning the juice several times. I have tried adding carbon before and after rolling the mesh. Nada.
I cannot stop SS wicks from shorting
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I don't really use SS mesh, just wondering if you tried the rolling paper trick.
I use AGA T's rather than the RSST. I understand the RSST has a plastic tank and insulated wick hole so I don't understand where your coil is shorting out to. I use un-oxidized SS, 27 gauge Kanthal and the drill bit method for wrapping coils. I typically get a short near the top of the coil at first which I find very easy to gently pulse out of existence. Check out the RBA forum here. Lots of great info on all things RBA there. Best of luck with it.
Ease up on the pressure from wire to wick. The number one cause of shorting on wick is coil cutting into wick.
With the right amount of pressure you dont even need to oxidize. And juice burn is always a waste of time regardless; it makes no sense.
You can check out my blog entry (under my avatar) for a walk-through.
With the right amount of pressure you dont even need to oxidize. And juice burn is always a waste of time regardless; it makes no sense.
You can check out my blog entry (under my avatar) for a walk-through.
They always short on the closest point from positive to wick. Kanj, that's very good to know, I have always been under the imprression that the coil has to be very tight to avoid getting hot spots or burnt coil.
Too much pressure from wire to wick = wick becomes a path of small resistance = current chooses to travel through wick instead of through coil as desired = hot spot.
Thats why hot legs are almost always the top one (first from positive pist to wick). Current goes from positive post, through that leg, meets wick, finds that wick has less resistance than the rest of the coil (easier to go through), chooses that path. Boom, hot spot.
Thats why hot legs are almost always the top one (first from positive pist to wick). Current goes from positive post, through that leg, meets wick, finds that wick has less resistance than the rest of the coil (easier to go through), chooses that path. Boom, hot spot.
The mesh wick in the Protank has an entirely different function than in a Genesis like a RSST. Since RSST gets its juice supply from the tank below, the mesh serves as a means to carry the juice up. On the contrary, the Protank is a bottom coil, with wick submerged in liquid, so it automatically receive constant juice supply just from liquid pressure pressing down on it. Thus, it now must serve as a "stopper" to hold the juice from leaking down.
In the Protank video i am also using ribbon kanthal instead of round. Due to its flatness, by nature is exerts little pressure on the wick, and also has much more spring-like quality to it. If you wrap a ribbon coil with the same amount of force you use with a round wire coil, it will be way too loose.
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I should have clarified. I am actually trying to put a stainless wick in my protank after my OEM head started conducting electricity into my face. Just got one working though after following your video to a tee. Sure does get the protank hot running a 6 wrap 1.6 ohm coil at 12 watts.
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