IGO-L nothing but problems. Any suggestions?

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Kamoch

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Hey y'all. Just a quick curiosity about the IGO. Is it ok if your coil touches the headcap? I've made a larger coil that was touching it and it didn't short out or anything. I'm just kind of wondering what it affects, if anything.

No, your coil will conduct to the top cap & not complete the circuit as efficiently. I uave a pic of my setup, dual coil but you canale a single coil the same way & get good results...

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Just tuck the wick ends under your coil so they sit in the drip well.

EDIT: You are using 30 awg, try at least 5 wraps to up your resistance, or try a micro coil.

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...271-micro-coils-increase-vapor-flavor-th.html
 
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Leoleoleo

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Any success with this?

Still a self-professed non expert here. I got the igo-l this weekend and am vaping my first successful coil on it.

A couple of things:

I cleaned mine out thoroughly with alcohol. Some atty's come with machine oil and other nastiness from the factory. It is possible that this is what you were tasting. Also, I didn't use the supplied wick and wire. The wick I did use, I torched to remove any unwanted bonuses.

My first coil worked fine while I was testing it, until I put the driptip in to start vaping it. The coil was too high and shorted out when the metal driptip touched it. It's a tighter space than it looks on the youtube videos I had been watching. I threw the coil out and started again. If your coil is touching the metal sides or top of the atty, it is definitely shorting. If you have some coils on the wire before it touches the side, the effect should be to lower the resistance rather than totally short out. So, for example, if you have 9 wraps but the wire touches the side after 3 wraps, then you have, at best, a 3 wrap coil. This might account for you getting lower ohms than you expected.

Like I say, this is advice from someone with the same or less rebuilding experience than you so please take it with some salt.
 
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