My new RBA that I've been vaping on hot and hard for the last three days didn't seem to be vaping the way I thought it should, so I emptied the tank, and took off the cover and tried to dry burn off the coil. This didn't go so well. I ended up messing it up so it wouldn't fire at all. Bummer in the summer...
Joseph had helped me do that coil, and he worked out the hot spots for me with ribbon wire. It was working so great, until I vaped it into an encrusted mess of burnt juice carboned up all over it. Then I messed with it and screwed it up. So, I figured I have 100 ft of 28 ga. kanthal, why not try.
My first effort was a 3 wrap, and I popped the coil.
Then I tried a 4 wrap, evening the coil loops up before anything else, which tested out a .64 ohms, and wonder of wonders, all by myself I got it right. I pulsed the coil a half second a few times, then a bit longer, and whaddayaknow, that coil glowed all the way down, with no hot spots, lighting up like a neon sign. Wowie zowie!
I filled that tank, put the cap back on, and vaped. It produces big rich clouds now, with the very briefest of pushes on that button! There's a soft wooshing sound in the RBA when I push the button and draw on it, just like when Joseph helped me with the first coil, and I only have to push that button a half second to get a huge vape off it.
I think I got it down right, and this time I did it all alone. I'm so proud of myself
I have to take it down to Vape King tomorrow and show it off.
Joseph had helped me do that coil, and he worked out the hot spots for me with ribbon wire. It was working so great, until I vaped it into an encrusted mess of burnt juice carboned up all over it. Then I messed with it and screwed it up. So, I figured I have 100 ft of 28 ga. kanthal, why not try.
My first effort was a 3 wrap, and I popped the coil.
Then I tried a 4 wrap, evening the coil loops up before anything else, which tested out a .64 ohms, and wonder of wonders, all by myself I got it right. I pulsed the coil a half second a few times, then a bit longer, and whaddayaknow, that coil glowed all the way down, with no hot spots, lighting up like a neon sign. Wowie zowie!
I filled that tank, put the cap back on, and vaped. It produces big rich clouds now, with the very briefest of pushes on that button! There's a soft wooshing sound in the RBA when I push the button and draw on it, just like when Joseph helped me with the first coil, and I only have to push that button a half second to get a huge vape off it.
I think I got it down right, and this time I did it all alone. I'm so proud of myself
I have to take it down to Vape King tomorrow and show it off.
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