Well, that was interesting, if not particularly amusing. I was going to re-coil the Fishbone in Stainless, as I mentioned yesterday but, once I got it off the machine, I say my Vector laying handy and-- the fishbone is annoying because it likes to puke juice out of the air holes, I really don't like bottom air drippers-- and the ol' Vector has been begging me for a set of quads ever since it got here, so I though today was the day. So I built a set of quads, put it in the vector, had it all neatly measuring .3 ohms and was doing the heat-and-squeeze trick to tighten up the coils, when I promptly burnt one of the wires. So, I built another set of quads, installed them, and burnt that one out too. It seems Mr. Snow Wolf-- he's an Old Skool V1-- recognizes stainless wire as TC, even though I intended to fire it in watts mode. But on the SW, that's not selectable: if it senses TC wire, it defaults to TC mode and there's no way to take it out other than put a Kanthal coil on it. It's too late to build another set tonite, so I'll try again tomorrow, using the SX Mini. Or maybe I'll wait until the RX200 gets here. I really don't understand why the SW does that; it was built before SS wire was used and it is (I thought) a strictly Ni200 machine. But if it defaults to TC mode, and has the wrong temp coefficient, I guess it will burn them out. (sigh)
The exact same thing happened to me tonight with my VF! And yes, it burnt through a coil. I had to switch that atty to a different mod to use SS

