Ok are you using a little 510 meter as sold and used for vaping atomizers or an actual Meter as in Multimeter I assumed you were using a multimeter from your post
is my ohm meter crap?
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It's a 510 meter specifically marketed for ecigs. Tests battery and ohms.
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ok then you have the little square device made for testing Attys If your going to get into building coils your much better off with an actual multimeter. I am a service tech for a local heavy industrial machine co and use a fluke meter. I use that for all my coil readings, You can get a decent meter at radio shack fairly cheap. The little atty ohms devices sold are ok, but I have seen several display different readings for the same coil by as much as 1.4 ohms. The one I bought is off from my fluke reading by 1.1 ohm It does however make a nice building stand so all isn't lost with that device.IMO
Lol. Well are those easy to use? Or do you have to attach wires to things? Ill go check one out tomorrow.
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So how do you use those meters? I see there's a positive and negative lead. What do you touch them to? Sorry for my idiocy
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what you will do is touch the positive lead to one end of the coil and the negative to the other end of the coil.
My 510 meter kept reading low. Turns out center pin was loose. Could open it up and push center pen up and get correct reading..... I need a better meter!!
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just threw a bad ohms meter away last week, had the same problem ! i tested on 2 reg. devices, read correct , ohms meter was giving some wacky numbers, straight to the trash can , not gonna take that chance ..
Just bought a neweter for like 9 buck on eBay, multimeter. Checked ratings of product first
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That happens when you screw the tank down and when the center pins touch and press on one another the rubber grommet at the bottom of the atomizer head compresses and the deformation causes a shift in one or both of the legs of the coil and the coil wire touches something; you could for example get a complete short just from screwing down the tank onto the mod.
That's one of the advantages of having an APV where you can measure the ohms while the coil is on it.
Radio Shack actually sells a pretty good multimeter. If you want to splurge, get a Fluke, it'll never let you down. If the mod you have can also measure ohms, then all the better, it measures the whole build. I have an old Fluke 75 and I just touch the leads (doesn't matter what polarity) to the coil directly to get a baseline reading, then use the mod to read the system as a whole. So far, so good!
The picture you posted of your latest coil showed a little bit of space between the wick and coil. I saw a video pulling three pieces of wick through, and that's what I followed with the coil I built.
Edit: The Steam Sandwich!
The picture you posted of your latest coil showed a little bit of space between the wick and coil. I saw a video pulling three pieces of wick through, and that's what I followed with the coil I built.
Edit: The Steam Sandwich!
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Yeah I don't have the kind of income that justifies a fluke, new or used, just for testing coils. I dug around online and found a super cheap meter for 9 bucks that had hundreds of 4 and 5 star reviews that I read on amazon and other sites so I just got it yesterday. I do think I needed to thicken my wicks up too. I have been using my dual coil dripper now and not the one this thread started with so I havnt been building those atomizers any more but at some point I will need to so any advice is always welcomed.
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