Is my ohms reader busted ? r/o

[RobinBanks]

Please forgive me as I am pretty new to this.

Tonight I tried to rebuild a coil for my REO and even though my reader was reading it as 1.13 ohm, when I fired my REO the damn coil melted. It got white hot and the legs immediately kind of got soft and collapsed.

28g kanthal, 8 wraps.

So then I turned the reader on with no atomizer on it and it's just displaying a 1. Threw an atomizer on with NO coil and the display is flashing and displaying anything from 1 to .80

Is it me or my reader?

Previously all my coils seemed to be fine, by the way.

 

[Rickajho]

Is it the battery in your tester? The readings and display wonk out if the battery is going weak.

 

[RobinBanks]

Is it the battery in your tester? The readings and display wonk out if the battery is going weak.

Hmmm I didn't even think of that. I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the suggestion!

 

[treehead]

Hey brother, did it work changing out the batteries? I hope so .

A 1.13 ohm coil popping it's legs means there's a short somewhere in the wraps, it could be one overlapping, a stray piece of kanthal that landed in there just right, or more commonly some wire is touching the deck/posts, also make sure that your wire is screwed down tight, I twist mine down until it stops/feels like it's going to break. I've had one atty that had a loose center-post/510 pin, and that created a spark in the atty, and shorted so that the batterys would arc between the gap, and power my coils up waaay to hard.

One thing I've had happen recently actually, is if there's a "cut" on the kanthal (like where it was nearly clipped, but not quite, or even bent back and forth too much causing it to nearly break), then it can also cause a hot spot on the coil, I had an experience alot like yours, only the legs lit up, and then it just singed off.

Hope this helps man, it doesn't sound like an ohm reader problem, make sure you tighten everything, and screw the atty on the ohm reader firmly enough (mine won't read sometimes if it's not tight, or if it's too tight lol). But just know that the ohm reader will read "1" if there's no load, and if you put an empty atty on there, it's possible to have a crazy reading, because an atty can have a reading, especially if there's juice on the posts/deck. Good luck man!

 

[RobinBanks]

Hey brother, did it work changing out the batteries? I hope so .

A 1.13 ohm coil popping it's legs means there's a short somewhere in the wraps, it could be one overlapping, a stray piece of kanthal that landed in there just right, or more commonly some wire is touching the deck/posts, also make sure that your wire is screwed down tight, I twist mine down until it stops/feels like it's going to break. I've had one atty that had a loose center-post/510 pin, and that created a spark in the atty, and shorted so that the batterys would arc between the gap, and power my coils up waaay to hard.

One thing I've had happen recently actually, is if there's a "cut" on the kanthal (like where it was nearly clipped, but not quite, or even bent back and forth too much causing it to nearly break), then it can also cause a hot spot on the coil, I had an experience alot like yours, only the legs lit up, and then it just singed off.

Hope this helps man, it doesn't sound like an ohm reader problem, make sure you tighten everything, and screw the atty on the ohm reader firmly enough (mine won't read sometimes if it's not tight, or if it's too tight lol). But just know that the ohm reader will read "1" if there's no load, and if you put an empty atty on there, it's possible to have a crazy reading, because an atty can have a reading, especially if there's juice on the posts/deck. Good luck man!

I did replace the batteries and that solved some of the flickering. Then I remembered that my Provari has an ohm reader in it too and so I tested my kayfun builds on them and they're reading the same on my Provari and the reader so I guess all is good. My singed legs was user error

Thank you so much for all the advice. I'll definitely keep these issues in mind and maybe get some new glasses!

Very helpful!!

 

[treehead]

No problem , I'm glad you figured it out man.