Is this normal?

[Smokills]

Hi, thanks for reading,
Was cleaning my new uwell crown 3 atomizer and took a closer look at the underside of the coil and noticed something poking out of the bottom of the coil. Is this normal? Why? Thanks
Apologies photo was taken with a poor phone...

 

[Izan]

Hi, thanks for reading,
Was cleaning my new uwell crown 3 atomizer and took a closer look at the underside of the coil and noticed something poking out of the bottom of the coil. Is this normal? Why? Thanks
Apologies photo was taken with a poor phone...

Hi and welcome,

yes.
It is a coil leg trapped by the rubber gasket.
Does the coil/tank work properly?
Cheers
I

 

[uthinkofsomething]

I can't tell what you are describing... Maybe someone else can.
But, can you be more specific, is the "something poking out" visible in that pic? No judgement on the quality lol, my phone takes bad up close pics too.
Maybe a different pic would help?

 

[WillyZee]

Vape Worm

 

[Baditude]

I couldn't tell anything from your pic.

What is the coil resistance? If it is anywhere near what it is supposed to be, I probably wouldn't worry much. If the resistance is way off, it could be a loose or defective coil and could cause a short.

 

[Smokills]

Was getting a no coil detected from my aegis and I wondered if it had anything to do with it?

 

[Baditude]

Was getting a no coil detected from my aegis and I wondered if it had anything to do with it?

It looks like a manufacturing defect of the coil. I wouldn't use it.

This is the reason we generally don't use factory-made drop in coils on mechanical mods. Your regulated mod's protection circuitry gave you a display warning about the defective atomizer. A mech won't do that. If you vaped that coil on a mech it would probably short out the battery and cause it to vent, flame, or explode.

 

[Smokills]

It looks like a manufacturing defect of the coil. I wouldn't use it.

This is the reason we generally don't use factory-made drop in coils on mechanical mods. Your regulated mod's protection circuitry gave you a display warning about the defective atomizer. A mech won't do that. If you vaped that coil on a mech it would probably short out the battery and cause it to vent, flame, or explode.

sorry still newer to vaping, so should I be not using factory made drop in coils? And be using something else? Or will this eventually cause issues where it does short out ot flame/explode? Thanks!!

 

[bombastinator]

Yes. That’s how basically all atomizer coil heads are wired. The red thing is the insulator gasket between the positive and negative. That wire poking out is the negative side lead of your coil. Don’t mess with it you’ll make that coil not work

 

[Smokills]

On further glance of the new ones, they all have a really small wire coming out, although the one I just pulled had one coming out either side, where the new ones only have one

 

[Baditude]

sorry still newer to vaping, so should I be not using factory made drop in coils? And be using something else? Or will this eventually cause issues where it does short out ot flame/explode? Thanks!!

You happened to get a dud coil. It happens. These things are made by the thousands by underpaid factory workers and its impossible to check every one before they leave the factory. You could say it was a matter of poor quality control.

Unless you learn to make your own wicks and coils for a rebuildable drip atomizer (RDA) or rebuildable tank atomizer (RTA), you'll need to stick with the simpler drop in coils made by the manufacturers. Rebuilding is rather advanced and probably not something you want to do as a new vaper.

You're currently using a regulated mod which has protection circuits to detect bad coils or short circuits. I suggest that you stick with this and just inspect your new coils before you use them next time.

 

[Smokills]

Ok thank you very much!

 

[Cooperant]

On further glance of the new ones, they all have a really small wire coming out, although the one I just pulled had one coming out either side, where the new ones only have one

Hey Smokills, congratulations on your new tank I looked it up and it's definitely interesting. Good thing you had that dud coil on a regulated mod. This just happens sometimes with stock coils. After a few packs of coils you should consider how many duds you got and calculate the true price of your coils. One of the leads being trapped between a little grommet and the outer casing like this is a really common way to isolate the negative post of the resistance inside your coilhead from the positive one. To check if you are ready to go after you popped in a new coil and juiced it up:
1. Turn your mod off and on again.
2. Check your mod, does it read an ohm value or do you see an error message? If it reads
3. Press the firing button shortly (really, just a quick click, 1 second or less)
4. Check if the resistance your mod is reading (the ohm-value) is within .2 ohms of the resistance advertised on the package of the coils.
If all these things work out, you're ready to go. Start vaping on your coil at a lower wattage, short drags, to break it in. As you use, up the wattage to your desired level and increase your drag to where you want it to be. Check the screen from time to time afterwards

 

[Smokills]

Awesome, one other quick question I had, will juice get into the drip tip/air flow area no matter what? And I just have to clean it more often? or is something I'm doing throughout the day causing this?

 

[Cooperant]

Awesome, one other quick question I had, will juice get into the drip tip/air flow area no matter what? And I just have to clean it more often? or is something I'm doing throughout the day causing this?

Your coilhead is filled with a porous, absorbing material, such as cotton. Juice can get through. As you heat the juice, it becomes thinner and flow more quickly. This is great, because it gets to where it needs to be (the resistance inside) much quicker. After you stop vaping however, it takes a while to cool. Even cold juice will always seep through a little. The vacuum inside your tank helps stop this process. When you shake your device (for example while walking around or vaping) you disturb this vacuum a little. Things that can help you with this are going for a thicker juice (thinnest 100PG/0VG, thickest 95VG/5PG). The coils on this Uwell Crown 3 have big juice slots, so they will be able to handle a thicker juice better. Such thicker juices will also produce bigger clouds, but they will have less of a throat feel, making the experience more different from inhaling smoke.

 

[Letitia]

Awesome, one other quick question I had, will juice get into the drip tip/air flow area no matter what? And I just have to clean it more often? or is something I'm doing throughout the day causing this?

Sometimes that is simply condensation.

 

[Smokills]

Sometimes that is simply condensation.

when I cleaned it, it was a darker color of the vape juice being used in the bottom, a fair amount but not like flooded completely

 

[Cooperant]

when I cleaned it, it was a darker color of the vape juice being used in the bottom, a fair amount but not like flooded completely

Then it's juice. The darker color is partially because the heat of your coil caramelizes the flavorings.

 

[Baditude]

Sometimes that is simply condensation.

Yep. Every 3 - 4 days I'll clean out the inside of my drip tip with a Q-Tip to remove the condensation and "gunk". I don't get any e-liquid that collects around the air holes of my tank.

 

[Letitia]

when I cleaned it, it was a darker color of the vape juice being used in the bottom, a fair amount but not like flooded completely

If it's colored it's juice, is the inside of the coil brown?