Ithaka new rebuildable part

[CaptSteve]

Yeah it's definitely from opening too much.. I guess I'm still finding my sweet spot. Might give the extra cotton a try though, I'll let ya know how it works

Usually more cotton doesn't improve things, it tends to cut off the airflow if you put too much in there. I would say just try opening the juice flow less. I hope you don't have cotton down the channels. If you do, remove it and cut your cotton flush to the top of each channel. Another thing is make sure you don't compress your cotton in an effort to squeeze more in there, leave it real loose and fluffy. I've found as far as taste and quality of the vape that less cotton is more believe it or not.

 

[RandomFellow]

Does anyone put cotton into the metal cup to soak up flooded juice?
Sometimes when it floods and I turn it upside down like I would normally do, a ton of ejuice comes out. I'm still getting used to the setup and have been reducing floods, but I just wanted to check and see if extra cotton from the channels to the bottom of the metal cup would reduce this or change the vape at all.
Thanks guys!

I take my cotton wick and, once passed through the center of my micro coil, I split it into thirds. The middle third I run down the juice grooves, and the outer two thirds I tuck into the cup to take up excess juice. I only have to open my juice control about a half turn.


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I take my cotton wick and, once passed through the center of my micro coil, I split it into thirds. The middle third I run down the juice grooves, and the outer two thirds I tuck into the cup to take up excess juice. I only have to open my juice control about a half turn.


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This works very2 well. However, instead of splitting to 3 parts i split mine into 2. Half turn and no issue so far.


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[mathsguy]

Does anyone put cotton into the metal cup to soak up flooded juice?
Sometimes when it floods and I turn it upside down like I would normally do, a ton of ejuice comes out. I'm still getting used to the setup and have been reducing floods, but I just wanted to check and see if extra cotton from the channels to the bottom of the metal cup would reduce this or change the vape at all.
Thanks guys!

Here’s my approach - I just pass some string right through the drain holes and wrap them around the ‘nut’ above the o-ring as the base is screwed on.

Up top, I just make sure the ‘drain line’ strings are in contact with the wick string (usually just tuck under and snip off) - as long as they contact each other, capillary action will do it’s job to remove juice from the sump I can pretty much vape it dry like this.

This has been working pretty well for me so far - when I take it apart to replace the wick, there is a lot less down the bottom, but it still gets pretty black from the brass - really need that part to be in SS!

 

[dutch onsea]

Hello folks,
Question here. Made a build with kanthal 0.25. Made 12 wraps around a blunt needle, measures out at 2.8 ohm. Put in some cotton. Puts out big clouds if I put enough power through it (20 Watts). So I have this nice flavour and good vaporproduction but I really lack throath hit. There`s enough nic in my juice so that`s not the problem. Perhaps I just got used to the nice thumb in the back of my throath I get from the penelope and kayfun. Now what I actually wanted to know before I pull out the coil, will it help if I raised it a bit (more space between coil and airhole) or should I try to do the opposite and lower the coil as much as I can?
Thanks for help

 

[imeothanasis]

2,8 ohms wire and a fat one too requires a lot of power buddy. Just make smaller coil

 

[Lo zio]

So recently I purchased the Ithaka update. too.
To my surprise the AD pin is the same as the first Penelope V2 AD pin and it broke after...two days. I suppose it was so quick because of the particular provari base I use for Ithaka, which requires a little bit of pressure to sit flush on the provari, probably stressing the pin too much.
Anyway: I was glad to discover that the new Penelope V2 AD pin works fine - no issues at all.
Now to the new rebuildable part: I have to say that with a standard setup I actually do not see as big reason for this update. I join some wires every -say- two weeks and then rebuilding Ithaka is no issue at all, it's a quick operation.
Where this update is outstanding is in the ease of inserting microcoils. I made my first in here today (Kanthal 0.32mm and cotton) - easy to build and a wonderful vape, plenty of vapor, flavour and excellent TH.
Happy with this, too!

 

[Aal_]

Well imeo made the update for the micro coilers and lung hitters

 

[steliosss]

... and for some vapers they don't want or like to use, the non resistance wire

 

[dutch onsea]

Imeo, I meant 0.25mm wire, not 25 gauge. It's not that thick, just a bit too many wraps. But how about the lowering of the coil? Will this change the vape?

 

[imeothanasis]

0,25 is very fat dutch. And making so many wraps on it, it makes it light very slow and very little. Any atomizer will have the same behavior with this wire.

My suggestion is to put a thinner wire. The best wire to my opinion is 0,16 and maybe 0,18mm, not more.

Fat wires where made for atomizers that dont wick well like genesis or like atomizers without liquid control. It was a nice trick to cover this wickness they had, but these wires cant vape as a proper wire can

 

[tobarger]

0.16mm = 34 awg
0.18mm = 33 awg
0.25mm = 30 awg

 

[dutch onsea]

Yes, like I said I was using 0.25mm or 30gauge. Thinner wire is just not very handy to wrap a micro. Ok for an answere about the height of the coil I guess I`ll do the experiment myself...

 

[Moshmarr]

Yes, like I said I was using 0.25mm or 30gauge. Thinner wire is just not very handy to wrap a micro. Ok for an answere about the height of the coil I guess I`ll do the experiment myself...

For more throat hit, maybe try raising the coil up a bit.
Lowering it closer to the air inlet has decreased TH to some degree, for me anyhow..
But then again, I use 3mg now, and I really don't even know what throat hit is anymore, lol

 

[subver]

How much liquid does the Ithaka hold with the new rebuildable part installed (also how much for regular Ithaka)?
It feels like it either holds less liquid or I am just plowing through liquid at a much faster rate (which could be due to the microcoils)

Thanks!

 

[imeothanasis]

4 ml on both rebuildable parts sub

 

[MoDmAnDaN]

How much liquid does the Ithaka hold with the new rebuildable part installed (also how much for regular Ithaka)?
It feels like it either holds less liquid or I am just plowing through liquid at a much faster rate (which could be due to the microcoils)

Thanks!

Yup, they both hold the same amount. Your just burning through more juice. Vape on!

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[JeffvapesGG]

Just would like to share a build on the Ithaca update ..it's nothing crazy but nice vapor and th.
28gauge kanthal micro coil (7-8wraps each I believe) x2 with the ends twisted together

 

[JeffvapesGG]

 

[mitchob123]

Just saw the new drip mouthpiece, seems like it would go great with the new rebuildable part, will there be another run? Also curious about next JGG run and penny v2!