Joyetech eGrip - I am loving this thing!

[MrSparkle]

Does anyone else get an annoying drop of liquid coming out the airflow hole on the bottom when using the rba? I have tried endless styles of wicking, 3 different grips and 3 different rba and that drop keeps appearing, help! This seems to accumulate when i leave the mod sitting for a while most often.

I've been parking both of mine on paper towels for a while now, while charging overnight, and while in use, just to see if mine are leaking at all. Nothing on overnight charges, but as AmandaD noticed, if I've been chain vaping mid-late evenings, there's evidence of condensation.

Take a pull on it, exhale, and then give a little puff back through it - you'll see a little puff of leftover vapor that was hanging in the chimney. Bet that adds up after a while between the start of the air intake and the coil.

I often get a little drip on all of mine. I use higher PG juice, l and I think that's the issue.

I'm thinking this too - I've been using 100% VG. Guessing the thickness of it, coupled with the vacuum from the tank, is what's preventing outright leaking others are reporting.

Lastly - Rise, have a look at the smaller slot around the air hole in the bottom of the base. That portion is a threaded sleeve that, when tightened, clamps down one side of the coil deck to the base body. On both of mine, they weren't fully tightened out of the box. I'm thinking a lot of folks are expecting this to be already tight, and it might be allowing for leaking if it's not. Bust out a little screwdriver and give it a tighten and see if that helps. I'll re-attach a pic of it from earlier in the thread.



Speaking of charging: I should point out that it doesn't take overnight to charge. I haven't been keeping close track, but it seems to take 2 hours max from fully dead to full on the wall charger supplied in the eGrip kit. I just have it set up so I alternate between my two eGrips, and one is always put on the charger at bedtime.

btw, I might get to the vid I promised tonight

 

[cigatron]

Yeah, less than three hours to fully charge from fully depleted is what I'm seeing too. Pretty good charge rate really.

 

[Rise]

all 3 of my bases were loose at that bottom slot. Hopefully thats what it is.

 

[Kh888]

Sorry if I missed an earlier thread, but I was wondering if Joyetech will be coming out with any 2.0 Ohm prebuilt coils for the RBA? The 1.5s are a bit hot for
me, so I built a 2 Ohm tonite and it is perfect. However, that process put a lot of strain on these almost 50 year old eyes!

 

[cigatron]

Sorry if I missed an earlier thread, but I was wondering if Joyetech will be coming out with any 2.0 Ohm prebuilt coils for the RBA? The 1.5s are a bit hot for
me, so I built a 2 Ohm tonite and it is perfect. However, that process put a lot of strain on these almost 50 year old eyes!

There are a lot of things that can cause your vape to go hot on you....resistance is not one of them.

Here's a few: Too high or too low wattage setting, hot spots on the coil, gunked up coil, too much or too little amount of cotton wicking, flooding, low battery, deformed coil and too hard or too light of draw effort through the device.

Get everything right and any res from 1.1-2 ohms will provide a nice cool vape with the rba. If you just lob in one of those prewicked replacement coils without test firing you're just roll'n the dice.

 

[Kh888]

There are a lot of things that can cause your vape to go hot on you....resistance is not one of them.

Here's a few: Too high or too low wattage setting, hot spots on the coil, gunked up coil, too much or too little amount of cotton wicking, flooding, low battery, deformed coil and too hard or too light of draw effort through the device.

Get everything right and any res from 1.1-2 ohms will provide a nice cool vape with the rba. If you just lob in one of those prewicked replacement coils without test firing you're just roll'n the dice.

I agree with you. It is great. However, any mod that starts at 7 or 8 watts is giving me problems. Not just the Egrip. If I raise the Ohms, however, it is much better for me, hence the question. Thanks for chiming in - the more info, the better!


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[rowsley]

I'm sure people have already said how long their coil has lasted in their eGRIP, but wantes to share my experience. The first coil ever put in lasted me exactly 7 days. You can instantly tell its gone bad. Besides the burnt taste there is just no more flavor. I haven't tried dry burning or cleaning it if its possible but will hang on to it just incase that can be done.

 

[rowsley]

So ill just hold my tongue for now. Had a brand new extra coil that came with it. Put it in let it sit primed it good. Nothing but burnt taste from the new one now. I don't know what to do..

 

[rowsley]

I think I have vapors tongue I can't taste anything. ..

 

[four2109]

So ill just hold my tongue for now. Had a brand new extra coil that came with it. Put it in let it sit primed it good. Nothing but burnt taste from the new one now. I don't know what to do..

Buy an RBA.
Sorry, but the original coils suck compared to the RBA.

 

[rowsley]

Thanks I've read that. I honestly think I'm going through vapors tongue right now. Its weird.

 

[cigatron]

Buy an RBA.
Sorry, but the original coils suck compared to the RBA.

If I could triple "like" this I would.

Anyone rewicked a cs coil yet?

 

[four2109]

If I could triple "like" this I would.

Anyone rewicked a cs coil yet?

I haven't even pulled one apart yet. I thought someone would have shown some pics by now. I don't want to destroy it.
I would like to but ... if it ain't broke... Both of mine still work so...
I do wish I had bought a 2nd RBA just to play with.
My coils last too long! I don't get to build. Still on the first factory one. I did build a jig but I don't need the coils!!! What to do?

 

[rowsley]

Just ordered a rba base from vaporbeast for 11.90 including shipping. Comes with 3 prebuilt coils, wire, cotton, extra screws screwdriver. Who knows what else. This should be way cheaper then the stock coils. So thanks for recomnending the rba everyone.

 

[h00ligan]

Thanks for the info on the rewick about where to place the cotton

Question for those using regular coils. Is thing a juice hog even with aspire and joyetech coils? I knew it went through it fast with the rba but, feels fast for me with my aspire coil too...

Imo not as much. But it doesn't wick well and dry hits like crazy

 

[MrSparkle]

Posted this in the APV eGrip thread just now - thought I'd cross-reference it here:

In RBA news: stopped by Cignot today to check the alignment of the juice inlet holes on the RBA tube / chimney on the ones they had in stock.

Andrew on duty made the wise choice of not letting me pilfer through each box - so we checked two new ones, the first had two holes line up with the deck with no access for wicking with the tube / chimney seated. The second, all four holes exposed nicely with the tube / chimney seated, so I bought it.

We also looked at a RBA he had on hand out of his own kit, and his had two holes aligned with the deck, and he noted all of this to relate to customers.

So add in the two RBAs I already have that suffered the same fate - one with two holes aligned / obscured by the deck, one with all four holes exposed - and all that would prove Joyetech is not paying attention to precise indexing of threads / drilling location of holes in the RBA. They'd do well to address this and save some POed customers struggling with flooding / gurgling / leaking.

 

[cigatron]

Posted this in the APV eGrip thread just now - thought I'd cross-reference it here:

In RBA news: stopped by Cignot today to check the alignment of the juice inlet holes on the RBA tube / chimney on the ones they had in stock.

Andrew on duty made the wise choice of not letting me pilfer through each box - so we checked two new ones, the first had two holes line up with the deck with no access for wicking with the tube / chimney seated. The second, all four holes exposed nicely with the tube / chimney seated, so I bought it.

We also looked at a RBA he had on hand out of his own kit, and his had two holes aligned with the deck, and he noted all of this to relate to customers.

So add in the two RBAs I already have that suffered the same fate - one with two holes aligned / obscured by the deck, one with all four holes exposed - and all that would prove Joyetech is not paying attention to precise indexing of threads / drilling location of holes in the RBA. They'd do well to address this and save some POed customers struggling with flooding / gurgling / leaking.

So have you noticed any differences in behavior between the one with all four juice holes accessible to wicking and the one where two holes are blocked by the screw posts?

 

[vjdossey]

Posted this in the APV eGrip thread just now - thought I'd cross-reference it here:

In RBA news: stopped by Cignot today to check the alignment of the juice inlet holes on the RBA tube / chimney on the ones they had in stock.

Andrew on duty made the wise choice of not letting me pilfer through each box - so we checked two new ones, the first had two holes line up with the deck with no access for wicking with the tube / chimney seated. The second, all four holes exposed nicely with the tube / chimney seated, so I bought it.

We also looked at a RBA he had on hand out of his own kit, and his had two holes aligned with the deck, and he noted all of this to relate to customers.

So add in the two RBAs I already have that suffered the same fate - one with two holes aligned / obscured by the deck, one with all four holes exposed - and all that would prove Joyetech is not paying attention to precise indexing of threads / drilling location of holes in the RBA. They'd do well to address this and save some POed customers struggling with flooding / gurgling / leaking.

Can you take a pic if the one that is how it should bem so I can check mine. I know it's been explained but for me pics are so helpful

 

[MrSparkle]

So have you noticed any differences in behavior between the one with all four juice holes accessible to wicking and the one where two holes are blocked by the screw posts?

Yep. eGrip #1 has the RBA where two juice inlet holes are blocked from wicking by the screw posts / deck when the RBA tube / chimney is tightened down - and it gurgles a bit at the start of the draw, I'd say 75% of the time. Again, I'm using 100% VG, so I would imagine folks using thinner PG are having it worse.

eGrip #2 has an RBA where all four juice inlet holes are accessible to wicking when the RBA tube / chimney is tight. No gurgles.

Can you take a pic of the one that is how it should be so I can check mine. I know it's been explained but for me pics are so helpful

A picture's a thousand words, of which I am soooo guilty of



This is where the juice inlet holes should be, ideally (IMO). This is the new one I bought today, after inspection before purchase at Cignot. The RBA in eGrip #2 is identical. I hope there's enough detail in these pics, they get sized down / low rezzed on upload to the forum.

Anything else, where the holes are aligned behind the screw posts / deck, aren't going to have wicking touching the holes directly when the wick is saturated. Unless someone gets super fussy / dexterous with a needle or something to get what little wicking would fit between the tube and the post. And if these holes aren't lined up right, that might explain all the gurgling / flooding / leaking / poor performance in general folks are having, and would imagine made worse the thinner the juice is / harder the draw.

Sorry if I missed it, cig - you try the sanding of the bottom end of the tube trick yet? I figured just looking for one with the right alignment out of the box was better, in case sanding brought the height of the tube down enough to degrade the seal at the top of the RBA cap to the air tube through the tank. I suppose there might be enough thread in the base body itself to crank down with to make up for that, though.

 

[cigatron]

Yep. eGrip #1 has the RBA where two juice inlet holes are blocked from wicking by the screw posts / deck when the RBA tube / chimney is tightened down - and it gurgles a bit at the start of the draw, I'd say 75% of the time. Again, I'm using 100% VG, so I would imagine folks using thinner PG are having it worse.

eGrip #2 has an RBA where all four juice inlet holes are accessible to wicking when the RBA tube / chimney is tight. No gurgles.

A picture's a thousand words, of which I am soooo guilty of

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This is where the juice inlet holes should be, ideally (IMO). This is the new one I bought today, after inspection before purchase at Cignot. The RBA in eGrip #2 is identical. I hope there's enough detail in these pics, they get sized down / low rezzed on upload to the forum.

Anything else, where the holes are aligned behind the screw posts / deck, aren't going to have wicking touching the holes directly when the wick is saturated. Unless someone gets super fussy / dexterous with a needle or something to get what little wicking would fit between the tube and the post. And if these holes aren't lined up right, that might explain all the gurgling / flooding / leaking / poor performance in general folks are having, and would imagine made worse the thinner the juice is / harder the draw.

Sorry if I missed it, cig - you try the sanding of the bottom end of the tube trick yet? I figured just looking for one with the right alignment out of the box was better, in case sanding brought the height of the tube down enough to degrade the seal at the top of the RBA cap to the air tube through the tank. I suppose there might be enough thread in the base body itself to crank down with to make up for that, though.

Right, I agree with your statement that not having access for wicking to block all four juice holes is a bad thing. Flooding/gurgling for sure with thinner juices. My rba looks like your pics (no sanding required) and it works great at 15.5w with my juices ranging from 75pg to max vg..

Truely wish Joyetech would get a handle on the juice hole alignment issue on these rbas. It is possible to run higher vg in the rba with only two holes covered by cotton but it's a deal killer for those wishing to run higher pg juices.

Sparkles, maybe you could give the sanding trick a try on your misaligned rba? I really don't think it would take more than .005" removal of material to allow the chimney tube to rotate the 45° needed for proper alignment. Worst case you could add another cs/rba seal on top of the existing one to make up the difference in height for sealing concerns. If that's too much, adding the seal from a kanger bdc head could work; it is thinner than the cs/rba seal.

For now it would be nice to have an egrip rba supplier who would check/mod the product to ensure all of their rbas shipped met OUR specs. Hehe