Just my luck!

[GoodNews!]

I just got my ohm tester in, virtually the most important tool in building coils, and since my rda's arrived today, I've been pretty much stalking my mailbox.

HOWEVER.

The ohm checker is reading everything to be around 3.8ohms. All of my new Fluxomizers (2.4ohms) read out to be 3.8ohms, and I'd hope to heck this is an ohm checker glitch. I screwed one down real tight and it finally read to 2.-something, but this is crazy.

Could it be the off brand batteries I put in the thing? Is there a fault? THIS IS JUST MY LUCK.

 

[wonner]

Sounds like a contact pin problem. Do you have simple cartomizer or atomizer to test the meter?

Not familiar with Fluxomizers.

 

[GoodNews!]

Yeah, I've tested some of my other ones, and they all came out at weird ohms too, 3.8 up to even 5ohms.

Anything I could possibly do to fix it, or do I have to send it in?

 

[MD_Boater]

Oh, damn. That really does suck. No buttons, switches, or dials on it, right?

Not counting an on/off switch

 

[wonner]

Just for kicks, I would clean the contacts on the meter, just in case they are coated with some kind of manufacturing residue.

If it's like mine, it's pretty much a sealed black box with nothing to adjust.

Unless someone else knows more, it might have to be returned.

 

[John_]

Sounds like a contact pin problem. Do you have simple cartomizer or atomizer to test the meter?

Not familiar with Fluxomizers.

They're branded ce style clearos. FLÜXOMIZERS / CLEAROMIZER FROM GOTVAPES.COM - YouTube

 

[LucentShadow]

Have you accounted for the resistance of the leads on the tester?

 

[Zealous]

Not familiar with Fluxomizers.

Fluxomizers are ce2s made exclusively for gotvapes.

@op, did you buy them from GV? They're not actual fluxomizers if they didn't come from GV. Are you sure they aren't just mismarked as 2.4ohm when they are really a higher ohm? Seems odd that ALL your ce2s would be reading the same ohm & have it be wrong every time. I wouldn't trust an off brand to have the correct ohms marked. I've had a few name brand (generally good quality) cartos/tanks test higher ohms than they were actually marked.

Also maybe change the batteries on the ohm reader & see if that helps.

 

[cantstopwontstop]

You said you got some RDAs? I would build one and see if it spits out a different reading. The meter I have is a bit finicky and for some reason it never stays on a specific reading for very long; it flickers from .7 - .73 - .64 and things like that. Basically I have to make an estimate. Fortunately I use high amp batteries so as long as it doesn't go below .3 I feel safe. I have put SMOK coils (protank) on it and had them be up to .5 off from what the box says they are, so this could be your problem as well.

Build your RDA with whatever size wire and wick you have and see if it measures it to be within a reasonable range.

 

[GoodNews!]

Well, I've been sort of practicing with wrapping in the meantime, but with having no real experience about what my coils are really supposed to turn out at, I have no clue how to use them as sort of a test.

Every clearomizer I have is turning out between 2.3 (rarely) and 5 ohms, and there seems to be no real pattern for what comes out as what. It's the strangest thing I ever saw. 4 of the Flux's were up in the high 3, low 4 area, and one was about 2.9. (Yeah, they're from GV). However, I tested an Aro head, a CE4 head, my Cisco, all sorts of things, it's just giving out bizarre ohms.

Someone said somehow about how Radioshack has ohm checkers - do they really, or do you have to fiddle and kook up a bunch of wiring and stuff?

P.S. As I predicted too, my RDA's have defects. One has what seems to be a sunken post (maybe), and another has a post that is completely twisted inward where the hole is exactly facing the inside of the other post - it is extremely hard to coil. I also think the original coil that was placed in one of them may have a broken piece of wiring that fell down inside one of the posts, as when I gently took off the original coil, one wire had no length to the end and was already loose before I unscrewed anything, and one had a small amount of end. Dunno how I'd actually check that though.

P.S.S. About the Fluxomizers, I have no clue if they're free from actual shorts or anything, can't check, but I tried one of them out with a "blueberry" juice I also got from DV, and on the first hit, blueberries, 2nd and 3rd hit, STRONG silica. I was tilting and twirling and everything. It turned from OK blueberries to sock. Ugh, ugh, ugh. Hate bad devices.

Hate bad luck too. Every time I order something, something's wrong with something. Watch, the next 3 ohm checkers I get in will be BROKEN.

 

[BillyWJ]

It must be a plot between Big Tobacco and ohms checker makers.

 

[GoodNews!]

If the next three of em come in broken, I'll begin to think so.

I'm so angry right now. It's sort of ridiculous, how many times in the history of vaping has an ohm checker not worked? What kind of curse is this? And who knows if it's even the ohm checker, maybe all these Sucksomizers have shorts and that all my other clearos are reading weird because they also have shorts and mess, but I don't know, I don't think that's it.

And I'm definately letting it sit there and take its time, some of the heads, it jumps around before landing on 3.5ohms or so (never once hitting the actual real ohm mark though), and some of em immediately just say like, 4.9ohms.

Is there any type of number factor I should be taking into account? The checker does seem to read out a different number each time, meaning that it's sensing something, but sort of factoring a 2ohm range difference is no where near what I need for ensuring my RDA coils don't run too powerful on the battery I have.

 

[wonner]

The Cisco, assuming it's a HH.357, should definitely be showing between 1.5 and 3.0, because they are only sold in 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, and 3.0 ohms.

 

[TheJakeBailey]

From my experience, never have I had a coil or carto measure exactly the ohms that it was listed at. But being THAT far off is unlikely. I know it was already suggested, but DID you clean the contacts in the checker??

 

[GoodNews!]

I wiped it down real good with a q-tip but I don't have any alcohol on me atm. Looks clean as pie though, to be honest, it's super shiny.

Yeah, this thing's deal is that it's reading ohms as though it's adding 1 to 2 whole ohm's to whatever the device is supposed to be. Surprisingly enough, with the Cisco being 3.5ohm's already, it showed it at 3.8ohms, but that's the closest this ohm checker has got to the real deal. With the Fluxomizers supposing to be 2.4ohms, it's reading them as like 3.9ohms and 4.5.

If it's any constellation though, the Fluxomizers absolutely suck. From the way they taste, I wouldn't be surprised if they had both shorts and hotspots at the same time.

 

[Huckleberried]

Just a long shot, but are you using any type of adapter? Mine didn't come with one and was not ego threaded. As I said, a long shot because I have no idea what type of threading those are.

 

[Racehorse]

When you say ohm checker can you tell us the brand? Is it a multimeter style?

Do you have it set to read ohms and not the setting for batteries, etc.?

 

[Iffy]

It's sort of ridiculous, how many times...

... everything you touch turns to crap!

Have you:
- researched how to use a multimeter?
-- if not, YouTube is your friend.
- selected ohms/Ω on your meter?
- touched the leads together (aka leads resistance)? Was the reading stable?
-- if not, you got screwed again.
-- if stable, your meter is good to go. Note reading.
--- subtract noted reading from actual coil measurement, if stable.

Otherwise, send everything back and continue to p&m.

ETA: If ya got a 510 ohms checker box, disregard my post, except for the last sentence.

ETAA: So much fer 98%...

 

[MD_Boater]

Put the RDA on the tester with no coil in it. Bend a paper clip into a U, and touch each end of the paper clip to one of the screws where the coil goes. Both ends need to be touching a screw at the same time. The tester should read close to 0 - very close... Let us know what that says.

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[sawlight]

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