So I bought a trident clone today, with 3 posts making it easy to re-coil it with dual coils... already had 28 and 32 gauge kanthal and 2mm silica for rebuilding the mini protank, why not try a RDA?
When I first bought it, I opened it and immediately dripped some liquid on it. Too much, it's dripping out the sides. This is not like a clearomizer, you literally just have to get the wicks a little bit wet and that might be too much for it to not leak out...
Anyway, I start trying to vape it with the coils it came with, dual coils, around 1.7 ohm... no vapor. Weird, maybe I put too much juice on it, so I keep vaping away trying to get a decent hit, nothing. I look at the coils, one is burning the juice while the other is producing no vapor at all... weird. So at some point I got frustrated and went back to the store, where they let me know they're basically going to do this until I rebuild it.
So now I'm convinced rebuilding it will solve my problems, so I take off the old coils, do my best to replicate them with the wire and wick I have, and it came out to almost the same resistance, mission accomplished. Except it's still having the same problem. So I wrap another set of coils, drop them in and the resistance is a bit lower, around 1 ohm, maybe this will do it, but the same issue, one coil is firing the other isn't.
So I made a single coil setup and it fires perfect, knowing that electricity takes the path of least resistance I know that if I wrap dual coils they are not going to perform correctly unless they are exactly the same resistance. Now the problem I have is that this is not an exact science, and they're not exactly the same, and I can't get my dual coil setup to work to save my life. Am I completely doomed to single coil or purchasing replacements for dual coil clearomizers? Is there some kind of trick to setting up dual coil RDAs I missed? Or is it really just this hard, in which case I'm convinced anyone who can set up a properly functioning quad coil should be mapping the human genome or sending a rocket to pluto???
When I first bought it, I opened it and immediately dripped some liquid on it. Too much, it's dripping out the sides. This is not like a clearomizer, you literally just have to get the wicks a little bit wet and that might be too much for it to not leak out...
Anyway, I start trying to vape it with the coils it came with, dual coils, around 1.7 ohm... no vapor. Weird, maybe I put too much juice on it, so I keep vaping away trying to get a decent hit, nothing. I look at the coils, one is burning the juice while the other is producing no vapor at all... weird. So at some point I got frustrated and went back to the store, where they let me know they're basically going to do this until I rebuild it.
So now I'm convinced rebuilding it will solve my problems, so I take off the old coils, do my best to replicate them with the wire and wick I have, and it came out to almost the same resistance, mission accomplished. Except it's still having the same problem. So I wrap another set of coils, drop them in and the resistance is a bit lower, around 1 ohm, maybe this will do it, but the same issue, one coil is firing the other isn't.
So I made a single coil setup and it fires perfect, knowing that electricity takes the path of least resistance I know that if I wrap dual coils they are not going to perform correctly unless they are exactly the same resistance. Now the problem I have is that this is not an exact science, and they're not exactly the same, and I can't get my dual coil setup to work to save my life. Am I completely doomed to single coil or purchasing replacements for dual coil clearomizers? Is there some kind of trick to setting up dual coil RDAs I missed? Or is it really just this hard, in which case I'm convinced anyone who can set up a properly functioning quad coil should be mapping the human genome or sending a rocket to pluto???
