totally agree. since doing this I have had zero dry hits, not that I really had any before but on occasion with higher wattage builds the flavor was lacking, now the vape seems a little juicier imo. one thing that happened, which doesn't really bother me because I rarely keep in my wicks much more then 4 days but with my last build I had kept my wicks in for like a week, well I guess the hemp kind of got whimpy and maybe couldn't hold as much liquid as when new, but it started gurgling. I rewicked and all was good again
yeah I find the hemp is usually good for 4-5 days at least, sometimes up to a week, funny thing is my mini hasn't been rewicked in several weeks and it's still going strong but I don't use that one primarily anyway so sometimes I can go 3 weeks or more.
when I say dry hits I'm not talking about super dry burn up your wick type dry, that has been solved long ago with less wick density. to me anything less than a fully saturated wick doesn't give you full flavor. it does still vape and some may even think it's vaping fine, but I'm used to either a reo or a dripper and I want a fully saturated wick and coil, for me a dry hit is anything less than fully saturated. I'm sure for some they may not even consider this a dry hit and for some they may be able to vape and vape, thinking it's fine with a less than fully saturated wick and coil, I'm not necessarily talking about dry enough to burn up the wick, I guess I shouldn't say dry hits I should say drier hits as opposed to a fully saturated nice wet vape, anything less is not peak flavor in my book and is dry
IMHO all the problems suggest an issue or issues with the mod and not the DNA. Sounds to me like a battery contact issue or similar.
Just out of curiosity what battery/batteries were you using?
From talking to you earlier it sounds like it was slapped together rather sloppy. I have built a fair share of DNA20 mods and the only issues I have had have been self inflicted or components other than the DNA.
I hope the futura people get you fixed up!
yeah, def sounds like a threading or contact issue. the dna can draw up to 7 amps and is very sensitive to a less than perfect connection, it senses voltage drop and voltage sag... when a mech has a less than perfect connection you may not notice as readily, it will still vape but may give a little less power to the coil ultimately, but the dna senses the big voltage drops and it wreaks havoc with it's logic. this isn't really a flaw of the dna it's a flaw in the circuit. the nivel chip is similar, many guys have complained about there nivel giving them e3 and e5 fault codes blaming the mod when in reality it's just the chip sensing what it is designed to sense, both of these chips with good complete circuits perform awesomely... with a bad connection anywhere it will not perform well. my semovar can sense when the battey cap is less than fully snug and give an error code, tightening all the connections well makes it go away, some look at this as a flaw but it's not really, it's just that the chip is sensitive enough to see things in the circuit that you may not see. if the battery shows as dead right after a draw it's because the voltage dipped down below a certain threshold momentarily, the dna doesn't want to see that, it wants to see a rock solid connection to the battery and it wants to see a battery that doesn't sag lower than it should, the chip has no way of knowing if the problem is the battery itself or the circuit, feed the dna well and it will perform well, fed it with a less than rock solid circuit and it will fault and bug out occasionally
as far as coil diameter, whatever works for you works for you, but for me I run 1.5 and 1.4mm diameter micros all the time and find they give me the best taste... it's not that a larger coil doesn't also vape well but the smaller coils give peak flavor. some theorize in the microcoil thread that it's a matter of wicking, while it may seem that a larger diameter wick will hold more juice the theory is that only the part of the wick touching the coil itself is what dries and a drying wick will wick fluid from the adjacent more saturated part, a large diameter wick will only dry the outside perimeter of this wick leaving a wet core, this wet core actually prevents the wick from wicking as well where it is actually needed which is on it's perimeter contacting the coil. a 1.5 micro will dry all the way to the core, allowing better overall wicking... not looking to o too deep into theories here but suffice it to say that a 2.0mm coil does not wick better than a 1.5mm coil in my experience but a 1.5mm coil can't be wicked too dense or it will suck, a larger coil can deal with a bit higher wick density but over dense becomes critical at the smaller diameters... I'd never do a coil bigger than 1.5mm now personally, no benefit only drawbacks to me
