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Thanks Dusty for clearing that up. That's what I was thinking about mods, but wasn't sure. Don't believe I'll get into Mech mods as I have no need for sub ohms. About 1.5 thru 1.8 is sufficient for my juices, and consistent volts is much better.

Subohm would be nice on your AGA. It heats up your juice faster.
 

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I am kinda in the same boat. I have ribbon wire on it right now and ain't digging it so much. I have to rebuild and then make my judgement. I just got it with high hopes.


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I replaced the pin and spring in mine with a 1/8 inch brass rod last night. Went from a 0.8 voltage drop on a 0.8 ohm coil to 0.2 voltage drop. It is finally performing like a $140 atty should. Just upset that something that expensive doesn't perform like it should. Would be fine on a variable device I guess.

After doing this mod though I Def need a cobra atty.

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Folks. I like .9 ish for my gennys. Should I build my kayfun the same way then? Its a different vape so I'm just wondering if I should approach it differently.

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I don't have any experience with the kayfun but I know on my terminator I got better performance with a 1.4 ohm micro coil than I did with sub ohm coils.

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I don't have any experience with the kayfun but I know on my terminator I got better performance with a 1.4 ohm micro coil than I did with sub ohm coils.

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I have no skills for micro coils though I haven't actually tried neither. I need a nice desk to work on.

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I have no skills for micro coils though I haven't actually tried neither. I need a nice desk to work on.

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They are pretty easy to do. Wrap your coil around a toothpick, squeeze it tight together with tweezers and slide off toothpick, torch with lighter and the coils will stay together. Then feed your silica through the coil.

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They are pretty easy to do. Wrap your coil around a toothpick, squeeze it tight together with tweezers and slide off toothpick, torch with lighter and the coils will stay together. Then feed your silica through the coil.

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Thru a toothpick hole?? Lmfao fat fingers and 2mm silica sound like failure without even attempting.

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Thru a toothpick hole?? Lmfao fat fingers and 2mm silica sound like failure without even attempting.

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Lol. Take a small piece of aluminum foil and twist it tightly around the end of the silica. Making it almost like the end of a shoe lace. That will make it easier to start the silica through the coil

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Lol. Take a small piece of aluminum foil and twist it tightly around the end of the silica. Making it almost like the end of a shoe lace. That will make it easier to start the silica through the coil

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OK that foil thing only messed me up more. Wrapped a 7/8(i think) 29 gauge with cotton and it came out to 1.8ohms Wrapped it as close and tight as possible and I think I did a damn good job.
Threw some heavenly army in there and hot damn its good. Though army now tastes like gandalf did months ago. So weird but I'll be building another coil tomorrow when I get silica so there's only room for improvement here.
Looks of this thing is gorgeous.
At first there was a tiny bit of flooding out of air hole but its better now and no leaking.

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Love it

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OK that foil thing only messed me up more. Wrapped a 7/8(i think) 29 gauge with cotton and it came out to 1.8ohms Wrapped it as close and tight as possible and I think I did a damn good job.
Threw some heavenly army in there and hot damn its good. Though army now tastes like gandalf did months ago. So weird but I'll be building another coil tomorrow when I get silica so there's only room for improvement here.
Looks of this thing is gorgeous.
At first there was a tiny bit of flooding out of air hole but its better now and no leaking.

"The spice must flow"

Nice job, Dude.
 

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OK guys I'm seriously confused (beginner vaper here if you didn't already know)

So I made a purchase of a Vision Spinner battery. Love it. Compact, lasts awhile, adjustable. I have a Vapeonly Mini BCC tank I've been using with the standard 2.2ohm coil it comes with. Have my spinner battery at around 3.8-3.9 when I vape it. Tastes great! The coil needed to be changed and I went to a 1.8 coil that came with the kit. Definitely needed to turn it down to 3.6ish to get a good taste.

Now what I'm confused with is how people set up mechanicals that use resistance 1.8 or lower, but the battery is putting out between 3.9-4.2 without it tasting horrible. I was thinking of picking up a budget device on fasttech or a sigelei from vaportek to start with. But how is it not going to burn up without a higher resistance? I really suck at this :p
 

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I replaced the pin and spring in mine with a 1/8 inch brass rod last night. Went from a 0.8 voltage drop on a 0.8 ohm coil to 0.2 voltage drop. It is finally performing like a $140 atty should. Just upset that something that expensive doesn't perform like it should. Would be fine on a variable device I guess.

After doing this mod though I Def need a cobra atty.

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Just a straight brass rod? No threading or anything? I need more details?


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Just a straight brass rod. I left the top post that is threaded into the center derlin on. I just removed the bottom pin and the spring. Drilled out the bottom of the derlin to 1/8 inch and pushed the rod in until it hit the top post. I will post pics when I get time

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OK guys I'm seriously confused (beginner vaper here if you didn't already know)

So I made a purchase of a Vision Spinner battery. Love it. Compact, lasts awhile, adjustable. I have a Vapeonly Mini BCC tank I've been using with the standard 2.2ohm coil it comes with. Have my spinner battery at around 3.8-3.9 when I vape it. Tastes great! The coil needed to be changed and I went to a 1.8 coil that came with the kit. Definitely needed to turn it down to 3.6ish to get a good taste.

Now what I'm confused with is how people set up mechanicals that use resistance 1.8 or lower, but the battery is putting out between 3.9-4.2 without it tasting horrible. I was thinking of picking up a budget device on fasttech or a sigelei from vaportek to start with. But how is it not going to burn up without a higher resistance? I really suck at this :p

Before VV batteries, you controlled the wattage by the resistance of the atty you were using. It was feeble but the only way before VV. VV has made life nice. Screw the mechs unless you are going subohm. They have their place. Or as some here have done, they use the top end of the charge on their mechs so they know they are burning at 3.8 - 4.2 volts and match the resistance accordingly to their preferred vape range. They just have to recharge their batteries more frequently. Kind of a PITA for my lifestyle but that's just me.

Hope that made sense. :)
 

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Before VV batteries, you controlled the wattage by the resistance of the atty you were using. It was feeble but the only way before VV. VV has made life nice. Screw the mechs unless you are going subohm. They have their place. Or as some here have done, they use the top end of the charge on their mechs so they know they are burning at 3.8 - 4.2 volts and match the resistance accordingly to their preferred vape range. They just have to recharge their batteries more frequently. Kind of a PITA for my lifestyle but that's just me.

Hope that made sense. :)

But but... Your older and have more time then me. That's a joke BTW. Your prolly even more busy day to day then I am. I consider anything not rebuildable or mech a PITA now. Just have extra batteries on hand.



I've been using my 1.4mm screwdriver since its tiny and solid to wrap the coil.
I just wet the cotton and twisted to slide thru. I'm learning patience in leaps and bounds these days.

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