Hello everyone, thanks for reading my post and happy to join the forum! 
So I have learned that with more airflow in the rda it should produce more vapor, right? But what I have experimented is totally against it.
First of all, here are my configurations.
Mod: magneto
Battery: Efest 18650 purple 18650 2500mAh 35A
RDA: TOBH (from local B&M e-cig store so I think this should be genuine with the price paid)
ejuice: organic juice with 80% VG, 6mg of nic
Coil:
When I started firing it without the cap on, it produced pretty good streams of vapor. Yes there were some popping and gurgling but I would say the amount was pretty good.
Now it's the interesting part: After I put the cap on if I left 3 wholes wide open on each side, it produced huge flavor and way too much throat hit but no vapor at all. If I left just one hole open on each side, it produced a little bit tighter draw with some vapor but it's still weak and even my crappy ego-twist with protank mini produced way more vapor!
Granted I am new to building RDA, but it shouldn't have produced such pathetic amount of vapor. First of all, I don't understand why with more airflow it produced no vapor. Also, I don't get how it could produce such little amount of vapor with one hole on. I think I have applied every bit of knowledge I have learned from online and youtube. I finally built my coils pretty decently (it used to take a long time to heat up), and I learned to not over stuffed my coils with wicks, but I am still struggling with vapor production! Now most of the time I am still using my protank 3 with 0.8 ohm dual coils, and the vapor and the flavor are much better than my own build.
I know may be I should try the rayon cellucotton, or may be some expensive organic Japanese cotton. But till then, do you see if I have done something wrong, or do you have any suggestion? One thing I can think of is may be the elevation of my coils are too high since I raised them up close to the top of the posts, but I thought that would produce better circulation. I would try to lower them tonight to see how it turns out.
Please help out and any suggestions are welcomed! Thanks in advance!
So I have learned that with more airflow in the rda it should produce more vapor, right? But what I have experimented is totally against it.
First of all, here are my configurations.
Mod: magneto
Battery: Efest 18650 purple 18650 2500mAh 35A
RDA: TOBH (from local B&M e-cig store so I think this should be genuine with the price paid)
ejuice: organic juice with 80% VG, 6mg of nic
Coil:
- dual coils of 26g kanthal A1 graded wire
- 8 wraps each using 1/8" drill bit with final reading of 0.5 ohm
- torched before and after the wrapping and the loops are very close to each other. They glow pretty fast after practicing few days
- position of the coils:
- both coils are at the center between the postive and the negative posts
- not too close to the posts and not too close to the walls, somewhere in between
- organic cotton
- not too loose and not too tight while being inserted into the coils
- I didn't leave the wicks too long, and just cut them short enough to barely touch the bottom of the tank
- have enough room underneath the coils for airflow
When I started firing it without the cap on, it produced pretty good streams of vapor. Yes there were some popping and gurgling but I would say the amount was pretty good.
Now it's the interesting part: After I put the cap on if I left 3 wholes wide open on each side, it produced huge flavor and way too much throat hit but no vapor at all. If I left just one hole open on each side, it produced a little bit tighter draw with some vapor but it's still weak and even my crappy ego-twist with protank mini produced way more vapor!
Granted I am new to building RDA, but it shouldn't have produced such pathetic amount of vapor. First of all, I don't understand why with more airflow it produced no vapor. Also, I don't get how it could produce such little amount of vapor with one hole on. I think I have applied every bit of knowledge I have learned from online and youtube. I finally built my coils pretty decently (it used to take a long time to heat up), and I learned to not over stuffed my coils with wicks, but I am still struggling with vapor production! Now most of the time I am still using my protank 3 with 0.8 ohm dual coils, and the vapor and the flavor are much better than my own build.
I know may be I should try the rayon cellucotton, or may be some expensive organic Japanese cotton. But till then, do you see if I have done something wrong, or do you have any suggestion? One thing I can think of is may be the elevation of my coils are too high since I raised them up close to the top of the posts, but I thought that would produce better circulation. I would try to lower them tonight to see how it turns out.
Please help out and any suggestions are welcomed! Thanks in advance!
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