Well decided to try out the rolled cotton tonight. So far so good! As easy as it is to do, changing wicks won't be as big a hassle as I expected. Gonna run it like this for a couple of days and see how it goes.
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Well, after 2 days of using cotton and micro coils I'm not quite in vaping bliss. I guess my biggest hurdle is muted flavor compared to my 5 wraps on silica. I'm not sure if it's the micro coils, or the cotton since I made both changes at once. I vaped a 1.5 ohm 12 wrap yesterday, and today I decided to move the coils closer to the airhole wrapped around a slightly thicker needle. With 8 wraps it's at 2.3 ohms. I figured I might need more cotton but I'm getting the same result. A lot of vapor, lot of throat hit, but muted flavors compared to the silica.
I guess I should either try a micro coil around silica or 5 wraps around cotton for further testing but I'm well into this bottle of wine so might not happen tonight. Maybe raise up the coils a bit above the airhole?
I'm hoping I get this working with cotton cause after only a week on the silica, although the flavor was fantastic, I felt a discomfort in my lungs that I never felt using stainless steel wicks. Not exactly a scientific observation but just saying.
I guess I should either try a micro coil around silica or 5 wraps around cotton for further testing but I'm well into this bottle of wine so might not happen tonight. Maybe raise up the coils a bit above the airhole?
I'm hoping I get this working with cotton cause after only a week on the silica, although the flavor was fantastic, I felt a discomfort in my lungs that I never felt using stainless steel wicks. Not exactly a scientific observation but just saying.
hmmmm, discomfort in lungs, not tasting as well . . . . . . . sounds like . . . . . .
Well after a little time with the cotton I can tell it wicks a lot different than the nextel. I'm using the Cyclone which feeds juice from hole in positive post. A blind squonk leaves juice to the level of the hole. This results in semi-flooded atty, the nextel ran great like this. The cotton must wick quite a bit better because the hits are too strong like this. It feels like the air hole isn't big enough and the vapor wants to expand once in the lungs. Gonna take a little tweaking to get it dialed in but that's a good thing, I was getting bored. It might come down to the design of the atty being more suited for ceramic and the RM2 with the hole on the deck being better suited for cotton. I'm gonna start with changing the length of the wick, right now I've got one long leg that circles back behind the posts. I'll shorten it so it barely makes it to the flooded deck and go from there. Last resorts will be bigger airhole or second/lower juice hole on the post.
Just ordered the k100 rda octopus clone from fast tech. Can't wait to get it in the mail and try it out
Nice FogHawg! That's a better picture than I can get. Damn iPhone won't focus enough to get a good closeup of mine, which is why I haven't shown mine to the class.
Both my current micro coils came in at 2.0 ohms (yay for consistency!), and I have one on my VVG and one on my mini 2.1. I'm actually surprised how well the 2 ohm coil is doing on the mini. I was worried as I'm usually a 1.5 ohm guy, but it's vaping great. Must be something to the whole idea
Both my current micro coils came in at 2.0 ohms (yay for consistency!), and I have one on my VVG and one on my mini 2.1. I'm actually surprised how well the 2 ohm coil is doing on the mini. I was worried as I'm usually a 1.5 ohm guy, but it's vaping great. Must be something to the whole idea
Shoot it at the minimum your camrea will focus then just crop in on the coil. You'll have plenty of pixels for web posting.
Fantastic advice. Little wrinkle in the middle, but seems to be firing evenly. I can't seem to stop wrapping new coils, so I'll be an expert in no time
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The closer the better when you make a micro-coil I think. I just haven't figured out how to get em that close together yet. They keep springing back apart.
Really? Hmmmmm. what gauge, FH?
OH, I see, 28. I run mine under the torch a bit. Then, when I wrap, I try to land the wire onto the spine of the previous, sort of, and let it slide down next to it. Usually that does it. Sometimes I re-torch to anneal, then make adjustments.
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keep them wrapped around your mold then take your fingernail and push them together, then get them hot so they stay there? It's what I do to get and keep them close.
The closer the better when you make a micro-coil I think. I just haven't figured out how to get em that close together yet. They keep springing back apart.
The closer the better when you make a micro-coil I think. I just haven't figured out how to get em that close together yet. They keep springing back apart.
I've only done half a dozen micro coils but what I do is take a good piece of kanthal wire and burn it in the blue flame of my gas stove. This makes it a little more rigid. Then when I wrap it around my 1.6mm screwdriver, I wrap it like I'm putting the next coil directly on top of the last. As the wire slides down next to the previous coil, it's nice and snug. As someone else earlier in the thread pointed out, if you wrap the coils apart and then try to squish them together, it won't work. You end up with a spring.
unless you re-heat it. that takes the spring out of it. But if you compress it after, it gets bigger in diameter (it has to go somewhere)
ohhhhhhhhh, ok... it works for me but mine aren't touching either and I am using 30 or 32g wire. I get it hot after it's already a coil before I put it in the atomizer.
the thinner the wire, the harder it is to shape it after you've wrapped. Not impossible, but harder, and with more heatings and adjustments
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