Hey guys, I would like your input on a little problem I'm having.
A few weeks back I took my first steps into rebuilding my mini vivi nova heads. I used kanthal d, 32 gauge, and some 3mm silica wick I bought on ebay. My first coils came quite nice actually, tested the resistance with a multimeter and they usually ended up at 1.3-1.8ohms after subtracting the resistance of the leads. Since I was a bit short on cash (one of the reasons I sarted rebuilding) I was only using an ego-t battery. After testing that the atomizer was functional with the multimeter, by checking resistance and continuity, I put some juice on the wick, and attached it to my ego-t.
Usually what would happen was that the ego fired, everything worked fine for like 10 minutes of vaping, then I would put my pv down when I had my fix and the next time I would try to vape ...it wouldn't work. The ego's button would do this one quick blink and then wouldn't turn on anymore, nothing fired, atty was silent. This got me wondering if I had screwed up something inside, maybe a short. I checked the coils to see if something was touching something that it shouldn't; nope all fine; checked with the multimeter, still same resistance. Then I started thinking about what could possibly be happening, didn't seem like a short,everything was in place, the atty was screwed on correctly to the vivi nova center post, nothing seemed to be wrong. I still had one original head that came with the vivi, a 1.8ohm that actually read 1.9-2 ohm, so I put it in, and my ego came back to life! I put some cartos, it would still work pefectly, I put my recoiled head ... and same thing happened, quick button blink and then it's off. At this point I thought that maybe my recoiled head just had too low of a resistance and I just vaped with the original 1.8ohm atty. Some weeks passed and I decided to get an ego-c twist after watching some very positive reviews, plus a phoenix rebuildable atomizer clone. Since the atty came in first in the mail, I tried it on the ego-t and it worked perfectly, it read 2.4ohms. So I dripped on this for a bit until I got my twist in the mail. At this time I decided to replace the coil on the phoenix (I was itching to), came out at 1.6ohms and tried on the twist, playing around with the voltage to find my sweet spot, everything went fine (new coil bad taste aside) and I though - this has to work on the ego-t for sure - nope, Chuck Testa. At this point I was about to take a hammer and risk losing my face by pounding on the ego-t, but I decided against it in the end. So I wondered if it was just a problem with the ego-t, some voltage thingy, amp limitation, circuitry thingy, whatever, and I grabbed on of my rebuilt vivi nova heads that the ego-t wouldn't fire and put it on my twist ... they work... each and every time.
If someone stuck around long enough to read this... do you have any idea of why is this happening ? Remember, the ego-t works perfectly with factory cartomizers or atomizers.
A few weeks back I took my first steps into rebuilding my mini vivi nova heads. I used kanthal d, 32 gauge, and some 3mm silica wick I bought on ebay. My first coils came quite nice actually, tested the resistance with a multimeter and they usually ended up at 1.3-1.8ohms after subtracting the resistance of the leads. Since I was a bit short on cash (one of the reasons I sarted rebuilding) I was only using an ego-t battery. After testing that the atomizer was functional with the multimeter, by checking resistance and continuity, I put some juice on the wick, and attached it to my ego-t.
Usually what would happen was that the ego fired, everything worked fine for like 10 minutes of vaping, then I would put my pv down when I had my fix and the next time I would try to vape ...it wouldn't work. The ego's button would do this one quick blink and then wouldn't turn on anymore, nothing fired, atty was silent. This got me wondering if I had screwed up something inside, maybe a short. I checked the coils to see if something was touching something that it shouldn't; nope all fine; checked with the multimeter, still same resistance. Then I started thinking about what could possibly be happening, didn't seem like a short,everything was in place, the atty was screwed on correctly to the vivi nova center post, nothing seemed to be wrong. I still had one original head that came with the vivi, a 1.8ohm that actually read 1.9-2 ohm, so I put it in, and my ego came back to life! I put some cartos, it would still work pefectly, I put my recoiled head ... and same thing happened, quick button blink and then it's off. At this point I thought that maybe my recoiled head just had too low of a resistance and I just vaped with the original 1.8ohm atty. Some weeks passed and I decided to get an ego-c twist after watching some very positive reviews, plus a phoenix rebuildable atomizer clone. Since the atty came in first in the mail, I tried it on the ego-t and it worked perfectly, it read 2.4ohms. So I dripped on this for a bit until I got my twist in the mail. At this time I decided to replace the coil on the phoenix (I was itching to), came out at 1.6ohms and tried on the twist, playing around with the voltage to find my sweet spot, everything went fine (new coil bad taste aside) and I though - this has to work on the ego-t for sure - nope, Chuck Testa. At this point I was about to take a hammer and risk losing my face by pounding on the ego-t, but I decided against it in the end. So I wondered if it was just a problem with the ego-t, some voltage thingy, amp limitation, circuitry thingy, whatever, and I grabbed on of my rebuilt vivi nova heads that the ego-t wouldn't fire and put it on my twist ... they work... each and every time.
If someone stuck around long enough to read this... do you have any idea of why is this happening ? Remember, the ego-t works perfectly with factory cartomizers or atomizers.
