I have a newbie question about a Genesis build I just did. . Last week I did a Stainless mesh wick coil with 32ga Kanthal A1[ all i had] 5/4 wrap and got 2.4 ohm1 [wick]After vaping on it for 1 week its now 3 ohm.Tonite I did Decided to use 32ga on a dual wick RSST same mesh 5/4 wrap.Came out at 1.4 ohm.OK I have been vaping on it for about 1/2 hr on my Seigeli 20 watt and its down to 1 ohm?
My 2nd build ever ?
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Something isn't tight or is moving around it sounds like...Also you do know that going from one coil to having two cuts your resistance in half right? Or maybe I just got confused. I'm not calling you dumb, lol so don't take it the wrong way
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Did you check for shorts?
You can oxidize the wick for hours and wrap the perfect coil, there's still a good chance there will be shorts in the coil. Make sure you can dry fire the coil and have it glowing evenly (ESPECIALLY with SS wicks) from the middle out. If there are hot spots or it glows from the top + bottom, pulse the fire button and gently tap the coils with a screwdriver (not while holding the power button, get the spot glowing then brush over it gently with your screwdriver). Keep doing this until you can hold the fire button and it glows nicely from inside out.
You can oxidize the wick for hours and wrap the perfect coil, there's still a good chance there will be shorts in the coil. Make sure you can dry fire the coil and have it glowing evenly (ESPECIALLY with SS wicks) from the middle out. If there are hot spots or it glows from the top + bottom, pulse the fire button and gently tap the coils with a screwdriver (not while holding the power button, get the spot glowing then brush over it gently with your screwdriver). Keep doing this until you can hold the fire button and it glows nicely from inside out.
usually a lower resistance from a stable resistance means a possible short. you need to be careful of this as it draws more amps and can damage the batterys. so along with this lower resistance, how is the vape? does it taste ok? I would imagine that if you dry burned your wick (removing the juice), you would notice a hot spot in the coil. this needs to be fixed by pruding the wires or by changing the tension of the coil. tension is the key to a successful mesh build. this dry burn should start out at low voltages first and once everything lights up evenly with no hot spots then up the voltage a little. keep checking for hotspots in voltage increments until you reach your vaping voltage. if all looks good up to this point then put juice back in and vape. if your coil is a spaced wrap coil then it needs to heat up evenly but not necessarily from the center out, but if doing a micro coil, like above post mentioned, it should glow from center out. shorts also are from poorly oxidized mesh as well. now increasing resistances are kind of normal but should only increase slightly. if one had a 1.5 coil then maybe in 2 weeks it would get to 1.6 or 1.7, anything different to that could mean connection issues
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