OK I got one of these babies in the mail the other day, my initial impression was...this things cool. After reading some reviews on it, I did a test. I used 2 ohm nichrome wire and a wick straight out of the box to make a coil, slapped it together and its vapin' time.
Nasty taste straight away with my normal 24mg Boba's Bounty mix. Not normal, so after reading some tips from other members here, I proceeded to soak all the wicks in a big vitamin bottle filled with alcohol for around 20 minutes or so...shaking the bottle occasionally to stir em up. I also wiped down the rest of my new bundled nichrome wire with alcohol, then rinsed em quick and dried them good. I then rinsed the wick material under scalding hot water to flush all that nasty alcohol out of them using a small handheld flour sifter, it worked perfectly nice clean wicks. I threw the wicks in a baking pan and turned the oven on 450 and let them dry nice nice for about 20 minutes. While I did that I also threw the Ato-mizer itself into the bottle of alcohol, and then let it soak while the wicks were drying out.
All total...about a 45 minutes of time spent to eliminate all traces of chemicals on the wicks..on the nichrome wire(if there were any) and any oil from the ato-mizer itself from the machining of the metal. There's ALWAYS oil on machined metal...gotta clean it up. Not alot of time spent to pre-clean 30 atomizer setups at all.
So now I proceed to make a new coil with 2 ohm wire again, this time following the video from Nhaler on how to make a coil for it. Fold the wick 4 times insert needle and wrap wick with the nichrome wire. Done. Time to vape. Zero nasty taste at 3.7v....but the vapor was not exactly what I expected. With the cap off its a steady constant cloud pouring off the inhaler looks so cool. BUT with the cap on, I was getting cool vapor with not as much throat hit as I wanted.
So here's what I did, made a brandy spankin new coil with the wick only folder over 1 time(1/2 the thickness of the recommended folding procedure) Used 2 ohm wire again...and this time I wrapped that sucka TIGHT. BIG DIFFERENCE. Now this thing hits like a CHAMP.
The reason I did this was after looking at one of my joye 510 1.7 ohm Low Resistance atties, de-wicking it and de-bridging it also, if you look at the coil it is super tight. It looks like a super tiny tight pen spring. What I discovered is that the coils on the factory atties are no bigger inside diameter than the saftey pin's outside diameter. And thats WITHOUT the wick wrapped on the safety pin.
One more thing, the wicks that come with the atomizer after cleaning work great...no complaints. But you do not have to use that wick as it comes out of the package. You can add strands or take them away and it will still work fine. Now I am using a full length wick folded 1 time wrapped really tight with the 2 ohm wire using the safety pin, then what I do is use another strand off one of the wicks to tie my coil wick up and into a bundle. It works great and no hassles at all when putting that cap back on.
End result: Nice warm vapor, more vapor output..no wicks resting against the inside of the cap blocking airholes...just a good vaping experience. I like it. Videos on its way.
Nasty taste straight away with my normal 24mg Boba's Bounty mix. Not normal, so after reading some tips from other members here, I proceeded to soak all the wicks in a big vitamin bottle filled with alcohol for around 20 minutes or so...shaking the bottle occasionally to stir em up. I also wiped down the rest of my new bundled nichrome wire with alcohol, then rinsed em quick and dried them good. I then rinsed the wick material under scalding hot water to flush all that nasty alcohol out of them using a small handheld flour sifter, it worked perfectly nice clean wicks. I threw the wicks in a baking pan and turned the oven on 450 and let them dry nice nice for about 20 minutes. While I did that I also threw the Ato-mizer itself into the bottle of alcohol, and then let it soak while the wicks were drying out.
All total...about a 45 minutes of time spent to eliminate all traces of chemicals on the wicks..on the nichrome wire(if there were any) and any oil from the ato-mizer itself from the machining of the metal. There's ALWAYS oil on machined metal...gotta clean it up. Not alot of time spent to pre-clean 30 atomizer setups at all.
So now I proceed to make a new coil with 2 ohm wire again, this time following the video from Nhaler on how to make a coil for it. Fold the wick 4 times insert needle and wrap wick with the nichrome wire. Done. Time to vape. Zero nasty taste at 3.7v....but the vapor was not exactly what I expected. With the cap off its a steady constant cloud pouring off the inhaler looks so cool. BUT with the cap on, I was getting cool vapor with not as much throat hit as I wanted.
So here's what I did, made a brandy spankin new coil with the wick only folder over 1 time(1/2 the thickness of the recommended folding procedure) Used 2 ohm wire again...and this time I wrapped that sucka TIGHT. BIG DIFFERENCE. Now this thing hits like a CHAMP.
The reason I did this was after looking at one of my joye 510 1.7 ohm Low Resistance atties, de-wicking it and de-bridging it also, if you look at the coil it is super tight. It looks like a super tiny tight pen spring. What I discovered is that the coils on the factory atties are no bigger inside diameter than the saftey pin's outside diameter. And thats WITHOUT the wick wrapped on the safety pin.
One more thing, the wicks that come with the atomizer after cleaning work great...no complaints. But you do not have to use that wick as it comes out of the package. You can add strands or take them away and it will still work fine. Now I am using a full length wick folded 1 time wrapped really tight with the 2 ohm wire using the safety pin, then what I do is use another strand off one of the wicks to tie my coil wick up and into a bundle. It works great and no hassles at all when putting that cap back on.
End result: Nice warm vapor, more vapor output..no wicks resting against the inside of the cap blocking airholes...just a good vaping experience. I like it. Videos on its way.
