Need help with first coil - AGA-T2

[Snapdragon]

Hi - I hope I'm in the right place I've been vaping for about 6mo. and am ready to take the plunge into RBAs. I built my first coil this morning: 32g kanthal, mesh that came with AGA-T2, 3 wraps pulsed on a gg clone.

The coils light up evenly, it vapes with an okay taste - no metal but kinda tastes like 'new carto', lots of vapor BUT I get the "atomizer short" message on my eVic and an E1 on my ProVari. Any ideas why?

TIA

 

[gjshaw29]

Your resistance is too low for those devices. Try 4 wraps and you should be good, always make sure to check the resistance of your rba before you use it.

 

[BigEd781]

Your resistance is too low. The ProVari (iirc) will shut down below 1.2 ohms. These are regulated devices, if you want super LR setups then you will need to go mechanical.

You could try tweaking your wire a bit, but you may just need to add another coil. I use 4 coils on my regulated mods.

EDIT: Ninja'd

 

[Snapdragon]

Thanks! I appreciate the super fast replies - and I'm glad that's all it is. The uber low ohm stuff doesn't interest me, at least not yet/now - never say never - so I'm off to build another and will report back. Y'all are great, thanks again!!

 

[Snapdragon]

Sucess! Sort of .... 4 wraps gives me .09ohm and the ProVari will fire it - again, tastes good, lots of vapor, still need to drill out the air hole but ... what do I have to do to get a 1.2 to a 1.5? I'm guessing more wraps but should I be using a different gauge kanthal? This one is 32.

Thanks again

 

[BatKing]

u don't want to go higher ohm. What u want is to stick to the lower end of what the Provari can handle. Lower ohm heat up the coil faster and u don't need the 2nd draw to taste your e-juice on a genny atty. for me I make all my Genny Atty on Regulated device about 1.1 to 1.2 ohm and on Mechinical device, I make the coil about 0.7 to 0.8 ohm.

 

[Snapdragon]

u don't want to go higher ohm. What u want is to stick to the lower end of what the Provari can handle. Lower ohm heat up the coil faster and u don't need the 2nd draw to taste your e-juice on a genny atty. for me I make all my Genny Atty on Regulated device about 1.1 to 1.2 ohm and on Mechinical device, I make the coil about 0.7 to 0.8 ohm.

Hey BatKing,

Thanks for the reply. What are you using to get the 1.1 / 1.2?

 

[BatKing]

on AGA-T, for the wick size, I will say 30 awg wire 4 wraps should give you 1.1 to 1.2 ohm. I am using 28 awg 4 wraps and this gives me about 0.8 ohm. But I saw you said you was using 32 awg 4 wraps. This should give u about 1.6 ohm. but you was getting 0.9 ohm only? are you sure you roll enough mesh? otherwise, this seems there is a short to me. What I usually did was using the PetarK method. before I insert the mesh wick, I check the ohm with the coil only. This way I know there is a short if the value decrease after the wick is inserted.