It was dry. The short DID is brand new, & it was its first time being used.I have 1.5gb's left of bandwidth for this month, & it's now officially dedicated to this show when it's archived.
I'm so glad it happened to you and not me!
Your center tube is dry as a bone right?
At first I thought it was the wick...Yeah, at first I thought it might be the 32 awg but when you went to 28 and it still happened immediately I knew it wasn't gonna be easy. I have 5 functioning DIDs and have popped coils but never so instantaneously.
I think I popped more coils on the show last night than I have since I started using Gen attys.
That is odd. I rarely use that box. I usually grab my multimeter.The last two sub 1.0Ω coils I've wrapped (ribbon) both showed me the same "1" when initially tested on the same ohm meeter that AG used. Not 1.0 but just 1. I put the Did on my Poldiac and fired it anyways and it worked fine, but when I put the Did back on the ohm meter it read 0.85 and showed the correct resistance ever after. When I saw the "1" showing on AG's meter I figured the same thing would happen when he tried to fire it up. I have no idea why I got that weird 1 reading but it's only happened twice and both were sub 1.0Ω coils.