I get a slight gurgle when it's been sitting for awhile but goes right away after I start vaping. 2 ideas maybe don't draw so hard or and turn up the wattage. I'm using 50-50 juice as well.
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I get a slight gurgle when it's been sitting for awhile but goes right away after I start vaping. 2 ideas maybe don't draw so hard or and turn up the wattage. I'm using 50-50 juice as well.
The RBA base comes with 3 coils already wicked at 1.4 ohms - have you been through all of those yet?
I used the one that came loaded, and then threw the other two in with the six I bought from cignot.....oops. And I don't have any good way to pin the little .......s down to get a reading. Maybe put electrical tape on my helping hands jaws, to hold it? And try to get a pointy lead on each end? I don't know.
Ah - the 510 adaptor is a really useful little accessory
Can you count the wraps? The originals should have one more wrap (at a guess - maybe 2)?
Thats the problem I'm having with those pre-built ones. Same readings as yours
Is the firing button/wheel supposed to be completely... um... not wobbly? Mine always had a little rattle but I thought it was normal and it didn't really bother me since the function is fine. When I shake the mod, it does rattle quite a bit, but it doesn't seem loose enough that it'd just fall off or come apart... and I can't really think of a situation where I'd be shaking my Egrip a lot and the rattling would bother me.
I gave up and made my own coil. First time, so ugly, but it fires!
It registered at 1.4 ohms, and there's still some wire left if I need it. Hopefully it lasts until I can order more.
I'd return those coils that don't register too. They at least need to know about it!
Someone posted earlier in the thread about using the RBA base and two egrips with the same problem - they would fire for two second and then stop. Mine is suddenly doing this, but I can't find the post to see the solution. Any thoughts?
I've been having good luck with a vertical coil in the RBA. A 3/32" bit fits perfectly into the air hole, so I wrap the coil around that and then I can keep the coil around the bit while adjusting the wires to fit inside the post holes. 8ish wraps of 28ga worked out to 1.4-1.5ohm to stay in the eGrip's comfort zone. Then I take a small piece of japanese cotton pad and separate it into thinner layers, wrapping the layers around the coil until there's enough cotton to fill the chimney of the RBA. I use a thinner 65pg/35vg juice so I try to pack the cotton in there pretty snugly, higher VG juice could probably use a bit less cotton. It is really nice that you can flip the eGrip upside down and take the RBA out without draining the tank if you need to fiddle with the wick or coil.
Nice build. Have done verts in RTAs and Protanks. Always with the same results; muted flavor. Have you noticed muted flavor with this build in the Egrip?
Doesn't seem too muted, but I've only had a pretty simple Wintergreen juice through the egrip so far. Haven't tried anything more complex yet. However the first time I tried a vertical coil on here, I had the coils touching and it was either getting too warm or the wick wasn't keeping the coil moist enough & tasted lousy. Spacing the coils out just a bit made a huge improvement.
Starting to wish I had picked up a second RBA base for experimental builds. Would be nice not to have to tear down a perfectly working coil just to experiment with new stuff, lol
I asked about going vertical Vs horizontal in another post and got mixed feedback...glad to see it and will be on my to-do list
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Thanks.
After 8 days I finally had to replace the coil/wick assembly on the rba. Could have just rewicked as the coil itself was good but decided to use one of the supplied coil/wick assemblies. I had rinsed the original a couple of times and the cotton wick just fell apart on the original.
The cotton wick material on the supplied replacement seems to be longer/more voluminous than the factory delivered coil/wick. Anyone found the need to trim the cotton on the replacements? It's vaping good but had to take care to tuck all the wick in before reassembling the rba.
The cotton wick material on the supplied replacement seems to be longer/more voluminous than the factory delivered coil/wick. Anyone found the need to trim the cotton on the replacements? It's vaping good but had to take care to tuck all the wick in before reassembling the rba.
I noticed that. But the instructions say to pull up the wicks and put the top on, then push them back in Kayfun style. If they were shorter that would be hard to do?
Well obviously I used the replacement coil/wicks without issue other than having to exercise care tucking all the wick material in. Guess it's all good as the vape is as good as ever. Was just wondering about the experience of others. So far I love this little device!
Oh yeah, being male, I didn't bother with reading the instructions. Real men don't need such time consuming garbage!
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