New Joyetech 20watt eGrip

[redordead]

Another question, which bvc coil work with these? The mini nautilus one's?

 

[Kh888]

Ugh. I am not the right person to ask. They are the short ones, but I cannot tell you the tank they fit in the Aspire line. Sorry.


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[Strings]

I don't believe the Nautilus coils work (both the full size and the mini use the same coils). The Aspire coils I've seen pics of people using are shorter

 

[redordead]

These ones?

 

[Strings]

Those look like the ones I've seen

 

[vjdossey]

Yes, they are the non nautilus coils... they work wonderful. I use em in egrip and in beyondvape silo lite. I love love love those coils

 

[Ray in KC]

These ones?

No I think it's ones that came in my last couple tanks I bought the Eleaf GS Air (Great tank for 13 bucks I ain't kidding!)
These to me are the best coils! I would even say the coils are probably what makes the Joyeteck eGrip hit so good. I'll get the
little lady and myself one soon. I want to build coils though and these cool little things are keeping me from doing that!

 

[armadillo]

High praise from Todd as well:

 

[Kyi]

Yes, use the non-Nautilus BVC coils. I am still using those in my Egrip, although I want to try out the Eleaf GS coils to see if they are better. I just ordered another pack of the BVC coils so perhaps I will pick up the GS coils next time after I go through these. You will need to make a slight modification to make the BVC coils fit (just swap out the metal center pin from one of the original Egrip coils into the BVC coil because they are shorter), and the base will not screw in completely but it will work and they work well. Only reason I haven't been using the RBA base as much is because of the airflow for one (too lazy to try to mod it right now to work to my liking) and another is that it hits rather hard for me and my throat is kinda sore so I need a smoother hit.

 

[op22222]

Got my eGrip today from cignot. I opted for "Joyetech eGrip Body with RBA Base and 510 adapter - Camo (online only) $62.50 shipped" . I've gotta say that it's quite nice. The RBA was fully assembled. Just screwed it in, filled it up and started vaping great vapor. It's not a cloud chasers device, but, that's not my thing anyway.The RBA is 1.3 ohms. A little on the heavy side but very stealth!!
It came with the standard coil base also, but, not even one original CS coil %@#%^...very disapointed.....I wanted to try one out and maybe keep it for a backup. I guess I'll have to buy one somewhere as I want to try using the Aspire coil heads in it and I need the shorter pin from the CS coil..
No drip tip, USB, wall adapter or tool, but I knew that beforehand.

 

[scarf-ace]

Scarf, welcome to a great thread. Love my Egrip too.

Wattage does effect wick longivity and when it's spot on, vaporizing the juice at its optimal temperature, your wick life can be greatly extended. But too low of a power level can be just as detrimental as too high. At insufficient power levels many of the components of the juice remain in the wick and are not carried away in the vapor. They collect there and cook into the wick and sooner than expected your wick is producing nasty burny tasting vapor. Conversely ,too high of a wattage setting can burn juice into the wick as well but at least it is easily detectable early on.

So where's the happy place? It depends primarily on the juice pg:vg ratio and added flavorings, but as a general rule if you run your wattage just below the burny taste point of the juice you will achieve the longest wick life.

Example. When running dirty naturally extracted tobacco blends in my dripper at 30w I can vape about 3-4ml before wick change/dryburn. At 40w I can vape 10ml. Same thing on my Protanks and RTAs, running at the highest wattage without a burny taste results in the longest wick life.

I have never used the CS heads for the Egrip but would try setting the wattage higher than 8 watts; could be helpful for wick life.

As a general rule I have found that flavor intensity follows as power levels are increased as well; up to a point. That point being just below burny taste.

So perhaps you're thinking, "my battery life is going to suffer if I turn it up"! Not really with regard to mils of juice vaped per charge. If you turn your wattage up 25% but take 3 second pulls instead of 4 second pulls you are actually using the same amount of battery mah but are gaining the added flavor intensity and increasing wick life. Win-win imo.

Thanks for the very helpful and detailed reply, Cigatron. Of the juices I vape whose ratios I can select, I usually pick 50/50. I've never even tried NETs in my EGrip except for the famously clean-vaping HHV... I usually save them for my dripper and RTA. My dirtiest, cloggiest, most clearomizer-killing juice (Brasileiro by El Toro, deadly but *so* tasty...sigh) barely makes it through one Mini Protank III-worth before strangling the coil stone dead. Same with Goodejuice Patriot, Quick Nic juices, and homemade extractions. I'll be very keen to test them out on the EGrip RBA.

Since I've discovered cotton and rayon wicks it's a matter of seconds to change a wick daily or hourly even if I'm switching flavors. Coils are another story... I'm famously inept at building them. Luckily I have at least 40 left of my Fasttech prefab coils, so I can afford to screw up a few times.

Interesting points about the heat. I don't generally take super-long hits (the timer on my IStick tells me that most of my hits are between 2.4 and 3 seconds) but I've still gotten bad results from anything above the third click (11w).

 

[cracker75]

So I've git some q's for those who are building coils for this rba....what gauge wire are you using, and coud anybody put up pics of how they wick it?

My homemade one leaked a lot, and i found one of the original 1.4 ohm coils and put it in, but its gurggling a ton, on any setting, i can't figure out why the first preloaded one worked so awesome, and its proper replacement doesn't.

 

[AmandaD]

So I've git some q's for those who are building coils for this rba....what gauge wire are you using, and coud anybody put up pics of how they wick it?

My homemade one leaked a lot, and i found one of the original 1.4 ohm coils and put it in, but its gurggling a ton, on any setting, i can't figure out why the first preloaded one worked so awesome, and its proper replacement doesn't.

All my premades gurgle a bit, no matter how I wick them! I haven't yet made any though, but I can't see it would make a difference.

 

[cracker75]

All my premades gurgle a bit, no matter how I wick them! I haven't yet made any though, but I can't see it would make a difference.

I figured it out. When I was rewicking or replacing them, I positioned the wicks upward, almost parallel with the coil, this allowed more liquid in the the unblocked holes at the bottom. So this time i took the top caps off, pushed the wicks towards the deck, and put the caps back on.

Now it vapes like the day I bought it, holy cow. In fact, I may even move them back up, just a little. Its a vape monster again.

 

[AmandaD]

I figured it out. When I was rewicking or replacing them, I positioned the wicks upward, almost parallel with the coil, this allowed more liquid in the the unblocked holes at the bottom. So this time i took the top caps off, pushed the wicks towards the deck, and put the caps back on.

Now it vapes like the day I bought it, holy cow. In fact, I may even move them back up, just a little. Its a vape monster again.

I haven't been able to get mine to behave - all three of them! I guess I have to fiddle more!

 

[armadillo]

I have zero problems with my pre-made Fasttech coils. I bought 50 for $3 and they will likely last me for the rest of this century.

 

[Kyi]

My eGrip is being finicky. It was working just fine the past few days. Today, it randomly starts blinking while I was vaping with no prior issues leading up to this. I tried readjusting the base, changing the coil, using the RBA base, using the original coil and base... just keeps blinking. I don't understand what changed if it was working fine just a moment ago. I'm a little frustrated. Its not low battery either, I just charged it earlier today and have not been vaping that much all day. I tried turning it off, back on, using it as a passthrough. What happened to it?? This has happened before just as randomly but I usually got frustrated and left it alone for a few hours, then when I come back to it later its working again. I guess I have no choice but to do the same right now... and hope its working when I come back. So weird. And annoying.

 

[vibez]

Check your coil wire isn't touching the screws or posts. Also make sure the seal at the top of the coil is still there

 

[Ian444]

My guess is there's an intermittent electrical problem and you need to get it exchanged for another unit. Let the vendor know its intermittent so when they get it back they know it may work if they test it on receipt.

 

[Kyi]

I bought it on eBay a while ago. Not sure if they are gonna let me exchange it. Damnit I wish it would just work. I haven't had problems with any of my other mods.