New Joyetech 20watt eGrip

[four2109]

Ok this is going to sound dumb but how do i search for the post number on Tapatalk? Or even the main website?

I would just scroll back until you find it. The post# is in the upper right of the post.

 

[Junny89]

I would just scroll back until you find it. The post# is in the upper right of the post.

I found them using this method.
Thanks again for the help!
Seems a bit too complicated for me though.

Enjoying the egrip though!

 

[pokemom]

I think I'm the only person who never had issues with the 510 connector on the istick. Then again I always use the EGO adaptor (the clearos in the picture are Kanger EMOWs which are the bee's knees).

One thing to note about the Mini that I didn't realize until I got it: it's a variable-voltage device, not variable-wattage like the normal istick. And of course, the battery life is less than half that of the normal IStick.
Still, cute as a button, much less conspicuous to my mind than an EGO battery, and only $18.13 plus shipping at the excellent Chinese site CVapor.

Discount Vapers, a U.S. site & ECF supplier, has the minis for $19.99 right now.



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[cigatron]

Egrip usb finally stopped charging altogether now. Replacement Egrip should be here tomorrow. Just in the nick of time. Dang....I miss the little thing already. Guess I'm addicted to it.lol

 

[h00ligan]

I'm really curious to know if any new ones have failed too

 

[four2109]

I found them using this method.
Thanks again for the help!
Seems a bit too complicated for me though.

Enjoying the egrip though!

Sorry, I don't know any way to beam you back to a post!

 

[Junny89]

Tut tut! Well you would if you had the starship enterprise!!!

Anyone started making their own coils for the rba base? Will 0.32mm wire fit?

Thanks

 

[cigatron]

Tut tut! Well you would if you had the starship enterprise!!!

Anyone started making their own coils for the rba base? Will 0.32mm wire fit?

Thanks

Sure, 28awg (.32mm) 9/8wrap, on the little blue screwdriver or 5/64" (2mm) winding mandrel. Should get you 1.2-1.3 ohms but you should try to wind your coil with tension if possible. There are many posts by MacTechVpr and others here on ecf about tension winding and I have found it to be the single most beneficial addition to my vaping experience to date.

If your preinstalled rba coil looked anything like mine it showed the tell tale signs of tension winding and proper setting techniques. Near perfect uniformity in diameter, straightness and all turns touching. These attributes will ensure that the wicking is equally compressed against the inside of the coil which ensures equal transport of juice throughout the coil. That translates to equilibrium in coil temperature ie. no hot spots or thermal overrun.

Where does tension get you? Faster firing times, higher wattage without burning, less flooding, less gurgling, better flavor, less burny taste, cooler vape, extended coil life, extended wick life, extended battery life....must I go on?

There are many ways/tools to tension wind your coils and all of them use the concept of turning or spinning a mandrel/tool while feeding the wire directly from the wire spool. Turn the tool, not the wire.

More on this later but check out winding coils with pin vises, artisan coiling gizmos or my blog "cigamajig".

 

[Rutch]

- fill and vent holes arranged vertically for a larger fill hole to allow drippers

I haven't had an issues filling the eGrip with either a plastic dripper bottle or a glass dropper. Just hold the nozzle of the bottle right up against the larger fill hole and it should fill up without leaking all over the place.

You all must be M2L hitters.Not me, I'm considering modding my rba for max output. Rewicked many diff ways but the slightly restrictive air flow through the rba base keeps the device from providing max vapor ouput at 20w. The coil overheats and floods with extended pulls. Hoping to use both the rba airhole and the afc in unison to regulate an increased air flow.

I'm not sure if you'll get much more airflow using the RBA's built in airhole and the egrip AFC. I mean, the hole at the center of the RBA is already 3/32" even if you add more airflow you're still restricted to that 3/32" hole.

There are many ways/tools to tension wind your coils and all of them use the concept of turning or spinning a mandrel/tool while feeding the wire directly from the wire spool. Turn the tool, not the wire.

More on this later but check out winding coils with pin vises, artisan coiling gizmos or my blog "cigamajig".

I've been using this simple coil jig for about a year now. Just a small scrap of wood, a screw, and a few holes for different sized drill bits. I usually cut off a length of wire instead of leaving it on the spool, but I usually pinch a pair of hemostats on the loose end of the wire so there's something to hold onto and keep tension.

 

[Junny89]

Sure, 28awg (.32mm) 9/8wrap, on the little blue screwdriver or 5/64" (2mm) winding mandrel. Should get you 1.2-1.3 ohms but you should try to wind your coil with tension if possible. There are many posts by MacTechVpr and others here on ecf about tension winding and I have found it to be the single most beneficial addition to my vaping experience to date.

If your preinstalled rba coil looked anything like mine it showed the tell tale signs of tension winding and proper setting techniques. Near perfect uniformity in diameter, straightness and all turns touching. These attributes will ensure that the wicking is equally compressed against the inside of the coil which ensures equal transport of juice throughout the coil. That translates to equilibrium in coil temperature ie. no hot spots or thermal overrun.

Where does tension get you? Faster firing times, higher wattage without burning, less flooding, less gurgling, better flavor, less burny taste, cooler vape, extended coil life, extended wick life, extended battery life....must I go on?

There are many ways/tools to tension wind your coils and all of them use the concept of turning or spinning a mandrel/tool while feeding the wire directly from the wire spool. Turn the tool, not the wire.

More on this later but check out winding coils with pin vises, artisan coiling gizmos or my blog "cigamajig".

I use a coil jig for tension. I do micro coils. Nice and neat. Works amazing on my kayfun4 and squape r.

I did however come in to some trouble filling it up. This is my second time filling up. First time was flawless.
What happens is that using the larger fill hole, i found e liquid was coming back up the small one next it? Took me 10mins to sort it all out. Fixed now but curious why it was coming back up?

Was using a bottle with the usual tip. Nice and slow too.

Will try my own 6-7wrap coil and my own ... cotton and see if there's any difference!

 

[cigatron]

I use a coil jig for tension. I do micro coils. Nice and neat. Works amazing on my kayfun4 and squape r.

I did however come in to some trouble filling it up. This is my second time filling up. First time was flawless.
What happens is that using the larger fill hole, i found e liquid was coming back up the small one next it? Took me 10mins to sort it all out. Fixed now but curious why it was coming back up?

Was using a bottle with the usual tip. Nice and slow too.

Will try my own 6-7wrap coil and my own ... cotton and see if there's any difference!

You may, as I did, find that setting shorter coils than 9/8 wrap without distortion is difficult to achieve using the post holes. And I'm not sure if the screw heads are large enough to trap wire underneath either. Haven't tried that yet.

Also, please share which coil jig you are using and maybe a pic or two showing the resulting coil.

 

[Junny89]

You may, as I did, find that setting shorter coils than 9/8 wrap without distortion is difficult to achieve using the post holes. And I'm not sure if the screw heads are large enough to trap wire underneath either. Haven't tried that yet.

Also, please share which coil jig you are using and maybe a pic or two showing the resulting coil.

Sure, when i come to do it i shall take some pics etc.

I have two jigs. One is a piece of metal with different sizes at different parts. So it will start at 1mm then 1.5mm and so on to 3.5mm. It's good and portable. However the coils don't have tension.
The second one was a lot more expensive. But the quality at the end is unrivalled.

Will post some pics later.

Any info on it leaking though?

 

[h00ligan]

Is it me or is the RBA base threaded for an air control screw but the screw isn't included


The RBA floods.

I cleaned it out. Great for a few hits. Bam flooded again. Gargle Gargle. Has this been covered?

 

[cigatron]

Been using this tool since May 2014. Works great for winding perfect micro or spaced coils and you can fab it up right quick with a 3/4"x3/4"x5" stick of wood, a drill bit and a screw. Even though it shows some similarity to Rutch's tool it works on an entirely different principal. Turn the tool, not the wire.

The cigamajig V2 shown below is capable of interchangeable winding mandrels(1mm-3mm) but for a more simple version of this tool and user instructions see my blog.

 

[op22222]

So I was bored at work. To clean the tank, take the top cover off. Tank slides right out! Pretty thick glass!
The rba chimney has 4 feed holes for juice. 2 of them line up with the wick, the other 2 are behind the terminals. I re-wicked with shiseido cotton and stuffed a little bit behind the terminal feed holes. Hopefully this solves my leaking issue.
To the airflow issues, I am used to a much more open draw! Straight lung hits. Almost like I forgot how to do mouth to lung hits. The airflow on the rba is so much better than the stock base, for me. YMMV.
I can see how the airflow could be opened up on the stock base but it raises some questions. If you cut the tube off the bottom base. Drill out the hole in the base. Drill out the hole under the base. Drill out the holes in the stock base. It might be close to the draw of the rba. Would you possibly get battery vapors in the airstream?
If you remove the airtube from the top cover, it could be shortened where it press fits to the top. Then you could use other heads.
See above pics!

Seeing that you have had yours apart, do you think an 18650 batt. would fit into it?

 

[cigatron]

Seeing that you have had yours apart, do you think an 18650 batt. would fit into it?

No room for the 18650. Barely won't fit. Doesn't seem like it would be too hard to replace the batt with another 18490/500 though. Like a Sanyo UR18500F 1620mAh.

 

[op22222]

I see...was just wondering. Not really with the trouble for 100+mah. Thanks for your insight.

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[h00ligan]

OK. So I guess it's important to know higher vg juices wick like crap on the pre-built Atomizer

Unfortunately my RBA is damaged. I'll have to wait. But I have to say

Unit gargle and needs a blow out a alarm kayfun after filling

Anything but base power on pre-built coils or higher vg juices seem to wick poorly

The power control is extremely unintuitive

I need to go recover from multiple awful dry hits. Ugh. I hope the RBA does better. In speaking to the vendor they validated that it has to pressurized and can gurgle and leak slightly on fill

Have you all experienced these issues? Maybe the air hole screw completely out doesn't work?

Also if it turns upside down it leaks profusely into the drip tip receiver. Even for a minute.


I'm hoping this all has to do with the pre-built coils and air hole screw (factory shipped mine without one)

 

[Junny89]

OK. So I guess it's important to know higher vg juices wick like crap on the pre-built Atomizer

Unfortunately my RBA is damaged. I'll have to wait. But I have to say

Unit gargle and needs a blow out a alarm kayfun after filling

Anything but base power on pre-built coils or higher vg juices seem to wick poorly

The power control is extremely unintuitive

I need to go recover from multiple awful dry hits. Ugh. I hope the RBA does better. In speaking to the vendor they validated that it has to pressurized and can gurgle and leak slightly on fill

Have you all experienced these issues? Maybe the air hole screw completely out doesn't work?

Also if it turns upside down it leaks profusely into the drip tip receiver. Even for a minute.


I'm hoping this all has to do with the pre-built coils and air hole screw (factory shipped mine without one)

When i refilled mine the second time it leaked out of the smaller air/fill hole a lot. Took like 10mins to sort it out. Why i dont know. As the first time was flawless.

I got a 100% VG kind organic juice sample. Put that in, superb! Kept up with all my chain vapes.
Not one dry hit at ALL since i got the device yesterday. Just purfeeeeeect.

Need to figure out why it leaked when filling though. Although it leaked a tiny bit from the bottom earlier on. Don't know why.

 

[Interstink]

Need to figure out why it leaked when filling though. Although it leaked a tiny bit from the bottom earlier on. Don't know why.

Only time I've seen a leak while filling is when I filled it bottom facing down. Maybe fill with top down.

Happy to report I don't have any of the issues people here are reporting. I used both CS and RBA base (RBA base now for a few weeks), just a great device!