NotCigs refugee thread

[Bovinia]

A question for all you guys and gals who have to charge stuff with a usb plug every day. Is it normal for the wall wart part to get hot? Mine does when I charge my istick, and it makes me nervous. I'm using the one that came with it which is 1amp. My tablet charger doesn't get hot, nor does my cell phone. Should I be worried?

 

[908Tracy]

Mine gets warm too Bov, just when charging the iSticks. I never leave those charging overnight for that reason.

 

[FranC]

Mine gets warm too and I don't leave mine on overnight either.

 

[FranC]

 

[Bovinia]

Sweet dreams Fran

I built my first kanthal coil tonight...woohoo! 28ga micro tensioned, 8 wraps tests out at 1.21ohm! Boy was that teeny tiny little bass turd hard to get a wick into I tried to take pics but I couldn't get my camera to focus in on it. Thank you Dee, for all of your coaching!! And this video is a great tutorial. I bought the artistic wire gizmo with a 50% off coupon at A.C. Moore...handy thing for $7.



Thanks ladies, good to know I'm not the only one. I swapped the wart to a different one I have and it continued to charge without any noticeable warmth. I bought this one when I first started vaping to plug a passthru into.

 

[El Dee]

Congrats Bov !!! I built a 10 wrap 29G tensioned micro coil tonight....Well somewhere around a 10 wrap....It's a 2mm so really small!! It's making clouds in my Plasma Tanked Pro V....Ohmed at 1.72...I said the hell with trying to stay around 1.0 and make the Pro V like it....

The whole tensioned coil research led me to but the 29 G....Heats and cools faster...yeah maybe....Then last evening the guy who was all up on the 29 made the statement he'd found his way to 27...My experience indicates 29 is a hella lot harder to get set on the deck and still retain the tension.....I'm gonna scrap the 29 and go back to 28 and maybe even lower...

That Gizmo/Reel coiler I made is sweet...One shot equaled one coil....Simple and easy...

When I get a coil where I want it on the deck I mount it on a device and fire away....Starting low at 3.5 and finishing at 4.5...heat....cool....heat....cool....the more the better....This oxidizes the coil and further binds them together...By the end I can see a distinct difference in the way the glow "comes up"....So far tonight's coil is kicking it....Note this only works with a full contact coil....Done right the coil will go over a month....Full contact tensioned micros are all I use....

Sold off my spare Plasma Tank yesterday....

Still haven't found time to even bring my flavours to the house from the shop.....Busy is an understatement....

Businesses made be made up of people but business nor corporations are people....The enemy I made today....A few weeks back I called one of my local suppliers....well 45 miles away local...They had a product I needed and I was assured another product I use would be in stock from now on....I usually just hit the bay as the supplier didn't stock said product....45 miles and the stocked product was outta stock and the product promised to be in stock turned into a bait and switch deal e ohh....Oh yeah I was ...... and I'm sure the manager hates me forever....Since she has no problem lying I feel hating maybe another asset in her bag of tricks....I do things one way....my way...I use products that give me the results I desire....I returned to the bay for the product I needed and will replace said business with the bay from here on out....Lie to me and Houston we have a problemohh.....45 miles and I will be ..........It was 45 back home as well...with nothing to show for it....hell I coulda used that time to mix juice....or sit on my azz....

 

[Wharf Rat]

Congrats Bov !!!

 

[FranC]

 

[salemgold]

Hospital? Are you ok Salem?!?!

She's ok Tracy, her hubby had an appt this morning. And I hope it's going ok for him

Whew! Guess I should back read a second time before posting! anytime I read before coffee it just isn't retained!
Hoping all is well with hubby Salem!

Thanks, guys It was just a routine screening. His doc brings everyone for the day in early and we just wait. We ended up being there for 5 freaking hours. I was here from my phone and posting is kind of weird from phone lol Hey, at least they had WIFI there.

WOOHOO for Bov!!! BTW- I have never had my wall wart get warm or hot charging iSticks. Glad that you found one that works better.

Good morning, all.

 

[Bovinia]

Morning ladies and gents

Salem, sorry yall had to be there so long yesterday, but at least it's over, hopefully with a clean bill of health on the test for hubby!

Thank you!! That coil was a pretty thing...Dee and Wharf, yall would have been proud! One shot and it was done! The artistic winder I got may be over kill but it sure winds a tight coil. My problem still seems to be wicking. I think I'm trying to use too little because every vid I watch says not to over do the wick. Katie has some errands for me to run so I think I'll stop at Sally Beauty Supply and pick up some of the rayon.

Dee, one thing in the vid I linked is the guy anneals the kanthal before he wraps. He pulls a length of wire out, clips the loose ens into a clip and runs a lighter or torch down the length of wire to make it glow. He says it takes the springiness out of it, so when you wrap it, it holds it's form better.

On the first rba deck I've been using the pre wrapped coils (they work fine) and when you screw the chimney on, you can look down in there and see the two little indents of the juice channel. I was having a hard time getting the 2nd deck that I built the coil to wick and figured I used too little cotton. Upon further inspection, I can not see the indents with the side wall cap screwed on. It appears I will need to file them out a little bit to improve the juice flow.

 

[El Dee]

Don't anneal the wire with flame....Hold tension on the kanthal with pliers when winding the coil....Then careful as you can mount the coil without altering the coil where the wind comes off into the leg....Keep the coil unaltered at all costs...Position the coil in the center of the airflow and again make sure the coil remains unaffected...The legs of the coils can be altered..bent too accomadate...Then start low and hit the coil with some voltage and make it glow and cool repeatedly...gradually increase the voltage and keep glowing/cooling....After the first couple of glows you should see a blueish tint to the coil....After a while a grayish color will replace the blue and the coil will have become oxidized....Sometimes I lightly rake the cooling coil with the flat side of one of the little screwdrivers...You gotta look at a glowing coil to determine if raking is needed...like if a certain section of coil glows brighter...Once the voltage is up to around 4.5 the coil should glow completely and evenly very quickly...

Wick wise....When you're pulling wick thru the coil if it bunches up and gets real tight you have too much...and if it passes easily thru with no bunching up it's too little..Watch where the wick is entering the coil...If you can see it bunching up a shade but it's still going into the coil it's about right...The perfect amount would offer a slight resistence with no bunching up...You just gotta devolop a feel for it...My ends I try and spread out evenly and get as much surface area as possible...On the Kayfun you gotta trim it so it touches the deck evenly without pulling or pushing the area of wick between the coil and deck...It's a lotta sheet for sure but if you do all that you will be holding a Hell Hammer PV when you get done....

On the juice channel filing....First it's stainless steel....my favorite metal but it's as hard as preacher wood....Filing ain't likely gonna happen...A Dremel and the smallest round grinding burr and some patience......For Nirvana to take place and vapor production to be great with an RTA three things gotta work in perfect harmony....coil resistence....air flow too the coil.....juice flow through the channels and wick....Those three things effect flavor and vapor....lower resistence requires more air and juice...You can change the resistence easiest....so match that too your available juice and then match the air by restricting it a little...Factory K Funs for instance will offer the best performance/coil and wick longevity around 1.5~1.6....Two coils IMO are just 2X a pain in the azz....K Fun style decks are easy to build....The Lemo 2 offeres up the K Fun style w/single coil,,,,way more air and juice flow....It's out now but I'm waiting on some other vapors too lead the charge on that...If it dosen't leak it could be KILLER!!

 

[Bovinia]

Well...I decided to try the rayon, so took a trip to the Sally Beauty store today. Anyone want to try it? They were out of the small bags (yup, vapers bought it all up) so I got the "small" box. I think 500ft will last a day or two Rewicked the rba that has the good juice channels with what I expected to be way too much and it's doing good. I'm quite sure I have been too skimpy on the wick. I did like you said Dee, used enough to got just a little resistance without it bunching up. This is the one with the pre coiled wire installed. I'll fool with the one I one later. The coil itself is fine, glowing from center out evenly, and I did heat and cool it repeatedly when I mounted it last night. I have several little jeweler's files in various shapes, if I can't file out that channel better with one of those, then I may drag out the dremel. Prolly rewick it first just to see if that was the problem.

Fiddling, this is what I didn't want to have to do! But I'm now determined not to let this thing beat me! Or break me from buying stock heads! I'll be waiting for a verdict on that Lemo 2.

Saved a cute little shi'tzu who had escaped from his human mom from becoming a pancake in traffic today (thank God he came right to me) and talked a young lady from the Sally store into giving vaping a try to kick her stinkie habit. All in all, a good day

 

[oly_r]

You got that right. These will be very popular. I had a SX350 custom dual 18650 and it was a brick. I liked it a lot but, it was just too darn big. I always thought that dual 18650s would be great but, I really don't need that kind of battery life for my lifestyle.

At least the IPV has a magnetic door though. I love that and the nice buttons on it.

Good morning, all.

I just looked at the IPV4 (18650 woo hoo) but what is temperature controlled???

 

[FranC]

Evening,folks

 

[salemgold]

I just looked at the IPV4 (18650 woo hoo) but what is temperature controlled???

The latest trend in vaporizer technology is temperature control. Scientists, engineers, and designers have long considered temperature as the holy grail of vape technology, and it seems they’ve finally cracked the code to find it. The breakthrough in temperature control was led by the NASA trained team at Herbalizer, who created a three phase temperature controlling vaporizer.

What the newer tech does is add state-of-the-art sensors for precise control. The California-based team was able to achieve it based on the long-held understanding that by heating vaping liquid to precise temperatures, you can control its effects. Think of it in the same way we consider caffeine; a single cup of coffee may awaken you—a double caff espresso will jolt you into high gear. In vaping, different temperature ranges release different aspects of the compounds in the liquid, as well as increase the output of vapor the hotter you go.

The Herbalizer was preceded by the DaVinci, and quite a few other vaporizers which boast temperature control. The problem with the earlier vaporizers (not specifically the DaVinci, but as a generalization) is that their controls were not precise. Temperature is not just about enriching the vaping experience, but also about safety. The setting may say the device is vaping at a solid 383° F, for example, but a quality check of the liquid shows it burning at over 400°F.

One of the great things about vaporizers is that they’re evolving at an amazing clip, and open system vapes allow users to purchase internal upgrades to their existing vaporizer which can allow it to keep pace with technological advances. Open systems also allow for replacement of parts, quick repair, and can use a wide variety of vaping liquids, unlike their closed system counterparts.

 

[salemgold]

Oly, supposedly with TC, you would not even be able to burn a dry wick. The PV will control the temperature for you to create optimal results.

Here is a good article explaining it http://www.gizmag.com/temperature-control-electronic-cigarettes/36095/

 

[FranC]

 

[Bovinia]

Sweet dreams Fran

Hi Oly!

Great read Salem!

 

[oly_r]

Hey Bovina,
I've been using the EMOW i got at the beach. it has a 1.5 ohm dual coil with air control and is really nice. haven't been having the best results off my vamo lately with the evod or protank, not sure why.

It feels funny to still be awake at this time of night but the Orioles are playing and just can't go to bed yet.

And thanks again Salem. I just don't seem to have the gumption to keep up with the tech of vaping. I think i'll be getting a new device soon, try the newer tech. So it is good to see you all talking about the newer stuff.

 

[oly_r]

And the O's win. Night all.