I built a new coil with 1 inch 32kanthal on a double wick and even after a day of vaping I've been getting a wide variation in ohms reading off my provari. It's reading from 1.8-2.9. The vape is still awesome at 5.3v just wondering if this is due to a loose connection, or the bottom nut is loose? It has been draining my batteries faster.
Ohm fluctuations- loose connection?
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if i had to guess, loose retaining ring, loose neg connection, or your entire coil is wiggly. i had the same issues
Move your juice control around and see if the ohms jump.
Close it completely and take a reading. Open it a few twists and take a reading.
If it's changing dramatically you have one of a few problems..
One of your channel wires isn't under the wick and it's contacting the juice control or the top of your coil is contacting the juice control. I had the channel wire issue on first two coils. Spent a lot of time figuring out what was going on until I noticed the ohms changing a lot depending on position of juice control.
Make sure your coil is nice and tucked into the cup and it doesn't hurt to give your negative wire a couple of wraps around your wick at the very bottom of the negative channel. This will ensure you always have a good ground. Just don't wrap it too high so the juice control hits it...make it close to were the channel ends. I have a picture from a different post and this might actually be an odysseus V2 assembly but you get the general idea. You can see were the negative wire is wrapped around the wick at the bottom of the channel. This will give you good contact and keep the coil from moving around as well.
Close it completely and take a reading. Open it a few twists and take a reading.
If it's changing dramatically you have one of a few problems..
One of your channel wires isn't under the wick and it's contacting the juice control or the top of your coil is contacting the juice control. I had the channel wire issue on first two coils. Spent a lot of time figuring out what was going on until I noticed the ohms changing a lot depending on position of juice control.
Make sure your coil is nice and tucked into the cup and it doesn't hurt to give your negative wire a couple of wraps around your wick at the very bottom of the negative channel. This will ensure you always have a good ground. Just don't wrap it too high so the juice control hits it...make it close to were the channel ends. I have a picture from a different post and this might actually be an odysseus V2 assembly but you get the general idea. You can see were the negative wire is wrapped around the wick at the bottom of the channel. This will give you good contact and keep the coil from moving around as well.
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Thanks for that input, that's exactly what's going on. I'm getting different ohm reading when I adjust the juice control. Since its vaping great I'll leave it for now but will try those suggestions on my next coil rebuild. Wrapping the ground around the wick is a great idea to anchor it down.
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