i have kanger evod and vision spinner battery. i am trying to make my own coil replacements. i know i should test but don't have tester nor would i know what to look for. one utube video said 32ga kanthal wire with 3 silica wick, wrap 5times. however i have hard time getting 5 wraps without touching the sides of evod head, which i am told creates disaster. please help???? sometimes my newly made heads work sometimes not. also i saw someone say that if you just soak the heads in water they are ready to use again after drying out. but soak for how long? distilled water or just regular?
Ohms/volts please explain
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Watching RiP Trippers' videos helped me a ton. Have since bought 2 mods and started to wrap my own coils. Not always perfect (once I got a 2.8 Ohms which I used on my Vamo V5 and now I have a 1.0 Ohm running on my SVD iTaste but mostly 1.8-2.5 Ohms are what I get) due to variables (human errors) but they're all usable with a VW. Having my iTaste SVD mod with a resistance read out/short circuit protection allowed me to start rebuilding my Protank coils.
I still have my eGo 1100Mah C Twist but I really prefer the V5 as a daily and SVD as a backup. Plus one of my eGo is not holding up the voltage too good, I do not want to be out working with a dead battery.
Cheers!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIoH-mOXKsc&list=PLmBk1pktxpAJV66j6mDhTF4pKUGKv4UeN
I still have my eGo 1100Mah C Twist but I really prefer the V5 as a daily and SVD as a backup. Plus one of my eGo is not holding up the voltage too good, I do not want to be out working with a dead battery.
Cheers!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIoH-mOXKsc&list=PLmBk1pktxpAJV66j6mDhTF4pKUGKv4UeN
If you don't have a way to check resistance then you're really pissing into the wind on this and it isn't the safest thing to do. However if you do 5 wraps on 3mm silica with 32 ga kanthal your resistance should be in the safe range. Keep your wraps as close as you can without touching. You could try putting a needle through your wick lenghtwise to make it more stable when wrapping. You should be able to get 5 wraps of 32 ga in there if you wrap them close. Just keep practicing, it sounds easy but you have to do it a lot before it's second nature. The spinner battery won't fire if there is a short, it will blink the light 10 times, so that's something in your favor in case there is a problem. You can find a cheap multi-meter or ohm meter online, just do a google search for those terms.
When I used silica I cleaned heads by soaking them with the top post off in a shot glass filled a little under half way with isopropyl rubbing alcohol for about an hour, very cheap, found in most pharmacy sections of supermarkets. Then rinse them in distilled water overnight and set them out to dry in the morning. Water by itself can dissolve many remnants off your coils/wick, but depending on the juice you use it wont. Isopropyl rubbing alcohol contains a mix of water and alcohol, both of which are great solvents, so what the water doesn't get, typically the alcohol will.
If I found that the coils were still gunked up, I mixed isopropyl (70%) with water, 50/50, and dripped it on the exposed head one drop at a time, pulsing the battery as I went. I am not really sure why this worked to clear out extra gunk, I suspect it is because the extra heat supplied during the process helps increases the solvency of most chemicals, allowing them to dissolve and then vaporize. The reason for the pulsing is because once the liquid evaporates the coil will typically glow, and the legs of the coil will get very hot often burning the rubber grommet in the base of the atomizer, which results in a permanent disgusting taste.
If this still doesn't work, disassemble and build a new one.
With your particular battery type you don't need to worry about messing up rebuilds. Even if you short out, or build a coil with too low of a resistance, the battery will auto shutdown. This is probably why some of your builds have worked and others haven't.
If I found that the coils were still gunked up, I mixed isopropyl (70%) with water, 50/50, and dripped it on the exposed head one drop at a time, pulsing the battery as I went. I am not really sure why this worked to clear out extra gunk, I suspect it is because the extra heat supplied during the process helps increases the solvency of most chemicals, allowing them to dissolve and then vaporize. The reason for the pulsing is because once the liquid evaporates the coil will typically glow, and the legs of the coil will get very hot often burning the rubber grommet in the base of the atomizer, which results in a permanent disgusting taste.
If this still doesn't work, disassemble and build a new one.
With your particular battery type you don't need to worry about messing up rebuilds. Even if you short out, or build a coil with too low of a resistance, the battery will auto shutdown. This is probably why some of your builds have worked and others haven't.
That's called a dry burn. The reason it works is because it burns the gunk off the coil. You normally do it with no liquid on the coil and set your battery to the lowest level and pulse it until it just starts to glow. That will keep from getting hot legs and burning the grommet. You can wash the ash off with water afterward. If you do this periodically your coil will last far longer than normal. The silica wick will eventually get deposit build up in it and will need replaced. You can pull it out and re-wick with cotton. Don't dry burn with cotton in the coil or it will burn. In that case do a dry burn before you put the cotton in
AWESOME!!! ty all for so much imput and so fast. i am still a little confused about somethings. how many ohms to how many volts? my spinner goes from 3.3v to 4.8v. so if my rebuild wick test 2.0 ohms, how many volts should i set the spinner? thank you all for your information. i am sure to use it all as i learn.
There's math involved or you can google a chart, but you can vape safely between 3.3-4.3 in my opinion I would say 4-4.3 you'll find your sweet spot around there. Least thats what I usually use for 2-2.5ohms it falls between that range.
Start low and work your way up til you find a sweet spot, I usually NEVER vape lower then 3.7constant anyways, so I start my Voltage at that and work up (specially if i don't know the resistence of the coil, (unmarked, i didn't build it etc). If your mod does not have a ohm reader, i highly recommend just buying a cheap one for like 10-15 bucks or perhaps adding a mod that does to your collection! Really helpful.
Start low and work your way up til you find a sweet spot, I usually NEVER vape lower then 3.7constant anyways, so I start my Voltage at that and work up (specially if i don't know the resistence of the coil, (unmarked, i didn't build it etc). If your mod does not have a ohm reader, i highly recommend just buying a cheap one for like 10-15 bucks or perhaps adding a mod that does to your collection! Really helpful.
am elderly, hands shake, don't think i will ever get the wraps correct. so i am trying this now. ty vm
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