Penelope short circuiting/E1 errors on ProVari

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Sounds to me its a bad coil. 1.4 ohms can be easily run at 4.0V that is like 11 watts. if 6 watt then its 3 volts.

When you say bad coil, do you mean the entire wire or the actual coiled portion of the wire? I just thought that as long as it was wrapped around the wick in circles and not touching it wasnt a big deal.
 

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I am sending more premade wires to cov tommorow Greek so make a try with them and tell me your results buddy
It was sold out at the US site so I bought it from a vendor on the 'for sale' page here, I was on the Clouds of Vapor site and wanted to order some but no premades left...
 

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When you say bad coil, do you mean the entire wire or the actual coiled portion of the wire? I just thought that as long as it was wrapped around the wick in circles and not touching it wasnt a big deal.

There is more to in just twisting the two wires together. Thats why Imeo is gracious enough to provide premade wires so that there is no issue with the creation of junction points. How ever as you get more comfortable with the device you can experiment with your own ohms.
 

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If you making a single coil you should not have any E1 errors. The short you getting is do to two things:

1) A bad constructed single coil.
2) coil is not mounted properly

To correct the problem please take following pictures if you can.

1) Take a picture of a new coil before wrapping silica, I like to see your junction points of the coil.
2) Take picture of coil and wick wrapped together. I like to see how close the wraps are with one another. it should not be touching.
3) Take picture of you mounting it. The coil and wick should go in flush and not touch the mouthpiece as you screw it in down. If wraps touch mouth piece a short will occur.

Please let me know if this helps.

I'm getting ready to take these photos, but for clarification, the wick is not supposed to touch the mouthpiece?
 

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Heres the best thing I'm going to do. Tonight on Vapetv i will be Live from 10pm east coast to 11pm. i promised Imeo I was going to do show on how to prevent leaking and to get a good positive connection. on the ody. i will be creating and mounting one from scratch. so if you tune in at

VapeTV | VapeTVLive at 10pm East Coast time 1/15/13 I can show you live. Please register its free and you can chat with me live on the show. I'll be happy to answer any questions.
 

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Heres the best thing I'm going to do. Tonight on Vapetv i will be Live from 10pm east coast to 11pm. i promised Imeo I was going to do show on how to prevent leaking and to get a good positive connection. on the ody. i will be creating and mounting one from scratch. so if you tune in at

VapeTV | VapeTVLive at 10pm East Coast time 1/15/13 I can show you live. Please register its free and you can chat with me live on the show. I'll be happy to answer any questions.

Awesome! I'll be watching! (pics on the way too)
 

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hope you guys caught the show.
Appreciate you answering my questions on there. Scraping up my last wires and recycling used ones, I was just able to make it work. The trick was to double wick and make sure the posts were correctly tied off. No shorts or errors on my ProVari, flavor is being broken in now.

My resistance is fluctuating a little bit but other than that its working. I'm guessing my R/NR connections were not up to par.
 

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Appreciate you answering my questions on there. Scraping up my last wires and recycling used ones, I was just able to make it work. The trick was to double wick and make sure the posts were correctly tied off. No shorts or errors on my ProVari, flavor is being broken in now.

My resistance is fluctuating a little bit but other than that its working. I'm guessing my R/NR connections were not up to par.
Congrats! To skip "break in", torch wick and R wire before building. ;)
 
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