Do you do contact, dry-burned for your SS, slippy?
If so, what color do you heat your SS to? Do you rinse it after?
After I dry-burned and squeezed my build above, it doesn't show in the pic, but it looked all brown/blue and "spotty". Idk, it looked funky.
I normally wrap contacts with the ss317l although sometimes after fine tuning the coils positions they may end up non contacting, i dont worry to much, either way or a bit of both is fine and then i pulse it on say 50w while strumming etc to get her firing evenly.
i'm using 24g 7wraps on 2.5mm id atm at around 75-80w.
i try to pulse it as little as possible, the legs go a little blue and the wraps just go a little dull, i will take a pic tomor so you can see, i dont rinse it but i do normally fire the wicks almost dry after the first juice up.
ive only had what you describe with the funky stuff after re-wicking an older coil, the dry burning between old and new wicking.
how many ohms is that last build you posted? im at 0.2ohms and what wattage are you using ..