Update after 3 months and 3 days - this is long post for short point so if you don't want to read it all just go to the last paragraph.
After the post above I tried couple of more times and gave up. To be totally clear - all failed attempts to get everything working were my fault.
Imeo knows as I mentioned that to him a lot of times, I am very bad with toucht things thus coiling too. I love GG and tried using atties again and again but without success. Only one that worked for me is UFS (no coiling) but was too big so I sold it. Then I bought and tried Ody and Ithaka but again, no luck making coils.
Then came Tile springomiser I bought it and finally was lucky vaper.
Make a spring, put it inside, screw it on my old but still awesome Provari mini and just enjoy.
Why did I wrote all this? Last night my Provari died totally. Last couple of months it started losing contact, batteries drained faster and I am sure it gave less voltage then set.
So last night I realised I am without vaping gear. Or am I? I again took Peny from the dark and started analysing it and tried to make proper coil. And I found what was I doing wrong - even when I avoid all sides of tank to be touched, ends of coil, those which should be screwed were always touching some part of coil/spring because I make wider longer springs for higher ohms and when I bend ends toward screws there's no space left to avoid the wire. That was also the reason for burnt taste I mentioned in the post above which was confusing me as it was said there can't be burned taste with Proteus. Well, it can if there's enough liquid but coil is shorting but just barely, so Proteus does not detect it and let it work. That's why never had problems with Tile, no screws to make problems for me.
So finally I made awesome coil and started fully enjoying Pene and Proteus.
And why so long post in Proteus thread with almost no mention of Proteus?
Well - it works gret for me!!!
I was sceptic after all comments I have read about battery life, not registering battery etc. I have 4 Efest batteries bought from AkkuDB (seven months later, once again BIG thanks to woita for the reccomendation), I've charged them last night, put first in Proteus at 9 in the morning, when I came to work and 10 minutes ago I've inserted fourth one. So 3 batteries for almost 12 hours. And I vape a lot, a lot. I'm one of those guys for whom other people think that ecig is glued to their hand.
I am puffing almost all the time.
Even if I need 6 batteries to go through out the day I would be more then satisfied. As I mentioned, died Provari was already working bad (I bought it and used it heavy for full 4 years, from january 2013) so I was spending from four to five 18350 batteries per day. I am used to that.
I am sure that battery quality + coil plays a major role. I made 1.5ohm coil and even that is low by my vaping standards. I can't stand low ohm, not to mention sub-ohm and 0.3-0.5 coils which I have all tried. Even 0.75 in Melo III which I tried couple a days ago doesn't suits me at all.
So, to sum up - I vaped 11 hours and 15 minutes with 3 AW V2 batteries from AkkuDB using 1.5ohm SS 316L 30awg coil with cotton bacon. That means that full day (sleep time excluded
) would go with maximum 5 batteries.
