Rebuilding CLR Heads for eGo ONE Mega Issues

[slgshane]

Hey there! So I bought a joyetech eVic VTC Mini and just finished off the last prebuilt CLR heads I bought and I want to start rebuilding. The rebuilding process itself is easy since I was rebuildng EVOD heads for two years before buying this, but I'm having major issues.

So I bought 28 gauge nickel wire for my rebuilds. I also have both 30 and 32 gauge kanthal lying around from when I used to rebuild EVODs. No matter which wire I use, when I attach the head to the VTC mod I'm getting crazy low resistance--anywhere from .06 to .08.

I'm using a 2.4 mm screwdriver to wrap around and I've tried going from four wraps to eight and the resistance hardly changes. Any ideas what's going wrong? Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Coolloser]

You sure the legs are in the right spot, one inside the insulator and one outside? Coil isn't touching the walls?
I wrap 26g 5 times around a qtip and it comes out to 0.72 so there's something definitely going on here.

 

[TheKman]

What Nickel exactly?

According to my calcs you'd need 16 wraps of 3mm to reach 0.2 Ohms. I'm using 8 wraps of 28ga Titanium to get 0.5 Ohms. In my experience more that ten wraps is too crouded in there.

 

[Coolloser]

I missed the nickel part, my wire is kanthal. Oops

 

[slgshane]

So it turns out that it's supposed to be .06-.08 and it actually works great. I just needed to set it to Temperature Control mode. This brought up another question, though. When in Temperature Control mode a nickel coil will not fire unless it's covered in fluid. So how the heck do you dry burn these coils to clean them off while re-wicking?

 

[TheKman]

Whether there's fluid or not makes no difference to it firing, it simply reaches temperature more quickly. I don't think there's any easy way to dry fire a nickel coil with a resistance this low, most VW mods won't go below 0.1 Ohms. More importantly, you will destroy the silicon grommet if you dry fire it in place.

Personally I don't dry firing coils at all. Moreover, making new coils for the eGo One Mega CLR heads is so easy I just replace them instead. In health terms there is very little good science either way when it comes to possible ill effects of dry firing coils, so it's a matter of choice.