Resistance Fluctuation

[The Hill Giant]

So I just build my first coil from scratch because I wanted to try the Penelope out at a higher resistance. I think I did it successfully. It vapes fantastic, but the ohm reading fluctuates on it. It ranges anywhere from 2.8 to 3.1. Is that normal? Should I be concerned that I screwed something up?

 

[ebbrey]

This happends to me also above 2.5 ohms. I got one now that goes from 2.9 to 3.1 kinda moody. dunno if its a poor connection issue or something else

 

[souroull]

when its flooded with juice it will jump 0.2 ish. right after a drag it goes back down.

if you get any wilder fluctuations than that then its most likely that damn negative wire running down the metal channel... ask me how i know haha.

 

[The Hill Giant]

This happends to me also above 2.5 ohms. I got one now that goes from 2.9 to 3.1 kinda moody. dunno if its a poor connection issue or something else

That makes me feel better. I'm sure it's some kind of poor connection between my silver and kanthal wires. It was my first go at it, and it vapes fantastic, so I can't complain

 

[Ezkill]

If you get wild fluctuations when you move he juice control it's your negative wire moving around. A few fractions of an ohm is no big deal and can be attributed to juice and/or accepted ohm reading variances. A lot of multimeters will only measure to within +/- .2 and will vary back to back.

It's not a bad idea to loop the negative wire around the bottom of your wick a couple of times. This does two things, it stabilizes your coil because it locks the negative wire in and it provides a rock solid negative connection.

Like this picture here, this is taken on an Ody but I do the same thing in the Penelope:

 

[Osiris11]

Lol thank god others have this same issue.... I thought something's wrong because this seems to happen to me everytime but when my friend sets it up for me, it's perfect....!!!
I guess I'll learn over time how to do the perfect setup
I'm just enjoying at the moment


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[Osiris11]

Ezkill I'm going to try what you said next time I make my Penelope


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[cypresss]

If you get wild fluctuations when you move he juice control it's your negative wire moving around. A few fractions of an ohm is no big deal and can be attributed to juice and/or accepted ohm reading variances. A lot of multimeters will only measure to within +/- .2 and will vary back to back.

It's not a bad idea to loop the negative wire around the bottom of your wick a couple of times. This does two things, it stabilizes your coil because it locks the negative wire in and it provides a rock solid negative connection.

Like this picture here, this is taken on an Ody but I do the same thing in the Penelope:

This is definitely my preferred method now. I had fluctuations on the first 2 set-ups where the resistance would slowly creep upward the longer I used it. After anchoring the NR wire around the wick near the bottom of the metal channel, no more problems.