RM2 drain position

[ZeroOhms]

I really enjoy building coils on RM2. Wide open deck allows for many coil options and love it!
One question I have is the positioning of drain hole. Open deck side is busy with coil, wick, and air hole. That's where all the "action" is. Why not put the hole on the other side behind the post. Currently, we have to be careful with the wick placement to ensure we aren't blocking it. If the hole was away from the main deck, we can position the wick without the worry of juice flow. I am guessing the rda is manually modified with the hole on the ceramic deck and current location was selected for a reason.

I was going to ask this question directly to Rob initially, but figured I would ask the veterans here instead. (Don't want to bother him during the woodvil production)

 

[Raynman]

With the juice hole where it is just a small squonk will flood the area enough to get everything wet. If the hole was on the other side more force would be needed to fill the cup to wet everything. Keeping the wick short is the key long wicks just don't work as well. The wick should never be long enough to cover the juice hole and cause problems.

 

[Funk Dracula]

^^^^What Raynman said^^^^^

It sounds to me like your using, or want to use longer wicks.

I'll tell ya' why that isn't a good idea:

Don't wick the RM2 like a traditional RDA with tails/beds of cotton all over the deck soaking up mls worth of juice. Doing that may buy you a few more hits between squonks, but your kind of wasting/cooking juice that way, and missing out on the advantage of fresh juice right on the coil.

Use just enough wick to barely hang down enough to touch the deck, almost short enough where they would never make it to the deck without being weighted down with juice in the first place. The idea is you only have to squonk enough to flood the immediate coil area and wick; there's no need to flood the whole chamber.

It's like the wick is only holding enough juice inside the coil for a good 2-3 puffs, not "storing" it up in tails on the deck to actually get cooked and heat wicked.

So yes, all the action is right there at the squonk hole, air hole, and coil; and there's that whole area on the other side of the posts kind of there for no good reason. Some people have even toyed around with making inserted plastic chamber reducers to plug up the other side of the posts.

If you keep things short and sweet right around the squonk hole, you'll find a well performing system.

Your getting fresher juice (not cooked and stored in wicks), and you'll never flood or ever second guess "blind squonking" your RM2. A simple firm 3 second bottle squeeze, and there's no doubt that was enough juice sent up to wet the coil, and flow down free and clear back into the bottle. Take 2-3 yummy hits; repeat.

I can't seem to find the thread, but there are more than a few Reonauts that were using longer tails for awhile, just like you would for a top dripper, and finally tried the "super short tail" method and never looked back. The way it tastes and performs is hands down better, at the small cost of squonking slightly more often.

 

[yolo_]

good question and good answer.

now i understand

 

[Filthy-Beast]

No the hole is not manually added. This a is a modified 3 post RBA with one negative post removed.

 

[ZeroOhms]

Thank you all the quick responses. This makes a perfect sense.
This "micro dripping" is very different from traditional dripping. So much too to learn.

 

[Borescoped]

So, shorter wicks than what you'd build in a normal RDA? That is good to know!


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[cr12]

OT I overbored my airhole (I know that's what she said) can you buy just the cap? I don't see it on the site


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[mackman]

PM Redeyedancer he will invoice you

 

[cr12]

Thanks apologies for the thread jacking


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