Share your wick and coil setups for your Reo!

[Ratman]

32awg Kanthal-A1, 5-6 coils wrapped around 3mm silica wick folded in half. Before connecting the leads I put the loop around the center post, creating a juice well. Trim the ends tight to the coil.

I am using something similar to this. 32g Kanthal 4/5 coil wrap with 2 strands of cotton embroidery thread. I made a complete loop with it by running them through the coil, circling it into a loop and then running it through again. Makes an unbroken circle laying on the floor of the atty to hold juice. Working very well so far. Got the idea from seeing your setup here Pete54.

Running it at 1.9ohm on my vv grand at about 3.8v. Will make the next one with a 6/7 coil wrap to try SR.

 

[BuzzKilla]

Got my A7 Repairable atty to work on my Woodvil

It's wrapped at 2.3 Ohms, vapes like a champ with the SS wick setup

 

[phil71185]

Very nice coils everyone i am still being lazy and haven't jumped into rebuild able land yet. Looking at these i may make the dive at vapercon.

 

[hildicat]

Ok, I need some advice please. I've been in love with the Chalice and ERA's since I got them. My problem, admittedly a minor one, is that I cannot get a coil/wick setup to last more than a day or two. I know at least some of you are getting a couple of weeks or even longer life so I need to find out what I'm doing wrong.

I get very good results with everything, cheesecloth, cotton yarn, bamboo thread, 2.5ml silica, and even SS mesh. They all start out fantastic, though I gave up on the mesh because the dry hits it gave me were just too harsh.

When I first got my Chalice I quickly settled on cheesecloth for wicking, mainly because it tasted better to me than silica, but I got in the habit of changing it out almost daily as it would start to loose its flavor very quickly. When the ERA's came in I tried just about everything but settled on silica. My first ERA/silica build was great and lasted me about a week. I would have been happy with that but every other subsequent build starts out with such promise but quickly starts to taste bad. The best I've been able to manage since is about two days before it starts to turn.

I will add that with silica I've tried a straight build without torching, torching the wick and coil before installation, and torching after a day of use and I can tell no real difference. I've also tried dry burning a silica setup again without favorable results.

I should also state that I am using Kanthal 32 A1 exclusively for these since I bought MASS quantities and have been too cheap to buy anything else.

I'm using a 3/4 coil on the Chalice, getting about 1.7Ω, on a Reo Grand.

The ERA's live on VV Grands and are set up with a 4/5 coil, about 2Ω at anywhere between 3.2 and 4.2v.

I've tried building very loose coils, so that the wicks slide through almost without resistance, and very tight coils, almost choking the wicks. I've tried just enough wick to cover the coil area, and long wick tails that fill up every spare inch in the atty. Tried running almost dry to flooded, fat wicks, skinny wicks, coils widely spaced and packed tightly together...

You get the picture. I feel like I've tried just about everything. If I end up having to change a wick every day it would still be worth it in my opinion, cause that first day's vape is off the charts good, but I keep reading how some of you are getting several weeks out of a build and it just leads me to believe I'm doing SOMETHING wrong.

Anyhow, your suggestions here are greatly appreciated!

 

[FeistyAlice]

I have two native 801 Woodvils (which I adore) and no RBA's to fit them. How you sleep at night knowing this is beyond me.

I don't no Tripp I should be punished . You no how many 801 atomizers I would sell if I built them lol not many . Why don't you just use a adapter ? . You could always send your mods in for a sex change

Know what you mean Tripp. I've considered having my newer 801s sex changed especially since I've finally fallen in love with the ERA. The 801 to 510 adapter doesn't play very nicely with the ERA, though (it doesn't come in the stealth size like the 510 to 801 adapter as 801-510 adapter needs room for a female connection on each end). Perhaps Robert, Howdy Sweet, would consider making some brass cups a little wider so we could use the fat ERA with it without an extender adapter.... Hint, Hint.

One issue I have with the new, shorter 801 cups is flooding over the cup even using 100% VG especially in our climate; Summer-Extreme Summer-Summer-January (per Della Cirque)(btw.... February can be a bugger, too, when we have freak snow and/or ice storms but at least is isn't as cold, wet, windy, grey as January. We Texan's don't have much tolerance for SAD=Seasonal Affective Disorder.)

I don't have much issue with the old style tall 801 brass cups over flowing but with the shorter cups I've had to use only 801 cartos as the attys are too leaky most of the time. 801 Fusion cartos mute my juices more than 510 Smoketech cartos so I prefer not to use them.

Hugs, Feisty Alice

BTW... we were watching a NatGeo documentary the other day. DH and I did not know that Porkies climb trees!!!! Makes them cuter than they already are. And that wolves are one of the few animals that will take on and "win" a battle with a Porkie.

 

[FeistyAlice]

Ok, I need some advice please. I've been in love with the Chalice and ERA's since I got them. My problem, admittedly a minor one, is that I cannot get a coil/wick setup to last more than a day or two. I know at least some of you are getting a couple of weeks or even longer life so I need to find out what I'm doing wrong.

I get very good results with everything, cheesecloth, cotton yarn, bamboo thread, 2.5ml silica, and even SS mesh. They all start out fantastic, though I gave up on the mesh because the dry hits it gave me were just too harsh.

When I first got my Chalice I quickly settled on cheesecloth for wicking, mainly because it tasted better to me than silica, but I got in the habit of changing it out almost daily as it would start to loose its flavor very quickly. When the ERA's came in I tried just about everything but settled on silica. My first ERA/silica build was great and lasted me about a week. I would have been happy with that but every other subsequent build starts out with such promise but quickly starts to taste bad. The best I've been able to manage since is about two days before it starts to turn.

I will add that with silica I've tried a straight build without torching, torching the wick and coil before installation, and torching after a day of use and I can tell no real difference. I've also tried dry burning a silica setup again without favorable results.

I should also state that I am using Kanthal 32 A1 exclusively for these since I bought MASS quantities and have been too cheap to buy anything else.

I'm using a 3/4 coil on the Chalice, getting about 1.7Ω, on a Reo Grand.

The ERA's live on VV Grands and are set up with a 4/5 coil, about 2Ω at anywhere between 3.2 and 4.2v.

I've tried building very loose coils, so that the wicks slide through almost without resistance, and very tight coils, almost choking the wicks. I've tried just enough wick to cover the coil area, and long wick tails that fill up every spare inch in the atty. Tried running almost dry to flooded, fat wicks, skinny wicks, coils widely spaced and packed tightly together...

You get the picture. I feel like I've tried just about everything. If I end up having to change a wick every day it would still be worth it in my opinion, cause that first day's vape is off the charts good, but I keep reading how some of you are getting several weeks out of a build and it just leads me to believe I'm doing SOMETHING wrong.

Anyhow, your suggestions here are greatly appreciated!

You may not be making any "mistakes." It may just be your juice.

I have the same issue with taste getting off and wicking decreasing after one day's use no matter the configuration of my wick/coil. Only solution, for me, a water rinse and then soak ERA once a day in PGA then dry burning. Water rinse/soak would probably work but by using PGA I only have to have it out of use for a few minutes for soak, pat dry, dry burn.

My current configuration is single Kanthal A 32 around single 3mm silica wick, pre-torched before putting on ERA. Wick is nub at one end of coil, on high side (top hole of juice feeding post) and 1/2" tail at other end (single hole post) that sits in base of ERA. Any longer than 1/2" makes it harder to keep all of wick contained while putting top back on. Pre-torching has improved use time before needing a cleaning and also has improved wicking.

I'm getting, at most, a week use before the cleaning doesn't help enough. It's not that it isn't firing; it's that the taste gets bad. I haven't tried boiling ERA as I used to do with pre-made attys as it's just easier/faster to replace coil/wick.

I like current configuration wick/coil as I can make one in a couple of minutes. It takes longer to get stuff out than to make several. Making loops takes a lot longer.

I need to add that even when I was using premade LR 510 attys, most brands, I could only get 2-3 days use before I had to clean them. I think particular juices can determine how long or short a time they can be used between cleanings. When DH was using attys with his tobacco blends he could go much longer between atty cleanings than I could with my Butterscotch based juices.

Feisty Alice

 

[gamedemon]

Got my A7 Repairable atty to work on my Woodvil

It's wrapped at 2.3 Ohms, vapes like a champ with the SS wick setup

My A7 looks nothing like your second picture... The posts are the same. Mine is recessed..

 

[BuzzKilla]

My A7 looks nothing like your second picture... The posts are the same. Mine is recessed..

i unscrewed the inside just for visual of the wick...

your A7 is able to do the same thing. It makes it way easier to set up. Dont force it though, as some vapers have reported that theirs is in really tight.

 

[Brew1961]

I aready posted this in the other ERA thread but thought it might be easier searched if I put it here as well. I'm using 32AWG Kanthal A-1 and 3mm Silica Wick. The final configuration metered out at 2.0 Ohms on the nose.
Bottom-view of my 5/4 coil & wick
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Side-view of back/bottom of coil
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Initial install into posts prior to tightening up the loop
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Started to clean up the coil spacing
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Final image after tightening up the wick and trimming the excess. Still needed to cut off the leads.
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One of our crew reproduced this with Bamboo versus my 3mm Silica and said it was knocking his socks off. Hope this benefits someone. Brew

 

[JC Okie]

I aready posted this in the other ERA thread but thought it might be easier searched if I put it here as well. I'm using 32AWG Kanthal A-1 and 3mm Silica Wick. The final configuration metered out at 2.0 Ohms on the nose.
Bottom-view of my 5/4 coil & wick
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Side-view of back/bottom of coil
View attachment 148039
Initial install into posts prior to tightening up the loop
View attachment 148040
Started to clean up the coil spacing
View attachment 148041
Final image after tightening up the wick and trimming the excess. Still needed to cut off the leads.
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One of our crew reproduced this with Bamboo versus my 3mm Silica and said it was knocking his socks off. Hope this benefits someone. Brew

Nice looking coil there, Brew. I tried it (the loop over the post...right in front of the juice hole) using cotton thread and it worked great for me, too.

 

[FeistyAlice]

I aready posted this in the other ERA thread but thought it might be easier searched if I put it here as well. I'm using 32AWG Kanthal A-1 and 3mm Silica Wick. The final configuration metered out at 2.0 Ohms on the nose.
Bottom-view of my 5/4 coil & wick
View attachment 148038
Side-view of back/bottom of coil
View attachment 148039
Initial install into posts prior to tightening up the loop
View attachment 148040
Started to clean up the coil spacing
View attachment 148041
Final image after tightening up the wick and trimming the excess. Still needed to cut off the leads.
View attachment 148042
One of our crew reproduced this with Bamboo versus my 3mm Silica and said it was knocking his socks off. Hope this benefits someone. Brew

Thanks so much for sharing. This looks to be a fast and easy wick/coil build. Can't wait to pull out stuff to make some up. I like that you didn't pull the coil tight enough to "choke" the wick. Some of the single 3mm silica, with long tail, I wound the coil too tightly and that makes for a less satisfying vape. Coils/wick needs to be replaced too often, too.

Hugs, Feisty Alice

 

[Brew1961]

I posted this in the other REO forum ERA thread and it's even easier and more frugal on the amount of wick used. Brew

Thanks so much for sharing. This looks to be a fast and easy wick/coil build. Can't wait to pull out stuff to make some up. I like that you didn't pull the coil tight enough to "choke" the wick. Some of the single 3mm silica, with long tail, I wound the coil too tightly and that makes for a less satisfying vape. Coils/wick needs to be replaced too often, too.

Hugs, Feisty Alice

 

[Rhapsodies Fire]

Hey...do you guys want me to copy the posts showing folk's wick/wire set ups from other thread to this one?

 

[whatitstrue]

Hey...do you guys want me to copy the posts showing folk's wick/wire set ups from other thread to this one?

if you have time that would be fantastic.

You never stop amazing me with the things you do for us here in REOvile. thank you!!!!

 

[Brew1961]

That would be great. Brew

Hey...do you guys want me to copy the posts showing folk's wick/wire set ups from other thread to this one?

 

[house mouse]

*Edit by RF
It appears while copying posts to this thread, I lost the first post, so I'm going to quote it here for reference. Sorry about that guys.

Hi, I´m opening this thread for you guys to share your wick and coil setups for your Reo, since I´ve been having a little trouble finding what works best and have used a lot of wick and wire in failed attempts .

Please state on what mod are you using it, so we know if it works best on regular or vv Reos.

Cheers Reoville

Thanks for the replies- After I get my ERA, I'm sure I'll be asking a lot more questions, and which wire and where to buy, etc..oh and the wick too!

Hey Dave! This is a really good thread on coil making and wick ideas. For health reasons I need to avoid silica inhalation and there are a ton of good ideas in here.

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/modding-forum/284030-wick-materials-safe-vs-dangerous.html


Really long thread, but worth the read.

 

[strprswpr]

Got my ERA yesterday...This thing is a winner in my book. Tons of vapor. I set it up using the 3mm Ody wick and 5 wraps of 34 NiChrome on my Kicked Grand set to 10 watts. I noticed it didn't seat to well in the Grand...a little wobbly. I put a small oring over the 510 connecter and it's rock solid now. Draw is perfect for me.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Has anyone tried ss mesh for a wick in these?

I tried a hybrid wick. But I've gone back to a standard wick setup for the moment. It works but it was very prone to flooding I found. Perhaps there's better ways of doing it?

 

[urquidezj]

Here it is! Bottom feed setup like Tey Gajitos from the phillipines does.
What u need
-I'm using 30 g kanthal to get the lr I want and the surface area I need for good vape to soak ratio
-Six era cap lengths of wick
-torch
-wire cutters
-tweezers (not pictured)
-era
-reo (lol)

Get your wick fold it in half nice and even then fold it again. Keeping it nice and even. Get your kanthal, whatever gauge you are using and wrap to desired resistance. I did four of 30g wich will land me in the 1.4 neighborhood

Torch your wick and wire before mounting

Mount coil n wick onto era. Make sure u use the top holes and juice feed is right below your coil. While you hold wick in place with your thumb tighten the grub screw with Allen wrench. This needs attention, do not over tighten as it will cut your wires on both sides, snug it and tighten a bit till you see your wire tails slightly move up

Spread your coil out nice and even

Trim or twist off excess wire

With the remaining wire tail or if you don't have a long enough one make a u

Now we hook the loop edges of the wick together one side first then hook the other to bring them together on the opposing side of your coil

Now hold down with thumb and start twisting the u together. Use needle nose Pliers or tweezers to get a nice tight twist and cut off excess

Cut off remaining tails of wick

Should look like this

Test on reo or other devise multimeter

Once om your reo make sure your air hole is directly in from of your coil. This is crucial if you want it to perform like its supposed to

Squonk with you cap off so you can get an idea how much you need to squonk whenever you are dry. Fire it a couple of times to see vapor produced. After that. Vape your face off!!!!!
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f...-B979-337CED13FDAF-16766-00000D6AD024C5ED.mp4
As you can see in the vid. It blows clouds. The draw in it is perfect just how I like it, loose, hope this helps any questions feel free to ask, credits on the wick setup go to Tey Gajitos.
Oh yeah 50/50 bluemist vaping caramel tobacco with an aw 18650 batt.

 

[Mudflap]

I tried one of those bundled wicks with the loops tied together on the opposite side of the posts.

I vaped several mls thru this setup and boy did it suck. No matter how much or little I squonked or what voltage I ran it, it just sucked.

I got my new wire and wick in today and made a new coil. I figured less is more.

That's four wraps of 36 AWG kanthal around two strands of 1mm fiberglass wick. It measured 2.3 ohms and I'm vaping it at 4.7 volts under load. I torched it, pointed the extra lengths upwards when I put the cap on the base, and it's been vaping wonderfully from the word go.

Just sharing what has and has not worked for me today.