Smok tfv12 prince rba issues

[UncleJunkle]

Assuming you took care of the vacant spaces @gsmit1 pointed out earlier, I think you might not be using enough cotton. On your next wick, try a slightly wider piece of cotton (like 0.5mm wider) in each coil and longer tails to make sure you are filling in your juice wells but not tight (not super loose either).

It's hard to diagnose what's wrong, but you have to keep trying and don't do more than one or 2 new things at one time so you can pin point what fixes your problem.

 

[gsmit1]

Hit cancel cancel! The order I mean, LOL. I mean it is AMAZON but surely they aren't fullfilling orders in the middle of the night. Even if they do use gnomes I am guessing you got an hour.

Anna

If you're talking to me Anna, it was delivered today

 

[UncleJunkle]

nvm

 

[gsmit1]

Assuming you took care of the vacant spaces @gsmit1 pointed out earlier, I think you might not be using enough cotton. On your next wick, try a slightly wider piece of cotton (like 0.5mm wider) in each coil and longer tails to make sure you are filling in your juice wells but not tight (not super loose either).

It's hard to diagnose what's wrong, but you have to keep trying and don't do one or more new things at one time so you can pin point what fixes your problem.

Yeah, if we were sitting at a table together I could just show him and I don't really have a way to do usable videos. I've been working with this rba for quite a while. The main problem is not enough wicking in the ports. I'd bet money on it at this point

You've been here for 10 years. I'm not telling you anything you don't know, but once you have some good information, trial and error is the answer.

 

[PeterKay]

Assuming you took care of the vacant spaces @gsmit1 pointed out earlier, I think you might not be using enough cotton. On your next wick, try a slightly wider piece of cotton (like 0.5mm wider) in each coil and longer tails to make sure you are filling in your juice wells but not tight (not super loose either).

It's hard to diagnose what's wrong, but you have to keep trying and don't do one or more new things at one time so you can pin point what fixes your problem.

Haven't done it yet, I wanted to finish the juice that was already in the tank. Being a cheapskate backfires again lol... I'll rewick it when I wake up tomorrow, I'm too tired for anything creative at this point

 

[UncleJunkle]

I also have an airflow hack that closes off that canyon in the middl turning it into a dual port setup with one on each coil. Why go through all this? Why not
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Where did you get that peek airflow plug? Did you make it? If so, where did you get the peek to make it?

 

[gsmit1]

Haven't done it yet, I wanted to finish the juice that was already in the tank. Being a cheapskate backfires again lol... I'll rewick it when I wake up tomorrow, I'm too tired for anything creative at this point

For the future.
If you tighten the chamber cap onto the chimney, you can set the tank upside down and as long as the juice isn't high enough to go over the cap, you can rewick it without waiting for it to be empty.

 

[UncleJunkle]

Being a cheapskate backfires again lol

Yes, I have learned that lesson. Being frugal is good (I love being frugal), but you have to pick your battles wisely, so to speak. Wick material is too cheap. So don;t battle a bad wick job to save money, just change it otherwise you lose more money in lost juice than you do in a new wick.

 

[gsmit1]

Where did you get that peek airflow plug? Did you make it? If so, where did you get the peek to make it?

I made it out of piece of a single coil insert from some RDA I have. I can't remember which one. I just found the rest of it today LOL!

 

[UncleJunkle]

I made it out of piece of a single coil insert from some RDA I have. I can't remember which one. I just found the rest of it today LOL!
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I've been looking to buy some silicone sheets to make my own silicone washers and also some thicker silicone to make plugs for my dual coil RTAs so I can turn them into single coil RTAs.

 

[gsmit1]

I've been looking to buy some silicone sheets to make my own silicone washers and also some thicker silicone to make plugs for my dual coil RTAs so I can turn them into single coil RTAs.

Copied and pasted from another site I can't mention.
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On the underside you can't see, it has this triangular shape. This is a very crude illustration with the red being the huge airflow hole, the circles being the coils and of course the middle shape being the piece I'm talking about. If you looked at it turned 45 degrees it would look like a square. The flat ends wedge it right in the airflow hole perfectly.

 

[PeterKay]

Where did you get that peek airflow plug? Did you make it? If so, where did you get the peek to make it?

I just typed in

I made it out of piece of a single coil insert from some RDA I have. I can't remember which one. I just found the rest of it today LOL!
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Heh I kept googling "PEEK insulator", came up with insulators for 3d printers. 15 pounds each (20$?) So I thought: maybe some other time Next time I'll ask

 

[gsmit1]

Yes, I have learned that lesson. Being frugal is good (I love being frugal), but you have to pick your battles wisely, so to speak. Wick material is too cheap. So don;t battle a bad wick job to save money, just change it otherwise you lose more money in lost juice than you do in a new wick.

Yes. Exactly.

 

[PeterKay]

I just typed in

Heh I kept googling "PEEK insulator", came up with insulators for 3d printers. 15 pounds each (20$?) So I thought: maybe some other time Next time I'll ask

That's what I thought you cut that piece out of to be clear, I thought buying something like this just to cut it to pieces would be senseless

 

[PeterKay]

I just typed in

@UncleJunkle please ignore, typed that by accident

 

[mikepetro]

@mikepetro has a VERY useful thread on different wicking materials around here somewhere.

Rayon vs 3 leading brands of Cotton - Head to Head test | E-Cigarette Forum

 

[Territoo]

I would say you should probably start a new thread about your problem since it is unrelated to this problem.

However I have to reply to this

Without knowing what you did, it would be hard/impossible to diagnose. Also, "almost fried my mod" is quite strange and not clear. How do you know, what happened? I don't know how you could fry a mod unless it is a mech mod and you had a short in your build. That is my guess, you had a short in your build. A regulated mod "should" not "fry" from a short, as it "should" have protections for that.

However, if you are using a mech mod or even a semi-mech mod (aka unregulated mod), you should NEVER build/test a build on a mech. You should use a regulated mod as a build platform/ohm reader or use an stand alone ohm reader.

Once your regulated mod or ohm reader have confirmed that your build is good with no shorts, only then should you put that build on your mech and use it.

It was strange. I had built the coil on a regulated mod and was reading the correct ohms without any shorts. I had begun vaping with the coil on the same regulated mod, a Mag 225w, when it suddenly went dead. I was able to bring the mod back to life by putting in a drop in coil. Ever since, though, I've been gunshy about the RBA. My theory is I had a coil wiggle loose and cause a short.

 

[UncleJunkle]

My theory is I had a coil wiggle loose and cause a short.

Well, that's why mech users who are safety-conscious check their coil build frequently, not just right after they build it. Just because a coil has no short when you build it, it does not mean it won't develop a short 3 hours or 3 days down the road.

Ever since, though, I've been gunshy about the RBA.

I don't blame you. It could be that your RBA is defective.

That said, if this episode was cause by a short in your coil/RBA then your regulated mod should not have stopped working like that. It should have given you an message about a short or "no atomizer" message when you press the fire button. So this episode could indicate a problem with the mod itself. Hard to say what's going on without testing.

 

[stols001]

That testing was great @mikepetro My only complaint was no fish in the background I will be sticking with my rayon too. I got a small box but I may get a large one for peace of mind. I still have plenty left. I would have more but I spilled some coffee in it. Don't ask, although now it' all safely sealed in a zip lock bag. Shoulda done it sooner anyway. Due to the high absorption rate of rayon initially, only the top layer was lost.

OMG still loving my coffee thermos so much. Coffee and I are DESTRUCTIVE. LOL.

Anna

 

[PeterKay]

@gsmit1 I just rewicked, I've put about a 1/3 more cotton in, no aggressive combing. Instead of combing it I attacked it from the side with a toothpick and spread the fibers not to scrape any material off. Used the good muji, the crappy stuff is in the bin. I've thoroughly covered the juice ports and the area you've pinpointed earlier (red), and evened out the wick in the juice ports with a tootpick. Also less priming than the first time I've done it. I also made sure that the coil itself didn't have empty spaces inside. First time I tried today I cut the wick too short, after realising that I won't have enough to cover both the red area and the middle of the juice port I tossed it and started over.

I've also adjusted the coils again- spaced them out slightly, similar to the ones on your picture you sent me yesteday, and dry fired to see if they heat up evenly.

No comparison! Cracking is minimal, mostly when I turn the wattage above 60W. But someone said that these smok fused clapton coils always crack a little bit, would you agree with that? The tank stopped overheating above 60W (just tried it with 70W and it's fine). However, at 70W and taking 3 fast hits one after another, I started tasting a little burned taste in the last hit. Maybe I put too much wick inside?
I'm down to 55W again and it works fine, I'm ok with that Wattage as well since warm vapes aren't really my thing. 1/3 of a tank gone (8ml) and not even a drop leaked so far- I just unscrewed the tank and had a look underneath. Juice I'm using is 70/30.