So I built botom feeder......

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drewk302

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I just wanted to give my 0.2 on it. I like the look and the hidden style. I was using it for about an hour ish, running my typical 6v 510 setup with 801 adapter for the 801 hv atty. I was using a 18g needle ( a little small but totally sealed ) I used a 10ml bottle, and a short piece of aquarium tubing and smaller tube running inside the bottle with the top drilled slightly. It feeds the atty fine but, it seems like the juice fills under the coil first and you kind of need to tip the atty for the fluid to rise to the coil. I understand that the steel mesh heats the fluid as well, but it seems that leakage, and overfilling would be very easy. I did get some leakage from the atty. I do realize that 2 things I used could contribute to the issue 1 the 501 to 801 adapter could have something to do with it, although I designed the needle tip to fit with the adapter and go in to the atty. 2 I used a standard 10ml bottle. I believe that a softer type bottle would be more efficient. IMO I dont believe that I would enjoy it much more if I made those changes though. I did test the efficiency of the juice flow before attaching the atty and I would say it was perfect, it did not spray, it was like a slow steady trickle. It seems that a top feeder would be more enjoyable to me, or just stick with dripping. Any insight, opinions, thoughts would be great. Thanks

edit: I will show pics so you can see, dont mind the look, just beta testing before creating a nice box with clean look.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/59411845@N03/5502706358/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/59411845@N03/5502706588/in/photostream/
and again the long exposed needle is to fit through my adapter in to my 801 atty
 
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