Hey builders, I bough a prometheus genesis atomizer recently, and got some stainless steel mesh for it, and I liked the fact that their is no consequences to dry hits, it just kinda stops producing vapor. "Man I wish this stuff could wick as good as cotton" I thought to myself, then I had the idea to stick some in my rda.
~I started with my current favorite coil setup: 28ga wrapped 4-7 times around a 1/16th" drill-bit, usually around .35-4Ω's, positioned them vertically at the same heighth of airflow holes.
~Got those glowing evenly before adding the REALLY oxidized (and washed) SS mesh.
~I then cut a centimeter by centimeter (however tall you want it), which turned out to be a perfect tight fit when rolled to a solid core.
~I then cut the ends of the SS rod in a diagonal (to aid wicking), and wiggled it through the center of both my coils, then checked for hot spots (none).
~Then made the fluffiest cotton cloud I could, and generously wrapped everything below the second coil up from the bottom (I made the cotton barely cover the bottom of the coil so it was touching, and completely covered the bottom half of the SS rod, and then tucked another fluffy cloud between the upper half of the SS rod and the posts (I found out this drips the juice straight to the rod this way when dripping through the top cap.)
~The I juiced'er up and vaped'er! It's a flawless setup in my opinion, it takes a nano-second longer to heat up but it's well worth it.
This pic doesn't do it justice, I had to take it immediately after firing because it was shooting all over my arm and hand, it even hit the little cameral lense on my iphone the first picture attemp hehe.
BENEFITS:
~As I said above I think the best part is if for some reason it gets dry (this setup completely sucks everything dry!) there's no surprise cotton hit, no burn flavor, it literally just produces less vapor all of the sudden, and you can oh-so-barely taste the SS mesh. (Tastes like "ozone" to me if you get what I mean, not unpleasant I'd say, and that's only once the juice is completely gone pretty much.)
~HUGE vapor! It produces just as well as cotton alone, it seems like a substantial amount more because part of the wick heats up as well, that and I'm not afraid to harp on it in fear of dry hits.
~Extended heating surface area, I can see when I fire it that vapor is spewing from the coils, outwards from the SS rod, and shooting out of the top of the SS rod too, it vaporizing in more places than just the coil alone!
~Really clean flavor, I've always loved cotton because of it's wicking speed, and super lack of wick taste, but with this one juice I have (milk and honey by cosmic fog), I'd always have a very slight cotton taste (not unpleasant at all, but I notice it, and have been rinsing my cotton ball in hot water if I plan to use it, that seems to knock it out, but I didn't on this build), SS mesh has always had a VERY noticable metallic taste at first, again doesn't bother me because it's very slight, but distracting to say the least, and it usually goes away once a good amount of juice cruds it up. But with this build, it's really clean tasting and my fruity and creamy flavors are both noticably stronger, maybe it's a placebo effect because it produces vapor so well but it just tastes clean. My theory is that the cotton covering most of the wick masks that slight metallic flavor, and keeps it from crudding up because the cotton wicking keeps it totally wet, and since barely any cotton is actually touching the coil, you never get that caramelized cotton from surprise dry hits.
~I don't know what it is about the teamwork between my favorite cotton, and SS mesh, but I've checked a few times when it runs out of juice, and it's completely bone dry in there. It's really efficient at using every last bit of juice, the cotton is nearly white, which is surprising because it's hard to tell when it's dry besides the fact that less vapor is coming out, it's righteous! I'm guessing this is because the fast wicking cotton can transport it straight to the part of the SS rod closes to the coil, and it has a place to "dump" it's juice into something that won't burn. I often build coils that beat even the superior cotton wicking speed, because it drys out that one area touching the coils before the rest of the juice in the cotton can make it's way to the coil. With this method, you get the speed of cotton, and the indestructibility of stainless steel mesh, they make an awesome team.
*She gobs the vapor like this:
Lemme know what you think, and BTW is the "show us your working coils" thread basically where everyone goes in this forum?, just want to know for future reference.
~I started with my current favorite coil setup: 28ga wrapped 4-7 times around a 1/16th" drill-bit, usually around .35-4Ω's, positioned them vertically at the same heighth of airflow holes.
~Got those glowing evenly before adding the REALLY oxidized (and washed) SS mesh.
~I then cut a centimeter by centimeter (however tall you want it), which turned out to be a perfect tight fit when rolled to a solid core.
~I then cut the ends of the SS rod in a diagonal (to aid wicking), and wiggled it through the center of both my coils, then checked for hot spots (none).
~Then made the fluffiest cotton cloud I could, and generously wrapped everything below the second coil up from the bottom (I made the cotton barely cover the bottom of the coil so it was touching, and completely covered the bottom half of the SS rod, and then tucked another fluffy cloud between the upper half of the SS rod and the posts (I found out this drips the juice straight to the rod this way when dripping through the top cap.)
~The I juiced'er up and vaped'er! It's a flawless setup in my opinion, it takes a nano-second longer to heat up but it's well worth it.
This pic doesn't do it justice, I had to take it immediately after firing because it was shooting all over my arm and hand, it even hit the little cameral lense on my iphone the first picture attemp hehe.
BENEFITS:
~As I said above I think the best part is if for some reason it gets dry (this setup completely sucks everything dry!) there's no surprise cotton hit, no burn flavor, it literally just produces less vapor all of the sudden, and you can oh-so-barely taste the SS mesh. (Tastes like "ozone" to me if you get what I mean, not unpleasant I'd say, and that's only once the juice is completely gone pretty much.)
~HUGE vapor! It produces just as well as cotton alone, it seems like a substantial amount more because part of the wick heats up as well, that and I'm not afraid to harp on it in fear of dry hits.
~Extended heating surface area, I can see when I fire it that vapor is spewing from the coils, outwards from the SS rod, and shooting out of the top of the SS rod too, it vaporizing in more places than just the coil alone!
~Really clean flavor, I've always loved cotton because of it's wicking speed, and super lack of wick taste, but with this one juice I have (milk and honey by cosmic fog), I'd always have a very slight cotton taste (not unpleasant at all, but I notice it, and have been rinsing my cotton ball in hot water if I plan to use it, that seems to knock it out, but I didn't on this build), SS mesh has always had a VERY noticable metallic taste at first, again doesn't bother me because it's very slight, but distracting to say the least, and it usually goes away once a good amount of juice cruds it up. But with this build, it's really clean tasting and my fruity and creamy flavors are both noticably stronger, maybe it's a placebo effect because it produces vapor so well but it just tastes clean. My theory is that the cotton covering most of the wick masks that slight metallic flavor, and keeps it from crudding up because the cotton wicking keeps it totally wet, and since barely any cotton is actually touching the coil, you never get that caramelized cotton from surprise dry hits.
~I don't know what it is about the teamwork between my favorite cotton, and SS mesh, but I've checked a few times when it runs out of juice, and it's completely bone dry in there. It's really efficient at using every last bit of juice, the cotton is nearly white, which is surprising because it's hard to tell when it's dry besides the fact that less vapor is coming out, it's righteous! I'm guessing this is because the fast wicking cotton can transport it straight to the part of the SS rod closes to the coil, and it has a place to "dump" it's juice into something that won't burn. I often build coils that beat even the superior cotton wicking speed, because it drys out that one area touching the coils before the rest of the juice in the cotton can make it's way to the coil. With this method, you get the speed of cotton, and the indestructibility of stainless steel mesh, they make an awesome team.
*She gobs the vapor like this:
Lemme know what you think, and BTW is the "show us your working coils" thread basically where everyone goes in this forum?, just want to know for future reference.
