Hey all, I bought the vamo v3 because I wanted to switch from mechanical mod to vv. The cartos that came with the mod work just fine, but the rsst won't go above .8-1.0 ohms no matter what I do. It worked with the mechanical but just won't with the vamo no matter what I do. I have 400 ss mesh and 30 gauge kanthol. If anyone could help me out, I'd appreciate it, I'm beyond frustrated.
Still can't get my rsst to work
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Well I tried a 6/5 wrap with the 30 ga and it is still reading .8 ohms. Maybe there's a short somewhere in it?
It's not seated correctly if it's reading that high. A few more wraps will get you higher ohms.
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Okay so here's what it's doing. I can move to coil around and get an ohm reading of 1.4. So I try to fire it and the bottom leg going to the negative post heats up way to fast like its about to pop so I let off real quick. Then the ohm reading goes back down to 1.
You're welding the wire to the mesh is what's going on. Try it at a lower voltage for a while to work out that hot spot.
I fixed a problem AGA-TD dual by running a tank of liquid that gunks up coils really bad through at low voltage. Before then as soon as I went to stacking and high volts it welded all over the place and burnt through the wick that was working at lower voltages. Now after that tank load I have it working at 5.5v and it doesn't fluctuate.
I didn't think RSST was supposed to do that with the insulated hole. Are you sure the mesh isn't grounding inside the tank?
The rsst should not be grounding on the inside of the tank unless some how you have burned through it. If you did you would have juice leaking all over the place. from your description you have a have a hot spot. go to the provari web site Zen has a very good video and shows you how to deal with this on the z-atty pro here's the link Z-Atty-Pro - Rebuildable Tank System V2.1 good luck with it as you know from your mech it got a great flavor
Also use a battery that's low, almost dead will work great, If you use a fresh battery it will fry it most of the time.
You are getting shorts forsure, you can use a jeweler driver to flatten the wire against the wick or the deck. The first few coils on a new wick using a small piece of cigarette paper, run the coils until it burns the paper away and blow it away and you get a nearly perfect coil every time. Use onlu a thin piece or you'll have to tighten it afterwards. You can always pulse fire on a mech to oxidize it a bit.
No matter how many times I wrap it it just stays below 1.2 ohms. I keep getting different readings all over and can't fire it at all. I guess I'm going to have to take it in because its beyond frustrating me that I can not get it to fire at all but with a mech mod I can.
I had to go find a parts blow up and docp1620 is right. I don't see how it can be grounding on the wick unless someone modified something or it's not an RSST.
Because of that I don't really see how your ohms can be fluctuating that much. Or how your negative is what's heating up.
There's some serious funk going on.
Any close-up pictures to go along with it? I just ordered a new RSST which should be here this week, but I've built on one before and never had issues with getting things working with 28, 30 or 32 Gauge.
Proper oxidizing the mesh is crucial!!!!!! Youtube...
1.4 ohm, 4 wraps, 0.25mm kanthal and #500 ss mesh
RSST is nice looking and easy to use and with pp tank, but i just dont get the flavor like on cobra clone from fasttech for half the price...
So I went in to a local vapor shop, the one I bought the tank from, and we rolled about 3-4 wicks and wrapped them with new coil. We finally got one that was working solid. With 400 ss mesh and 30 ga wire and a 3/2 wrap it was steady at 1.3 ohms. Working great, no burnt taste, perfect, about 40 min later I put a fresh battery in, and turned down the voltage to 3.8 and the coil popped. I tried wrapping a new one and then it's right back to the same problem. I am completely lost on what else to do
Its strange that the coil breaked/popped. I managed to do that once with 32 awg and i still dont know how. Maybe i tried it on 5V or even more?! With thicker wires like 29/30 awg i didnt have any problems. Only thing that bothers me that i cant use the same coil for the whole week cause it gets all black from the burning liquid and then the taste of vapor isnt good enough anymore. Mesh wick is usually good for 3 weeks.
Have to try cotton or ceramic in the future.
Have to try cotton or ceramic in the future.
a few things that cause hot spots not oxidizing the wick enough? have you tried to oxidize your coil by giving it a good hot even burn and drip some juice on it? is your coil too tight around the wick? also if one leg is getting hot before the other that could be uneven legs but that is usually a problem on the aga.
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