The Lemo RTA: A Build With Pics
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My first RTA, the Eleaf Lemo is out for delivery today! Can't wait to try it out!
^ congrats! I think you'll be very very satisfied 
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Haven't figured out how to upload pics yet, so bare with my words. The pre-installed wick and cotton - the cotton is huge, when I put the chimney back on the coil, the cotton gets in the way of the threads. Should I be lifting the cotton up while placing the chimney over the coil to allow me to screw it on without getting the cotton caught up in the threads? Or should this cotton be trimmed more?
you can either:
put a little juice on the cotton and push the cotton back against the side of the building deck and out of the way of the juices channels and threads. then put the barrel on.
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put the cotton leading upwards like bunny ears. put the barrel on. then tuck down the cotton into the well. just make sure not to block the juice channels.
put a little juice on the cotton and push the cotton back against the side of the building deck and out of the way of the juices channels and threads. then put the barrel on.
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put the cotton leading upwards like bunny ears. put the barrel on. then tuck down the cotton into the well. just make sure not to block the juice channels.
My Drop came loaded with way too much cotton. Like entire chimney full of cotton no way the juice could flow from the tank too much.
Use a 3rd party photo site like Imgur, or photobucket then link the photos here.
So I was able to get the chimney back on. I could not get the screw open that opens for filling, tried using the flat and Phillips that it comes with and neither would allow me to loosen it. Had to use a bigger Phillips from the garage to get it open, in which I took it out, filled my ejuice, tightened it back in there. Gave it primer puffs, and got no vapor. I opened the air flow all the way, I could tell it was open but did not get any vapor what so ever. It did read at 1 ohm and I went up to 11 watts but never got any vapor. What am I doing wrong?
I ended up opening the tank which all 5ml of juice went on the workbench, cleaned it up, refilled 5ml and once again no vapor
Me too! IMO a Kayfun Mini diameter build deck, sliding silicone AFC tube, fixed + pin, a twist-able top fill like the Kayfuns adapters and I'll be sporting a few of them at least.
If that's on your Innokin Itazte VV 3.0 your resistance of your coil may not be high enough. With an 800 mah battery this very well may be your problem. I'd try a coil around 1.5 ohms.
Did you saturate the wick and test to make sure it was working properly before putting the chimney cap on and reassembling the Lemo? Do you hear any sizzling sound if you put your ear near the drip tip when you press the fire button on your PV?
I'm wondering if the wick was not saturated fully and it may have burned in half and hence no vapor. May be worth sucking the juice out the fill hole and taking another look. Just guessing .... can you upload any pics?
After seeing liquid coming out of the air holes. I decided to try and close the air flow as much as possible. In addition to it being insanely hard to get air flow, I actually got some vapor coming out. Could I have had it open too much so that vapor wasn't burning? I'm so irrated and annoyed that it's not working flawlessly out of the box.
What is you Lemo screwed onto and what size coil wire are you using? Oh yeah the stock coil, you may not be able to heat the coil properly if it's on VV 3.0 being it has a 3.5 amp limit, if I'm correct anyway.
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...e-vv-v3-0-lowest-resistance.html#post13037980
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...e-vv-v3-0-lowest-resistance.html#post13037980
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If juice is coming out the air holes you probably don't have a good seal somewhere. Things to check would be the two silicon rings at the top and bottom of the glass tank, and the 0-ring on the chimney. That one seems to want to break or get damaged and not seal well. You also would want to check the wick and make sure it's not causing a problem. If you are using the wick that was installed on the Lemo when you got it you should be OK. I used my original for about two weeks before changing it. (I know, I'm a slob....lol)
Something else although not super critical, but what ratio juice are you using?
Don't give up hope -- you will figure this out and I'm sure other more knowledgeable people will chime in with more ideas. These are nice devices and just take a little time to get used to.
Did you soak the cotton before putting it all back together?
Are you trying to use the Lemo on your VV3? If so, I concur with others here; not enough power with the factory coil setup. The Lemo really needs 20w or more to shine. My brother ran his on an Istick 20 for about a month before upgrading to a 50w box mod.
The Lemo will run decent on a VV3 however if you wind a smaller diameter, thinner gauge and higher res coil. Try a 30ga., 9/8 wrap, 2mm ID, 1.95 ohm, contact coil (not spaced). This build will optimize the power potential of your VV3 but will require closing down the Lemo AFC to MTL hitting airflow level.
Good luck.
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I figured he test fired the Lemo and knew it was heating. My mistake. Heck, it most likely isn't able to even fire if the Ω load is too low for the PV -- I just noticed the reference to the device.....my bad
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Mines at 1Ω I vape it at 20 watts, I get vapor at 11 watts after several seconds of firing.
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