The Lemo RTA: A Build With Pics

[WoWwYnAtoR]

Give the Lemo a chance for a little bit. The Billow leaks. I thought the same thing about my Lemo but after you get used to it the airflow is nice and the flavor kicks the Atlantis in the jewels

Whereas you will get used to the tighter draw, like I did coming from a Mutation X, it can be modded. I'm going to drill out my drop once I figure out which way I want to drill the centerpost holes under the deck. There's alot of surface area down there, providing options, causing me to hem-n-haw about the best way to to so. I'm planning on also opening up the center post through the deck and the visible air holes in the base itself. Just make sure you open the juice wells to compensate for the reduction in vacuum pressure caused by lessening the force required to draw. I'll be sure to throw up the pice when I nutt up and do it

How tight can you make the airflow on the Lemo? I am thinking of picking one up but I do not like a super airy draw. Can it be closed all the way or if not, how loose is the draw at the tightest setting?

Ok I just bit the bullet and ordered a black Lemo Drop. I picked it over the Kayfun v4 and I hope I made the right choice. I opted for the Lemo instead because of the rave reviews and all the extra pieces of the Kayfun seems to make it look extra complicated and more pieces to wash and disassemble. I am not into all that.

How tight is the airflow on the smallest setting on the Lemo? I'm a little worried about how airy it is as I like mouth to lung hits and a tighter draw. Also, I notice some people are using builds where the coil isn't all squished together and they are spaced apart a little bit. Does that work better? I've built pretty much everything as a microcoil but I am wondering if the spaced out coils would work better. I can't seem to vape much these days without my throat feeling slightly sore and I don't even vape a lot.

You can completely close off the airflow if you want...not sure how you would vape it at that point though

In all seriousness, you can dial it as tight as your heart desires. Loosening on the other hand....it only opens up to the point of a single coil quasar

Since the ring on the underneath of the positive post that adjusts the draw is some what loose, place a driptip o-ring around the post, up against the bottom of the adjustment ring to hold it set where you want it.

I feel like you made the right choice. I'm a firm believer in the K.I.S.S. principle as it usualy works.

As far as the style of coil you asked? Doesnt really matter. Do both. Or neither. Its a rebuildable so its totally up to you and you get to try both to see how each one benefits your vaping style most. Give her a try! Might work for you...might not

Concerning your sore throat, you can find out if vaping is the culprit by reducing the PG level in your Joose, lay off the citrus flavors, and hit a cooler vape. For a cheap bottle of one of the smoothest Super-Max VG jooses I've had to date (PG allergy here so I've tried ALOT), get this or something similar: Premium Hand-Crafted Madagascar Vanilla E-Liquid Low Prices - Highest Quality | Up N Vape e-liquids & Vaping

Hey folks! How often do you guys tend to replace your wicks? I've had the same wick in mine for only three days and it's all ready pretty gunked up and nasty already. I wonder if I'm doing something wrong or if you need to just rewick frequently.

There actualy IS a universal answer to this question; however, it cannot be answered in units of time. The easiest way to know when its time to change your coils is thus: When there's an earthy, dirty taste to the vape (this will also irritate my throat), and/or the juice starts to become discolored from the ammount of carmelized sugars on the coil/wick, and the vapor production drops off. Some jooses require daily rewicking, others can go for darn-near-ever it seems like. It really just depends on the juice and your vaping style.

 

[cocacola31173]

Somebody please tell me what I am doing wrong? This is 28 guage wrapped around 2.5 mm rod. About 1.6 ohms. I am a mouth to lung hitter but I keep getting harsh wispy vapor hits. I have watched lots of videos with people able to get clouds and brag about the flavor. I'm coming from kayfuns so I know about coil building.
What am I doing wrong with this thing?

Edit..I see now how blurry this pic is...early in the morning for me. If needed I will post a better one later.

 

[thekraut]

One for sure... the focus of your picture is not well chosen.

 

[cigatron]

Scarf, welcome to a great thread. Love my Egrip too.

Wattage does effect wick longivity and when it's spot on, vaporizing the juice at its optimal temperature, your wick life can be greatly extended. But too low of a power level can be just as detrimental as too high. At insufficient power levels many of the components of the juice remain in the wick and are not carried away in the vapor. They collect there and cook into the wick and sooner than expected your wick is producing nasty burny tasting vapor. Conversely ,too high of a wattage setting can burn juice into the wick as well but at least it is easily detectable early on.

So where's the happy place? It depends primarily on the juice pg:vg ratio and added flavorings, but as a general rule if you run your wattage just below the burny taste point of the juice you will achieve the longest wick life.

Example. When running dirty naturally extracted tobacco blends in my dripper at 30w I can vape about 3-4ml before wick change/dryburn. At 40w I can vape 10ml. Same thing on my Protanks and RTAs, running at the highest wattage without a burny taste results in the longest wick life.

I have never used the CS heads for the Egrip but would try setting the wattage higher than 8 watts; could be helpful for wick life.

As a general rule I have found that flavor intensity follows as power levels are increased as well; up to a point. That point being just below burny taste.

So perhaps you're thinking, "my battery life is going to suffer if I turn it up"! Not really with regard to mils of juice vaped per charge. If you turn your wattage up 25% but take 3 second pulls instead of 4 second pulls you are actually using the same amount of battery mah but are gaining the added flavor intensity and increasing wick life. Win-win imo

 

[cocacola31173]

One for sure... the focus of your picture is not well chosen.

Yeah its my phone..and its early in the morning. I will try to post a better pic this afternoon.

 

[RandyF]

Somebody please tell me what I am doing wrong? This is 28 guage wrapped around 2.5 mm rod. About 1.6 ohms. I am a mouth to lung hitter but I keep getting harsh wispy vapor hits. I have watched lots of videos with people able to get clouds and brag about the flavor. I'm coming from kayfuns so I know about coil building.
What am I doing wrong with this thing?

Edit..I see now how blurry this pic is...early in the morning for me. If needed I will post a better one later.

The coil seems pretty gunked up, maybe it is just the blurriness though. What device are you using and what are the watts set at?

 

[KGB7]

Ok I just bit the bullet and ordered a black Lemo Drop. I picked it over the Kayfun v4 and I hope I made the right choice. I opted for the Lemo instead because of the rave reviews and all the extra pieces of the Kayfun seems to make it look extra complicated and more pieces to wash and disassemble. I am not into all that.

How tight is the airflow on the smallest setting on the Lemo? I'm a little worried about how airy it is as I like mouth to lung hits and a tighter draw. Also, I notice some people are using builds where the coil isn't all squished together and they are spaced apart a little bit. Does that work better? I've built pretty much everything as a microcoil but I am wondering if the spaced out coils would work better. I can't seem to vape much these days without my throat feeling slightly sore and I don't even vape a lot.

Lemo is made to be Airy, and if its too airy for you, then get scotch tape and close off all the holes till there is no air flow. But that would defeat the whole purpose of Lemo.

Spread out coils gives me better flavor, more vapor and i can take it to higher wattage. As juice gets evaporated between each coil wrap instead of at the ends of the coil, also seems to keep the wick cleaner, longer. But that might not be for you, because you dont like it Airy.

 

[cocacola31173]

The coil seems pretty gunked up, maybe it is just the blurriness though. What device are you using and what are the watts set at?

I have a Provari and I usually stay at 4 volts.

 

[KGB7]

Could be lack of wick material or too much of it. Need to see better pic from both sides.

 

[RandyF]

I have a Provari and I usually stay at 4 volts.

So 10ish watts, so power shouldn't be an issue. The only thing I can think that would be causing it would be the wicking blocking the juice channels.

 

[nopoison]

Whereas you will get used to the tighter draw, like I did coming from a Mutation X, it can be modded. I'm going to drill out my drop onge I figre out which way I want to frill the centerpost holes under the deck. There's alot of surface area down there, providing options, causing me to hem-n-haw about the best way to to so. I'm planning on also opening up the center post through the deck and the f visible air holes in the base itself. Just make sure you open the juice wells to compensate for the reduction in vacuum pressure caused by lessening the force required to draw. I'll be sure to throw up the pice when I nutt up and do it

I drill the 4 holes up 1 size in the bottom of the center post and then slot the base. Tried drilling out the holes in the base but not good enough! I have two Lemos liek this and it makes it pretty good.

 

[KGB7]

I drill the 4 holes up 1 size in the bottom of the center post and then slot the base. Tried drilling out the holes in the base but not good enough! I have two Lemos liek this and it makes it pretty good.
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Dont you have vacuum issues with holes that big? Or you only use 50/50 juice?

I made my holes bigger as well, but then juice wouldn't flow as there was lack of suction from the tank, thus i had to constantly prime it. So i had to increase the size of juice channels to help with the flow.

 

[RandyF]

Did you guys drill out the center post?

 

[KGB7]

Did you guys drill out the center post?

I sure did. Nearly doubled the size of each hole.

 

[nopoison]

Dont you have vacuum issues with holes that big? Or you only use 50/50 juice?

I made my holes bigger as well, but then juice wouldn't flow as there was lack of suction from the tank, thus i had to constantly prime it. So i had to increase the size of juice channels to help with the flow.

I dont know that I would feel confident labeling it specifically as a "vacuum" issue but i occasionally will get a dry hit. I'd need more time with it and adjusting the wicking before I blame that on poor vacuum.

 

[newphreak]

Oh man oh man. I'm in love with my lemo now. Just nailed down another wick like WeirdWillie described after making yet another coil. I can't seem to be gentle enough when trying to remove the cotton. Anyhow, this time I made it by hand on a 3mm screwdriver, and it came out to be 0.15ohms at 8-9turns. And I must have gotten the wicking exactly right, because this is heaven. Got some new vapemail as well, including some new juices. And threw some "Rushless ejuice - swamp thang" in it.

Airbubbles of joy:

 

[Uncletattoowhat]

Dont you have vacuum issues with holes that big? Or you only use 50/50 juice?

I made my holes bigger as well, but then juice wouldn't flow as there was lack of suction from the tank, thus i had to constantly prime it. So i had to increase the size of juice channels to help with the flow.

I barely opened up my center post holes and deck holes and frequently get dry hits due to vacuum issues. How much did you open up your juice channels? I've been pondering doing that for a few days now.

 

[BNEAT]

I barely opened up my center post holes and deck holes and frequently get dry hits due to vacuum issues. How much did you open up your juice channels? I've been pondering doing that for a few days now.

I increased the size of all of my air holes, including the centerpost (vertical and horizontal) I haven't touched my juice channels and they feed dual coils at 40watts without any problem at all. (They would probably feed more than that, but that's all the power I have)

I can literally breath through my Lemos, and they still wick great!

edit: 100%vg...Rayon wicks, for the win!

 

[KGB7]

I dont know that I would feel confident labeling it specifically as a "vacuum" issue but i occasionally will get a dry hit. I'd need more time with it and adjusting the wicking before I blame that on poor vacuum.

If you not getting constant bubbles in the tank as you vape, then there is imbalance in vacuum.

I barely opened up my center post holes and deck holes and frequently get dry hits due to vacuum issues. How much did you open up your juice channels? I've been pondering doing that for a few days now.

I moded the chimney it self where the juice channels are, by about 2mm. Will post a pic in a bit.

 

[KGB7]

I cant take it off the deck ATM so i dont mess up the wick. But it goes up to the threads if you were to look from inside. I dremeled it on both sides for even juice flow.