Have 2 incredible builds now for Rose, that are simply expanding my Vape Conscience. They are that good. Both are using dual stands of twisted wire, both using Rami Fiber for wicks..
The first "Excellent Build" was a vertically mounted dual series coil with external rami wick. Used ribbon & round twisted together, Tiger Wire. Came out to 1.4 ohms. Used ~16 gauge mandrel with the coil winder, making a single micro coil. Looks to be about 10 wraps, then bend it in two, creating a V. /\ , pinched and torch to set.
Don't have photos of my wicking process, was getting late/early and wanted to complete build. Working with ramie fiber is a joy, it's one of the most purrfect wick fibers I've encountered. Each angel hair fiber is continuous throughout its length. It's like what nano fiber optics cable would look like.
I place a pre-juiced strand between the coils. I just drip enough juice on the fibers to get them compressed, straight and flat. Once positioned and between the coils, I fold tails straight up and mount coil. Once securely mounted, flatten and straighten out the ramie fibers and wrap them around the outside of the coils and out the ending juice port. You now have a completely wrapped inverted V-Twin coil, but with 2 empty juice ports.
I then straighten out the exiting tails nice and split it in two and fold it back through the cup and out the apposing empty juice port, and repeat on the other side. Now there is a tail in every port. hmm, yeah, sticking with that, I now have a tail in every port. With rami, find it's beneficial, read that as "Very Important" to keep the fibers as straight and parallel as possible. Working a few drops of juice into it really helps taming loose ends and keeping everything tidy and optimal. So when wrapping, threading and tucking, I'll always untwist, straighten and flatten my fibers before proceeding.
On the wick legs that were folded back to fill the last 2 ports, I'll also tuck them down touching the bottom of the ceramic cup. My objective for doing this is two fold. One, I want a way to soak up and use any juice that gets over wicked, preventing flooding, and two, want to block the air from going around the out side of the wicks, and forcing it up the V-Twin coils.
My Second Excellent build is a horizontally mounted coil, using Savannah Wire, twisted ribbon, twisted around 28 awg Kanthal. Weighs in at 0.65 ohms, also wicked with Rami Fiber. Used a mandrel about 1/8" diameter, from the Artesian wire coiler.
After saturating wick, threading through coil, mounting coil, straightening and separating my wick I have something like this:
In this build I opted not to use the ceramic cup, wanted more room for my wick, and this allowed me to run the extra wick tails you see, to be tucked into the juice deck for retrieving excess juice and reducing flooding. Also feel be doing so, the ramie lying in the juice deck preforms similar function as the ceramic, and gives me a juice well so can really open up the throttle and run her wide open, Maximum Watts with less risks of flooding. So far tis working wonderfully for me.
Here is how Rose looks before her final trim, with all the tails tucked in nice and neat. Notice how straight, flat and uniform, all the fibers are.
I then secure and tighten the chimney in preparation for the final trim, ensuring nothing gets snagged in the threads.
All trimmed and awaiting assembly and fill up:
Vaping and looking Quite Excellent straddling the futura 30.
Ahh, Futura meets Rose, love at first Vape. Fortunately the twin girls play well together and like all my mods. Both these builds taste and vape fantastically. Both preform and easily wick at 30 watts. Things do heat up a bit with extended vaping, while providing a very orgasmic vaping experience. Can only take so much before am over nic'd and vape overload sets in, but DAMN is it good. Dial Rose back to a mild 23 watts, and one receives a stellar smooth, satisfying, flavorful vape. Warm, but not overly. Everything staying stable and cool with no overwarming tendency. Jc, cracked open 1/4-1/2 turn, will open up to a full turn when at 30 watts. Once the Ramie gets fully saturated, should be less sensitive.
