Hey, everyone. I've been lurking in the background for a couple of months soaking up the knowledge and in the process have turned vaping into a bit of a hobby instead of just a smoking replacement. Got a nice start on a juice collection going and have progressed from the cig-alikes on to a couple of Egos and last week picked up an Itaste VV. During a recent visit to Alt Smoke I was shown the wonders that are mech mods. Now I'm thinking this could get expensive but I am enjoying it.
So here's my first question: I wrapped my first coil today, CE5 rebuildable atomizer, 5/4 wraps of 32 gauge Kanthal around the threads of a screw so they're nice and uniform. Compressed it a little and heat treated it, stuck it on the Itaste and it read 2.3 Ohms, just what I was looking for. I dry fired it and got a nice even glow across the entire coil, so far so good. Add some rolled cotton wick and a drop or two of juice, fire it again and nice plumes of vapor. Time to put the tank back together and fill it up. I take a couple of hits off it and think everything is ok. I come back to it a few hours later and suddenly it's reading 0.8 Ohms and barely firing. I take it off and put it back on, same thing. Take it off and put it on one of the Egos and it fires fine. Put it back on the Itaste and 2.3 Ohms again. A couple of hits later its back to 0.8. Repeat above tests and again works perfectly on the Ego and resistance goes back to 2.3 on the Itaste, but only for a couple of hits then back to 0.9. Anyone have any ideas on how this coil is shorting out and why firing it on the Ego seems to temporarily "fix" it? Makes no sense to me and unfortunately I can't take the head apart to look at it without wasting the tank of juice.
So here's my first question: I wrapped my first coil today, CE5 rebuildable atomizer, 5/4 wraps of 32 gauge Kanthal around the threads of a screw so they're nice and uniform. Compressed it a little and heat treated it, stuck it on the Itaste and it read 2.3 Ohms, just what I was looking for. I dry fired it and got a nice even glow across the entire coil, so far so good. Add some rolled cotton wick and a drop or two of juice, fire it again and nice plumes of vapor. Time to put the tank back together and fill it up. I take a couple of hits off it and think everything is ok. I come back to it a few hours later and suddenly it's reading 0.8 Ohms and barely firing. I take it off and put it back on, same thing. Take it off and put it on one of the Egos and it fires fine. Put it back on the Itaste and 2.3 Ohms again. A couple of hits later its back to 0.8. Repeat above tests and again works perfectly on the Ego and resistance goes back to 2.3 on the Itaste, but only for a couple of hits then back to 0.9. Anyone have any ideas on how this coil is shorting out and why firing it on the Ego seems to temporarily "fix" it? Makes no sense to me and unfortunately I can't take the head apart to look at it without wasting the tank of juice.
