Sigh, damn rba's, such a pain in my ...! So anyway, I've been messing around with 500 mesh, I don't know, I like it but I don't like it. So I figured I'd try to make a Uwick with cotton wick in my AGA-T2. Well let me say first, the cotton seemed to work pretty good when I burned it without the top on, looked like I am getting more vapor than with the mesh, but that's where the positive ends. I have 2.5mm cotton wick, it worked good when I dropped some juice right on top of it and the coil, but after that, it did not wick fast enough and I could smell that it was burning. It still got good vapor, but I am pretty sure the wick hole in the AGA is to small for 2.5mm wick. It was real tight to get the cotton in, I had to cut it at an angle to slither it in. What would be a good drill bit to use to make the wick hole larger to fit 2.5mm wicks?
So my first attempt I made a uwick, with coils on both ends. Using 32awg kanthal, I connected the first one normally where you connect the mesh, no problems. The second one I put in the hole near the silica neg post. Connected the wire into the hole in the neg post, screwed it down, and connected the pos wire to the same place the first pos wire was, so there was two pos wires under the middle posts screw. Didn't fire. Removed the wire from the secondary wick hole, so there was only a coil where you normally put the mesh this time, and it worked. Are you not supposed to put both pos wires under the same screw? I don't understand why it didn't fire. Maybe the silica neg post is a piece of ....? I am trying to take it out, but it is such a pain in the ..., I don't know how anyone can take this damn thing out. It is just press fit right? I am just trying to pull it out using pliers from the top, should I try to push it through the other way instead?
Anyway, just wondering what the best way to make a uwick is...should you use two wick holes that are close together? Or should you try to get them far apart? And when you dual coil...do the positive wires connect to the same part? Like can they touch each other or will that cause a short? Should I try to put one wire under one screw and the other under the screw beneath it in the center post?
So my first attempt I made a uwick, with coils on both ends. Using 32awg kanthal, I connected the first one normally where you connect the mesh, no problems. The second one I put in the hole near the silica neg post. Connected the wire into the hole in the neg post, screwed it down, and connected the pos wire to the same place the first pos wire was, so there was two pos wires under the middle posts screw. Didn't fire. Removed the wire from the secondary wick hole, so there was only a coil where you normally put the mesh this time, and it worked. Are you not supposed to put both pos wires under the same screw? I don't understand why it didn't fire. Maybe the silica neg post is a piece of ....? I am trying to take it out, but it is such a pain in the ..., I don't know how anyone can take this damn thing out. It is just press fit right? I am just trying to pull it out using pliers from the top, should I try to push it through the other way instead?
Anyway, just wondering what the best way to make a uwick is...should you use two wick holes that are close together? Or should you try to get them far apart? And when you dual coil...do the positive wires connect to the same part? Like can they touch each other or will that cause a short? Should I try to put one wire under one screw and the other under the screw beneath it in the center post?
