Unoxodized mesh?

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holy_handgrenade

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There's a few things going on here. By using the pulsing method, you're essentially shorting out the coil, your pulses should go very fast and ideally if properly insulated, the coils should get warm from both ends at the same time. Otherwise, you'll see it start at positive and work it's way towards the negative.

It's best if you use this method only if you're very experienced and you know what your end ohms are going to be based solely on your wire wraps and how tight your coils are. Anything else and you're risking running a very low ohm setup that may be too much for your batteries. A MM will not help here, because until the coil is oxidized it's going to be shorted.

That all being said; because you're running a shorted setup and slowly spreading through pulsing the oxidation of the coil and mesh at the same time, yes your battery will run warm, which will result in your button getting warm. If it's getting to hot to touch; i'd recommend letting your battery cool down for a few minutes in a well ventilated area (try a fan) Continuing while hot is just asking for a thermal runaway discharge and subsequent venting.

Here's a good tutorial on the topic: A PBusardo Review - The AGA-T(s) - Part 2 - Assembly & Building Tutorial - YouTube

Hope this helps, and vape safe man!
 

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i use them, love them too. takes a bit but usually the idiea is the coil will oxidize the mesh right where its needed then as long as your not moving the coil or wick it should not matter what it touches.
I have found a few drops of juice for the early pulses helps keep things in check a little better. once done to where all coils glow even, add juice a couple more times and fire it to glowing.

the juice taste so much better and the tank stays cleaner and usually you can drop the voltage a little lower then normal until the wick and coil get coated and still get a great vape.

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pulsing is just touching the button real quick.
in the beginning only part of the first coil will glow is it shorts out on the steel wick and holding the button will pop the coil, by pulsing or rapidly firing the button you let the coil slowly oxidize the wick, as you pulse you can slwly see the coil glow working its way around the wick until the whole thing is glowing, once that is done you just drip a little juice on it to make sure it fires even and builds a coating. then just fill and vape. there is no slow wicking problems or no break in time as the wick isnt burned or coated with black ash.


in this thread i give a quick tutorial with pictures also others posted videos
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...ystems/396598-unoxidized-method-plus-aga.html

doing a forum search will bring up many threads talking about this.
 
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