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Makes total sense to me, having two posts with holes in them to put the leads in and tightening down. Be a lot easier for many doing a single coil build and gets rid of the long legs. Would have to be a separate version from the dual option.

Yes, it would have to be a separate version. I'm guessing that wont happen. I understand this device might not be the easiest atty to build. I can only speak for myself but I have not had any trouble building on this thing. I started with a dual coil and it worked perfectly fine on my first attempt. Decided I like single coil and have built it a few times and they've all worked fine. Maybe I'm lucky (for a change).

I just watched AMD's attached vid (the first one). He explained the temp control better than PB. You are correct, it boosts the power that first split second after hitting the fire button to get it to temp. Love it! Phil had his Evolv buddy on explaining it and made it far more confusing than it needed to be. Glad AMD posted that vid.
 

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Yes, it would have to be a separate version. I'm guessing that wont happen. I understand this device might not be the easiest atty to build. I can only speak for myself but I have not had any trouble building on this thing. I started with a dual coil and it worked perfectly fine on my first attempt. Decided I like single coil and have built it a few times and they've all worked fine. Maybe I'm lucky (for a change).

I just watched AMD's attached vid (the first one). He explained the temp control better than PB. You are correct, it boosts the power that first split second after hitting the fire button to get it to temp. Love it! Phil had his Evolv buddy on explaining it and made it far more confusing than it needed to be. Glad AMD posted that vid.
Yes, yes I know it's easy for you, but some of us do find it a bear to build on ;)
 

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I don't find the V difficult to build.

I don't find it any different than anything else I build...Plume Veil, Phoenix, Kayfuns, etc... I wrap the coil on a microdriver shaft, position it where I want it and tighten down the leads. Yes, it would help if I had three hands but I'd prefer three hands with all my atty builds. :)
 

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I don't find it any different than anything else I build...Plume Veil, Phoenix, Kayfuns, etc... I wrap the coil on a microdriver shaft, position it where I want it and tighten down the leads. Yes, it would help if I had three hands but I'd prefer three hands with all my atty builds. :)
I found vertical builds, either single or double, to be easy enough but for whatever reason I didn't care for the vape. One single horizontal went in surprisingly easy, but that hasn't been the norm for me. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, or need more practice. All my other devices I can build in my sleep, just the V I struggle with.
 

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I found vertical builds, either single or double, to be easy enough but for whatever reason I didn't care for the vape. One single horizontal went in surprisingly easy, but that hasn't been the norm for me. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, or need more practice. All my other devices I can build in my sleep, just the V I struggle with.

I suspect if you spent an hour building you would figure it out and would turn into a piece of cake. The problem is finding an hour you want to kill on a stupid dripper. :)
 

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They very well could have. They probably put me to sleep before they got to that part. An hour long and they sounded like they were talking from inside an oil drum didn't help. :)

OK, in the nutshell, all of those problems that we are faced with and you've described earlier regarding thicker wire, thinner wire... That some of us (like me) are trying to solve by using more efficient flat ribbon wire.. Those problems are going to be the thing of the past with this new DNA-40
 

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OK, in the nutshell, all of those problems that we are faced with and you've described earlier regarding thicker wire, thinner wire... That some of us (like me) are trying to solve by using more efficient flat ribbon wire.. Those problems are going to be the thing of the past with this new DNA-40

I gather. I first saw this on the P3 and was a feature that intrigued me. The DNA 40 specs came out just after and I wondered if they had a similar feature. Watched the PB vid and through all their wordy gobblyguck got the impression the temp control was nothing more than a limiter. After watching that first vid you posted, I see that it boosts the power to get up to set temp quickly. Perfect! My gripe with using wire thicker than 30 gauge is that it takes too long to get hot without having to jack up the power. Indeed, the boost feature solves that and we should be able to use the thicker wires now. The Provari P3 and the new DNA40 are perfect answers for this problem. And as far as I'm concerned, are the major upgrades to both products.
 

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I'm supposed to have a clone on it's way but it must be on a slow boat from China lol. I have a couple of ideas from back when I had a couple of did clones that had soft grommets and a center post similar to the Veritas. I was going to wait to verify them, but I thought I'd just go ahead and post and maybe someone else could give them a try.

1. When dry burning your coils, put a drop of juice on the positive insulator to protect it. If you want to go the extra mile, put a dab of wick material there and wet it with a drop or two.

2. Run a small wick up under the legs at the positive post. If it's a horizontal build, it could be like the so called 'flavor' wick or loop up higher at the coil and bridge over the coil.

3. If you've burnt your insulator, the bottom insulator from almost anything 510 might work until your replacement comes in. I think it was a ce4 that I robbed for my chid. Also, if you happen to have a chid in a back drawer somewhere, see if the insulator from it would work.

If anyone tries any of this, please post back with results, good or bad.
 

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I think if you're dry burning, you're gonna evaporate whatever's tgere fairly quick. I haven't gone below .4 in my veritas, but I've never run into any issues with my insulator yet. (Watch me jinx it)

I tried the flavor wick with some horizontal set ups. It does more harm than good. The flavor difference is negligible while you rob your coil of precious airflow.
 

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There's a couple options to lower resistance while increasing surface area for mech use. One is twisted wire, I was able to get more wraps with lower resistance on the Veritas using 3 strands of twisted 31ga than my normal 28ga single.

Another optiin is doing a parallel build to get double the wraps for a single coil. I'm thinking of trying parallel 28ga, but not looking forward to see how hard it is catching two leads on the positive post. I struggle enough with one lead.

How about wrapping a parallel, but instead of trapping both leads under one screw, maybe splay the neg leads so one goes to each neg screw? That's what I plan for my next build. I plan a parallel sleeper coil where I loop the pos lead around the post like a neck tie and splay the neg legs.
 

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My clone finally landed. yaaaa :vapor: Scratch every thing I said above about the grommets. I've got three different grommets I've pulled from different things and they're all too big. The center post is tiny on this thing. I don't think I'll have a problem though because my builds are slightly above 1 ohm.

I put in a single horizontal micro coil, 28 ga, 7 wraps for about 1.1 ohm. As others have noted, build is a little tricky because of the small nuts on the positive connection, but not really all that bad for a single coil. Wicking is from a cotton ball with short tails that just reach down to the bottom of the juice well from each end of the coil.

Flavor is excellent and vapor production is quite good as well. What I really like is that the afc actually does work and I can cut the airflow down to where it feels like about 1.6mm, which is what I like with a 1.1 ohm coil on a mech.

At $8.xx, this has to be the best money I've spent on vaping. I'll probably pick up at least one more when I get the chance.
 
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