Volts on SmokTech 1.5ohm Dual Coil Tank

[Gummy Bare]

I've always used clearomizers for the most part. Tried some cartomizers and didn't like them. I recently picked up a smoktech dct 1.5ohm. Watched a video on how to fill it up correctly, did so, and now I've been playing with it.

I'm trying to find how many volts to run the thing at. I've read a few posts, but the volts people were posting where more for the zmax's and provari's which I belive have some saftly features which regulate the watts and whatknot (got fully sure, got a vamo on the way and will know more about the big boy mods soon).

I'm using eGo Twists and Vision Spinners and want to know how high of voltage I can push on one of these things without buring the insides and killing it.

Thanks for the help

 

[UncleChuck]

I'm thinking your Twist really isn't powerful enough to fry your tank.. dual coil cartos already suck up a LOT of power compared to single coils, even when using the same resistance. I've seen some charts on the amp limit of the twists, I think you'll be save even at full power.

Plus with a carto-tank the coil is always saturated with juice from the filler, so you don't really have to worry about the wick not wicking fast enough when vaping at higher power.

But, when I use dual coils I like them around 5-5.3 volts. And setting 5 volts on a "real" mod is way more power than setting 5 volts on something like a Twist, as they just don't have the power, so if you put a volt meter inline while you fire your carto, you'll see big voltage drop. Basically setting your twist at 5 volts with a 1.5ohm carto, your twist isn't actually putting out 5 volts. As I said dual coils soak up a lot of power, it really takes a lot to fry them.

Think about it this way, a 1.5omh dual coil carto has two, 3ohm coils inside. If you supply 5 volts to your carto, it's just like supplying 5 volts to a 3ohm carto. Low rez in the realm of dual coils isn't really the same as low rez single coils. The power you supply to the dual coil is getting cut in half. Not to be confused with the voltage getting cut in half, pumping 5 volts into a DC carto, each coil is getting 5 volts, but since the coils are 3ohm coils, it's nowhere near as intense as 5 volts on a single 1.5ohm coil.

I hope I didn't make that too complicated heh. Crank that sucker up without worry.

 

[Gummy Bare]

Not to complicated at all, thanks man. Just the answer I was looking for. I wasn't getting the throat hit I wanted out of it, but was afraid to crank the thing to high. The 1.5ohm was throwing me off. I've used LR clearos before at 1.8ohm and a regular eGo battery was more than it could handle it seemed. I had to dial a twist back to 3.2 volts for the 1.8ohm clearo not to taste like a burnt turd.

Thanks for the help

 

[Gummy Bare]

oh, i got one more question i wanted to ask. When i got the tank system in the mail, it came in a little bag. In the bag it had a white round piece of plastic with a hole in it that fits into the top of the tanks cartomizer. Should i be sliding this thing into the top of the cartomizer tube and then placing the drip tip on top of it? Or should i not even use the white cap\ring?

When i watched the video of how to fill it, the guys tank system came with the white cap pushed in the cartomizer. He pulled it out, filled the cart, then put it back in and pushed it down with the drip tip on top of it. I figured this would help in keeping juice from leaking out, but I've heard people say they don't use it... that they just use a drip tip.

thanks again for the help

 

[UncleChuck]

To be honest I have never noticed a difference with or without that little plug thingy.

I've heard things from it helps to stop getting juice in your mouth, it helps to draw juice in from the tank, stops juice from "evaporating" (does juice even evaporate in open air?) changes the draw, and I'm sure even more.

No idea what it's official use is, but the idea I support the most is that it helps to stop juice getting up into your drip tip or your mouth. How would this work? Well, as you know one side is flat, the other side has like a conical indentation. When inserted with the flat side up, and the indendted side down, there will be a little cone shaped hollow space underneath the plug. If any juice spits up from the center hole of the carto, in theory it would put up into that little area, and then soak back into the filler material, instead of leaking into your drip tip.

In practice juice still gets past it, but it does seem as if I don't need to clean my drip tips as frequently on the tanks with those installed in the carto. Although, there are so many factors involved with getting juice into your drip tip that I have no way of knowing if it's true.

Short answer: I can't be sure it actually does anything, and it's almost impossible to tell if what I THINK it's doing is actually being done.

Your tank will work just fine either way.

 

[Gummy Bare]

Nice man, thanks for all the info. At first I had it flat side down, then I noticed the indentation side and figured that side should be down so that it maybe wouldn't touch or rub up against whatever that little metal wire is coming out the middle of the carto filler. The tank seems to not leak out the drip tip, not sure if that little cap thingy is helping in that, but I guess if it ain't broke don't fix it.

I might give it a go without it one day and see if it changes the way it hits/pulls at all... who knows, maybe it will give a warmer hit.

Thanks for all the help uncle.