Weird Resistance Issue - AGA-T

[semper_vitis]

I'm experiencing a weird resistance issue with my AGA-T2. I have been vaping along fine with it on my Silver Bullet using 28g kanthol and unoxidized 500# mesh - 1.2 ohms. Tonight after a refill I started getting poor vapor production, so I grabbed my volt meter and checked the coil. The resistance keeps jumping around and the meter can't pinpoint it. It wants to keep settling at 3.5ish, but then jumps real high to OL before coming back down. I checked all connections (looks good), pulled the wick, flipped the top.screw around, etc. Can't get it back to the 1.2 I started at. Any ideas? I really don't want to head out to work tomorrow without my unit functioning properly! Thanks!

 

[CountSmackula]

All I can suggest is that you make sure that both of your top nuts are oriented 'flat-to-flat' and that they are very snug... and ground screw tight too.

 

[beanpusher]

I'm experiencing a weird resistance issue with my AGA-T2. I have been vaping along fine with it on my Silver Bullet using 28g kanthol and unoxidized 500# mesh - 1.2 ohms. Tonight after a refill I started getting poor vapor production, so I grabbed my volt meter and checked the coil. The resistance keeps jumping around and the meter can't pinpoint it. It wants to keep settling at 3.5ish, but then jumps real high to OL before coming back down. I checked all connections (looks good), pulled the wick, flipped the top.screw around, etc. Can't get it back to the 1.2 I started at. Any ideas? I really don't want to head out to work tomorrow without my unit functioning properly! Thanks!

sounds like your grounding out thru the wick. you should oxidize it by juice burning all areas that will make contact with the coil and tank. 3x usually does it. i do it till its really solid black. i had the same issue and that's what fixed it.

 

[Thrasher]

just torch the area that sits under the coil a little, usually drifting resistance is a loose connection. if it was plain shorting out it would drop resistance not raise it and go up and down like that..

without a wick in the coil what is the reading like. if in doubt always eliminate as much stuff as you can.. if it still doesnt hold steady with no wick then its in the connections. positive post or nuts somewhere.

also look real close and make sure some wire isnt sitting there touching the pos post i once had a small piece fall in between the neg screw and pos post and just drive me nuts.