YANORA - Yet Another Newbie On Rebuildable Atomizers

[njgeek]

Hi all!

So I ordered an A7 Phoenix-style rba (to go on my VV Reo Grand) and an AGA-T (to go with my Provari V2). Along with these came wire and silica wick. I've watched a ton of tutorials on setting these up, and have had these problems:

• On the A7, it works...but the taste is kind of harsh and plasticky. Could this be due to the silica? Also, I've noticed that vape production is not even CLOSE to an AMG BF atty or any other atty/cart that I regularly use. For this one, I used premade coil/wicks from AvidVaper measuring at 2.5ohm. The coil is situated just over the center tube (but not touching).
• On the AGA-T, I set up the wick like in the attached pics, with both ends feeding into the tank and the coil 'hovering' between the positive/negative posts. The coil is self made and measures at about 2.0ohm. When I put a little juice on it and burn, the lead to the positive and lead to the ground both light up a lot, then the center coils light up a bit, then finally they're all even. I believe this is known as a 'hot spot'. Consequently, every hit off of it tastes like burnt poly and has 0 real vapor feeling.

Fortunately I have plenty of Boge atties for my Phiniac tank and AMG atties for my Reo, but I'd still really love to get into the rebuildables. I have wire, silica, and two decent RBAs I think. Where should I go from here? The vapenerd in me says to go buy #400 mesh and Kanthal wire and a butane torch and try that, but the cautious part of me says I'm just doing something simple wrong and should keep trying on the silica.

 

[njgeek]

So I just tried wrapping a new one and putting it on the other side of the post so the coil/wick would not go between the neg/pos posts. This one burnt evenly with no hotspots which is good and clocked in at 3.0ohm which is better, but this time instead of tasting like burnt metal it tasted like burnt silica. Still a better result, I'm guessing it either means my silica got too frayed (which it is) or the coil was a bit too loose (which it seems to be).