Penelope 1st coil

[Juice Kitchen]

Ive just made my first coil for Penelope without using premade wires. As this is my first one, does it look all ok? Im a little concerned that the coil isnt fully in the center. It fires up fine but is it ok a couple of coils are touching the ceramic?

Im using .212 nickel chrome, I am finding it quite hard to get higher than 1.8 ohms due to the length of the wire needed resulting in a lot of coils and the end result being the coil is too big for the base!

As you can see, ive got 9 coils which are coming out at 1.8 ohms

I have watched a thousand videos but still want to make sure!
Any advice would be great.

[OneDay]

It looks fab for a first go, and 1.8 is quite acceptable. It doesn't matter if the coils touch the ceramic

[Juice Kitchen]

Thats good to hear, thank you oneday! Its not the best coil, the joins are not the best and a few other issues that im not happy with. Took me a couple of goes to get it to coil right as the coil went into the wick and split the wick, restarted and copied igetcha69 (scotts) video for method of making the coil!

Now to fill her up and see how she vapes!

[blakey]

It doesn't look to be too tight on the wick and looks to be nicely spaced out, if you want to you can re-arrange the coils using a pin or a needle but personally, I wouldn't bother. If you are using .212 wire it may be an idea on your next coil to cut an extra half inch length of wick an add it to the length of wick that you'll be using for the rebuild so that you're doubling the thickness of the wick which also means thicker coils reducing the amount of coils a bit
Put the lid on that set up you have there and fill with juice, should be a sensible vape

[Bluefish]

And that 1.8 will be 2.2 about half an hour after you start using it

[Juice Kitchen]

Cheers for the advice and ill definitely make a blakey double wick on my next one! Vapes quite well though if I must say. the thing that gets me is I use my visions during the day when out and the flavour difference using a vision immediately after penelope is quite amazing. She makes the visions taste of plastic lol

One last thing, I left penelope upright on my desk and she leaked out of the centre post. Juice control was fully closed and nothing else changed. Any ideas what may cause this? Ive made sure that everything is as tight as can be so am confused!

Cheers again!

[blakey]

When you close that juice control make sure you have Penelope upside down otherwise you force juice into the ceramic. There's no real need to close that juice control really though until you come to refill it.Its fine left open over night
That's probably what caused your flood.

[Juice Kitchen]

I didnt realise you close her upside down, that could well of caused it! I think my wick is a little thin too, will definitely double up next time!

Thanks again!

[OneDay]

The Penelope needs 3mm of wick down the channels to wick properly and prevent leakage

[Juice Kitchen]

Im using the wick which came with Penelope, not sure what size it is to be honest!

Edit: It appears to be 3mm according to my measuring stick! Just looks thin in the ceramic.