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Post by ckc on Dec 12, 2012 14:22:49 GMT
Hi peeps, i've just purchased my first rebuildable and been reading about kanthal etc, as there's not much room between the posts on this thing could someone advice me on a ballpark thickness of wire for someone who is used to using standard atties on a 3,7 device. Looking at the 'spare' it only has three turns/coils. Also is fiberglass wick safe to use ? Seen some called Silica wick is that the same thing ? Sorry to throw all these questions in ! Thanks for your help
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Post by DiscoDes on Dec 12, 2012 14:25:28 GMT
0.16 should be fine. Fibreglass and silica in the case of wick is the same.
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Post by blakey on Dec 12, 2012 14:34:56 GMT
I use 2mm wick in mine and as des says, the .16 kanthal will do the job just fine
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Post by djs on Dec 12, 2012 14:40:09 GMT
Co-incidence. I emailed a vendor this morning to ask about Vision Eternity. The wick/coil arrangement looks fiddly but straightforward enough. Given that it has "posts" my initial feeling is that there's got to be less guesswork about the quality of the wire connections. I have some silica wick and 0.2 Kanthal. I wonder if that would be OK. Most people seem to rate this for dripping set-up, I'd be keen to use it with (1ml?) cartridges.....given all the different names of these cartridges, I'm surprised on the "details" information on the vendors sites it doesn't catagorically say "to be used with ego type A(?)" or whatever it is... I don't know much do I
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Post by ckc on Dec 12, 2012 14:51:35 GMT
Thanks Blakey and DiscoDes,i'll buy that then I've dripped for forever and thats what led me to buying this,it's a cooler vape but the flavour is better than my old standard atties.Think i've gotten a buzz for the first time in a while It came with a cartridge but i won't be using it,the leaflet says any type of ego T cartridge if that's any help.
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Post by esmecullen on Dec 12, 2012 14:58:02 GMT
I take it that its best using resistance and non-resistance wire with these? Havent tried re-wicking mine yet as I bought a few spares when I got mine
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Post by blakey on Dec 12, 2012 15:00:55 GMT
I take it that its best using resistance and non-resistance wire with these? Havent tried re-wicking mine yet as I bought a few spares when I got mine Just resistance wire is fine in this as there isn't any silicon to get burnt. Saying that, I use both
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Post by esmecullen on Dec 12, 2012 15:04:59 GMT
Ok cool thanks......... will have a play around with it
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