First recoil efforts, fine tuning advice please.

[Toondog]

Well I had three goes and all three are serviceable which I'm claiming as a result! Now I wondered If perhaps I could draw on the knowledge of you good people to save me a bit of trial and error with regards to fine tuning. I used 1mm glass fibre wick and 34 ag (I think) kantha from cloud9 on vivi nova STV Here are the results as it were for your constructive criticism/advice
Effort no 1
5 reasonably tight turns off wire,close together on three strands of wick=
3.2 ohms okay vapour, reasonable heat and good flavour.
Effort
Effort no 2
Four turns of wire slightly less tight on three strands of wick same distance apart=
2.9 ohms not the best vapour, slightly hotter,ok taste
Effort no 3
Three turns of wire on four strands of wick fairly loose, widely spaced=
2.8 ohms, good vapour, okay taste, very cool, too cool in fact.
None of the above as good as the ready made one showing 2.9ohms but all perfectly vape-able.
Ideally I want more heat and more vapour please advise!
Thank you.

Chris

[blakey]

What are you rewicking?

[chrisjw]

I think it's a vivi nova STV blakey

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Jan 21, 2013 18:36:17 GMT Toondog said:

Well I had three goes and all three are serviceable which I'm claiming as a result! Now I wondered If perhaps I could draw on the knowledge of you good people to save me a bit of trial and error with regards to fine tuning. I used 1mm glass fibre wick and 34 ag (I think) kantha from cloud9 on vivi nova STV Here are the results as it were for your constructive criticism/advice

Refund time from specsavers mate

[Toondog]

Vivi nova stv mate ( as stated above )

[maccafan]

Vivi Nova STV..

Use a thicker wire and you can get more turns with lower resistance..

[chrisjw]

blakeys lost the plot..............

[blakey]

Jan 21, 2013 18:52:06 GMT chrisjw said:

blakeys lost the plot..............

There was a plot

[blakey]

I'm having one of them days today I've made 4 cups of coffee and sat here wondering why I'm still thirsty and each time the coffee is still on the kitchen side - cold

As macca says, use something like a .2mm wire which will allow you a couple more coils and try 3 lengths of wick together and wrap the coil around all 3

[Toondog]

As macca says, use something like a .2mm wire which will allow you a couple more coils and try 3 lengths of wick together and wrap the coil around all 3 [/quote]

The first two used three wicks and the last one four (as mentioned above ), now where's that coffe.....

[blakey]

Jan 21, 2013 19:20:56 GMT Toondog said:

As macca says, use something like a .2mm wire which will allow you a couple more coils and try 3 lengths of wick together and wrap the coil around all 3

The first two used three wicks and the last one four (as mentioned above ), now where's that coffe.....

It's rubbing off on you mate - nice quoting

[suede]

Just done my first ones as well. I used 1.5 and 2ml wick. Got my wire from Dee of the forum(great to deal with). The readings are around 1.9 and Im getting a good vape from them.

[Toondog]

Cracked it today, as I only have .16 kanthal I couldn't get enough turns on the wick without the resisitance going past 3 ohms so after a little research I thought I'd have a bash at a twisted wire coil, perfect! Five turns on four bits of 1mm wick, 2.4 ohms and the best vaping experience I've had yet, loads of vapour and tremendous flavour at 8 watts, can't wait for my Aga T+ to arrive now.

Chris