Burning wicks!!

[becks]

Greetings all, 
Please forgive me if this has been covered, I have googled my question but without reading through hundreds of pages, I haven't found the answer.
Can I test the output of my 30w isticks with a multimeter?
Many thanks.

[*-SARIN-*]

If electric flows through it then yes you can. As to where you have to stick the metal prongy things to get an accurate reading i don't know. iSticks are notorious for being inaccurate in their power output and i would recommend starting at the lowest power and working your way up.

[phtumshk]

Just a thought.
Only problem may be 'No Atomiser' warning.
Not sure they put out any voltage without reading an atty being present.
You may get a reading from the posts of a coiled dripper attached to it.

[becks]

Thanks for your response. I did go up the scale in 5w incruments , coil was burnt by 7.5 watts. I have heard people say they can go to 10.5 watts. 7 w. doesn't give much flavour. (mini nautilus and 1.8ohm)                    Good idea about connecting to the posts. I was wondering how to do it!      Many thanks.

[mattyjones1977]

Feb 14, 2015 14:48:16 GMT becks said:

Thanks for your response. I did go up the scale in 5w incruments , coil was burnt by 7.5 watts. I have heard people say they can go to 10.5 watts. 7 w. doesn't give much flavour. (mini nautilus and 1.8ohm)                    Good idea about connecting to the posts. I was wondering how to do it!      Many thanks.

I run my mini nautilus 1.8 ohm coils on my istick 30w at 15w all day long and they last me about 2-3 weeks depending on the juice im vaping.

[Deleted]

becks sorry I can't help here

But sure one of the electric guys will be along later to help

If your wicks are burning maybe try a rinse under a tap? Rewick? or put in bicarb of soda or water and a denture tab over night?

[becks]

Feb 14, 2015 17:13:30 GMT mattyjones1977 said:

Feb 14, 2015 14:48:16 GMT becks said:

Thanks for your response. I did go up the scale in 5w incruments , coil was burnt by 7.5 watts. I have heard people say they can go to 10.5 watts. 7 w. doesn't give much flavour. (mini nautilus and 1.8ohm)                    Good idea about connecting to the posts. I was wondering how to do it!      Many thanks.

I run my mini nautilus 1.8 ohm coils on my istick 30w at 15w all day long and they last me about 2-3 weeks depending on the juice im vaping.

[becks]

I am truly amazed at your figures Matty, everyone I know and everything I read about the istick volt regulation system says the same thing. It's Pants! You restore my faith brother. I am not dissing the istick persay . think it's a great little mod and no doubt will improve in time.
P.S. wanna sell yours? Ha.
Cheers for now.

[Perpetua]

There's some commonsense to be deployed here . . . whatever system you use becks.

Start low and work up, once you hit a burnt spot you don't need need a multimeter to tell you to back it off  . . . just because other people go up to a gazillion watts, it doesn't mean you have to in order to get an enjoyable vape.

[becks]

Feb 14, 2015 17:38:38 GMT @johanino said:

becks sorry I can't help here

But sure one of the electric guys will be along later to help

If your wicks are burning maybe try a rinse under a tap? Rewick? or put in bicarb of soda or water and a denture tab over night?

VTR, thanks for that, I have washed the coils, soaked them in bi_carb overnight with mixed results, never been as good as new ones out of the box. I don't do coiling yet but did a rewick of a Nature vape  yesterday so I'm on my way! So frustrating when you can't see what you're doing wrong! Or maybe it's the isticks at fault. Well I would say that wouldn't I!! 
Cheers for now

[DiscoDes]

becks You CANNOT read the true output of a VW VV device with a meter, you need a oscilloscope.

The output is switched on and off so part of the time it is outputting 6 volts and part of the time it is outputting 0 volts, it is the average of this that gives you the output. The more time the coil is at 6 volts the higher the average output*

iSticks actually give out what they say they do BUT it's measured/calculated in a different way to most VV VW devices.

As Perpetua says the best thing to do is dis-regard what the display says and start low in either volts or watts and increase slowly until you find what works best for you.

* I have made this a simple analogy to make it easy to understand.

[becks]

Perps, (can I call you that or is it too cheeky for a newbe?) I am not interested in gazillions of watts, just enough to get a decent vape. I have 2 tanks, the nautilus and a protank which I get an okish vape from on 5 istick watts. I want to know if both isticks output is the same, hence the multimeter. Just saves me messing about when I switch mods. I have also found that once you burn the aspire bvc coil, that's game over. No amount of backing the watts down takes away the rank taste.Just trying to keep it simple, should have explained it better I suppose.
Cheers for now

[Perpetua]

Feb 14, 2015 19:36:45 GMT becks said:

Perps, (can I call you that or is it too cheeky for a newbe?) I am not interested in gazillions of watts, just enough to get a decent vape. I have 2 tanks, the nautilus and a protank which I get an okish vape from on 5 istick watts. I want to know if both isticks output is the same, hence the multimeter. Just saves me messing about when I switch mods. I have also found that once you burn the aspire bvc coil, that's game over. No amount of backing the watts down takes away the rank taste.Just trying to keep it simple, should have explained it better I suppose.
Cheers for now

Blimey . . . call me what you like becks, I'm good with anything really.

Thing is, your Nautilus will cope with a higher wattage than your Protank will . . . so there's no hard & fast as such. My tanks that I thought were giving me a lovely vape, everyone at VF said were burny. 


Start low, work up . . . until you reach a setting that to you is giving you an enjoyable vape, it matters not how it tastes to anyone else or what some guide might recommend. You are the only person to please. 

[becks]

OK Perps baby? I get your gist. I will try taking it up 1 watt at a time and see if I can find the sweet spot that way. The coils say their range is 3.3 --6volts. Is that 18.6 watts? Just seems to me that something is wrong when mine are burning at 7.5w Sumint ain't right. Aspire owes me lots of coils!! The sooner I start building my own the better I reckon!
Thanks again.

[becks]

Feb 14, 2015 18:56:02 GMT DiscoDes said:

becks You CANNOT read the true output of a VW VV device with a meter, you need a oscilloscope.

The output is switched on and off so part of the time it is outputting 6 volts and part of the time it is outputting 0 volts, it is the average of this that gives you the output. The more time the coil is at 6 volts the higher the average output*

iSticks actually give out what they say they do BUT it's measured/calculated in a different way to most VV VW devices.

As Perpetua says the best thing to do is dis-regard what the display says and start low in either volts or watts and increase slowly until you find what works best for you.

* I have made this a simple analogy to make it easy to understand.