Shorting, Kanger Subtank Plus

[happyloman]

Got up this morning and was vaping away happily on my Kanger Subtank Plus, then my Innokin Disruptor flashed "Shorted"


This is something new to me, Ive never experienced it in my 4 months of so of using my own coils, from going around Google Ive read a few posts saying its the deck not being tight enough, or the 510 pin not connecting, or not being properly insulated anymore. Theres also a possiblity that my coils are overlapping etc.

The Pin in the base looks fine, Im not too keen on messing around with it, as on the Kanger Aerotanks once the pin was pushed out, I could never get it back in.

What I can say is my coil was showing 1.4 or 1.5 for a few weeks now and then after Shorting appeared on two different batteries I put the Plus base on to my ohms reader and it showed 0.5/ 0.4 ohms.

Ive tried putting in newly made coils that should be 1.5 and 1.8 and they both show up at around the same 0.5/ 0.6 mark on the ohms reader. Ive tried taking the RBA deck out and cleaning, then tightening it down again, same with both the screws but Im still getting the same issue.
I dont have another single coil RBA deck to test the coils themselves on another base.

Does the behaviour identify the problem to anyone?
Is there a process of elimination I could work through?
Ive also been unable to find a replacement base anywhere, other than from the Kanger USA site, everywhere seems to have mini bases but not the plus

[Greg]

I'm don't have a plus but have a few minis so hoping this test will work on the plus.

The mini RBA is actually 510 threaded so you can remove the RBA deck from the atty base then screw the RBA diectly into your ohm meter. This will determine whether the short is in the RBA or the base/pin arrangement.

[Pepperty]

If you have the big subtank plus then it uses the sane rebuildable decks as the minis.

Its only the big subtank v1 that have a different style.

I occasionally have a short when the coil inside rba touches the deck. Take a really close look and make sure the leg of coil isn't resting slightly too low

[happyloman]

Mar 2, 2016 19:51:38 GMT Greg said:

I'm don't have a plus but have a few minis so hoping this test will work on the plus.

The mini RBA is actually 510 threaded so you can remove the RBA deck from the atty base then screw the RBA diectly into your ohm meter. This will determine whether the short is in the RBA or the base/pin arrangement.

Hadnt realised that Greg, thankyou, will give it a go.

Thankyou Pepperty
I just came back on, to say calmer heads prevail

Its been such a bad bad day so sat down tonight and forgot about it for a bit when it popped into my head I got those other coils with Subtank plus, Ive stuck the 1.2 in and its working fine, so it must be the RBA deck thats got the issue right enough
Will stick it all in the sonic tonight and tinker some more tomorrow, worst case scenario I just need to buy another deck.

Thanks again to you both, very much appreciated