Smok alien question/problem

[JayJ]

Hi all, I hope someone can help. My friend has a smok alien and asked me to build her a couple of coils on her tfv8 rba. I buiilt her two coils of 5 wraps of 26+32 ga Clapton around a 3.5 mm jig. This build should give me around 0.4/0.42 ohms. The alien however gives a reading of 0.113 and won't give any vapour production untill she turned the wattage up over 100w. I knew this wasn't right so tried the tfv8 on my minikin v2 and sure enough as I expected a reading of 0.42ohms. I also tried my smok tf rta with the same build on her alien and it read that as 0.130 I know full well it's 0.42. So it appears it's an alien issue. Any advice or input greatly appreciated.

Jay

Edit. She can manually adjust the resistance but not sure this is the best option as surely the mod reading the resistance accurately would be better.

[dalealan]

Take the tank off and hit the fire button. It should say no atty then clean the threads with a cotton bud and try again. 

[JayJ]

Jul 10, 2017 17:30:28 GMT dalealan said:

Take the tank off and hit the fire button. It should say no atty then clean the threads with a cotton bud and try again. 

Thank you for the reply but we've tried that and still the same.

[VapingBad]

IMO if you know the res and the mod doesn't set it and lock it if that is the only way to get a decent vape, life's too short and it is just a stack em high sell em cheap mod, all be it a well specified one that people say works great most of the time.

[striker42]

Have you tried the Alien update from the Smok website JayJ ?

[JayJ]

Jul 10, 2017 21:56:38 GMT striker42 said:

Have you tried the Alien update from the Smok website JayJ ?

Yes mate it's got the current firmware.

[norfolkphil]

JayJ

There is a guy over on ECF who has had a similar problem and details a fix for it with pictures. I've not added a link but quoted some of the text below. If you go to ECF and search for "Quick fix for SMOK Alien ohm inaccuracy", it's a very detailed, but simple fix.

"This is a quick fix for the SMOK Alien reading inaccurate and fluctuating ohms. If this has been posted before, I apologize. While I found many, many posts on numerous forums outlining this problem, I couldn't find a single post anywhere detailing/ outlining an exact possible fix for it and thought I'd share my solution. So here we go:

You will need- 1 T6 Torx screwdriver and a little bit of common sense.

•The problem: Alien mod reading wildly inaccurate ohms with fluctuating amounts no matter what tank/ coil you use.
After screwing on a tank or RDA and clicking the fire button, my SMOK mod would proceed to read the wrong ohms on the coil(s) installed. Example: The Alien would read anywhere between .45 to 1.5(!) ohms on a .40 Q2 baby beast coil, and between .24 and 1.8(!!) ohms on a .2 dual coil build in my RDA. No amount of unscrewing and re-screwing the tanks/RDAs on my mod would get coils to read right. (If you're having this problem, you know what a pain it is!) I verified all coils I had this problem with myself on an ohm reader and various other mods to make sure that the Alien was indeed not reading them correctly. And by 'all coils I had this problem with', I actually mean every single coil I tried. It wasn't reading anything correctly.

•The solution: After unscrewing and removing the four Torx screws on the top of my Alien and removing the top cover, I saw that the 510 pin had come off center of the spring it sits on top of. Because it was off center, the 510 pin was much lower than it should've been and was also leaning at an angle. Reseating the pin onto the middle of the spring and making sure it was level, I screwed the top back on and presto, my Alien was reading accurately! It took all of 5 minutes and is definitely worth a shot if your Alien has the same issues mine had. "

I hope this helps and that I haven't incurred the wrath of the mods by quoting another forum.

[JayJ]

norfolkphil that's great I'll give it a shot next time I see her.

Jay.