Miss Penelope

[Ellen]

Thanks, now I just need to stalk bank account

[Globalbloke (Tim)]

This vid also helped me out understanding what I'm up to:

[dave]

There is a handy page on the wires.co.uk site which has everything you need on it:

wires.co.uk/acatalog/E-CIG_IATTY_ATOMIZER_WIRE.html

Personally I got 10m of the 0.16 nickel chrome and 10m of the 0.2 nickel (this is the no resistance stuff). that should last me quite a while lol

You will see that it tells you the resistance in ohms per metre of each of the nickel chrome wires, so that for instance, the stuff I have is 53.7 ohms per metre, so if I want a 2 ohm coil I need (2/53.7) X 1000 = 37mm. If I am joining this to no resistance wire I add about 10mm or so to allow for the joins.

[blakey]

Jul 17, 2012 10:42:10 GMT Globalbloke (Tim) said:

This vid also helped me out understanding what I'm up to:

DO NOT TRAP THAT NEGATIVE WIRE IN THE LOCKING RING!!!
One side of the ceramic housing is metal to allow for the wire to just sit behind the wick and make contact, trapping the wire in the locking ring will cause leaks as it causes a gap for the juice to flow inside
That locking ring needs to seal against the base.

[Globalbloke (Tim)]

Jul 17, 2012 11:20:54 GMT blakey said:

DO NOT TRAP THAT NEGATIVE WIRE IN THE LOCKING RING!!!
One side of the ceramic housing is metal to allow for the wire to just sit behind the wick and make contact, trapping the wire in the locking ring will cause leaks as it causes a gap for the juice to flow inside
That locking ring needs to seal against the base.

The negative being the last wire where he suggests wrapping it round the base of the rebuildable, you are saying cut it to the size of the channel and leave behind the wick?

[blakey]

Jul 17, 2012 11:30:55 GMT Globalbloke (Tim) said:

Jul 17, 2012 11:20:54 GMT blakey said:

DO NOT TRAP THAT NEGATIVE WIRE IN THE LOCKING RING!!!
One side of the ceramic housing is metal to allow for the wire to just sit behind the wick and make contact, trapping the wire in the locking ring will cause leaks as it causes a gap for the juice to flow inside
That locking ring needs to seal against the base.

The negative being the last wire where he suggests wrapping it round the base of the rebuildable, you are saying cut it to the size of the channel and leave behind the wick?

That's exactly what I'm saying mate, or you can bend it into a V inside the channel to ensure a contact, Trapping the wire in the ring caused many problems for people.
On the original odysseus that had the ceramic channel either side I overcome the problem by by making a Z shape at the end of the negative wire and created a sort of spring thet forced against the side to make contact
Thats why the new design has metal down one side

[blakey]

This vid is in german, sorry about that
But it's the best way to do it and worth the time
The guy knows what he's doing

[Globalbloke (Tim)]

Jul 17, 2012 11:42:06 GMT blakey said:

That's exactly what I'm saying mate, or you can bend it into a V inside the channel to ensure a contact, Trapping the wire in the ring caused many problems for people.
On the original odysseus that had the ceramic channel either side I overcome the problem by by making a Z shape at the end of the negative wire and created a sort of spring thet forced against the side to make contact
Thats why the new design has metal down one side

Understand 100% now, thank you, I also think the V would be a belt and braces way of doing it!

[maccafan]

Almost 7 wraps around a 3mm wick for 1.7 ohm..What resistance wire is that?

Must be 0.25 mm Kanthal -D or 0.212 nichrome..

Nice vid Blakey..Thanks..

[Ellen]

You boys are scaring me with all this technical talk....hopefully I can enjoy her a bit before I have to worry about a lot of this

[blakey]

Jul 17, 2012 13:00:22 GMT maccafan said:

Almost 7 wraps around a 3mm wick for 1.7 ohm..What resistance wire is that?

Must be 0.25 mm Kanthal -D or 0.212 nichrome..

Nice vid Blakey..Thanks..

It looks very much like .212 ni-chrome mate, I use about 6cm of that to make a 2 ohm coil + a bit for the pigtails. That stuff is about .306ohm per cm

[Globalbloke (Tim)]

Jul 17, 2012 13:01:56 GMT Ellen said:

You boys are scaring me with all this technical talk....hopefully I can enjoy her a bit before I have to worry about a lot of this

I was in exactly the same position as you a couple of days ago, now I have studied the vids it really is very easy, the vids seem so much longer because every element is described and talked about, I reckon once I've done a few I will be whizzing through them in a couple of minutes.

Suppose the other thing is when you are making the one you could make a handful so they are in your box ready for next time, then it's just a 30 second job.

[blakey]

It's a 3min job from start to finish with practice I timed it

[maccafan]

Must be a real juice monkey..Me like..

[dave]

missed the last few posts, so what I had to say has all been said!