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Post by mecnun on Mar 13, 2018 23:13:28 GMT
thanks for your responses guys. I have been hellbent on 1+ ohm because I am a Mouth to lung vaper, a throwback from my smoking I guess who still enjoys a cigar or 2 now and then .. I read a few guides before buying the RTA and the advice i remember was 1 OHM+ is for MTL vapers and under 1 ohm for direct lung vapers. I was just going by that and I vape at 16.4 watts. I am not sure I like direct to lung vaping... I will try some of the advice in above posts but want to say I was beginning to feel a bit despondent about the whole thing especially as I bought the kits specifically so I could do it myself.
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Post by mecnun on Mar 13, 2018 18:16:28 GMT
Hi - I am hoping someone can offer me advice as I am struggling to build my own coils:
my box is hcigar vti75 nano and the tank is siren 2 RTA 22mm. I vape at 1+ ohm and my goal is to build coils at over 1 ohm. The whole reason I bought this tank was so that I can make my own coils and I also got the coilmaster v3 kit to aid me.
Currently I have Kanthal A1 24AWG that comes in the coilmaster kit and using the free cotton that also comes with in the kit. The wrapping seems really easy so my problems:
1. Steam engine showed I needed 13 wraps but it seemed too many so the first coil I built with 7 wraps measured 0.75o on the coilmaster meter but when put on my box it measured 1.30 odd...over 0.5 diff I cant understand why they differ so much. The second coil I built measured 0.80o with 8 wraps shows as 1.44 on my box.. Cant understand why so large a difference. I am using 3.0 bit for wrapping
2. My own built coils drain battery much faster than the pre-built ones that came with the RTA but there were only 2 and I am saving one. Is this expected? I notice my coils need power for 4-5 seconds from cold to get glowy..once warmed they fire up ok.
3. The pre-built coil lasted me almost 2 months with wicking changes. My first build lasted me a week and I threw it away in disgust. The second I built I am using now but battery drain is still an issue. I am draining it down to nothing by early evening whereas I would expect to have at least a 1/4 left.
Additionally I opened up the tank a number of times during vaping on my 1st coil and had to re-wick it 2-3 times in a week because the cotton in middle had gone black and actually disintegrated/split in the middle. When you guys build do your wraps touch or should there be a gap between them? I know mine was tight together so that may have been an issue
I have seen coil wrapping tutorials on utube and feel ok with actual building and wicking so I dont know what fundamental part I am missing...
Anyways thanks for reading and if there are any pieces of advice you can offer I would appreciate it.
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Post by mecnun on Mar 6, 2018 15:54:16 GMT
Hi
I was considering buying a 100ML flask with Nic salt booster that element are doing an offer on (100ml flask + 2x 10 ml nic salt @ 20mg/2%). I vape anything from 6mg nic to 12mg. How many nic boosters with 20mg/2% would I need to get it into total 6-12mg range? Is there a calculator I could use or method to calculate? Am i correct in thinking that I would need at least 30ml of nic shot for a 6ish mg?
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Post by mecnun on Mar 6, 2018 0:27:23 GMT
its one of the few i liked from the sampler pack I ordered. That and big mama's milk which is probably the best one they do IMO. Dragon's milk/american grape is okay too.
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Post by mecnun on Mar 6, 2018 0:12:33 GMT
thanks all for the warm welcome!!
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Post by mecnun on Mar 1, 2018 23:06:22 GMT
Hi All New user here although I have often browsed the forum as a guest over the last couple of years. Excellent place for info for new vapers!! I guess its thanks to this forum that i went from buying petrol station juices to better stuff I am an ex-smoker now full time vaper. Currently use a Hcigar nano with aspire triton 2 and recently invested in a siren 2 RBA and a coil making kit. Just amazing how technology has moved on in this space from my wife buying me one of those cigarette look-alike pens. Hope to stay and learn more! p.s I have had a nightmare trying to register here whilst using firefox and my other email (username IK1). I don't know what was going wrong because i tried to register 5-6 times without any success but luckily this time it worked as I started on IE. cheers
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