Howdy,
A little background - have a Joytech Ego One setup and really like it - stealthy and simple. The Joytech tank works well for me, the .5 coil left me unimpressed, the 1.0 is better, but still leaves me wanting. I have wound some .7 coils for it with fair success, good flavor and nice draw, but I guess I need more cotton clogging the holes because they leak. Badly. Gurgly and drowns out.
Second tank is a Nautilus Mini. Kinda like the flavor, don't like the tight draw. Haven't tried building coils yet, watched a couple You Tubes so figure I could do it someday. Nobody makes a rebuildable for it, but it looks easy to rebuild the stock coils. (Rip Trippers has the vids)
I like tinkering, and want something with better flavor. Note - I am not a cloud chaser, just staying off the Copenhagen.
An IGO-T was in the mail a couple days ago. Excited to try it, I wound a single .7 coil with 26g Kanthal. It worked, tasted not great. Some 28g & 30g Kanthal was on the truck, but a heavy snow delayed Big Brown. Today they got to my neighborhood. After work I wound a pair of coils with 9 turns of 28g at 2mm. Why not the 30g? I discovered with the 26g the set screws shear the wire if not real careful, just snug was too tight. Tonight I filed the ends of the screws removing the burr left from the thread rolling and used the 28g to minimize the risk of shearing. Steam Engine put this setup at .7 ohm, it measured .72 on my meter. Taste is quite nice, a local Apple Pie juice that has no flavor on any other setup I have actually has an apple taste. Still need to work on my coil building, but so far I am impressed.
Any suggestions for simple builds are much appreciated. Bigger coils, like 2.5 or 3mm?? IGO-T is a small RDA, not sure 3mm would fit well.
The air holes are not more than pilot holes. One on each side, total of two, maybe 1/32". Draw is not bad for me, would like it a bit freer. Gonna open them up to 1/16" from what I've read on the reviews. Some go up to 1/8", but again, not a cloud chaser. Other hints??
A little background - have a Joytech Ego One setup and really like it - stealthy and simple. The Joytech tank works well for me, the .5 coil left me unimpressed, the 1.0 is better, but still leaves me wanting. I have wound some .7 coils for it with fair success, good flavor and nice draw, but I guess I need more cotton clogging the holes because they leak. Badly. Gurgly and drowns out.
Second tank is a Nautilus Mini. Kinda like the flavor, don't like the tight draw. Haven't tried building coils yet, watched a couple You Tubes so figure I could do it someday. Nobody makes a rebuildable for it, but it looks easy to rebuild the stock coils. (Rip Trippers has the vids)
I like tinkering, and want something with better flavor. Note - I am not a cloud chaser, just staying off the Copenhagen.
An IGO-T was in the mail a couple days ago. Excited to try it, I wound a single .7 coil with 26g Kanthal. It worked, tasted not great. Some 28g & 30g Kanthal was on the truck, but a heavy snow delayed Big Brown. Today they got to my neighborhood. After work I wound a pair of coils with 9 turns of 28g at 2mm. Why not the 30g? I discovered with the 26g the set screws shear the wire if not real careful, just snug was too tight. Tonight I filed the ends of the screws removing the burr left from the thread rolling and used the 28g to minimize the risk of shearing. Steam Engine put this setup at .7 ohm, it measured .72 on my meter. Taste is quite nice, a local Apple Pie juice that has no flavor on any other setup I have actually has an apple taste. Still need to work on my coil building, but so far I am impressed.
Any suggestions for simple builds are much appreciated. Bigger coils, like 2.5 or 3mm?? IGO-T is a small RDA, not sure 3mm would fit well.
The air holes are not more than pilot holes. One on each side, total of two, maybe 1/32". Draw is not bad for me, would like it a bit freer. Gonna open them up to 1/16" from what I've read on the reviews. Some go up to 1/8", but again, not a cloud chaser. Other hints??