CoV Aris (N102) airflow

[scrumpox]

I've tried vertical and horizontal coils in the Aris, both good but I think this can offer more. How are you building yours?

As the airflow feed is central and the exit (drip tip) is also central, I'm thinking that some air could travel straight up and not via the coils. Does the real potential lies in coils positioned higher, at and above the feed holes? There's a fair amount of space to work with.

 

[ChrisA]

I went with dual vertical for the first build and that was good, second build was supposed to be dual parallel but it kept shorting out when the second coil was added so its a single parallel currently.
On the second build I moved the coil so it's slanted rather than vertical.

I think build three will be horizontal dual coil and to test out your theory I'm going to put them above the air holes on the inside, I'll put up a pic when I get round to a rebuild, shouldn't be long as I want to change it up anyways

 

[scrumpox]

On my last build I wicked it horseshoe style, so the wick blocks the airflow between centre post and drip tip ... therefore all the air must travel across the coils, in this build which is vertical again.
No noticeable improvement which suggest I'm not on the right track.
Flavour good but vapour only average, my Orchids produce more clouds than the Aris at the same ohms/watts.

 

[ChrisA]

I did a dual build, came out at 0.5, horizontal coils and tried to get them just above the airflow so that when you drew it had to pass through / around the coil. I think this was less impressive and warmer than the vertical build I had.
Going to try dual vertical right infront of the air holes. I know there shouldn't be any real difference between vertical and horizontal but if you don't test these things you never know do you
I'm thinking longer legs will allow better positioning but there'd be a bigger drop off, again going to try it anyways.

 

[scrumpox]

I'm back on vertical coils, presently dual .28 kanthal coming in at 1.4ohm ... building low doesn't seem to suit this atty.
Flavour's fine but vapour is lacking ... no amount of window experience seems to make up for it.
So the airflow is the major constraint and not much to be done about it ... unless you want to drill the glass!

Pretty though it is, the Mutation X v2 with the glass top is prettier and in a completely different league with regards to vapour.
Comparable price, incomparable results.

 

[ChrisA]

The MX2 with glass does look nice but for me the aris has it beat in looks, performance I dunno yet, not tried the MX How does the flavour stack up to the aris? This would be a fairer comparison given that the aris clearly wasn't designed for clouds

 

[scrumpox]

The MX2 with glass does look nice but for me the aris has it beat in looks, performance I dunno yet, not tried the MX How does the flavour stack up to the aris? This would be a fairer comparison given that the aris clearly wasn't designed for clouds

Agree, they are different types of RDA ... the airflow on the MX fully open (18 holes!!) is completely unobstructed but you do lose some flavour with that much air - the clouds are just stupid. Closing it down still produces masses of vapour and with it, flavour too.
With the glass top you have only 2 holes, but they must be 3.5mm, and that set up blows the Aris away. Not identical builds though, to be fair - .28 wire in the Aris, .5 in the MX

The airflow on the Aris is more comparable to the Orchid v4, the vapour's comparable, the Aris wins on flavour ... and so it should against an RTA that's a quarter of the price.