Tobes
Postman
- Joined
- Feb 28, 2013
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- 133
Hi folks,
Well,having been vaping a little while now,I popped out for some more e-juice and came home with an iGo-L dripping atomiser! That REALLY IS the end of the spending for a bit! ;-)
Now,I tried the vendor's iGo-L out in the shop and it was great. Not sure which mod the vendor was using,but he had Grant's Vanilla Custard on the go,so it would have tasted divine in anything right?
Anyway,I built up the coil using the wick and wire included with the atomiser and performed a resistance test. Way too high at first at 3.14 ohms. No heat,no action. So,off comes a turn and a bit bringing it down to five turns and a quick check to ensure nothing's making contact where it shouldn't be. All looked good. I retested and got a nice resistance reading of bang on 2.20 ohms,which is exactly what I wanted to get. My batteries are 3.7v 650mAh eGos. Shouldn't be an issue,but I appreciate the increased current draw between the 2.4 ohm CE5 coil at 1.5A to the 2.20 built coil at 1.68 is going to cook the e-juice slightly more and drain the batteries a bit faster. No problem,that's fixable with higher capacity batteries.
So,I'm all tested up and comfortably in the zone according to the safe vaping chart on the POTV wiki. I dry burn it for about four seconds and it's glowing slightly more towards the positive post post side than the negative which is to be expected really. I smother it in juice,let it soak in and fire it up with the cover and tip off. Crackle! Pop! Lovely satisfying sounds and a lot of vapour ;-) Now that's the whole point of this baby,isn't it? Happy days so far. The coil isn't glowing nearly as much as my CE5 atomiser coil was,but that doesn't necessarily mean anything because it's clearly a different wire gauge than in the CE5.
On goes the cover with the air intake hole in the right position, nearest to the coil. Time for a taste. I get S***LOADS of vapour,but where the flamin' hell's the flavour gone to? (Hangsen Virginia 18mg). All I'm getting is a metallic taste. No burnt taste though,which is encouraging.
Do these iGo-Ls need to bed in a bit with use and shed some of their metallic tase? Am I tasting the wick/coil or the bowl? I did wash the black manufacturing gunky residue out of the stainless drip tip,but didn't wash out the atomiser bowl itself. Have I gone wrong somewhere? I was expecting a taste extravaganza and got something about as exciting as a pot noodle or an upturned biscuit tin lid full of indoor fireworks. Perhaps some e-juices just taste better at a slightly lower wattage?
Any feedback from you vapers out there would be gratefully received,as usual ;-)
Thanks,
Tobes
Well,having been vaping a little while now,I popped out for some more e-juice and came home with an iGo-L dripping atomiser! That REALLY IS the end of the spending for a bit! ;-)
Now,I tried the vendor's iGo-L out in the shop and it was great. Not sure which mod the vendor was using,but he had Grant's Vanilla Custard on the go,so it would have tasted divine in anything right?
Anyway,I built up the coil using the wick and wire included with the atomiser and performed a resistance test. Way too high at first at 3.14 ohms. No heat,no action. So,off comes a turn and a bit bringing it down to five turns and a quick check to ensure nothing's making contact where it shouldn't be. All looked good. I retested and got a nice resistance reading of bang on 2.20 ohms,which is exactly what I wanted to get. My batteries are 3.7v 650mAh eGos. Shouldn't be an issue,but I appreciate the increased current draw between the 2.4 ohm CE5 coil at 1.5A to the 2.20 built coil at 1.68 is going to cook the e-juice slightly more and drain the batteries a bit faster. No problem,that's fixable with higher capacity batteries.
So,I'm all tested up and comfortably in the zone according to the safe vaping chart on the POTV wiki. I dry burn it for about four seconds and it's glowing slightly more towards the positive post post side than the negative which is to be expected really. I smother it in juice,let it soak in and fire it up with the cover and tip off. Crackle! Pop! Lovely satisfying sounds and a lot of vapour ;-) Now that's the whole point of this baby,isn't it? Happy days so far. The coil isn't glowing nearly as much as my CE5 atomiser coil was,but that doesn't necessarily mean anything because it's clearly a different wire gauge than in the CE5.
On goes the cover with the air intake hole in the right position, nearest to the coil. Time for a taste. I get S***LOADS of vapour,but where the flamin' hell's the flavour gone to? (Hangsen Virginia 18mg). All I'm getting is a metallic taste. No burnt taste though,which is encouraging.
Do these iGo-Ls need to bed in a bit with use and shed some of their metallic tase? Am I tasting the wick/coil or the bowl? I did wash the black manufacturing gunky residue out of the stainless drip tip,but didn't wash out the atomiser bowl itself. Have I gone wrong somewhere? I was expecting a taste extravaganza and got something about as exciting as a pot noodle or an upturned biscuit tin lid full of indoor fireworks. Perhaps some e-juices just taste better at a slightly lower wattage?
Any feedback from you vapers out there would be gratefully received,as usual ;-)
Thanks,
Tobes
Glad you got it going now!
