conanthewarrior
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Only posting this as I am really happy to be using rebuildables again.
I cleaned up my Kylin mini RTA with some water and washing up liquid and gave the insides a good scrub with a toothbrush. Rinsed it off and let it dry.
The only wire I had left was standard Kanthal, 24 gauge. I used a 2.5MM bit to do 5 and a half wraps, even bending the kanthal around was a challenge trying to keep all parts of the coil the same size and touching for a contact coil.
I fired the coil on my RX2/3 in dual 18650 mode to glow it, it only needed a couple of strums to be heating from the inside.
Then I remembered I needed wick- a quick look through my ottoman and I found some Koh Gen Do cotton pads that were in a sealed bag. Wicking was a bit harder than I remember, especially fluffing the ends of the cotton to go in the juice channels, but I tried my best.
And the result was success! No dry hits even when chain vaping, and the coil only needs 30W for a warm vape. It turned out around 0.4 Ohms which is fine for me.
I have only used power mode, but have Arctic fox already installed on the mod so I can connect to my macbook to download custom TC files for similar to DNA performance. Obviously I will need some different wire for TC, I do have some 26G titanium I could use.
I just thought I would post as I am really happy I have managed to build a coil after so long, now its time to get building for my other 90-100 RTA's and RDA's. These will need a good cleanup first though as where they have been sitting they have became grimy with juice, or the brass ones have tarnished so will need some brasso on them to make them sparkle again.
I cleaned up my Kylin mini RTA with some water and washing up liquid and gave the insides a good scrub with a toothbrush. Rinsed it off and let it dry.
The only wire I had left was standard Kanthal, 24 gauge. I used a 2.5MM bit to do 5 and a half wraps, even bending the kanthal around was a challenge trying to keep all parts of the coil the same size and touching for a contact coil.
I fired the coil on my RX2/3 in dual 18650 mode to glow it, it only needed a couple of strums to be heating from the inside.
Then I remembered I needed wick- a quick look through my ottoman and I found some Koh Gen Do cotton pads that were in a sealed bag. Wicking was a bit harder than I remember, especially fluffing the ends of the cotton to go in the juice channels, but I tried my best.
And the result was success! No dry hits even when chain vaping, and the coil only needs 30W for a warm vape. It turned out around 0.4 Ohms which is fine for me.
I have only used power mode, but have Arctic fox already installed on the mod so I can connect to my macbook to download custom TC files for similar to DNA performance. Obviously I will need some different wire for TC, I do have some 26G titanium I could use.
I just thought I would post as I am really happy I have managed to build a coil after so long, now its time to get building for my other 90-100 RTA's and RDA's. These will need a good cleanup first though as where they have been sitting they have became grimy with juice, or the brass ones have tarnished so will need some brasso on them to make them sparkle again.
