Hi everyone,
I’m hoping to get some help from the experts:
I recently got my first RDA, it’s a Tsunami 24. I did a lot of online research, watched hours of builds on YouTube, until I was pretty confident. I got a spool of 26g 316L ss wire and built dual coils with 3 mm ID and 9 wraps. The atty is reading 0.35 ohm on my Smoant Battlestar. I got both muji cotton and cellucotton for wicking and tried the cellucotton first. It was working pretty well for a couple hits in vw mode, but I put it in ss tc mode and burned the hell out of the wick and nearly choked myself to death. So I figured I’d give the muji a go. I wicked it up, dripped it, and this time, even in vw I was getting hardly any flavor and the coils were sizzling and giving off vapor way after I would stop firing. After a few hits my cotton started turning brown. I was super discouraged so I pulled the burnt wicks and went back to tanks for a couple weeks. Today I pulled out the Tsunami and tried wicking again, this time using more cotton, thinking a loose wicking could’ve been the problem last time. Unfortunately I’m getting the same problem coil stays hot way too long, no flavor and cotton browning under the coil. Trying between 30-45 Watts, pretty sure if I go any higher I’ll burn the shit out of it again.
I’ve got some kanthal a1 coming, hoping that I might have better luck with that, but it’s my understanding that ss is supposed to heat up and cool down faster than kanthal, so if I can’t get my ss coils to cool down, I’m probably not gonna do any better with kanthal.
If anyone has ideas or advice I’d appreciate it.
Pictures of today’s wicking with muji:
https://www.amazon.com/photos/share/INygV2Nt4QmdWRWAsK8VQN9GbnQqrm0Vn88T6n1rDVo
I’m hoping to get some help from the experts:
I recently got my first RDA, it’s a Tsunami 24. I did a lot of online research, watched hours of builds on YouTube, until I was pretty confident. I got a spool of 26g 316L ss wire and built dual coils with 3 mm ID and 9 wraps. The atty is reading 0.35 ohm on my Smoant Battlestar. I got both muji cotton and cellucotton for wicking and tried the cellucotton first. It was working pretty well for a couple hits in vw mode, but I put it in ss tc mode and burned the hell out of the wick and nearly choked myself to death. So I figured I’d give the muji a go. I wicked it up, dripped it, and this time, even in vw I was getting hardly any flavor and the coils were sizzling and giving off vapor way after I would stop firing. After a few hits my cotton started turning brown. I was super discouraged so I pulled the burnt wicks and went back to tanks for a couple weeks. Today I pulled out the Tsunami and tried wicking again, this time using more cotton, thinking a loose wicking could’ve been the problem last time. Unfortunately I’m getting the same problem coil stays hot way too long, no flavor and cotton browning under the coil. Trying between 30-45 Watts, pretty sure if I go any higher I’ll burn the shit out of it again.
I’ve got some kanthal a1 coming, hoping that I might have better luck with that, but it’s my understanding that ss is supposed to heat up and cool down faster than kanthal, so if I can’t get my ss coils to cool down, I’m probably not gonna do any better with kanthal.
If anyone has ideas or advice I’d appreciate it.
Pictures of today’s wicking with muji:
https://www.amazon.com/photos/share/INygV2Nt4QmdWRWAsK8VQN9GbnQqrm0Vn88T6n1rDVo