I went into the vape shop today and when I started talking to the girl there she told me she had a pnp-rba, and since I had a drag x at home I've decided to give it a shot. What wattage do I run it at? 11-15? Anyone have any tips for building this miniscule deck?
Can you give us a make and model of the pnp-rba? There is at least two or three out there on the market now.
May be helpful in offering building advice to know what kind of deck a person is looking at.
For the time being and sake of trying to help a bit, ... I'll go with you got
this brand. So, let me call up trusty youtube.
First video on it, ...
The container says FeCrAl on it, that means
Kanthal. (Fe (iron) Cr (chromium) Al (aluminum))
Other
videos may suggest other wire types. I would reckon you can use which ever turns your crank, Stainless / NiChrome / Kanthal. I'd not suggest other wire types as I've not used them and not gotten familiarity. Have seen some with a bit of cautionary write ups so I'm weary. I'll stick with what I know & know to be reasonably safe.
Edit: Almost forgot, what kind of wire and kit should I buy to try and make these coils? Should I even try or should I just buy premade ones?
Kanthal seems a reliable choice for wire, or Stainless Steel 316L. I might stick with pre-made a bit until I got the "hang" of building proper coils for the deck in question.
The kit for the RBA in the first video appears to come with a
mandrel for coil winding. That will get you the proper manufacture suggested inner diameter of coil. From what I'm seeing it looks to be about a 2 mm inner diameter though I may be in error, if so apologies.
I usually build 3 mm inner diameter coils for RDAs. That however is a different kind of horse so to speak. Would figure with this brand of RBA the smaller deck / base size would dictate a smaller coil size. "The coil has gotta fit inside, man!" *chuckles*
I get twice the smoke any pod system has ever given me and the nicotine is much more comparable to smoking!
If you're getting smoke you're doing it wrong. Now, if you're getting vapor well that's good.
Do you think the squonk setup would improve just the flavor, or would it help with cloud production too?
The main reason you want a squonker is convenience over regular dripping. You don't got to lug around a bottle, it's hiding inside the mod instead. All you need to do then is depress the bottle to shoot up some juice into the deck for the wick to get.
See the bottle hiding out through the "hole in the wall" there? He keeps your juice ready for you at a thumb's flick. That's a Geekvape Athena squonker pictured. I got one in rotation, another that has juice in it but isn't being used, and a third not even unpacked yet. Atthenas are mechanical squonk mods. That means you don't get any flashy screens, bells, whistles, computer brains.
Squonking doesn't really add to vapor production. Your coil set up and RDA/RBA do that. And in that there's a host of variables to come into play. It seems with the advent of these new "PNP" style coil decks the manufactures are designing to eliminate a lot of the "overhead" variables vapers haggle and fuss over to get "just right" for themselves.
I think this has potential to be both good and bad. On one hand its nice manufactures want to encourage more to build their own coils by "easing" them into it. On the other hand if you don't get into finding "just right" for yourself, you will lack the experience needed to fix your own troubles later on. So I'm not going to have an opinion on this as it could go either way.
How's that for being objective?