Well, somehow I messed up my black Hussar RTA. One of the posts came loose from the base, and I can't get the thing apart to reattach the post. Will compare that tank to my other Hussar and see if anything can be done.
Meanwhile, I needed a black tank to put into rotation on my eLeaf iStick 100TC, so I pulled a Herakles Honor out of mothballs. Had forgotten how good a vape comes from this tank, even with a 1.8 ohm coil in it. Max wattage on that coil is 50W (!) but I'm only running it at 28W (7.5V omg). Just warm enough, lots of vapor, good flavor. Now if I can just refill it properly to keep it from leaking. It's persnickety, as I recall from using it before.
@Just Frank do I remember you saying you have a Herakles in rotation?
This 1.8 ohm coil running at wattage this high makes nonsense out of everything I thought I understood about coils and wattage. Normally I'd run a 1.8 ohm coil at about 12-15W if it were something like a Nautilus coil or even a 30ga coil that I wound myself. With this coil, though (same size as an Atlantis), up to a point anyway, the higher the wattage, the better the flavor and the fluffier the vapor. I can't help but think that if I ran a Nautilus coil this high, I'd burn it right up. So what's the difference?
I just discovered that this coil has a ceramic sleeve in it. It is described as a "dual parallel vertical configuration." From VaporDNA's description:
"The Herakles Honor Replacement Coil allows for backwards compatibility with the original Herakles platform, and with the marquee 1.8 ohm dual parallel coil structure, elevates both the Honor and the original system to new heights. The culmination of Sense's considerable research into advanced coil designs, the new 1.8 ohm coil features a reverse sandwich design that utilizes both a Japanese Organic Cotton and Food Grade Porous Ceramic wicking element. Internally, the dual parallel vertical structure is surrounded by the rapidly absorbing cotton wicking material, which is then surrounded by the durable and long lasting ceramic element. The result is an astoundingly pure flavor recreation with an previously unachieved combination of a 1.8 ohm resistance with a range of 20 to 50W."