Newbee at rebuildables, but not vaping. I have been vaping for about 5yrs now, and decided to try RTAs and now RDAs. The problem is that while I am getting better than ever throat hit and vapor, the flavor is barely detectable. I have watched several great videos to learn how to make the coils, but the flavor still seems subdued. I am probably missing the forest, for the trees.
I have tried VCT-A1, Kanger subtank mini, Griffin, TFV4, and the Haze RTA, and several more.
At the moment I am using 24ga at between 0.1 -.5.
Different cottons have been tried, at the moment using Japanese organic pads, other than ease of use not much difference.
I just figure I must be missing something obvious. So any thoughts would be appreciated.
What are you comparing to as a starting point? I find the Haze to be the purest flavor, Griffin right up there on robust flavor (more vapor more flavor but it's a little faded). I like to do twisted or beyond for coils. I find strait wires often provide too much localized heat often scorching the cotton (I'll even see rings of burnt cotton when I pull the wick out).
What I'd recommend first is either twisted or parallel builds. Parallel is just straitening two strands of wire and wrapping them together keeping them parallel, very simple (all of these have youtube guides worth checking out). My other simple build would be just twisted, it's easy just grab anything with a loop and some pliers, take the strand of wire feed it through the hoop half way, grab both ends with the pliers and start twisting the hoop (I like a actual clip paper clip using the handle to feed through, I've seen others using coffee mugs, but anything that fits that concept). Then from there you can combine the two for Zipper coils which is nice. From there it's best to have a drill but you can do Chain Link (Twist one direction, then cut it in half and twist those two together in the opposite direction). Chain link is not really better than Zipper or Parallel on flavor though, just looks cool and works well. From there you enter into Claptons, but IMO Claptons are worth skipping over and jumping to Fused claptons, they aren't much harder to make and MUCH better on flavor. From there it gets much more complicated.
If you are interested in dropping some cash and getting some premade coils that will show you what's what in the Griffin I'd highly suggest hitting up
@CrazyChef with his website Purecoils.com, or
@raymo2u , both are great at making coils and will get you something that will blow your mind. IMO worth the money if you can't make something solid yourself, and then even if you can if you want to step up to something crazier and better (Crazychef's aliens certainly blow my fused Claptons out of the water).
Anyways, yeah single wire builds compared to the factory coils you're not going to see much improvement, IMO in the TFV4 the RBAs are better with simple twisted and noticeably better with beyond that. But, if you own the Griffin or Haze, plop some Fused claptons in there and you'll know why people use RTAs. The haze though, well even a simple twisted build gave me much better flavor than I've ever gotten from any tank before that.
