I just got an Aga T2. I have a few other gennies coming in the mail too. I used to be concerned and might still be, about oxidizing ss mesh and Cr6, but after several frustrations, I gave in and set up the mesh that came with it. Shooting for an ohm range around 1.8, so I could use it on my itaste svd at work, I first tried a cotton wick, with 32g kanthal, 5 wraps. After several attempts all I ended up doing was burning the cotton because I couldn't get it to wick enough, even with fill screw removed and tilting. (btw, I've been trying out cotton wick in my pt2 and it works, but I didn't like it. I thought I might like it better in a genny set up.) Ok, so that was a failure, though I could chalk it up to being new with a genny and having a bit of a time constraint, my house was a little busy tonight.
So then a little later, I tried again with some 3mm silica and did minimally better. No hotspots, but again, the wick wasn't keeping up and after not much time at all I was getting glowing coils and of course dry hits.
I was checking each coil with a multimeter, must've made about 6 between cotton and silica. They were coming about between 1.4 and 2.2. I couldn't find something decently sized to fit the aga's whole to wrap a coil around tried with a 1/16th bit once but it pulled away from the whole and threading cotton through wasn't easy. With the cotton and silica being able to move around so easily, I was also getting shorts and struggling to get a decent ohm reading.
I finally gave up and tried out the ss mesh that came with the aga t2, which I was hoping to avoid, but now I don't know if I care. I torched it, rolled it, torched it again, wrapped a coil around it, woops, that's a little too tight, backed it off a little, rewrapped, ended pulsing the coil around too, poking out hotspots and OMG it's amazing...
I'd still like to get a working setup of cotton and silica to see which I prefer, but after the ease of ss mesh, I don't know if I care. My mesh setup wasn't perfect however, it still needed the fill screw out and the right amount of tilt to keep it wet. Tilting doesn't matter to me, it's just natural how I vape, but I would like to be able to keep the screw in, so I can use this at work without having to worry about always keeping it upright.
In the end, I thank everyone here and the countless youtube vids I watched for making my first time with ss mesh a success!
So then a little later, I tried again with some 3mm silica and did minimally better. No hotspots, but again, the wick wasn't keeping up and after not much time at all I was getting glowing coils and of course dry hits.
I was checking each coil with a multimeter, must've made about 6 between cotton and silica. They were coming about between 1.4 and 2.2. I couldn't find something decently sized to fit the aga's whole to wrap a coil around tried with a 1/16th bit once but it pulled away from the whole and threading cotton through wasn't easy. With the cotton and silica being able to move around so easily, I was also getting shorts and struggling to get a decent ohm reading.
I finally gave up and tried out the ss mesh that came with the aga t2, which I was hoping to avoid, but now I don't know if I care. I torched it, rolled it, torched it again, wrapped a coil around it, woops, that's a little too tight, backed it off a little, rewrapped, ended pulsing the coil around too, poking out hotspots and OMG it's amazing...
I'd still like to get a working setup of cotton and silica to see which I prefer, but after the ease of ss mesh, I don't know if I care. My mesh setup wasn't perfect however, it still needed the fill screw out and the right amount of tilt to keep it wet. Tilting doesn't matter to me, it's just natural how I vape, but I would like to be able to keep the screw in, so I can use this at work without having to worry about always keeping it upright.
In the end, I thank everyone here and the countless youtube vids I watched for making my first time with ss mesh a success!
