Tobytyke
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Peeps. While I wait for my order from FT with the Ares & wire,cotton etc I thought I’m gonna have a go at this building lark. Remembering I’d bought a couple of those Quad flex kits from Cloudstix a few weeks back, this was going to be my guinea pig.
After watching several videos I finally had a crack at it when I got home from work earlier. I’m not gonna lie, I found it tricky. The deck in that kit is only 22mm & I put both coils in what came in the pack, which were bloody small IMO. I built it up in the RDA configuration.Not mouth to lung I know !! But seemed simpler for me.
With minimal tools (until my order arrives) it was a pain. I used my FJ200 to build it on. Adjusted the coils etc as best I could. Took out any hot spots as best I could as well. I used my mod to read the resistance which showed 0.38ohm. Wick them up using the provided cotton in the kit. Primed with some juice & stuck the cover on.
Set the watts to 35w & give it a shot. Not bad I thought, not bad at all. I must have done something right as I was getting some flavour & vapour . Not certain on the amount of cotton I needed though, but I guess I’ll figure all that out with time & plenty of practice. Ill be brutally honest, it doesn’t look the prettiest build even to me. Being ex military I’m quite anal about things being as perfect as I can get them so I can imagine building the Ares will take me a while. Just hope it’s a little easier to build on than the Quad flex.
Anyway, just wanted to share this with y’all & can’t wait to get going properly in a week or so’s time.
Lee
After watching several videos I finally had a crack at it when I got home from work earlier. I’m not gonna lie, I found it tricky. The deck in that kit is only 22mm & I put both coils in what came in the pack, which were bloody small IMO. I built it up in the RDA configuration.Not mouth to lung I know !! But seemed simpler for me.
With minimal tools (until my order arrives) it was a pain. I used my FJ200 to build it on. Adjusted the coils etc as best I could. Took out any hot spots as best I could as well. I used my mod to read the resistance which showed 0.38ohm. Wick them up using the provided cotton in the kit. Primed with some juice & stuck the cover on.
Set the watts to 35w & give it a shot. Not bad I thought, not bad at all. I must have done something right as I was getting some flavour & vapour . Not certain on the amount of cotton I needed though, but I guess I’ll figure all that out with time & plenty of practice. Ill be brutally honest, it doesn’t look the prettiest build even to me. Being ex military I’m quite anal about things being as perfect as I can get them so I can imagine building the Ares will take me a while. Just hope it’s a little easier to build on than the Quad flex.
Anyway, just wanted to share this with y’all & can’t wait to get going properly in a week or so’s time.
Lee