Good as new…
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You caught them in you battery charger by th looks of it !!
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Certainly does look like that happened. 
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Mine does it all the time i have to take my time taking the battery out or ping and it got me or the battery
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Yeah, and sometimes they fly out and become projectiles. Lol
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I dont think your charger is the problem
its the wraps
the batteries i used all have of integrated wrapping some are 7 years old and not a scratch
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I was just thinking about this earlier. This is very true, the wraps on these batteries totally suck. I have some with aftermarket sleeves on them, they’re much stronger. Seems like the ones that come on these batteries are ultra thin. It sucks cuz I kind of like the way they look. I’ll just have to get some clear sleeves.
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I’m so frustrated right now. Thought My coil was working right, didn’t taste sweet. So I added a little more sweetener to my juice last night… This morning I’m sitting here testing liquids and then it magically becomes really sweet again. I had to rewick and put it back together, now everything is way too sweet. Ffs.
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Suddenly it’s not sweet again. I think its my tongue thats broken guys.
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I put a new mowhawk alien coil on, I wanted to try putting the 6 wrap alien into my arbiter 2, but it was too long so I had to use a 5 wrap coil.
Problem is … My mowhawk alien coil tastes exactly like my hand wrapped one. Wtf. This shouldn’t be happening. Feels like it’s weak when I fire. Wont crackle for shit. Got out those hot spots, 3 times I checked, looked like it was glowing nice and evenly. Ffs. It’s just giving me a weak airy fire, not the wonderful pop and crackle. I know that crackling can be a wicking thing too, but it’s not the wick. It’s feels like it’s firing underpowered, and weak flavor. This coil should be giving me tons of flavor. It’s behaving as though there are hot spots. I had the first one working and it did this same thing. I thought I ruined the first coil, maybe I didn’t after all. The wick is sucking up juice so no problem there.
It’s as if when I put the wick in the hotspots return. I don’t use so much cotton as to deform the coil. The same amount as any other 3mm coil I wick. It’s touchy. I was having a lot of trouble getting the hot spots out initially as well. AAAAAAAGGGHHH. I wanna fix this before I try my new flavors.
It’s a tiny bit better after the 3rd attempt. It’s giving me a little crackle, slightly sweet, but its just “airy” and it’s not the dry hit type of airy, it’s like only part of the coil getting hot. It’s like the time I tried glowing coils at low wattage to get the spots out.
I’m gonna continue troubleshooting, I suppose I’m not asking for help. Just venting and putting this out there, because I can’t seem to find any helpful Google results, and if I can eventually get it going I will have a solution.
Update: okay, I unscrewed the coil and reseated it. Same ohms reading, glow looked exactly the same, it didn’t appear to be off or anything to begin with. I finally got some spit back, to me that’s actually a good sign in this case. It’s cracking a little bit now. I think this finally worked. I’ll see how it continues to go.
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Turn up your wattage. There is more mass of wire. up your wattage. You also shortened the coil which raises the Ohm’s. Again raise your wattage.
Getting hot spots out is a simple light strum. Your trying to get a coil to glow from the center out to each end. A simple lite strum with a non conducting tweezers. Not so hard to deform the coil.
Don’t mistake light and dark spots as a hot spot. A Mohawk has more wire in spots than others it will show up darker. It’s not a hot spot. Just get the coil to heat from the center out to the posts and it’s ready to go.
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There was definitely a big strip of a hotspot going across the bottom of the coil. It was difficult. I gently strummed the top, the side, the other side, and my best to strum the bottom. It did finally go away. It was a pain in the ass though, especially because I didn’t want to damage the fins or the outer wrap.
That aside, the coil still doesn’t seem to be giving full flavor, it’s not performing as well as the regular alien coil. It’s got something wrong with it. I got a disassemble my tank and clean it anyway, I dripped a tobacco flavor yesterday to taste test and it persisted after changing the cotton.
Legs are cut at 5mm, recommend length just like the first one I dropped it. It gave amazing flavor, then it suddenly stopped. There are many nuances I can taste with the regular alien that aren’t coming though on this one.
I also tried upping the wattage, 60-65-70 even 75. Didn’t help.
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It’s not going to perform like an alien/clapton. I mean, look at the coil…it’s got huge fins on top that don’t even come in contact with the wick. I’m not hating on exotic coild building, but some of them just don’t make sense.
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The thing is, when I tried the first one I got excellent flavor and then I unscrewed the tank to take a picture, then I put it back together and it just wasn’t the same.
Okay. Now it’s just being extremely frustrating, I’ve been vaping plain flavor and I still can’t taste flavors. I’m switching back to the regular alien.
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And yep, flavor is totally back. I think there was something wrong with the coil unfortunately. When I got my dead rabbit 3, I was excited to install the mowhaek alien, because it won’t fit in the arbiter 2, and there was definitely more flavor. I remember suddenly being able to tast my sweet crunch mix again, and my other coil that was flavorful suddenly tasted like nothing. What a bummer. I suppose now I will just buy regular alien coils. I guess the intricacy can make them a little touchy.
Maybe something happens when the screws are tightened down on the outer wrap, it kinda crushes the coil, and on the surface it glows fine, but it just seems like the coil isn’t getting the right amount of power.
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I THINK I might have figured out something. So I just rewicked my regular alien and had a strange problem. Seemed totally out of the blue, it was just working fine! So it glowed even, just like the mowhawk, ohms were exactly the same reading too, but when I put it on together it obviously wasn’t working right. Felt underpowered, wasnt crackling, ect. Took it apart and looked closer. One of the legs was sticking out of the hole in the deck, and touching the deck. Never thought about that. I went and bent it up a little. It still looks like it’s almost touching, but whatever. Didn’t even rewick, threw it back together and it was working great! So I really wonder now if one of the mowhawk alien legs was touching the deck and doing a similar thing. Its not like it caused a short or a different ohms reading. (*Actually looks like it went from 0.27 to 0.26, it was working fine at 0.27 though) It just didn’t perform properly.
I gotta try this with the mowhawk, I don’t feel like messing with it rn though.
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So I have been happily vaping away on my delicious juice, I’m on my last “good” coil. I taste my mixes daily, and starting last night I couldn’t taste them, figured it was just my tounge. Today something wasn’t right. Juices that tasted amazing 3 days ago, now taste watered down, not getting any sweetness. I just ordered fresh coils. The coil is definitely operating properly, even glow, perfect crackle. I tried switching off to unflavored, but then tried to taste my flavors again and all of them are just suddenly lacking.
I really gotta wonder… Can a coil that’s going bad appear to work perfectly fine but not produce flavor? I do taste some flavor, but It’s like the “wholeness” is missing. Also not getting enough sweetness, where as usually I think they’re very sweet.
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Eat some salt then drink a lot of water.
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Turns out I wasn’t crazy after all, I just put in a new coil and everything tastes good again. The other coil didn’t look dark or crusty, everything looked perfect. It glowed egen and all that. It just wasn’t giving me full flavor. So, it is definitely a thing that an old coil gives less flavor.
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