Newbie Question...

sketchness;14586948 said:

With mechs it doesn't matter what device you have or what atty (for this discussion), what matters is the battery. This determines what you can build within the confines of your amp limit. The links provided above go over this in detail.

So i am sure I won't answer every question about wire but real simple stuff: Higher gauge equals higher resistance, but it heats faster which is important when you are building coils on a device that doesn't push watts like a mech. So building coils for aniStick with 24 gauge isn't going to work real well. Thus 30 or 32 is key for these types of devices. The thicker coil\lower gauge wire is less resistance per inch so is often the wire of choice on a mech that can kick a huge number of amps to the coil and heat it up fast. I personally like 26 gauge 6 wrap coil around a drill bit that is very close to a 14 gauge blunt tip needle (slightly larger). It reads .4 on my sigelei and works well at 35 watts.

A lot of the coil builds you will see are simply because they look cool. Others are device specific. You aren't going to be stuffing giant macro coils in a kayfun or even on some of the smaller RDA's.

hopefully that helps a little

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