Making a Wick for a Sub-Ohm coil.

[LEDBETTER122]

I wanted to get into Sub-Ohm, right now I have a Nemesis Mechanical and a Patriot RDA coming in a couple of days. I have 2 SONY US18650VTC4 30A batteries.

What convinced me I wanted to get into sub ohm was when I was at a local shop and the owner had a sub ohm Patriot and that thing was amazing. Giant clouds of vapor, it completely sold me and I had to have it.

I’ve been building coils for a while now and I know everything that involves making a coil (Multi-meter, Cotton Etc.)


When he showed me his build, it didn’t look like a normal coil and cotton I would usually build for my Kayfun or Protank. It had cotton in the well (A fair amount I may add) and it had the coils laying on the cotton (Pushed into the cotton, not strung through).

Any tips, or did this guy completely just build it wrong?

 

[dripdaze]

That is called a cotton bed and is a fairly common method. It is used quite a bit by people that like nano coils due to the difficulty in feeding cotton through the small nanos.

 

[Bunnykiller]

hows the flavor of the juice in that configuration??

 

[Christopherja]

Having tried "cotton clouds" in RDAs, I can't say I'm a massive fan. I do love tiny coils - I nearly exclusively run smaller diameter coils (is 1.2mm a 'nano', or is it 1mm and below?) though in everything from a MiniPT2 to a Russian - but I haven't found the dripping experience any improvement over traditional wicking.

That said, a "cotton cloud" will hold more juice in the well, but I don't find it has any effect on saturation levels near the wick that would create a noticeable change in taste. That's just been my experience.

That said, if you are making coils so tiny that you literally can't feed any cotton through them - then a "cotton cloud" is a fine choice.

 

[Ahoy]

Since you already have stated you understand the safety portion of sub ohm vaping and whatnot.

As others have stated that is called a 'cotton bed'. It is used with nano coils and that is really the only time to use cotton beds efficiently. On a standard micro you would be better off just feeding the cotton through the coil . I have found that a good wick to coil ratio(where the cotton is making full contact with the coil) gives the best vape. Cotton beds are nice but I don't get a consistent vape from them as I would with feeding the cotton through the coils on non nano-coil builds.

If you want to try your hand at a nano coil just keep in mind that you must have good cotton to coil contact in order to get a good vape. I like to wrap part of the bed around one of the posts (trying not to touch the leads) this ensures that the bed will not shift when I am carrying the device.

 

[Cw Hink]

look up rip trips on youtube. i run the dragon nano that he shows how to build. it is two nano coils that usaully puts you right around .5- .55 ohms

 

[LEDBETTER122]

Yeah im going to have to look at Rip Trippers video on it, because I have to visually see it or I wont beable to do it.