That's right folks, Lars is just now putting on the finishing touches to some new features in the coil program. The most useful will be a "Suggested Wattage" cell that will offer a wattage recommendation based on wire gauge and coils in parallel.
What this means is that, for people who don't...
Low resistance is a byproduct of a (mostly) unrecognized benefit... not the goal.
"It's that damn SoF again... talkin' 'bout that damn heat flux. Get him! - burn him at the stake!".
Don't light the match just yet...
More surface area means more juice is vaporized for a given duration of...
After I responded to an interesting thread found here... I started thinking about the (highly unlikely) chances of truly identical multi-coil builds - considering how atomizers are made and the individual components that go to make up the whole - where heating lag time from coil to coil is...
This article has been pulled... as it's being rewritten.
Also, so the excel files won't disappear every other week.
The practical applications of heat flux, wire gauge, parallel wire count & net resistance as they relate to... the simplicity of a mech mod vs. the independent wattage control of regulated mod.
In simpler terms... the Ohm's law limitations of mechs vs. the ability to "force" wattage with an...
A few days ago, this post popped up... with my answer to follow.
Although you provide no detail regarding your net resistance and wire gauge used... everything you need to be successful at higher wattages can be found in Ohm's law formulas, the Steam Engine coil modeling program... and an...
First... you need a digital multi-meter (DMM). How much you choose to spend is entirely at your budgetary discretion.
A word of caution before we begin. Make sure that your meter is set correctly before any test. If you forget to switch from resistance to voltage and apply live voltage, you...
Notice! With the change in forum software, we're not limited to 10,000 characters per article... so this article is now part of the original part one article.
Steam Engine: Basic & advanced features: Pts. One & Two | E-Cigarette Forum
Thanks for taking a look... cheers!
This is going long... so get comfortable, and I'll try and make it as painless as possible. ;)
Update: On 5/24/15 I discovered that the new forum software allows far more than the old vBulletin limit of 10,000 characters per posting, so I've combined what was originally a two part series into a...
For a long time now, we've seen threads -
"What size are the o-rings on a fill in the blank atomizer?" or,
"What size are the magnets on a fill in the blank mod?"... or the broadest of inquiries,
"I need to measure anything you can think of that might need accurate measuring... how can I do...
So many questions, so much misinformation - and all it will take to clear up at least 80% of both... is a bit of knowledge.
If you can do basic math... the most useful Ohm's law formulas are:
For wattage ("Power") the formula is V² ÷ Ω = P.
For amperage ("Current") the formula is V ÷ Ω = C...
RBA, RDA, RTA... oh my! For those folks that are new (and semi-new) to RBAs, what are they and how do they work?
I could delve into the history of the RBA, but I imagine that most of my "gentle readers" don't really care about history - rather a bit of definition for what is available now. I'll...
It is not voodoo, or related to internal combustion engines - it's the way the wire is designed - and this "feature" of Kanthal ('A' series, including A-1 and AE) has been well known since before you or I were born... and just one of the qualities that make it so common and useful. ;-)
When...
This is about all copper China mech mod clones. Not necessarily about copper and SS or copper and brass - but all solid copper tubes & top/bottom caps as well.
As it erks me to see uninformed people pissing away money on trendy crap - then complain because there $20 mech isn't as well made as...
This collection of threads and blog links is intended for those who desire a greater depth of knowledge about mechanical mods, NiMH batteries, rebuildable atomizers, DMMs... electrical theory and it's practical applications in vaping.
The idea was to provide a broad selection of resources...
"Tank" type atomizers... For new vapists - how they work, and why it's a good idea to know this.
Thought I'd throw something up to help relatively new (and some not so new) vapists understand how "tank" type, or RTA atomizers work.
Bear in mind, in this instance, the word tank can be used to...