11 wraps? Dang thst must be like less then 2mm in Diameter. I use a 2.5mm rod from a coilmaster 3 at 7 wraps ea = 1ohmish using g 30 gauge wire.. I've tried other gauges and nothing heats up as fast and does it for me like 30 gauge.
Heh, yeah, forgot that part. It's a 1/16" coil, for the small readywick. Occasionally use the larger version too (with a 2.5mm drill bit), but I have like six feet of the former so it's gotta be used.
30ga might be the ticket for tootle puffing. But for my long DLH's I have all of mine running dual
coils built with 26 & 28 Ni80 or 27A1, wrapped on 2.5mm and 3.0mm forms netting in the .4-.6 range, and with both largest air intakes wide open. The Mini 1.0's/O-16's with these builds are arguably my favorite Reos now days.
For about a year after I bought my first REO, all I used was 28ga wire in the igo-bf that was my daily driver; 28ga is sturdier and easier to work with than the 30ga I'd used in my protank rebuilds, and it heats fast enough. Later on, though, I came to the conclusion that the only way to build dual coils in the tiny little freaking holes in the RM3's posts was to use thin wire.
So I use 28ga for singles, 30ga for duals, though I might try duals in a thicker wire now that I have the Origen's roomy environment to work in. The heat time is roughly equivalent given the extra length and the higher resistance of the wire used in the duals (which is halved, but still).
But yeah, cigarette-style mouth-to-lung vaper all the way. Doubt that'll ever change. It worked for 20 years before
vaping; it's worked for the almost three years since I quit smoking.
The dual coil build in the new Origen's really hit its stride, btw: seems a shame to tear it out. I might have order another one of these toppers for easy experimentation. Yeah, for science. That's the ticket.