I've been vaping for over a year now and recently i bought a snow wolf 200, so when i got it the first thing i did was a nickel build (28g 12 wrap spaced) just basic to try it out, ive done nickel builds before on my dna40 with no problems at all until now. now my ohm resistance is jumping everywhere .... i thought it just wasnt making a tight connection but it was definitely tight, not even a little loose. the wires wernt broken at all, so i thought maybe its my new snow wolf.. so i put it on my ohm meter and sure enough it was jumping everywhere.. tried on my dna40 and same thing, 20 + builds later trying twisted nickel , dual coils and more wraps making sure all my leads are trapped and centered under the grub screws still no luck... ive tried it on all my rda's including ( tugboat v2 , hobo v2.1, derringer, darkhorse, mutation x v2, freakshow mini, aeolus ) nothing is working... can nickel wire go bad? ive had it for 8 months give or take its (28 gauge pure nickel wire from lightning vapes) any thoughts?
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Have you tried it with standard kanthal or another wire you have laying around?
And when you say jumping around, what's the ohm ranges?
And when you say jumping around, what's the ohm ranges?
What is the mod doing? Is it firing properly? You know Ni200 changes resistance with temperature, right?
the ohms are differnt everytime but it tends to jump from 0.08 to 0.47 or around that area
What are you building it on? Can you post a pic of the build?
ive built several different coils on 7 different rda's on 3 differnt box mods (snow wolf , vaper shark dna40, and smok m80 plus)
you mentioned pure nickel..... I was under the impression that Ni200 is an alloy.... maybe pure Ni doesnt work???
It's just nickel wire from lightning vapes it's worked before on my DNA 40 just haven't used it on anything for a few months
Have you tried a non micro coil build?
the only theory, is metal movement when it reaches temperature. Try a tiny gap between the wraps and see if it still fluctuates.
Ya that's what I did first was just a standard build with the little gaps in between..it has to be the wire it's the only variable left so I'll try ordering from another manufacturer , maybe the pure nickel at lightning vapes isn't ni200???
My tempered ni200 from lightning vapes is fine. I wanted to see a pic of the build that's jumping around because it would be easier to diagnose if there is an issue. SSI many variables to consider with ni wire
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here are some pictures of what happening if this helps, its just the nickel wire i bought from lightning vapes. and it does this on every device i have.i just posted some pics, ive tried easily over 30 builds all on different atty's and devices, this isnt the tempered nickel wire,its and older one they had about 8 months ago, called "pure nickel round non resistance wire"
It looks to me like you need more space between coils... Try a larger id so you can drop some wraps and space the coils more
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ok ill try some really spaced ones, but still it shouldnt jump from 0.13 to 0.56....
Any touching, no matter how minor, will cause that. Without current, nickel wires resistance isn't going to change like that.
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If you look at your top pic, you can see the right side wraps are much closer together then the left, and the left side leg looks like it passes underneath closely, possibly making that first left coil touch (can't see that one, but it's an educated guess.... Cause I did the same thing on a couple of builds 
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If you look at your top pic, you can see the right side wraps are much closer together then the left, and the left side leg looks like it passes underneath closely, possibly making that first left coil touch (can't see that one, but it's an educated guess.... Cause I did the same thing on a couple of builds
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If you look at your top pic, you can see the right side wraps are much closer together then the left, and the left side leg looks like it passes underneath closely, possibly making that first left coil touch (can't see that one, but it's an educated guess.... Cause I did the same thing on a couple of builds
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just did a more spaced even coil, nothing is touching at all and same thing.. apparently the pics i just took of that one are to big of a file to upload tho... i used to do nickel builds all the time, so i know what its supposed to look like. so ill just order some wire that specifically says ni200 on it.
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