To Ohm, or Not to Ohm, that must be the question.

[Zebraman777]

Ok 20 year Master Electrician here.
So your wick says 2.0 Ohm, but your Cig. says it is 2.6 Ohm, well just know that even your Home Depot Electrical tester can not give you the true resistance value of your wick, sorry. your not paying hundreds of dollars for that Battery for it to have a REAL "True RMS" tester installed into it, and there are MANY things that can make your smoky friend have higher resistance, but a resistance within a few .'s is OK, but the higher the resistance the more heat is made and the faster things burn out, batteries go out faster, and wicks too. BUT on the other hand with lower resistance your liquid does not turn as much smoky goodness for you, so there is a balance to play here.
But please make sure your batteries are Rated for the Ohm rating of your wicks, if you use a MUCH higher Ohm wick with a low Ohm rated Battery, the battery could fail, and if your buying off brand, Chinese knock off stuff, you could endanger yourself, I have myself seen wicks with 2.0 listed on them having a true Ohm reading of 14.6, and a Chinese gray market battery that has a cheap low rated resistor that WILL fail, and a cheap battery, and BOOM, say goodbye to your face. yes they can blowup like a 4" motar on the 4th of July. So think about that as you vape. good luck and happy smoking.

 

[r77r7r]

Welcome and Ty for the advice. It'll be good to have a another pro here.

 

[Topwater Elvis]

I've never measured the resistance of a wick.
Wick is normally silica, various cottons, rayon, SS mesh etc...
Coils / wire types used for making coils can be NiCr60 or 80, kanthal, Ni, Ti & various SS.

With the built in saftey features of the vast majority of decent quality regulated power devices there really is very little chance of any catastrophic failure, as long as the appropriate CDR cell(s) are used.
All most all accurately measure resistance within .2Ω, many within .02Ω.
Which is important for TC function.

If any vaping device produces smoke, you're doing it wrong, very wrong.

You have it backwards, with a mechanical the lower the resistance the higher the amp demand from the cell. Basic ohms law.

With a regulated power device, at the low voltage cutoff amp demand will be highest, resistance is irrelevant as long as it falls within the devices operational parameters.
Calculating amp demand for a regulated is explained here ---> Calculating battery current draw for a regulated mod | E-Cigarette Forum

Good thing Mooch dedicates his time to accurately testing the CDR of the cells we use to vape with.

 

[Imfallen_Angel]

hmm.. next.. how much ohm is your liquid? And how the gravity of the moon dictates how much you fill your tank?

I'm truly confused about this thread... I am gathering that you meant COIL and not the wick, but it also appears to be a very bad google translation job...