I got my first cable a few months back, and after playing around off and on, I think it is given new life to gennys for me.
I tried all the different diameters from Kidneypuncher, and 1/16th seems to work the best for me. I use a 1/16th drillbit for my coils, and about 1.5 wraps of 500 mesh around the top 1/4" or so of cable. Slides in nice and loose but even.
I prefer my coils to be 1/16th diameter, so obviously that size fits my needs best. But I also noticed, as someone else in this thread mentioned I think, that the heat-up time is much better with the 1/16th.
I first started with the 5/64th cable with a bit of mesh, and would get the tank-juice cooking that I normally got with gennies. Heat up time was also slower than mesh builds. Flavor was also a bit reduced.
With the 1/16th heatup from a cold start is a tiny bit slower than mesh of that diameter, but once even a little bit warm heat up time seems the same. Flavor is better than the 5/64th, and I get zero juice cooking. Flavor seems better than with pure mesh, but that's probably because the cable is wicking better and the coil is more saturated.
Never get any dry hits, and actually I kept flooding the deck on a nearly full tank so I plugged more holes than usual. I've always liked how a genny vapes, but for some reason I could never get the wick to keep up with me.
I tried a million different ways of rolling mesh, U-wicks, on the bias, across the bias, short wicks, long wicks, thick wicks, skinny wicks, tight wicks, loose wicks, hollow wicks, solid wicks, ox'ed wixed, non-ox'ed wicks, partially ox'ed wicks, literally every single method of building a mesh wick I've seen anywhere on the web, I've tried, and would always get a bone dry wick after 4-5 good lung pulls at 25+ watts.
With this cable I've made my self nic sick while purposefully trying to dry it out, and as long as there is wick in juice it stays wet, although it does seem to dry out faster than pure mesh if you accidentally hit it with the device tilted and the wick on top so it's totally out of the juice. With mesh it was easier to notice a change in the way the vapor felt, and know you were going dry. But with the cable it seems more like a fully saturated hit all the way up until it runs almost completely dry.
I've even had trouble dry burning because the cable seems to suck juice from everywhere and the wick never wanted to go dry. This stuff is just a dream for anyone who likes how a genny vapes, but was never satisfied with the wicking ability of mesh.
I still swear a mesh surface does something, maybe smaller droplets, because with gennys I get hit with a nicotine buzz FAST after a couple pulls, where as it's a much slower more smooth curve with other materials.
I think I still prefer the taste of cotton for most of the juice I vape, but with such excellent wicking it's really, really close. And when you add in the faster nicotine hit and tank factor of a genny (haven't got into kayfun styles yet) I feel like I'm in danger of abandoning my cotton drippers for gennys :0
If anyone is still on the fence, give gennys one last try with cable before you shut that door for good.
