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  1. State O' Flux

    Steam Engine Heat Flux Wattage Question

    Ta Da! Winner winner - chicken dinner!
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    Steam Engine Heat Flux Wattage Question

    With "yes and yes", Zevo... Efektt has the "what goes where / when" bit well in hand. ;-) You want to look at the heat flux that is produced with your mech powered build at 17.6 (lets call it 18 even) watts. Everything is fine for that resistance, right up until you build it as dual...
  3. State O' Flux

    GUS Contest for one PhenomenoN Zest

    Terrific! A contest with a prize definitely worth posting for ... good on ya' aiolos.
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    Most versatile gauge kanthal?

    This is going to be a somewhat lengthy explanation... but you may find it useful. Much of the above question will depend on your PV... is it a wattage controlled, high-output regulated mod where you can "force" wattage to adjust temperature, or is it an unregulated mech, where the net...
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    How does the coil affect the vape?

    Welcome to ECF, Dan... Lower resistance permits the potential for greater coil net surface area and the higher levels of juice vaporization associated with it. I'd say higher coil temps as well... but that's a misnomer, in that you can produce high coil temps without the need for low...
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    How often do you change the wick?

    That can depend greatly on the juice's flavor solids/sugars content... both of which can produce a thermally resistive, "caramelization" layer on the coil, promoting a slower heat capacity (time to temperature) juice vaporization. An atty used with light, not excessively sweet juice may be...
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    Steam Engine and GPlat

    With your specs... I get 126.4mm wire length for a net resistance of 0.25Ω / 101mm for a net resistance of 0.20Ω... and 50.6mm for 0.1Ω net. Twgbonehead may have something here, but would require a decent bit of research to validate or shoot down. Kanthal A1 is comprised of iron, chromium...
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    What kind of equipment is there to test batteries?

    An inductive, clamp-on type Ammeter might do it... most have clamp diameters of 23 or more mm.
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    What build for the dual 18650 Dimitri?

    So... no replies in nearly a day, 'eh rx8? I'm not surprised. ;-) I'd imagine that your mod is wired in parallel, so current potential is doubled, as load, per battery, is halved. Please read this article from Battery University , so that you have a better understanding of what a parallel...
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    The Super Swamper Coil - Yep, lets go fishin' for coils

    I hate watching videos 'X', my friend (my 'puter is very old and slow)... but I certainly understand the audience demographic that does prefer them. Written or recorded... research, innovation and demystification always deserves appreciation and a Press on regardless... Cheers
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    Diameter of coils?

    Welcome to ECF, Jblow... I'm afraid you've been caught up in a dismally common misconception. Coil ID ("diameter") has no bearing on resistance or heat capacity ("ramp up time") value. Only 3 things determine resistance for a new DIY heating coil. 1. Wire gauge or thickness. 2. Wire...
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    RDA Need help! RDA Shorting out!

    When a APV indicates "shorted"... it's telling you that your build is below it's minimum allowable resistance... in this case, below the device advertized minimum of 0.3Ω. Your build specs, per Steam Engine (see hyperlink siglines below), would indicate a 0.4Ω~0.5Ω net resistance, so the...
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    What coil should I build next?

    In that case, you apparently like a flaming hot 997 mW/mm2. This is perhaps (if your data is correct) the highest HF I've seen... that someone actually likes. Hope you have sufficient wicking capillary action... to keep pace with the heat. ;-)
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    What coil should I build next?

    Based on the limited information supplied... assuming this is a 30ga. parallel dual coil build... at 56 watts, your heat flux is 249 mW/mm2, which apparently, you like. It's an easy HF to duplicate with a variety of wire gauges, resistances and parallel coil counts... and increase or decrease...
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    HELP it says overload 0.1?

    I don't know what the atty or PV is - and has been said, that would certainly help with diagnostics - but in simple terms, your PV is reading a resistance value below it's minimum range of operation/maximum current output... a value which should be found in your owners manual, or on-line. It...
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    Newbie Alert! Atomizer question

    Welcome to ECF, AMG... The problem with "store brand" personal vaporizer products and new vapists... is that they purposely avoid telling you specifics about their products, and that actually they are the common products that most everyone sells. Without this knowledge, you feel a bit trapped...
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    Build for Flavor @ 7-10 Watts?

    On a Kayfun... with that low a wattage, it'd be coil, singular. Using 29 gauge, and splitting the difference for wattage at 8.5w... at 1.2Ω you'd median heat flux of 178 mW/mm2 ~ to a warm HF of 267 mW/mm2 at 0.8Ω. You can juggle wattage within your range, or wire gauge up and down, to obtain...
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    How do you get your wraps evenly spaced on a standard coil?

    Didn't know there was a contest where if "the 2nd loop on each end is not linear with the ones toward the middle" ... you lose. Be that as it may, if you have "coil OCD", find a screw with a diameter and thread pitch (wrap spacing) you like... and use that to wrap your wire around. ;-)
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    RDA newbie question about ohm & ga, please help :D

    Without knowing how much current you've applied to your builds, your question is difficult to answer. If all you did was switch to a thicker wire, with the same resistance and the same power supply wattage... it's likely that your "heat flux" dropped dramatically. Set aside an hour or more...
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    New to rebuildables need help

    Hi BC... Yep... that's a lot to cover, and most of the folks that can answer all those questions... sometimes get a bit tired of answering them, over and over. ;-) Which is why, not unsurprisingly... I have the 3 sigline hyperlinks below. The first is to the "Steam Engine" modeling...
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