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  1. State O' Flux

    Tarnished battery tops.

    Pencil eraser for the light stuff... ink eraser for the less light... toss it if it's more than surface rust.
  2. State O' Flux

    First Coil Build

    Yeah... I don't have a clue what wire comes with 'em, Cullin. Never had or even seen one, except in pictures.
  3. State O' Flux

    First Coil Build

    Ah well... can't really generate any functional data without details, but... your "first coil" seems to be workin' for ya', and when it comes down to it - if you've not blown your face off yet - you're good to go! Ciao
  4. State O' Flux

    First Coil Build

    Good deal, but... 7-8 wraps... sounds more like 27 or 28 gauge, if it's on a 2mm mandrel. What's the mandrel size you're using? If it seems kinda warm (understatement) - like a smokin' hot 468 mW/mm² if it's 28 gauge at 29 watts - or you're chain vapin' and get dry hits... tone down the...
  5. State O' Flux

    All about wattage

    With my typical vape habits and preferences for best possible flavor and decent vapor density, but not massive clouds at the cost of all else - I think 150 watts is about right for most anyone... but maybe a cloud competition guy or gal.
  6. State O' Flux

    First Coil Build

    No problem praw2... better to know that to guess, right? If it is in fact 26 gauge Kanthal A-1 (or a close clone), it will be .405mm thick (0159") +/-... anyway, if that's what you got... you'll want to drop down to around 20 watts or less for the previously described resistance. Load the wire...
  7. State O' Flux

    All about wattage

    Kinda depends on how low you intend to go, how thick the wire, the number of coils in parallel, and how warm you want your vape. Maximum net surface area, multi-parallel coil builds made with thick wire - 18-22 gauge - can easily use 150 watts to obtain mid 200 heat flux values. (heat flux is...
  8. State O' Flux

    Coil under electron microscope

    Let me try and answer that for you, beck... If you look at the first page, you'll see my comments on using a soft, fine wire, bronze bristle brush on coils, more specifically on "gunkified" coils... abused with solids, sweeteners, colorants - what have you. I don't have images, but I do look at...
  9. State O' Flux

    Got some 316L 24 gauge. What to do with it?

    Running out of physical room are ya', Riff? ;) Here's a 3mm mandrel (1/8" is OK too), 0.25Ω, dual parallel build for you. You'll want to toss it on the Sig 150 and run at around 100 watts or more, if you want to get any warmth out of it... but the surface area is good, at over 200 mm².
  10. State O' Flux

    First Coil Build

    Welcome to ECF, praw... You can go with a much lower resistance. With 29 watts (I'm not big on maxing a VW APV), you can go down to 0.5-0.6Ω with good warmth and vapor. Dropping down to that net resistance will provide far more coil surface area... and the greater the area, the greater...
  11. State O' Flux

    quick kick question

    First question... no. Second comment... learn Ohm's Law and battery safety with unregulated mods... and you'll have plenty of confidence to run without a kick. Third comment... me too! ;) Click the two sigline hypelinks below.... start reading. PM me if you have questions. Cheers!
  12. State O' Flux

    quick kick question

    In theory, it shouldn't matter... not if the actual resistance for both is the same. Although a 26 gauge single coil at (what I assume is your maximum) 15 watts is really too thick a wire for the resistance and Kick controlled wattage, and will have a relatively cool coil operating...
  13. State O' Flux

    Koh Gen Do Problems ):

    I'd have to agree with Bad'. In your application - the resistance, small wicking pathways, small coil surface area, unknown wick density and in-coil compression (which in this application can be highly sensitive)... all add up to likely a better performance with silica. As an alternative...
  14. State O' Flux

    Harlan County Detention Center sells E-Cigarettes

    I wonder if they're selling the "Crossbar" brand of prison specific e-cig.
  15. State O' Flux

    This Tool...

    Yes, the Kuro Koiler does apply a modest tension, but more importantly, it is consistent... as opposed to hand coiling on a bare shaft, where tension applied can be fairly random, depending on the individual and the tool used to hold the wrap end of the wire strand. User instructions and a...
  16. State O' Flux

    Will my Efest IMR 2500mah battery work for a 0.25ohm RDA build?

    Although I've run hotter in the past - these days, I tend to run in the 220 to 320 range for HF... the low end for RTAs (with the one exception being a Gus Estia... my RTAs are "old fashioned", low air flow, like the R91%, KFL+ and Rose, so I don't run them too hot) and the high end for RDAs...
  17. State O' Flux

    Sub-ohm vaping at lower wattages?

    As a point of reference, Utsuru... If you were running a 0.4Ω net resistance build on an unregulated mech mod... the discharge for Ohm's law parity would be 44 watts. This doesn't take into account the optimal build - wire gauge or number of coils in parallel - for that wattage. Thick wire...
  18. State O' Flux

    Will my Efest IMR 2500mah battery work for a 0.25ohm RDA build?

    Unless I've misread your edit info, or am just having a (frequently more and more common) "senior moment"... If you run a 0.25Ω net resistance, your Ohm's law parity wattage is 71 watts at 4.2 volts. With the coil assemblies as described, and using an estimated 1mm twist pitch, this build will...
  19. State O' Flux

    Help understanding ohms

    Weirdly, shops seem to carry only even numbers, as though the odd gauges don't exist. You may have to order it on-line. Temco, a licensed, genuine Kanthal distributor, has eBay listings for all gauges... and Lightning Vapes carries genuine Kanthal as well.
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    Help understanding ohms

    Again, as I mentioned in the last post, with 22 gauge at 0.24Ω, at 80 watts, you will drop below 200 mW/mm². If you find this to be too cool... you can increase the temperature to around 220 mW/mm² by running right up against the limiter at 0.2Ω... which will require very exacting values and...
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