Lol yeah ur right I just Always thought u had to go 20-22 gauge to get smoke I never learned the part of batterie safety and how u can go sAfer and prolly get the joy and smoke I'm looking for thanks guys I will def take All ur advice it was all good and helpful . Idk why my local shop is saying I can go as low as .08 on my tug box ....????? R they dumb ? Serious question whT do u think ? I feel like their trying to kill me and the one guy even showed me his own it was .09 on his setup on one box . They were telling me do a 5 wrap on 20 gauge kanthal on my box
You surely can. A 4-battery mod will be large and heavy, but it will work just fine. Hhhmmm... if I were going to do it, I think I'd go for a parallel-series box, to make 8.4v at 40 amps maximums. You're going to want to make it an electro-mech, that is switch it with quad parallel mosfets (or dual parallel if it's the series-parallel box I mentioned). It's still gonna be pretty insane to build that low, though. That's just a quiet whisper from a hard short. You really, really don't want to go there, I promise you.
Rather than dumb, more like ignorant and lazy. It is entirely possible they simply don't know how close they come to disaster with foolish builds like that. And I have to tell you, getting a good mech build is really more art than science. You have to build and build and build again until you get one where you want it, because with a mech the watts applied to the coil are controlled by the coil build. It's the only thing you can do to influence what the mod is doing, and it is very finicky. That's why regulated mods are so much easier and more versatile to work with. You can build just about any old thing and just *tell* the machine what watts to put on it. This doesn't work on a mech. You have to tweak it. In fact, you're more likely to get your best clouds if you stay away from maximum low builds because of the voltage drop issue. Not super high either, it still takes low builds for a lot of watts on a mech. What I am saying is there's a point of diminishing returns. Once you get so low, going lower increases danger a lot and cloud not much at all because you wast the extra watts trying to heat the wire instead of the juice. Honestly, I get solid good cloud-- not contest winners, but good-- at .5-.7 on just one battery. No fancy left handed Clapton monkey zippers, either. Just regular old slick wire coils.
You're right on ramp-up time...a higher gauge thinner wire will fix that problem. At 20g there's just so much wire to get higher ohms that's why it takes so long to heat
It's either ignorance or arrogance.
Again, either ignorance or arrogance. Not understanding Ohm's Law or battery specifications. "I've always done it this way and nothing bad has happened yet."
Your problem with ramp up is you're trying to build too much coil on not enough battery. Get some 30 or 32 ga Kanthal and twist up some .4s or .5s. That will heat very quickly and make more vapor than you can get out of quads on a one battery mod. With a two-battery box... maybe. It's still kinda thin.
