A Beginner that Needs Help

[Zaryk]

Why do these simple questions get so far off track with technicalities so much on these forums? I have friends that I tried to get to be active here but were drove away from these forums because of this issue. Sometimes, less is more. Especially when it comes to simple questions from newer members.

Simple answer (that has been stated already) is you will be good up to 120w with that particular set up. If you find yourself wanting more power, get higher Amp batteries. If your regulated mod fires the coil, you should be fine with that ohm coil.

 

[catilley1092]

Sorry for the confusion, this is all new to me

All of us were once in the same boat.

The more you vape and explore with different e-juices, mods, tanks, etc., the more you'll learn. Battery safety for the need being #1 on the list, as @Badtiude has covered.

Outside of the mechanical mods (I've only had one & that was years ago), most modern electronic ones has more than one type of built in protection. Note that I bolded 'most' above because by accident, inserted the batteries into a cheap Sigelei KAOS mod backwards & upon hitting the fire button there was a bad scorched smell. Took less than 30 seconds to make it to the door & throw into the yard.

My better (Vaporesso & Eleaf) mods won't do this, these won't turn on nor fire if the batteries are inserted incorrectly. For very low ohm vaping, my Vaporesso Polar will read & fire coils that my $10 ohmmeter can't read.

Good Luck!

Cat

 

[EthanO]

@EthanO – may I ask what coils do you plan on using?

Honestly I haven’t ordered any, I’ve just been looking at a bunch of different ones. So that’s my next thing to figure out. Any recommendations?

 

[EthanO]

Once I get everything together I’ll eventually start building, but did right now I just want to figure out what I like. If I do order I’d rather do it from a smaller based builder. I’d rather support someone small than some of the big companies

 

[englishmick]

Once I get everything together I’ll eventually start building, but did right now I just want to figure out what I like. If I do order I’d rather do it from a smaller based builder. I’d rather support someone small than some of the big companies

You would likely get something better from a small builder than a big corporation where they are made by machines or people earning $2 an hour making 15 coils a minute.

As far as figuring out what you like, if I remember correctly you seem to have jumped from a pod to something on the high end powerwise, with really low resistance coils. There's a lot of ground in between. It's a problem these days. So many choices. You might end up liking 1.0 ohm coils in a small tank or whatever, but you would have to try 23 different setups to find that out.

It's fun getting there though. Good luck.

 

[Punk In Drublic]

What @englishmick said (nice post)

It is both easy and difficult to recommend coils. Easy in that I can throw a subjective opinion out there which may or may not work for you. Difficult cause we all have our own preferences, values and even interests. My best advice is to keep an open mind, experiment, gain exposure/experience and have fun.

If you are buying pre-made coils, even from small builders, perhaps do a little window shopping and share what you are interested in for others to give opinions and or experiences with

 

[Tonee N]

Display should read something like, "Ohms too low", "Low atomizer", "Low ohms". A regulated mod won't fire as the protection circuitry has been activated.

Or "grab fire extinguisher"[emoji16]

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[Tonee N]

I bought this whole set up wanting only one thing. Flavor. My pod system and stick wasn’t giving it to me, so I’m not worried about clouds. I just wanted to know if running a low ohm build would hurt anything or if I needed to buy different batteries. And I’m pretty sure I probably won’t be running 100w+

If your main want is flavor and you get into building a single coil @0.35 at 35-45w will give you flavor. You don't always need to run a low ohm build with high watts to get good flavor.
I have a Drop Solo on my Mechman running the build above and have great flavor. Hth

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[DarrenMG]

One thing almost no mods pay attention to is haw they drain the battery. The result is if you pull harder on a battery than it can comfortably give, you get an inaccurate wattage and a damaged battery, and damaged batteries can be bad. This is why people are so worried about counterfeit batteries. They have inaccurate claims about maximum draw, capacity, and wear rate.

This is the part where I remain somewhat paranoid. Both about counterfeit batteries, and that nothing is perfect. There is always the potential for an original battery to be a lemon. Plus I'm more concerned about how a battery behaves at the 20-50% charge range than I am at 100% (which doesn't last long). I still run my regulated mods conservatively, half or less the maximum wattage.

 

[Baditude]

This is the part where I remain somewhat paranoid. Both about counterfeit batteries, and that nothing is perfect. There is always the potential for an original battery to be a lemon. Plus I'm more concerned about how a battery behaves at the 20-50% charge range than I am at 100% (which doesn't last long). I still run my regulated mods conservatively, half or less the maximum wattage.

You are wise to be cautious when using any lithium ion battery. We accept a bit of risk when we choose to use them, whether it be in a vaping battery device, a cordless power tool, or even in a cell phone. There are no "safe" batteries. Practicing safe battery practices, educating ourselves about batteries, and doing our best to obtain authentic name brand batteries decreases those risks.



I have a blog on batteries: Battery Basics for Mods: The Definative Battery Guide for Vaping

Mooch has a blog on batteries: Battery Mooch on ECF


Mooch also has a video series on batteries on his You Tube Channel: You Tube

 

[DarrenMG]

@Baditude - Agree completely with vaping is a means to lower risk as compared with smoking, but there is still risk. Also entirely agree with your blog and one of the key points, be dubious of marketing claims that over-rate their batteries. Uh huh!

 

[Baditude]

@Baditude - Agree completely with vaping is a means to lower risk as compared with smoking, but there is still risk.

Agreed. There's a risk with anything that you do in life. That chicken or head of letuce you bought at the grocery yesterday just might kill you; they could be contaminated with E.coli and you wouldn't know it.

The UK says vaping is 95% safer than smoking. I'll accept that 5% chance that vaping may harm me compared to smoking.

 

[TrollDragon]

The Rincoe MechMan 228W, another company who likes to grossly exaggerate specs...

Anthony's chart.