A few questions about Coil Diameter & RM6?

[JetMac]

I've never built coils larger than 5/64, and the one I'm vaping now was built on a 1/16 diameter.


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[JetMac]

Why am I getting less flavor with the smaller diameter coil?

My guess would be maybe less surface area on the smaller coil?

I found that with more surface area and lower ohms, not only do you get more heat you also get more flavor. When I use my rm5 I sometimes build a "single" double parallel coil using 24g kanthal. I'll give it 4 or 5 wraps, looks like either an 8 wrap or 10 wrap coil. Wick it with my rayon, and ohms will be about .2/.3 ohms. I wrap my double parallel around a 5/64. It makes big vapor and tasty flavor. I rarely build dual coils anymore and always utilize both air holes for my long lung hitting style.


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[muzichead]

I completely disagree with you, but to each their own. If you look again, I'm running a single coil and (I should of specified before) I'm using both my air holes in the cap, the other one isn't closed off. I have a ton of air moving thru the cap from all sides of the coil. I do not need to adjust this coil closer to the intake. I'm a lung hitter, started vaping on my rm5 and decided to move to the cyclone w/AFC. I can't MTL so I build single coils and utilize both air holes. It's what works for me, I get plenty of air for my long lung hits and very very good flavor from the twisted 28g .5 ohm coil build.

I guess the most important thing to note here, is experiment and build what works best for you. I only have one mod, and 5 atomizers that I've spent plenty of time experimenting with to find what works for me. I now know what coil to build depending on the atomizer I choose to use that day. As far as basic rules for coil building go, if you building dual coils. Make sure they are as close to identical as possible, same diameter and same amount of wraps. Same height, same distance from posts, etc. I really don't think they need to be squared to the air holes like you did IMO, plus I'd be concerned about a coil or coils touching the cap when it's installed. I've never had an issue with flavor with my coils squared to the posts. I think a majority of people square them to posts before squaring them to air holes. Legs with different lengths attached to pos/neg posts will give you a different reading on an ohm reader, they could induce hot legs as well. Speaking of hot legs, did you check to see if you have hot legs? That could be what's causing your problems also.


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Your correct in that whatever works for you... Everyone is different and gets a different effect from one thing to another. However, it doesn't matter if you have 5 holes in your top cap, if one end of your coil is directly in front of the air supply and the other is 3-5mm further back, the coil will vape inefficiently because the air supply is not the same all the way across the coil... One end of the coil will burn hotter than the other! If you want it to vape efficiently, then you put air over, under, and across it evenly. If the legs on each coil are the same it makes no difference in the reading. If your worried about the coil or coils touching the top cap, then by all means, build it farther away from the cap... I have been building my own coils now for 2+yrs and am very confident in that my coils will not touch the top cap. This is not to say that I've never had a coil touch the top cap, but if you build your atty and test it with the top cap on the atty as well, you will know if it was touching to begin with and the problem would be solved before the atty even makes it onto your device. Where the difference comes in is when the coils are not the same, (ie, one leg longer or shorter from one coil to the other). This will result in a hot leg situation 100% of the time.