Apollo E-cig contest/giveaway thread!!

[liblue1]

Morning liblue. Sounds like you got it all going on.

Morning Marina....yes it's a good day.....all's wonderful on the Reliant side of things.........

 

[jseah]

I got so spoiled with the precoils.....LOVE THEM....I bought 100 subohm ones, too...redoing the horizontal subohms was eas, just hadn't tried a vertical one yet.next time I'm able to do a fasttechorder, think I may get some more of the stock could just so I have spares on hand.

If you want to try a vertical, go for the lower gauge wire (higher gauge number) with more wraps. You will want a taller coil while you will want a shorter one with a horizontal for it to fit inside the coil body. With the nickel coils I'm using, I use 26 gauge 12 wrap ni200 coils, which gets me to around 0.12-0.13 ohms. I also tried one with a 24 gauge 12 wrap which measures out at 0.11 ohms.

 

[Marina2]

I started building my Aspire Triton with vertical coils instead of horizontal because of @jseah. It works so much better.

Good, then I'm not the only one bugging him about this.
Thing is, I want to get away from tanks and was wondering if the verticals are worth the trouble in a dripper.

 

[redrebel821]

If you want to try a vertical, go for the lower gauge wire (higher gauge number) with more wraps. You will want a taller coil while you will want a shorter one with a horizontal for it to fit inside the coil body. With the nickel coils I'm using, I use 26 gauge 12 wrap ni200 coils, which gets me to around 0.12-0.13 ohms. I also tried one with a 24 gauge 12 wrap which measures out at 0.11 ohms.

I got the .6 nichromes....and I have some 26ga kanthal around, too

 

[mekakeisei]

I have standard silver, black, neon green, neon yellow and the shiny 'metal' tape. Whatcha need?

Hmmm.... still no wiener...

I think this contest is broken. Anybody got duct tape?

 

[Marina2]

I have standard silver, black, neon green, neon yellow and the shiny 'metal' tape. Whatcha need?

lol, I thought you were talking wire til I got to the tape part.

 

[jseah]

I got the .6 nichromes....and I have some 26ga kanthal around, too

If you use 26 gauge kanthal and do a 3 mm diameter coil with 12 wraps (you want to do a spaced coil so you don't need to worry about hot spots) that will get you around 1.6 ohms. Of course if you're winding it yourself, it will be larger than the machine wound ones I'm using since the spacing will most likely be larger, so you might even be able to get away with using a 10 or even 8 wrap coil.

 

[Kprthevapr]

If you use 26 gauge kanthal and do a 3 mm diameter coil with 12 wraps (you want to do a spaced coil so you don't need to worry about hot spots) that will get you around 1.6 ohms. Of course if you're winding it yourself, it will be larger than the machine wound ones I'm using since the spacing will most likely be larger, so you might even be able to get away with using a 10 or even 8 wrap coil.

I do parallel 26g 5 wraps dual coil 2.5mm comes out to .26-.30
You should try that on your Tug! Not spaced.

 

[KatzWh1skers]

Morning Everyone!
Busy day with furnace repair person coming and phone calls..
I am really enjoying the heplful hints on coil building...I haven't yet built any..yet..., but I am putting all this good info in my "Coil Building" notebook for when I do

 

[jseah]

I do parallel 26g 5 wraps dual coil 2.5mm comes out to .26-.30
You should try that on your Tug! Not spaced.
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First I would need to get some kanthal wire. Then I would need to get a coiling jig. I had one, but then I got frustrated with winding coils so I had PIF'ed it to Utsuru.

 

[redrebel821]

If you use 26 gauge kanthal and do a 3 mm diameter coil with 12 wraps (you want to do a spaced coil so you don't need to worry about hot spots) that will get you around 1.6 ohms. Of course if you're winding it yourself, it will be larger than the machine wound ones I'm using since the spacing will most likely be larger, so you might even be able to get away with using a 10 or even 8 wrap coil.

Just replaced a vertical with a .6 switched to vertical wrap. Popped it in a base, still reads at .6..... GO, ME!!!!!

 

[jseah]

Just replaced a vertical with a .6 switched to vertical wrap. Popped it in a base, still reads at .6..... GO, ME!!!!!

With the prewound nickel coils I bought from Fasttech, the legs are just long enough so when I set up the vertical coil and put it into one of the Atlantis-style coils, the negative leg is exactly long enough to fit inside the coil body without needing to be trimmed. I only need to trim the positive leg.

 

[redrebel821]

Lol...I'm gonna tackle Kanger first....

 

[redrebel821]

Yep, I can figure the Kangers, I have 4 of tHose tanks....1 Phazer which came with enough coils so I don't need to worry about figuring those out just yet, and have the generic tank that uses Atlantis coils, but I got a few of those on hand, too. I should be set for awhile....lol...and have titanium wire in my FT cart for next time I can order!

 

[redrebel821]

lol, I thought you were talking wire til I got to the tape part.

I have tie dye tape...guess we better start fixin' here until @a_rey88 picks one of y'all!!!!

 

[Marina2]

I have Hello Kitty tape.

 

[redrebel821]

Lets ask which color they prefer.....

 

[anjelvape77]

Just replaced a vertical with a .6 switched to vertical wrap. Popped it in a base, still reads at .6..... GO, ME!!!!!

 

[redrebel821]

I haven't shorted anything or blown anything up yet...lmaooooo

 

[anjelvape77]

I haven't shorted anything or blown anything up yet...lmaooooo

both very good things!