Battry power vs coild builds - not just the obvious rules

[sahsah]

I think your absolutely right. I was at 3mm size wraps. Just not enough power with this AW battery. I tried running this rda at 2 coils last night of 28g, 5 wraps at 3mm running at .6ohms. It had horrible vapor production and was quite harsh. Not burnt, but harsh. It was very heavy on the lungs. Not sure what that means. Maybe my air flow wasn't lined up, or the wicking was bad.

i can't say for sure because until I see a picture I'm just speculating based on your description, but that being said, you sound like you're on the right track in terms of what could be the problem. Especially because of your description of weak vapor and really harsh throat hit, my first step in improving it's performance would be to make sure the airflow isn't misaligned and that means it has to be in the right place on a horizontal plane and a vertical one. Often people overlook the height of the coils and just make sure that it's in front of the airflow, but if it's not raised up high enough the airflow won't be hitting the coil and will definitely produce less that satisfying vapor as well as flavor. Hope that helps. Keep us posted on if you resolved the issues or if you run into any other questions. Good luck. Ps it don't want to repeat myself, but a photo or two would really aid us in assisting you. =] stay safe! happy vaping

 

[sahsah]

another thing to consider when observing that your coils dont glow so quickly is the conductivity of your mod and the atty itself. mods and attys with SS pos pins are less conductive than attys with brass/copper/silver or gold plated pins. less conductivity = less power to the coils. modding the atty is possible but there are lots of attys that come with a copper pos pin stock. same goes for mods. lots of mods are made of pure copper but in leiu of purchasing a new mod, you can mod your mod with copper foil tape to increase conductivity. this is assuming of course that your mod and atty are not made of highly conductive material and if they are, my apologies. im simply offering another facet/possible solution to your issue. and id also like to stress what vapdivvr brought up above. please be careful and do your research.

I'm pretty sure that's not the issue. Most if not all of even the cheapest mods and clones are still functional enough to provide a more than adequate Vape. Mods that are not performing well, when compared to higher end devices and the voltage drop that is expected at that price point, usually comes down to a difference of .5 volts or less. So realistically, I think that should be way way way down on the list of possible causes for the unsatisfactory nature of his Vape. In all likelihood, it comes down to user error and should therefore be a fairly simple fix once we pinpoint the source of the problem.