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If not kept up and we add more power, as we're apt to do when vapor output drops (bad habit)
Hah! One of the reasons I no longer use regulated mods is to avoid this temptation, even with rayon...
 

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Hah! One of the reasons I no longer use regulated mods is to avoid this temptation, even with rayon...

Well to my consternation too often these days it's difficult trying to explain the simple beauty and safety of using or building for mech's. I teach folks to aim for the amp limit with a 20% safety factor, with t.m.c.'s which are inherently cool (high vaporization efficiency) ample and uniform thermal distribution across the wick/coil. IOW, that's the max they're going to push the design. With a variable you center that 3.7-4.2V delivery around the sweet spot. But nothing stops us from pushing it and hard. You're right. And people are used to it given the crappy performance of altogether too many production coils.

This weekend I had three converts to Nextel/t.m.c. Two offered me cash on the spot for the comp builds I was holding. Ros honestly, I've struggled to avoid using well built contacts in high performance gear. I've really labored as you're aware on the simple straight-wire fundamentals. But dang if what most everyone insist they want is big vapor and high density once they see it and taste it. Most of us closet trick vapers subliminally craving the right gear and still air.

It does at least give me the reassuring hope that given this immutable truth about our vaping nature we shall remain pod-less (given our own devices, lol).

We're more like dolphins than we know it seems. We do enjoy blowing our vapor bubbles.

Good luck. :)
 

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Well to my consternation too often these days it's difficult trying to explain the simple beauty and safety of using or building for mech's. I teach folks to aim for the amp limit with a 20% safety factor, with t.m.c.'s which are inherently cool (high vaporization efficiency) ample and uniform thermal distribution across the wick/coil. IOW, that's the max they're going to push the design. With a variable you center that 3.7-4.2V delivery around the sweet spot. But nothing stops us from pushing it and hard. You're right. And people are used to it given the crappy performance of altogether too many production coils.

This weekend I had three converts to Nextel/t.m.c. Two offered me cash on the spot for the comp builds I was holding. Ros honestly, I've struggled to avoid using well built contacts in high performance gear. I've really labored as you're aware on the simple straight-wire fundamentals. But dang if what most everyone insist they want is big vapor and high density once they see it and taste it. Most of us closet trick vapers subliminally craving the right gear and still air.

It does at least give me the reassuring hope that given this immutable truth about our vaping nature we shall remain pod-less (given our own devices, lol).

We're more like dolphins than we know it seems. We do enjoy blowing our vapor bubbles.

Good luck. :)
Bah. I'm not into cloudz or trix. I just wanna vape my nicotine in peace. What I run most of the time is 7 wraps of 3x30 twisted @ 2mm ID for about 0.75 ohms. My 20A batteries and silver contacts barely notice this.

FWIW, I've taken to doing a dry-burn and re-wick every two weeks whether it's needed or not. :D
 

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Bah. I'm not into cloudz or trix. I just wanna vape my nicotine in peace. What I run most of the time is 7 wraps of 3x30 twisted @ 2mm ID for about 0.75 ohms. My 20A batteries and silver contacts barely notice this.

FWIW, I've taken to doing a dry-burn and re-wick every two weeks whether it's needed or not. :D

That's a healthy piece of wire there Ros. I gather, stainless?

For comp, I run a couple'a three beaters like a well handled Slice with RxW, VW and TC, with my fav's and a slew of KST's or mini's on IPVD2/3's, Cloupor Mini 50's and assorted high end for various tab's (with cotton, mostly KGD, Muji). Hit hard and chained the cotton sags w/i 2-3days and that's it for me. Too flav sensitive. They've got to be db'd and re-wicked.

On my bangers I db RxW around 4-7 days. A quick rinse'n dab dry, db, vape some VG, 5 min back in op. Keep almost 25% of my collect in rotation and couldn't otherwise w/o RxW and strain. Would just be way too much work. For me to manage that much pelt…get it massaged, manicured and pedicured I'd have'ta call the dog walker to schedule an appointment with the poodle station.

Think 3M's weave is just unique in its ease of use, flavor neutrality and output. For many challenged with more than a few mods or just one or two cycled between recipes the fact that RxW can swiftly transition flavors might be just what gets them over for its simple practicality.

Good luck. :)
 
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