I use silica. I use about $6 a year and am not worried about the savings of buy bulk.
Hah! One of the reasons I no longer use regulated mods is to avoid this temptation, even with rayon...
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.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.![]()
Nah, just Kanthal.That's a healthy piece of wire there Ros. I gather, stainless?
x1what I found to be the best is all natural sea sponges harvested from the islands of Hawaii by red headed mermaids during the full moon in August...![]()
what I found to be the best is all natural sea sponges harvested from the islands of Hawaii by red headed mermaids during the full moon in August...![]()