Hey all,
I've been in the world of building for about a month now, and I am loving it. I am using drippers, and man does that flavor come through or what. I could hardly taste anything until I started dripping. Anyway, I settled on Sub-ohm builds from the get go. Don't worry, I do my math, use the right batteries, and I haven't blown my hand off yet.
I've been trying to find a good spot to park myself as far as builds go, but I haven't played around enough. At first .40 ohm dual coils with 26 gauge wire was enough....Smooth, creamy, quality vape. Then I wanted more, and more, so I went lower and drilled out my Tugboat airholes to 1/8 inch (99% sure). I really always do dual coil builds, mainly I just like the vapor they produce and the airholes on the tug are set up for it (they come stock at 3/32 size I think). Tried single coil with and without plugging up the opposite air hole and I wasn't impressed, so I went back to duals. The holes on the posts are pretty small, so I haven't messed around with parallel coils yet. Last night, I had a little bit of 24 gauge wire to use, so I wrapped some duals and they came out to a beautiful .2 ohms. I'd never gone that low before and at first was seriously impressed by the vapor production, heat, and flavor (I love a warm to hot vape). After an hour of use...Meh...I was adding a pretty good amount of liquid on each coil and getting maybe 2 hits, MAYBE 3 but the tail end of it would be burnt. The wicks rarely looked dry, and I was using Japanese cotton. I ran it relatively thick because I went with macro's instead of my normal micro coils. I felt like I was adding juice to already thick, saturated wick and was just getting a good burn off the coils and the tops of the wicks. But, I don't know everything about sub-ohming and I have never gone this low. I was using 30A Sony batteries. Pulling around 18.5 amps and then I believe 68 watts. Is this typical of builds in this ohm range? Does wicking need to be configured in a different way than wicking on a .4 ohm build? Went through a whole lot of e-liquid (90/10 VG) last night and was getting burnt hits fast. I had to really juice it up, test fire, and then I would get my 2-3 hits....Albeit I was blowing some decent clouds. Anyway, I am trying to figure out what I was doing wrong. I had good coil to deck space, the wicks were relatively short to allow extra airflow. I just feel like WAY too much juice was needed (unless these types of builds are just hungry like that), and if that's the case I'll juice to my hearts content, just don't want to be wasting juice when I shouldn't be using huge quantities. Any advice or tips? Anyone have any easy-ish builds that would work well in a Tugboat and put out some decent clouds (preferably stuff using 26 gauge kanthal, that is all I have at the moment).
.4 Ohms with dual micros just isn't cutting it anymore. I am seeking a warmer, or hot vape - but also something that works consistently and doesn't need a load of drops every puff. Edit: I realize this is possibly a dumb statement. Hot builds need more juice, from what I gather. If loading on the juice is what I gotta do, I'll do it.
Again, turned a post into a book. I need forum therapy.
Any help appreciated!!
I've been in the world of building for about a month now, and I am loving it. I am using drippers, and man does that flavor come through or what. I could hardly taste anything until I started dripping. Anyway, I settled on Sub-ohm builds from the get go. Don't worry, I do my math, use the right batteries, and I haven't blown my hand off yet.
I've been trying to find a good spot to park myself as far as builds go, but I haven't played around enough. At first .40 ohm dual coils with 26 gauge wire was enough....Smooth, creamy, quality vape. Then I wanted more, and more, so I went lower and drilled out my Tugboat airholes to 1/8 inch (99% sure). I really always do dual coil builds, mainly I just like the vapor they produce and the airholes on the tug are set up for it (they come stock at 3/32 size I think). Tried single coil with and without plugging up the opposite air hole and I wasn't impressed, so I went back to duals. The holes on the posts are pretty small, so I haven't messed around with parallel coils yet. Last night, I had a little bit of 24 gauge wire to use, so I wrapped some duals and they came out to a beautiful .2 ohms. I'd never gone that low before and at first was seriously impressed by the vapor production, heat, and flavor (I love a warm to hot vape). After an hour of use...Meh...I was adding a pretty good amount of liquid on each coil and getting maybe 2 hits, MAYBE 3 but the tail end of it would be burnt. The wicks rarely looked dry, and I was using Japanese cotton. I ran it relatively thick because I went with macro's instead of my normal micro coils. I felt like I was adding juice to already thick, saturated wick and was just getting a good burn off the coils and the tops of the wicks. But, I don't know everything about sub-ohming and I have never gone this low. I was using 30A Sony batteries. Pulling around 18.5 amps and then I believe 68 watts. Is this typical of builds in this ohm range? Does wicking need to be configured in a different way than wicking on a .4 ohm build? Went through a whole lot of e-liquid (90/10 VG) last night and was getting burnt hits fast. I had to really juice it up, test fire, and then I would get my 2-3 hits....Albeit I was blowing some decent clouds. Anyway, I am trying to figure out what I was doing wrong. I had good coil to deck space, the wicks were relatively short to allow extra airflow. I just feel like WAY too much juice was needed (unless these types of builds are just hungry like that), and if that's the case I'll juice to my hearts content, just don't want to be wasting juice when I shouldn't be using huge quantities. Any advice or tips? Anyone have any easy-ish builds that would work well in a Tugboat and put out some decent clouds (preferably stuff using 26 gauge kanthal, that is all I have at the moment).
.4 Ohms with dual micros just isn't cutting it anymore. I am seeking a warmer, or hot vape - but also something that works consistently and doesn't need a load of drops every puff. Edit: I realize this is possibly a dumb statement. Hot builds need more juice, from what I gather. If loading on the juice is what I gotta do, I'll do it.
Again, turned a post into a book. I need forum therapy.
Any help appreciated!!
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