when winding a coil, what would the number of loops be to get the best vape?..i have a reo grand lp, with the rebuildable reomizer....
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Please buy an ohm meter and look at the Steam Engine calculator. Also, quality batteries are a must. I recommend the Samsung 25r or the lg he2.
This seems as good a place as any to ask this... When building coils, is it necessary to use an ohm meter to check resistance if you have a device that does the job itself?
Hm, depends. Most devices (ie: the IPV3) only read the device attached once you hit the fire button. This kind of defeats the point of reading your ohms BEFORE you fire your device. If you happen to have made some kind of dead-short massively-failing coil, do you really want to leave it up to the Chinese internals to catch that, and hopefully read "low atomizer"? If the failsafes don't work for some reason, you know what's gonna happen, right?
So the answer is yes and no, but if you're using something that needs to be fired before it'll give you the ohms, it's at your own risk. Usually I'll throw fresh builds on my MVP2 after using an ohm reader just to check the ohms a second time, make sure they're not fluctuating now that the device is actually assembled and whatnot.
Its a very good practice to use an ohm meter. Its a good building platform and a better way to detect a short than using a mod. Plus, none of them are perfectly accurate. 2 readings are better than 1.
Yeah, this is definitely the key point here.
Most ohm readers (even the higher-quality USA-made ones) are pretty prone to going wonky after sometime. I have a friend, Humbardy, who has an ohm reader that gives you 2 readings depending on how loose/tight the atty is screwed down. We've found that if you average the lowest/highest numbers, you get a pretty accurate ohm reading.
That said, uh, we don't rely on that ohm reader for our builds/have other methods of testing ohms.
Also, if you have a regular multimeter, you can use that to tell the ohms of your coils as well.
I agree with everyone else's comments. I always use an ohm meter when building my coils. When building your own coils its also wise to familiarize yourself with Ohms law. Ohms = resistance and that is what your looking at when wrapping your own coils. The thing is to be safe. With mechanical devices this is more so than ever because you have no safety features, unlike with a dna or computer controlled device. Know the amp ratings of your batteries and have at least a knowledge of ohms law. Vapers tool box is a good free app if you have a smartphone.
That's why I like the GOD mod - it checks the resistance on the atty when you turn it on and won't fire below a preset point. Even though I still use an ohm's reader when building, it's nice to have that extra layer, jic.
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What Nyiddle said,
The quality of the pins on most ohm readers aren't going to be as solid as the one on your APV, so after a dozen builds or so, it's gonna start wiggling and giving you wonky readings. Even with my wonky ohm reader, I'll always throw my atomizer on that before my APV just in case there is a short. It may not be accurate, but when you see it coming up either 1ohm or something completely screwy, you know that you may have just saved the chip on your mod.
In case anyone was even vaguely concerned, I bought a multimeter today. As a bonus, my provarii and kayfun v4 came today... A day early! On the other hand, now I'm waiting on 28g wire. Does waiting or wanting ever end for the vaper?!?!
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