So I have had coils built for me 3 times by different shops. I always tell them that I have 2000mah batteries with 10 amp max. They say cool and never check the resistance of the build. Since I have purchased 28 gauge kanthal and am building my own based on the method that they have built them before. I did what i am guessing is 4 wraps and I got close to 1 ohm. (I'm using my multimeter and subtracting the .3 ohms I get when touching the leads together) I didn't like this set up because it seemed like I had to draw forever to get the vapor I wanted. I went back and built it with 1 less wrap and seems like its down in the .3 ohm range. I built another with 3 folds of silica and still .3 ohms. Should I try building with the 32 gauge that I have? I want to be at .5 ohms, I am hoping that is the sweet spot. By the way, I am not a fan of building a micro coil at this point. I had a guy build me dual micros and while it did hit nicely, it busted one of the coils in about 6 hours of use and I'm not ready for all that work.
Building Dual Coils On Trident
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seems like your ohm meter is lacking umph to properly give you a 0 ohm read with the leads... low cost units do that quite often and rarely do users in the normal realm of ohm reading need to get to less than 1 ohm accuracy from there meter since most resistors are at 10% accuracy anyway. Best bet... get one of the ohm readers from fasttech made for low ohm applications. no need to spend more than say 15$ for it too many out there at that price and lower...
Also you may want to look into getting a some better batteries. I'd suggest AW 1600 mAh, they are 30A. .3 Is definitely dangerous and over the batteries threshold. You want to stay 20% under AMP limit, just for safety.
The AW IMR 18650s 1600mAh are rated at 24A, not 30A. Please be sure your advice on batteries is accurate. I'm only calling this out as it's a safety issue. Even better for the OPs use case is the fact that the 1600mAh has a C rating of 15.
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http://lygte-info.dk/review/batteries2012/AW IMR 18650 1600mAh (Red) UK.html
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