Can I burn coils with Variable Wattage?

[Katya]

Hmmm, cool! To summarize:

1. If I'm vaping with a single coil, then the VW reading is accurate, and generally shouldn't be set higher than 8-9 unless I'm using a RBA since those can feed in liquid faster to prevent burning.
2. The VW setting is misleading when vaping dual coils, since it splits the wattage between the two. So if I want to achieve 8W, I need to set my device to 16W to do this.
a. So if I'm setting the wattage/voltage on a 2.0 ohm dual coil, I can use the 4.0 ohm row on the voltage chart. Is that correct?
3. When in doubt, start low and work my way up whether I'm going VV or VW.

Again, thanks a ton for showing the patience to bear with me!

You got it! except for (a). Not quite sure what you mean there. I think you're correct, if you mean that you use the higher reading to calculate the wattage you want. Or choose a voltage--you base it on 4Ω, not two.

Having said that, this is just theory. In real life, dual coils perform well on slightly lower wattages (voltages) than single coil atties of the same resistance because of increased vapor production. In your example above, you don't really need 16 watts. As we said, start low and work your way up as needed. You'll figure it out in no time. Don't overthink it--just find the setting you like and go by that. It doesn't need to be complicated--but it helps to know how things work. I think.

That's how I look at this: if you're vaping a 2Ω dual coil atty, you're really vaping two 4Ω atties attached to the same battery at the same time.

 

[Thrasher]

wait wait wait

wattage is wattage power is power, the mod does not care if you have 1,2,4 or even 8 coils.

it has no way of knowing what your using or doing.

all it cares about is the resistance at the 510 of the atomized when you screw it in.

if your using a dual coil rated for 2 ohms the atty sees 2 ohms and tries to deliver the power you set to the atty.

it is up to the user to understand the power is split evenly (up to a point) between all the coils. a dual coil running at 10 watts is getting 5 watts per coil. and the vapor may be weaker then if you ran a single at the same setting (5watts) but the two coils release twice the vapor to make up for the lower setting

if you run a single coil the 1 coil gets the full 10 watts and will be blazing hot.

the only reason you would get more vapor is because there are two seperate wicks releasing vapor. the example is correct at low wattage you may achieve more vapor from a dual coil but run that dual coil as hot as the single and it will double the vapor output.

prebuilt coils are hitting a limit as to how high they can go without burning or dryhitting, so they are now trying dual coils to increase vapor while still being able to use low power

 

[Katya]

wait wait wait

wattage is wattage power is power, the mod does not care if you have 1,2,4 or even 8 coils.

it has no way of knowing what your using or doing.

all it cares about is the resistance at the 510 of the atomized when you screw it in.

if your using a dual coil rated for 2 ohms the atty sees 2 ohms and tries to deliver the power you set to the atty.

it is up to the user to understand the power is split evenly (up to a point) between all the coils. a dual coil running at 10 watts is getting 5 watts per coil. and the vapor may be weaker then if you ran a single at the same setting (5watts) but the two coils release twice the vapor to make up for the lower setting

if you run a single coil the 1 coil gets the full 10 watts and will be blazing hot.

the only reason you would get more vapor is because there are two seperate wicks releasing vapor. the example is correct at low wattage you may achieve more vapor from a dual coil but run that dual coil as hot as the single and it will double the vapor output.

prebuilt coils are hitting a limit as to how high they can go without burning or dryhitting, so they are now trying dual coils to increase vapor while still being able to use low power

Correct. We have already established that:

Right. Your battery doesn't know that it's dealing with two 4Ω coils--it reads 2Ω (the resistance of your atty) and sets the voltage to 4 volts and change to achieve the 10.5W reading...

That's why with DCCs you have to run your smart battery in the voltage mode and do the math in your head... A lot of folks think they vape at 10 and 12 watts using dual coils because that's what the battery reads--but that's not accurate. The wattage mode works correctly ONLY with single coil atties.

And the OP understands that:

Hmmm, cool! To summarize:

1. If I'm vaping with a single coil, then the VW reading is accurate, and generally shouldn't be set higher than 8-9 unless I'm using a RBA since those can feed in liquid faster to prevent burning.
2. The VW setting is misleading when vaping dual coils, since it splits the wattage between the two. So if I want to achieve 8W, I need to set my device to 16W to do this.
a. So if I'm setting the wattage/voltage on a 2.0 ohm dual coil, I can use the 4.0 ohm row on the voltage chart. Is that correct?
3. When in doubt, start low and work my way up whether I'm going VV or VW.

Again, thanks a ton for showing the patience to bear with me!

Wattage is power.

KISS