why would the smoke shop sell wire that is non conductive? I am pretty sure the continuity is good. How can my wire have a short in it? I'm arguing that the multimeter isn't going to tell me something that I dont already know. My device is either not reading it from below threshold resistance or the resistance is that low. How can I increase the resistance of my coil? and thicker guages cause more or less? and the larger the guage the smaller diameter, correct?
What specifically is it that leads to a lot of trouble helping newbs who have no experience to understand what is "happening"
What specifically do you mean by happening? I hope people don't judge me and want me to die because I smoke and they think im stupid. Einstein smoked, and he was a genius!
from Oceanside
Ok, Let me put my two cents worth.
Atomizers have both positive and negative connectors in them. for the coil to produce heat, it needs to flow from the positive to the negative lead. If your atomizer has three posts, that means that two of them are the negative and one is the positive. If it has more, you might want to check which is which. Also note, that the body of the atomizer itself is considered the negative. If any of the coil touches any part of the atomizer, it "shorts" the coil out and will end up with a lower resistance than what some VV/VW devices can handle. In such cases, a display of "low ohms, error, or just 0" might occur. Since the vv/vw device is designed to protect itself, it will simply not fire and produce some sort of error code.
Now, that being said, the thickness of the wire matters as well. The thicker the wire, the more electricity it will allow to go from the positive to the negative leads. If you have too thick of wire, it will allow too much electricity, and not have enough resistance, resulting in the error code I mentioned earlier. If your wire is too thin, it will produce too much resistance and no vapor. Your best shot is to have an ohms meter. An ohms meter will just give you a reading on the resistance and it does not have error codes built in, it just simply tells you the resistance of what you have wired. That can be a handy tool in troubleshooting what is going wrong.
Also, keep in mind, not every type of wire will work. special heating wire is used to create the vapor (kanthal or nichrome). Unlike a non resistant wire (like copper) These provide some resistance to the electricity and turn it into heat. some mods require a mix of resistance and non resistant wire. They use the non resistant wire to get the electricity to the heating wire. Those are usually called NR-R-NR wires (no resistance - resistance - no resistance). Those wires can produce an accurate resistance since the length of the heating coil is a set ammount. The user can cut as little or as much as the non resistance wires and the coil will still remain the same resistance, since it's in the middle.
I hope this helps. Even though you may already know some of this, there may have been something you were missing. I hope this sheds some light on the subject.
forgot to add... The center posts are capture devices that work similar to a vice. you unscrew the screws, insert the wire into the holes, and then screw the screws down to capture the wire. some people use the screw heads to capture, but I highly advise against it, since it can seat the coil too high and touch part of the atomizer and short it.
