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Papa_Lazarou

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Honestly, undecided! But as it's easier (for me) to wrap a micro that's "neat" I'll probably do another one next...

I'd agree that micros are easier for me at this point (not a ton of practice with the spaced) and I'd do that with cotton. Currently running RxW, though, and I find the spaced coils perform better with it.

Running 2mm RxW, so the ID of the coil is ~1/16".
 

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I only use spaced with ni200 that's not dry burned and lately even with ni200 I'm heating them up to even them out and still using non spaced micros. running one right now in my c3. I really like spaced in my c2 though, it brings the coils closer to the air inlets. both can be good it's just another variable :)
 

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I only use spaced with ni200 that's not dry burned and lately even with ni200 I'm heating them up to even them out and still using non spaced micros. running one right now in my c3. I really like spaced in my c2 though, it brings the coils closer to the air inlets. both can be good it's just another variable :)

How are you liking the whole Ni200 scene, turbo? I know you're prolly running it on one of your custom DNA40 mods.

There are threads, looooong ones, discussing the pros and cons, but I'd appreciate your top level thoughts. Good? Bad? PITA?
 

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How are you liking the whole Ni200 scene, turbo? I know you're prolly running it on one of your custom DNA40 mods.

There are threads, looooong ones, discussing the pros and cons, but I'd appreciate your top level thoughts. Good? Bad? PITA?

Not like you asked me but I freaking hate nickel. It's such a pain in the acc to work with that stuff. On the other side you can have both a dna 30 (40) with kanthal or the temp mode with nickel and you have step down. So as long as you get one of evolv's good chips I don't really see a downside to the 40 as you have all options plus step down which I really enjoy.
 

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How are you liking the whole Ni200 scene, turbo? I know you're prolly running it on one of your custom DNA40 mods.

There are threads, looooong ones, discussing the pros and cons, but I'd appreciate your top level thoughts. Good? Bad? PITA?


I like it, I'm still kind of playing with it, I only have done a handful of builds with it but I use it every day side by side a dna30 feeder but different atties and setups, and I think it's pretty cool how instead of burning up a wick it just puts out less and less vapor, then when the wick is re saturated it jumps right back to pumping out the vapor. I haven't really had too much issues working with the Ni wire, mainly just using 28ga. I can get great vapor and flavor with no adverse effects and have a built in rev limiter, no more popping the wick prematurely. I think you give up a slight bit of "edge" that a kanthal build gives but I think it's a worthwhile trade off for the idiot proof protection it gives. an example is sometimes I notice vapor production being down and it not hitting well and then I realize my bottle is very low so I need to squonk harder to fill the chamber... I squonk it hard and bam, instant rich flavorful cloud. on a 30 you'd instead start to notice burning tastes as you wick scorched by being too dry.

I just set up my 2 feeders with 2 chalices both similar coils same juice but one Ni and one kanthal for a little side by side comparison so I'll see what I think side by side next few days but so far stand alone it's really cool but the edge is not quite as much, kathal throws vapor continuously with or without airflow, ni tapers down so on a longish soft draw kathal pumps more vapor and flavor than Ni. if I had to sum it up in one thought kanthal is like a razor Ni is like a butter knife
 
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I only dryburn for tight contact coils had a few contacts that didn't perform well and read very low resistance until dryburned. that's where it becomes necessary because contact Ni will have uneven spots until dryburned, so it's either compressed and dry burned or spread coils never out of temp control. again I'm still playing so it'll take a while before I have a solid opinion and a favorite setup... when I dryburn it I then wash it and flush it with water and scrub it a little to wash away that white haze it emits when it is dryburned... not to thrilled to see that but I don't think it continues this oxide production as it's in use while vaping so I don't know really, right now I'm running a compressed, next one I'll try spread and no dryburn again
 

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Believe or not...haven't had a chance to coil it yet. :facepalm: My husband did a face plant on our door leading out to the garage so been playing house nurse. Gonna do it first thing in the AM.

I love the C3 so much I would have left him there and went to build the chalice haha. Hope he's alright and that you find time to build the lil beast today.
 

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I love the C3 so much I would have left him there and went to build the chalice haha. Hope he's alright and that you find time to build the lil beast today.

LMAO! No kidding. His head put about a 3" dent into the steel door! UGH. Good thing he has a big, thick skull. And had to be at work early today so have to wait till I get home. This is killin me
 
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