Let me start this post off with my intent. I do not attend or participate with these competitions on who can blow the biggest / most dense cloud. I don't think they are bad, I just choose not to make it into a competition. If someone uses an ego / with a vivi nova and they stay off analogs, I am happy for them. With me, I need that dense vape to stay off analogs. The sub-ohm rebuildable users actually make up a small section of the vaping community as a whole. Safety, difficulty, and consistency all need to be balanced, and is not easy to achieve with all vapors. There are tons of posts for mods, and vapor devices. There is not a lot of threads on the advanced setups. Cloud chasing often refers to competition, and extreme vaping. I don't want to encourage competition, or taking safety risks of 0.05 ohm setups. I would like to discuss and share information on achieving large volume, high density vapor. I am no expert, nor will ever claim to know everything about vaping, I will just write what I have experienced. That being said here are some basics I have come to understand.
The more surface contact the coils have with the wick, the more vapor that can be produced. The more air that can contact the coils, the more vapor can be delivered by the device. The less air resistance achieved, the less vapor is lost. I have found these 3 fundamentals are the base of any coil build. You can have the best / most expensive hardware, and have a low watt cartomizer outperform it. You can spend $20 on a mech mod, and $10 on a RDA and blow dense clouds. There are tons of posts on what mods are best, and what RDA's are best, so I wont bring any of that up. Lets talk builds.
My cookie cutter build right now is a cotton wick dual coil 24 gauge 6-7 wrap around a 3mm, 1/8 in bit. It clocks in around 0.35 ohms. I tend to keep my batteries topped off and recharge them around 3.8 to 4 volts. 28 gauge was to brittle to work with, haven't done 22 gauge cause I didn't want to go lower on the ohms. Thinking about trying the 26 gauge, but everyone keeps saying 24 is the gauge is the best to stick with. I have tried 5-6 wrap, and is a little hot. 7-8 wrap is a little slow response time. Tried 2.4 mm, 3/32 in build as well as 2mm, 5/64 in build. I found wicking was an issue as well as loss of flavor, but the 3mm build takes up a lot of space. I am considering trying a quad coil build, so I may try the 26 gauge with a 7-8 or 8-9 wrap and would love to try 4mm, 5/32 in. That takes up a lot of room and will cut off a lot of airflow. I have a 26650 mod with a 28.5 mm RDA on order, so the airflow then wont be an issue, plus going from 30 amps to 50 amps makes me a lot more comfortable trying a quad coil setup with a 24-26 gauge wire.
Quick word about juice. Its all preference. I started vaping the standard 50/50 PG/VG blend. Even with wide open airflow I would get a lot of spitting, but a very hard throat hit. My first experience with 100% VG wasn't great. It had an odd taste and I didn't get that throat hit like I used to. I tried a couple higher than 90% vg mixes, Ruthless and Endless Clouds brand and it was better. Then I learned / tried Heather's Heavenly Vapes purity line that was 100% pure VG. Been my all day vape ever since and buy the 100ml bottles. Tried going back to 50/50 blend and had a very hard time vaping it. I guess you could say once you go 100% VG you never go back. At least for me.
That's what I got. Would love to hear others preferences. I would like to increase vapor density / volume without going to a hot vape.
The more surface contact the coils have with the wick, the more vapor that can be produced. The more air that can contact the coils, the more vapor can be delivered by the device. The less air resistance achieved, the less vapor is lost. I have found these 3 fundamentals are the base of any coil build. You can have the best / most expensive hardware, and have a low watt cartomizer outperform it. You can spend $20 on a mech mod, and $10 on a RDA and blow dense clouds. There are tons of posts on what mods are best, and what RDA's are best, so I wont bring any of that up. Lets talk builds.
My cookie cutter build right now is a cotton wick dual coil 24 gauge 6-7 wrap around a 3mm, 1/8 in bit. It clocks in around 0.35 ohms. I tend to keep my batteries topped off and recharge them around 3.8 to 4 volts. 28 gauge was to brittle to work with, haven't done 22 gauge cause I didn't want to go lower on the ohms. Thinking about trying the 26 gauge, but everyone keeps saying 24 is the gauge is the best to stick with. I have tried 5-6 wrap, and is a little hot. 7-8 wrap is a little slow response time. Tried 2.4 mm, 3/32 in build as well as 2mm, 5/64 in build. I found wicking was an issue as well as loss of flavor, but the 3mm build takes up a lot of space. I am considering trying a quad coil build, so I may try the 26 gauge with a 7-8 or 8-9 wrap and would love to try 4mm, 5/32 in. That takes up a lot of room and will cut off a lot of airflow. I have a 26650 mod with a 28.5 mm RDA on order, so the airflow then wont be an issue, plus going from 30 amps to 50 amps makes me a lot more comfortable trying a quad coil setup with a 24-26 gauge wire.
Quick word about juice. Its all preference. I started vaping the standard 50/50 PG/VG blend. Even with wide open airflow I would get a lot of spitting, but a very hard throat hit. My first experience with 100% VG wasn't great. It had an odd taste and I didn't get that throat hit like I used to. I tried a couple higher than 90% vg mixes, Ruthless and Endless Clouds brand and it was better. Then I learned / tried Heather's Heavenly Vapes purity line that was 100% pure VG. Been my all day vape ever since and buy the 100ml bottles. Tried going back to 50/50 blend and had a very hard time vaping it. I guess you could say once you go 100% VG you never go back. At least for me.
That's what I got. Would love to hear others preferences. I would like to increase vapor density / volume without going to a hot vape.
i need more money so the hubby will let me get a new mod :vape:
