Cotton or Silica?

[mxrdrver]

What wicks better in a kayfun? Cotton or Silica? How many wraps? What gauge wire?


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[keonee]

Can't help you with the kayfun but this thread is great for how many wraps/kanthal wire = ohms

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/reos-mods/446263-micro-coils-ohms-description.html

Good Luck to You.

 

[classwife]

Moved to Rebuildable Atomizer Systems from General E-Smoking Discussion

 

[State O' Flux]

What wicks better in a Kayfun? Cotton or Silica? How many wraps? What gauge wire?

>I've used both, and prefer cotton in a KF type atty. A simple wick, about 1" long, through a coil wrapped so that it's at the 10/4 clock position... it should be rolled so that the wick pulls through the coil with a light drag.
>Most folks end up at around 1.2Ω+/-0.4Ω with a KF or Russian. You may need to go deep sub-ohm with some juices, but most taste fine at the resistance I've listed.
>Although I've used everything from 24 to 30 gauge - I use 27 & 28 gauge wire more often than not... depends on what resistance I need.
>If you click on my sig line, it will lead you to a coil build calculator that obsoletes most all spreadsheets and lists... other than to tell you what others are using.

 

[mxrdrver]

I tried the whole micro coil thing and didn't like it. 10-12 wraps with 28 gauge were metering out to about 1.4 ohms. I wasn't getting enough of a "hit." I was also having a problem with dry hits when I took my resistance down to .67ish. Seemed like the cotton couldn't keep up with my vaping style. I just wrapped a 6/7 28 gauge coil around a 5/64" drill bit. It ohmed out to 0.9. Hopefully that'll work for me.


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[Butters80]

I've used both in my kafun type toppers. I prefer cotton. The important thing is to boil your cotton in distilled water and to rinse the cotton after boil with distilled water. IMO it makes a huge difference in flavor.

 

[ian91]

I only use cotton. Make my wicks with a 1/16 screw driver with 6 wraps using AW30. Comes out from 1.6-1.8ohms. Light on the cotton thru the wick. I put additional cotton on the bottom of the base to pick up any extra liquid making sure that the extra is against the wick.

 

[deezdrama]

Hands down cotton, i didnt think anyone still used silica

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[WattWick]

Mesh. Cotton in a KFL is sooo 2013

 

[m1c4d0]

+1 for Cotton

 

[tobarger]

If you click on my sig line, it will lead you to a coil build calculator that obsoletes most all spreadsheets and lists

I can not get that calculator to work at all
It just doesn't even update when I change the wire material or metric to imperial units
Looks interesting though
Bookmarked it any way, hopefully it will work for me in the future
Using Windows XP with Internet Explorer 8