so... while waiting for my nemesis clone, kayfun lite plus clone, kayfun 3.1 clone (yup, i'm a cheap poor .......), and
nimbus to arrive, i decided to attempt to build my first coil, and share my experience with you fine folk (and to have
step by step documentation of my first try to see where i went wrong if i fail)
i have a cheapo no name mini dripper atty, and when i bought it, the shop tossed in some kanthal wire and wick.
el cheapo dripper (please ignore my ungroomed nails):
i don't like to do things simply. i'm a born tweaker, and since i happen to have a fair amount of electronics experience
(used to fix 'em as a side job) and some experience wrapping coils (wrapping my own speaker coils as well as coils for
other things, like a homemade theremin), i decided to try for a dual coil build. i wanted to do a double barrel microcoil
build for my first, but looking at this rda there's no way to make that happen.
i only have a basic idea of what i'm doing- this is purely experimental, so naturally, *don't use this as a guide*. i
don't even know what gauge wire and wick i'm using, it's whatever the shop gave me. (don't worry, i've got a multimeter. i
have orders of 32 and 30g wire and 2 and 2.5mm silica wick on it's way- but right now i'm just working with what i've got)
wick appears to be 3mm, the wire... who knows.
i happen to be a body piercer, so i decided that 18g needles would be ideal to slide through the wick to give me something
solid to wrap around. i don't like being poked so i shoved the sharp ends into cork.
everything set up:
my goal is 2.4ohms per coil, for a final resistance of 1.2 ohms. my multimeter is cheap, and reads .2 ohms lead to lead,
so i'm looking for a reading of 2.6 each coil. i can't go too low cause i'll be using my mvp 2.0 until my new gear comes.
given that i don't know the gauge of the wire, i'll have experiment to find the right amount of wraps.
so. heated the wire with my trusty bic to make it more pliable and remove any manufacturing process residuals...
shoved the needles through the middle of the wicks... (harder than it sounds when you're a few drinks in):
and got to wrapping. quickly bailed on the idea of wrapping around the wick and decided to wrap wire straight around a 12g
needle instead. quick check of 7 wraps is 1.2... so 1ohm given the baseline of my multimeter. divided by 2 would give me
.5ohm, too low for my mvp. more. 10 wraps reads 1.6... seriously? yup, my mvp reads it as 1.4:
let's try 13... i like that number. 13 reads 2.0 on my multimeter, 1.9 on my my mvp. seriously? talk about using the wrong
gauge wire... 14 is the magic number, reads 2.1 on the mvp. halved, 1.05. dunno if the mvp can fire that low. if it can...
fired at 3.6v in vv mode, 1.05ohms, it'd pull 3.43 amps, just short of the 3.5 max for an mvp 2.0.
one coil, 14 wraps, 2.1 ohms, firing:
apparently i can only post 5 pics per post. so, part two will be the next reply down.
nimbus to arrive, i decided to attempt to build my first coil, and share my experience with you fine folk (and to have
step by step documentation of my first try to see where i went wrong if i fail)
i have a cheapo no name mini dripper atty, and when i bought it, the shop tossed in some kanthal wire and wick.
el cheapo dripper (please ignore my ungroomed nails):
i don't like to do things simply. i'm a born tweaker, and since i happen to have a fair amount of electronics experience
(used to fix 'em as a side job) and some experience wrapping coils (wrapping my own speaker coils as well as coils for
other things, like a homemade theremin), i decided to try for a dual coil build. i wanted to do a double barrel microcoil
build for my first, but looking at this rda there's no way to make that happen.
i only have a basic idea of what i'm doing- this is purely experimental, so naturally, *don't use this as a guide*. i
don't even know what gauge wire and wick i'm using, it's whatever the shop gave me. (don't worry, i've got a multimeter. i
have orders of 32 and 30g wire and 2 and 2.5mm silica wick on it's way- but right now i'm just working with what i've got)
wick appears to be 3mm, the wire... who knows.
i happen to be a body piercer, so i decided that 18g needles would be ideal to slide through the wick to give me something
solid to wrap around. i don't like being poked so i shoved the sharp ends into cork.
everything set up:
my goal is 2.4ohms per coil, for a final resistance of 1.2 ohms. my multimeter is cheap, and reads .2 ohms lead to lead,
so i'm looking for a reading of 2.6 each coil. i can't go too low cause i'll be using my mvp 2.0 until my new gear comes.
given that i don't know the gauge of the wire, i'll have experiment to find the right amount of wraps.
so. heated the wire with my trusty bic to make it more pliable and remove any manufacturing process residuals...
shoved the needles through the middle of the wicks... (harder than it sounds when you're a few drinks in):
and got to wrapping. quickly bailed on the idea of wrapping around the wick and decided to wrap wire straight around a 12g
needle instead. quick check of 7 wraps is 1.2... so 1ohm given the baseline of my multimeter. divided by 2 would give me
.5ohm, too low for my mvp. more. 10 wraps reads 1.6... seriously? yup, my mvp reads it as 1.4:
let's try 13... i like that number. 13 reads 2.0 on my multimeter, 1.9 on my my mvp. seriously? talk about using the wrong
gauge wire... 14 is the magic number, reads 2.1 on the mvp. halved, 1.05. dunno if the mvp can fire that low. if it can...
fired at 3.6v in vv mode, 1.05ohms, it'd pull 3.43 amps, just short of the 3.5 max for an mvp 2.0.
one coil, 14 wraps, 2.1 ohms, firing:
apparently i can only post 5 pics per post. so, part two will be the next reply down.
