DNA250 TC Mode - Uses Less Watts for Same Vape. Puzzled?

[niczgreat]

I set my Reuleaux dna 250 .13 Ohm Dual Claptons build at 435'F and 50 Watts. As I'm vaping in TC Mode I've been watching the screen and it shows the watts that I'm vaping at around 22.5w to 27W.

I'm finding the vape at 435'C using TC Mode to be equivalent to around 42 Watts in Watts Mode.

So is it all in my imagination or is TC able to provide the same vape using less watts?
Or is my DNA250 not showing accurate Wattage?
Puzzled?

 

[Eskie]

In wattage mode, the board keeps pumping however many of watts you set into the tank. In TC it alters the wattage to maintain the temp chosen. What you're seeing is the equivalent of boiling water. It takes a fair amount of heat to reach boiling. Once boiling, it requires less energy to keep it boiling.

Same thing here. The coil hits 435F with 50W quickly, then the wattage is reduced to simply maintain the 435F, rather than continue to heat the coil more and more, and so less power is required through the draw..

 

[Flavored]

I set my Reuleaux DNA 250 .13 Ohm Dual Claptons build at 435'F and 50 Watts. As I'm vaping in TC Mode I've been watching the screen and it shows the watts that I'm vaping at around 22.5w to 27W.

I'm finding the vape at 435'C using TC Mode to be equivalent to around 42 Watts in Watts Mode.

So is it all in my imagination or is TC able to provide the same vape using less watts?
Or is my DNA250 not showing accurate Wattage?
Puzzled?

42W into dual claptons will take some time for the coils to reach whatever temperature they'll go to, that is a lot of metal to warm up. If you didn't tinker with the pre-heat setting in Escribe for TC, it's likely "smacking" the coil with more watts to get it to the 435F rather quickly, then tailing off to the 22-27 to keep it there. My DNA 200's were set to use 100W for preheat. If you consider a hard warm up with less sustained watts vs a slower warm up but more watts, I can see those being "similar" to your taste. Hold that 42W longer, it'll begin to be different.