I'm only about a year in to my vaping experience, and have only tried a few different builds. For the past few months I've been building a 6 wrap .24g kanthal on a 2mm bit. I do a dual coil setup on my PlumeVeil and it ohms in around 0.27ohm. Great flavor and vapor production as well as a nice production of heat, in my opinion of limited experience. Anyone have any other builds they'd recommend?
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I used to do a 5 wrap twisted .24 on a 2mm bit and it was awesome on my Patriot, however on the Plume it just wasnt the same so I stopped messing with the twisted. I might have to give it a shot tonight though. I'm out of .24 and in great need of a rebuild so I think I'm going to twist up the rest of the .26 I have at home, and suggestions as to wraps and bit size?
I am absolutely in love with staged heating coil builds. Right now I am doing a twisted within a clapton following a guide by Twisted Messes.
It's beautiful, it has great surface area for holding juice, and the staged heating makes for a fantastic vape.
Here is a pic (not my build, from Kent Hill):
It's beautiful, it has great surface area for holding juice, and the staged heating makes for a fantastic vape.
Here is a pic (not my build, from Kent Hill):
I think that would depend on what kind of ohms you're wanting.
You running a mech? Regulated box?
Do you like high watts, or keeping it pretty standard for 4.2v?
Im new to the forum thought id chime in. My favorite builds are single strand 20g 5wrap duals generally using gplat haywire. Other than that i like fused claptons using 24gx2/32g 5 wraps around 3mm on both.
Essentially you have two wires in parallel, one with lower resistance (or less mass) than the other. So they heat up unevenly, one heating up before the other. This helps cancel out the ramp up time of the larger wire builds. You want coils with maximum surface area (true for both cloud size and flavor quality), but more surface area means more wire which means more resistance and thus slower heating. The lower mass coil helps assist in heating up the larger mass coil with all that surface area for tons of vapor.
That's the basic idea for the function, but I also just really love their aesthetics.
I'm running a mech mod, my normal build ohms in at .27 and I love it so I'm looking for something around there that gives good flavor, cloud, and heat.
The staged heating coil I build is at 0.26
I agree, that's a great sweet spot.Here is a video of the build by Kent Hill:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzxaTKO_Clo
Ive built quite a few clapton coils, including staged builds such as twisted within a clapton. Its nice and gives a warm pleasant vape but I consistently keep coming back to zipper coils. I primarily use 24 or 28 g kanthal. I usually have dual zipper coils in my plume veil 1.5, running anywhere between 0.19-0.23Ω. I like claptons (really liked the stovetop clapton), dont get me wrong, I just find myself enjoying the flavor preservation of a zipper coil. The channels created really allow the flavor to just pop off the coils... Ill definitely puff on a clapton coil all day long np but just dont ask me to undo my zipper 
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The staged heating coil I build is at 0.26
Here is a video of the build by Kent Hill:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzxaTKO_Clo
I'm at work so I can't see the video, what would you recommend I build with .26g to hit that sweet spot?
If you're on a mech, I'd probably end up sticking with 2mm I.D. I've found when I go bigger, I generally need a little bit more consistent power to heat them up. Maybe something to do with the amount of wick and juice helping cool the coil.
8 wraps of twisted 26g around 2mm will get you about .27ohms for a dual build. Might give that a shot. Heats up fast, loads of vapor, but it's a little cool as far as temp goes. Might get more flavor from non twisted 26. You'd need more wraps, which will help the surface area.
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Awesome, appreciate the breakdown.
I knew the principle behind how they worked (or thought I did, and you helped confirm that
) but had no idea what kind of effect that had on the vape quality.I have some more experimenting to do.
im having a good time with twisted 28/32G kanthal.
good flavor, good ramp up time, and seems to handle higher watts better than a single strand coil without all the dry hits
good flavor, good ramp up time, and seems to handle higher watts better than a single strand coil without all the dry hits
My favourite build would be .24 gauge at ten to twelve wraps around a 3mm rod. Makes a huge coil that's very slow to heat up. But it slowly builds up heat until it's very hot. I enjoy the large wire and slow ramp up time with 4-8 second long pulls
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