Finding the sweet spot

[buildabane]

First of all, I know everything in vaping is subjective. I might love something that the next hates! That's what makes it so much fun, IMO. Just putting up a post because I am now hooked on the Sub-Ohm vaping. I have all my gear, tools, and things to get the math done to make sure that I am subbing as safely as possible. So far, my lowest build has been about 0.34 using dual coil with my Tugboats big airholes and a good battery. I described my first "low" sub-ohm hit as heaven (Using a Tugboat V1 and a Caravela). Loaded up my favorite butterscotch and cinnamon max VG e-juice and let her rip. Instead of "taking a drag" I felt like some sort of pressurized valve was released and my lungs were filled with delicious, dense, warm vapor. Hooked. I've currently just been doing good micro coils in a dual coil setup, since my Tugboat doesn't really do well in single coil mode. I am just posting to get suggestions on new builds. I've done quite a few things..Single coil Parallel, Dual Coil, Sleeper coils (really just a continuous DC)...and so on. What builds do you guys like the most? Single coil? Dual coil? Vertical? I'm searching for ideas! I've been curious about the lack of surface area on dual micros for sub-ohm (they are so damned small). Is it better to run larger coils (I use 26 gauge Kanthal, 24 was just too slow to heat up) for more surface area? I touched down on airflow in a separate thread, so I won't get into it here.

Anyway, just looking for suggestions and new builds to try out. I have been spending all of my free time at my desk building lately, and don't see it stopping any time soon. To those who may or may not contribute, thanks in advance!

 

[eyerhere]

Twisted 28g at 0.5 seems to have found its way to the top of the list for me. Great for adv. Wont be the most impressive cloud but tast is top notch.

 

[kickflipsnnollies]

I was gonna say, some twisted 28g has been serving me well. I don't have a Tugboat, but it's great on all my other atties.

 

[Blackboar]

After trying different coils, using 28, 26, and 24 gauge wire, I've found my favorite vape on mech mod (right now I'm using a Stingray X clone) to be an 8 wrap dual coil using 24 gauge. It's ends up to be 0.30 ohms. Just warm enough, plenty of vapor, and plenty of flavor.

 

[SLIPPY_EEL]

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these are some of the builds i keep going back to, sorry for all the pics and lack of info.. just thought it would be easier

 

[topScoob]

If you like warm/hot vape dual super nano coils will take you to heaven... its a bit too hot for me but I do love how fast they heat up. my current tugboat build is dual parallel 28 gauge macro coils. simple, easy, tons of vape and decent flavor

 

[Dissonance]

My personal favorite is a twisted higher gauge paralleled to a lower gauge. I do twisted 26 paralleled to 24, 4-6 wraps. You get the flavor from the twisted and the vapor from the parallel, it's just a good vape to be had all 'round This one came out to .14Ω

 

[Muero]

I get in and out of sub ohm phases tbh. But I generally have trouble with super fancy setups as displayed in these photos. I stick to dual coils between 28g and 24g depending on whatever I get/bum from people. The lowest I've built is .3 which is what I'm running now. dual coil 24g. It runs a little hot for my tastes.

 

[SLIPPY_EEL]

I get in and out of sub ohm phases tbh. But I generally have trouble with super fancy setups as displayed in these photos. I stick to dual coils between 28g and 24g depending on whatever I get/bum from people. The lowest I've built is .3 which is what I'm running now. dual coil 24g. It runs a little hot for my tastes.

when i first started using 26g i was only vaping around the 0.8Ω mark on a mech, i use to look at 26g builds as a Hot vape But as ive slowly gone towards 0.2Ω and used thicker & thicker wire the tides have changed, 26g feels like 30g and cus i'm using more power i need to hold the fire button for much less time which doesnt generate heat in the atty like in my early days when i thought it was a hot vape.
So in actual fact its not the high power setups making your vape hot but the underpowered mods that take to long to heat the oversized wire for that mods power.
Yes you have heat from mods that run at say for argument sake 100w that can be overcome by opening up your airflow and there is another heat that builds up in the atty which takes much longer to disperse.