I was going to post this in the sub-ohm forum but, man, that place is a ghost town.
Got my spool of 24AWG Kanthal from Lightning Vapes this morning. Decided to throw a quick dual coil build on my Mutation X. Previous build was a dual coil .3ohm build using 26AWG and it worked great. At ~58W on a freshly charged VTC5 it didn't seem to generate a ton of heat, even when dry burning the coils to compress them.
This morning's build metered at .2ohm (after subtracting lead resistance). My DNA30 also reads it as .2 - won't fire it but it reads it just fine. Anyway, while pulsing the coils on my Workhorse to compress them, I noticed a *lot* of heat from the base of the Mutation. Since this is my first *really* low build, I erred on the side of caution and immediately spun the atty off the mod. There was some heat soaked into the top cap while pulsing but none in the body of the Workhorse or the switch. I pulled the battery and it wasn't even warm.
I assume the massive amount of heat was simply from dry burning at ~88W. Since the rest of the mod and the battery didn't heat up, and the atty's continuity tested good on my DMM, I'm sure I don't have a short. But, with the amount of heat generated so quickly, I wanted to make sure this was normal behavior due to the high wattage. I'm also guessing that once wicked and juiced and getting some airflow, it won't get nearly as hot.
I'm thinking this through correctly?
And, on a related note, I love working with the 24AWG. It is much easier for me to work with than the 26 I had used for all of my previous builds. I have a spool of 28 that I haven't even touched. I guess I'll use the 28 when I try my hand at some twisted builds.
The .2 Mutation build:
Got my spool of 24AWG Kanthal from Lightning Vapes this morning. Decided to throw a quick dual coil build on my Mutation X. Previous build was a dual coil .3ohm build using 26AWG and it worked great. At ~58W on a freshly charged VTC5 it didn't seem to generate a ton of heat, even when dry burning the coils to compress them.
This morning's build metered at .2ohm (after subtracting lead resistance). My DNA30 also reads it as .2 - won't fire it but it reads it just fine. Anyway, while pulsing the coils on my Workhorse to compress them, I noticed a *lot* of heat from the base of the Mutation. Since this is my first *really* low build, I erred on the side of caution and immediately spun the atty off the mod. There was some heat soaked into the top cap while pulsing but none in the body of the Workhorse or the switch. I pulled the battery and it wasn't even warm.
I assume the massive amount of heat was simply from dry burning at ~88W. Since the rest of the mod and the battery didn't heat up, and the atty's continuity tested good on my DMM, I'm sure I don't have a short. But, with the amount of heat generated so quickly, I wanted to make sure this was normal behavior due to the high wattage. I'm also guessing that once wicked and juiced and getting some airflow, it won't get nearly as hot.
I'm thinking this through correctly?
And, on a related note, I love working with the 24AWG. It is much easier for me to work with than the 26 I had used for all of my previous builds. I have a spool of 28 that I haven't even touched. I guess I'll use the 28 when I try my hand at some twisted builds.
The .2 Mutation build:
