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tayone415

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Ahh. The one in my pics is a stock Zenith V2. I run it wide open, but if you tilt the mod to downward, you can barely see the bottom of the coils through the air holes. The top of them are just above the post level.

I always make sure my coil is the only thing seen through the air holes. I'm not chasing clouds anymore, but I don't have a satisfying vape with smaller clouds, trying to get my ohms back up then maybe I can get more than 2 hits.
 

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It's actually the opposite, the lower the gauge the lower the resistance and the faster it heats up.

ummmm my book sez its the other way around... wire with the same resistance but of different dia will result in the thinner wire heating faster than the thicker wire.
and if you have 3ish" of lets say 30 gauge and 2ish" of 24 gauge ( both having the same resistance in a coil form ) the 30 ga coil will heat up quicker, since the thicker wire has more mass and dia, electron flow is dispersed across a broader face thus decreasing the "electron friction" ( which causes the heating)
 

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ummmm my book sez its the other way around... wire with the same resistance but of different dia will result in the thinner wire heating faster than the thicker wire.
and if you have 3ish" of lets say 30 gauge and 2ish" of 24 gauge ( both having the same resistance in a coil form ) the 30 ga coil will heat up quicker, since the thicker wire has more mass and dia, electron flow is dispersed across a broader face thus decreasing the "electron friction" ( which causes the heating)

Talking about thicker wire trying to have the same resistance as thinner wire for higher ohms yes, the thinner wire would heat up faster since the thicker wire would need more wraps and or a wider diameter. But to get a thinner wire to have an equal resistance of low resistance wire doing low sub ohm builds on a sleeper build like the OP's question is about is a lot different since the the coil builds using thinner wire would take longer to heat up since the build would have to be done differently.

Now for the same exact build using the exact number of wraps on the exact same tool for the same diameter, are you saying that 30 gauge kanthal would heat faster than 24 gauge if both had say 4 wraps on a 1.6 diameter.
 
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