Okay so I've been a hardcore rba vaper for a while now, and I've not been unaware of it either. I'll admit that I've also been a bit annoyed from time to time by all the dripper fans going endlessly on about their drippers. Lots of you people flood the site with pro-drip propaganda. Well at some point I figured 300,000 dripper fanatics can't all be wrong, so I risked a few bucks on a dripper, a cheap one so I wouldn't be out much, and tried it out.
To begin with I was not much impressed. I did a 3 wrap coil on each side of my IGO-W, 32 kanthal on 2mm silica for .75 ohm, and well... it was... okay....but there had to be something more all these dripping fanatics were going on about. So I fussed with it more, trying this and that, different wraps and ohms, yadda yadda yadda... and then I tried something I'd seen on here and YT and everywhere else.
Okay, this is where it's at. I took one of my 5/64 drill bits, wrapped it 12 times each coil with 28 kanthal, held the the coils in a pair of hemos, torched them good until they stayed put, hooked them up to the IGO-W, tested them out at .94 ohm, put some silica through them and went at it. Pretty fracking good vapor and flavor, I have to say. The ohms are bit high for my liking, so I'm about to do a pair of 10 wrap coils and see if I can't get the ohms down to .8 where I like my RBA's and see how that works.
For sitting here in the morning with my coffee, this rig will do just fine, and it's pretty flippin good flavor, I now have to admit. This is my very first set of microcoils, and they are a bit sloppy this time, but I'll get better at it pretty fast.
To begin with I was not much impressed. I did a 3 wrap coil on each side of my IGO-W, 32 kanthal on 2mm silica for .75 ohm, and well... it was... okay....but there had to be something more all these dripping fanatics were going on about. So I fussed with it more, trying this and that, different wraps and ohms, yadda yadda yadda... and then I tried something I'd seen on here and YT and everywhere else.
Okay, this is where it's at. I took one of my 5/64 drill bits, wrapped it 12 times each coil with 28 kanthal, held the the coils in a pair of hemos, torched them good until they stayed put, hooked them up to the IGO-W, tested them out at .94 ohm, put some silica through them and went at it. Pretty fracking good vapor and flavor, I have to say. The ohms are bit high for my liking, so I'm about to do a pair of 10 wrap coils and see if I can't get the ohms down to .8 where I like my RBA's and see how that works.
For sitting here in the morning with my coffee, this rig will do just fine, and it's pretty flippin good flavor, I now have to admit. This is my very first set of microcoils, and they are a bit sloppy this time, but I'll get better at it pretty fast.
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