Hello. New to RBA's.

[Hammerjagg]

Hey guys. Just built my second build on my new kayfun lite that I received thurs. Been smoke free ever since. My first build was 1.2 ohm single coil 28g Kanthal. I just built a 2.2 ohm (what I think is an Infinicoil) chimney out of 28g as well. Having some issues dialing in my vamo v5. The build looks good. No shorts. Produces some vapor. But I must not be getting my volts and or watts dialed well enough. Found a chart online. Tried what it suggested. I'm getting good flavor and mediocre vapor. It does take a while to heat up. Is that because of the high resistance? Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Help??

Ps. How do I post a pic of this??

 

[edyle]

Hey guys. Just built my second build on my new kayfun lite that I received thurs. Been smoke free ever since. My first build was 1.2 ohm single coil 28g Kanthal. I just built a 2.2 ohm (what I think is an Infinicoil) chimney out of 28g as well. Having some issues dialing in my vamo v5. The build looks good. No shorts. Produces some vapor. But I must not be getting my volts and or watts dialed well enough. Found a chart online. Tried what it suggested. I'm getting good flavor and mediocre vapor. It does take a while to heat up. Is that because of the high resistance? Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Help??

Ps. How do I post a pic of this??

28 gauge kanthal, 2 ohms (single coil), you need 6 volts.

 

[Hammerjagg]

It's a single coil (16 wraps) split and looped back on itself producing two coils 8 wraps. I thought that made it a dual coil in series. That's what the calculator on steam-engine.org said I would get with 28g Kanthal dual coil series. Seriously it looks just like the crazy 8. Does that make any difference?

 

[Hammerjagg]

Ok 6 volts. That's tasty. Thanks!!!

 

[edyle]

It's a single coil (16 wraps) split and looped back on itself producing two coils 8 wraps. I thought that made it a dual coil in series. That's what the calculator on steam-engine.org said I would get with 28g Kanthal dual coil series. Seriously it looks just like the crazy 8. Does that make any difference?

You could call it a dual coil in series but it's not helpfull to do so, just as calling a 10 wrap coil a .... deca-coil consisting of 10 1 wrap coils.

The usefullness of making 2 8 wrap coils in series instead of 1 big 16 wrap coil is in the wicking;; when a coil is too long, the center part of the coil dries out faster than the sides, so splitting it into 2 and putting 2 wicks helps with the wicking.

 

[daleron]

Congratulations and welcome to ECF, make yourself at home




You'll have to get a few more posts under your belt before you can post pictures

 

[Hammerjagg]

Oh ok. Thank you! That's fair enough I suppose.