Help RDA problems Tulsa peeps

[Ryedan]

The lower your resistance the more amps you draw from the battery. If you go past what they are rated for they start to heat up. If they get too hot they will vent gas and stuff and that is dangerous. Once that starts there is no way you can stop it.

If you don't have one yet, get yourself a digital multimeter. I paid about $10 for mine from Amazon I think. I would not go under 0.6 ohms with your battery. That will give you some leeway for shorts.

There's a ton of info here. Pay special attention to the parts on batteries.

Here's a video by Super_X_Drifter from ECF. If you make it like he shows in the video it will work. I build mine with a 1/16" I.D. Ten to twelve wraps seems to be about right. I typically make mine at 1.0 ohm. Micro coils don't need the low resistances of bigger coils to perform as well. Leave the tails of your wick longer than he does because you're not using a Reo. Make the wick wet and tuck it onto the deck so it absorbs the juice you drip. Put the air hole in front of the coil. Close off the other air hole if you have two. Epoxy should work well for this, or even tape if you just want to try it first.

Vape safe

 

[dice57]

check out http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...271-micro-coils-increase-vapor-flavor-th.html

since you stated that you were making micro coils you probably familiar with that thread. What are you wrapping your coil with and what are the measured ohms of your build?

and http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...3463-check-out-my-nano-dragon-coil-build.html

the dragon is basically a micro but with a bed of cotton and no wick going down the center. With both style of builds the major trick is finding the right density of cotton for your application, cotton's cheap, play with it, also the placement of your coil set up in relation to the air intake is critical for best vape.

These two threads have taught me much. A great source of info and support.

 

[TwistedLogic]

Just built a dragon with 10 wrap 30g kanthal, producing half the vapor you did. How ahould it set on the bed?

 

[dice57]

I use a vertical build since I have the Russian rba, but on your set up, try coil about even with the air intake, might have to adjust a little up or down to find your preference, having the coil with a slight incline/slant is supposed to help. cotton bed fluffy, not covering ends of coil. It basically a matter of playing with it, to much cotton and you flood the coil, to little and one gets dry hits. As long as your coil is heating up red hot real fast, when you test fire it, you are good to go, then it's a matter of the right cotton density and amount used to wick correctly. Play with that before trying different wraps or diameter wraps. It doesn't really matter what gauge you use, and what ohms it measures. I'm using 28awg Kanthal aiming at 1-1.5ohm builds. That way I can use less volts to vape at 14-15 watts, where I like to vape at with this build. I've used a 1/16" drill bit, a large paper clip, made builds anywhere from 10-16 wraps measuring 1-2.3 ohms, and they all work fine. The main trick is getting your cotton to wick correctly, then to adjust the positioning of the coil for max production and air intake. After you have those 2 areas figured out, then you can focus on fine tuning the coil wraps, gauge and diameter, to produce the desired ohms you want to burn at to maximize your battery life and consistency of quality vape production.

With each build I do, I try one small change to see if it is better or worse, that way I tackle one thing at a time. Now that I have my cotton quotients down, I can make any coil I build to vape really, really good. The rest is just perfecting techniques and fine tuning the build to get the most satisfaction for your application and preferences.