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Hello everyone, I'm Melanie and I'm the new girl on the block! I've been vaping a little over 3 yrs and I'm currently wanting to learn how to build my own coils! I'm open to any advice! Hit me with everything you can!
Either you scared her away or she's doing her due diligence. I'm glad you and @Baditude took the time to give her some info. When someone asks that question I usually run to another thread. When I think of everything involved and what I went through to learn how to build it's an overwhelming question, indeed. Or maybe I don't want to be responsible for someone singeing the tip of their nose, lol. And that gives me an idea. Maybe I can pitch in with some safety guidelines?If you don't mind answering a few questions, it'll give us a better idea of where to start.
Tip #1: Steam Engine is your friend. It'll help you plan your builds. Tell it your wire, ID (inside diameter) and wraps, and it'll tell you what the resistance should be as well as giving an indication of whether it's likely to work well.
- What tank will you be using, or are you looking for suggestions there too? If so, what are you using now and what are you looking for in a rebuildable?
- Regulated or mech?
- What sort of resistance do you like vaping at?
- Do you have any building kit (wire, coil jig, things like that) yet?
- Do you plan to use temperature control (TC)?
Burnt your nose? I’m ridiculously nearsighted and even I have to have something about 4 inches away from my face before I can focus on it at allEither you scared her away or she's doing her due diligence. I'm glad you and @Baditude took the time to give her some info. When someone asks that question I usually run to another thread. When I think of everything involved and what I went through to learn how to build it's an overwhelming question, indeed. Or maybe I don't want to be responsible for someone singeing the tip of their nose, lol. And that gives me an idea. Maybe I can pitch in with some safety guidelines?
Burnt your nose? I’m ridiculously nearsighted and even I have to have something about 4 inches away from my face before I can focus on it at all
This makes no sense to me. Wasn’t the coil screwed in already?@MelanieS I thought I might contribute some safety tips. I never thought I would make this mistake but it happened. I was squeezing a contact coil working out the hotspots. I didn't own a pair of ceramic tweezers yet so I fired, released the button and squeezed. Somehow I got a brain fart and did the opposite. I fired up the coil while squeezing with metal tweezers. That coil shot off the deck so fast I didn't even see where it went. Point is, it could have hit my eye. Luckily, I was wearing jeweler's goggles but it also could have hit my face or worse, flown in my mouth.
Get yourself ceramic tweezers and/or wear eye protection (at least when you're starting out). Just snipping wire causes the pieces to fly about if you don't hold them down.
Actually, I was thinking more of a battery failure or something. I have to wear jeweler's goggles most of the time now. Especially on micro coils and tiny decks.Burnt your nose? I’m ridiculously nearsighted and even I have to have something about 4 inches away from my face before I can focus on it at all
Actually, I was thinking more of a battery failure or something. I have to wear jeweler's goggles most of the time now. Especially on micro coils and tiny decks.
Yesss......I created a short when I touched the coil with metal tweezers and powered it up. Same reason why your coil shouldn't make contact with the deck or chamber, etc. You know how people say to make sure you clean out any metal burrs? They could cause a short as well if they work their way to the "wrong places".This makes no sense to me. Wasn’t the coil screwed in already?
We're talking about building, not premade drop-in coil heads that you screw into the atomizer. Is that what your question refers to?Wasn’t the coil screwed in already?
Maybe someone here can give you a more technical answer but, no, a short doesn't cause the coil to melt but the power of the short is enough to blast it off the posts. It just snapped off it's legs and flew like the speed of light, lol. It literally disappeared before my eyes. I would do it again on video for a visual example but I don't own a welder's helmet, lol. Better yet, a suit of armor! I was very startled by the experience and never made that mistake again. I just don't use metal tweezers, period.Right, but how did the coil become unattached to the posts, did it melt?
You take some wire, you wrap it around something round, and you screw one end to each end of a battery. It’s not hard.
bombastinator said:You take some wire, you wrap it around something round, and you screw one end to each end of a battery. It’s not hard.
@bombastinator , I think you are over simplifying things. The skills required to wrap a coil can be easily learned with experience and practice over time, sure. But learning the math and science of Ohm's Law to vape safely can be more difficult to understand, but are critical just the same. We, or at least I do, see this all the time on the forum. Some folks just have a real difficult time understanding the relationship between a certain number of wraps and the resultant measurement of coil resistance. Understanding how "coil mass" affects ramp up time. Understanding what an "amp draw" of a coil is, or how to choose the right battery for the coil resistance used. How different wire types and wire gauges affect coil resistance. Etc, ect. That's the hard part.What? She might take you literally. This isn't something just anyone should be doing.
@bombastinator , you are over simplifying things. The skills required to wrap a coil can be easily learned with experience and practice over time, sure. But learning the math and science of Ohm's Law to vape safely can be more difficult to understand, but are critical just the same. We, or at least I do, see this all the time on the forum. Some folks just have a real difficult time understanding the relationship between a certain number of wraps and the resultant measurement of coil resistance. Understanding how "coil mass" affects ramp up time. Understanding what an "amp draw" is, or how to choose the right battery for the coil resistance used. How different wire gauges affect coil resistance. Etc, ect. That's the hard part.
Once the science concepts are learned and understood, then all that remains to be learned is the skills required to wrap a wire. That's the easy part.
If someone can't understand how Ohm's Law calculations work, then they probably should not be building coils.