I am currently using a 26 guage single cool parallel with cotton on a Mephisto on top of a Maraxus. I used my friend's Akuma for a little bit, same battery, same arty, same build but for some reason I got way more flavor on his mech than on mine. I'm confused as to why it was like that, is there a way to lessen my voltage drop on my maraxus?
How does voltage drop effect flavor?
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Clean everything well, but some mods are just better due to better manufacturing and better materials. Your biggest problem though is usually the switch especially if you have a spring or a spring holding the battery....springs are bad in mechs as they will give voltage drop every time.
That makes sense. He has a magnetic switch and I have a strong spring to combat the hot button.
While I do agree with most of this I feel the need to add a bit about spring returned switches. A spring returned switch only causes voltage drop if the spring becomes the conductive path, with many poorly machined switches they are indeed completely doomed with a spring switch because the spring adds a crapload of internal resistance when it becomes the path the current takes. Their are outliers however, mods with spring returned switches that do not have that same voltage drop because the conductive path does not go through the spring. The Authentic SMPL mod comes to mind, it is a spring returned switch but suffers from none of the common spring issues because the switch was designed with a very large surface area for the current to pass through, I've been running all three of mine at .15 ohms for over a month and even with seemingly constant daily use the switches have only gotten better over time and I've never ever had even a warm button. There are still good spring switches out there!
The reality is that voltage drop has ZERO effect on flavor or vapor production. What it does have an effect on is the efficiency of your mod/atty build, how much power is wasted travelling to the heads and battery life.
Sure you can go nuts cleaning your mod, polishing it, doing everything you can to get the voltage drop as low as possible. I just can't be bothered with going to far beyond basic maintenance. If I've got a mod with voltage drop a little higher than the others? I'll take a wrap or two out to compensate or up the wire size and I'll get the kind of vape I'm after every time once I'm familiar with a mod.
The only gain to eliminating voltage drop is battery life.
Sure you can go nuts cleaning your mod, polishing it, doing everything you can to get the voltage drop as low as possible. I just can't be bothered with going to far beyond basic maintenance. If I've got a mod with voltage drop a little higher than the others? I'll take a wrap or two out to compensate or up the wire size and I'll get the kind of vape I'm after every time once I'm familiar with a mod.
The only gain to eliminating voltage drop is battery life.
I'll just add that a clean/efficient mod (with very low overall voltage drop) takes less time to produce x amount of vapor than when it's dirty/oxidized, which is how it saves battery life. A dirty mod gets less voltage across the coil = less heat. I know that when my Akuma parts are freshly cleaned/polished, I can typically produce the same amount of vapor in half the time it took before cleaning it. This translates to more flavor if you're pulling for the same amount of time (before vs after cleaning) just because it's more dense.
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