How many watts does my mod have to be to fire a 1.2 ohm coil?

[Senator42]

I ordered new coils for my kanger geni. I selected 1.2 ohm, because Zamplebox's highest nic level is 18, and I usually vape 36mg. I figure, less ohmage, more vapor, more nic. My istick's max wattage is 15w, if I remember correctly?

 

[Xaiver]

If you're talking about the standard iStick, it should go up to 20 watts, within reason. It also has an amp limit built in, that can drop that number. (I just pushed mine up as far as it would go, and that was 18.9W, with a 1.5ohm coil.

This particular device will fire down to 1.0 ohm, so you should be fine there.

The math doesn't really work that way though. Less ohms and more volts are roughly the same concept. Watts is the temperature that the coil gets to...Sort of like a light bulb. A 100 watt bulb is brighter than a 65 watt bulb, right? That's exactly how your e-cig works. (Which would make sense, since an incandescent bulb is basically a heating coil)

Keep in mind that the thickness of your juice and the temperature of your vape will change how it tastes. The same juice at 8 watts will not taste the same at 15 or even 10 watts. Similar maybe, not the same.

 

[steved5600]

Depends on the coil. Most repairables can't handle higher wattage with the exception of Dual coils models and even they have a relatively low wattage (below 30 watts). The coils in Repariables will fry pretty easy thin wire and not that great wick material with the exception of the Atlantis and the Kanger Subtank. In the case of rebuildables the thinker the wire the higher the wattage they can take IMO. I am able to go higher on my RBA's when I need clouds and RDA's are the best at that so far.