How to get a cooler vape?

[BiscuitGTR]

I recently into RDAs and is there way to make the vapor cool, less hot. I'm using a single coil at 1.6 ohms on a 26g kanthal cause I can't seem to make a 3ohms coil. Would dual coils make my vape less hot? Also not matter what kinds of different ejuice I try it's always harsh for my throat for the first few puffs i take until I get use to the harshness. I don't want to vape like that, any solutions? I'm using a itaste 134 mini 18500 at 8.5 watts, TOBh atty clone, mt dew juice 40pg/60vg 6mg nicotine from a local shop.
Thanks


twerk team bravo

 

[Midniteoyl]

Use a smaller ga wire, like 30ga and you can easily get it to 2.5 ohms or more. If you tried a dual coil with what you have, you'll just end up at a lower ohms than you are..

 

[happydave]

some options are
lower the volts / watts
Raise the resistance of the coil(s)

Long metal drip tip will help cool the vapor down... example: Stainless Steel Drip Tip A15 - 101 Vape

 

[Despraci]

Increase the wire gauge or add a wrap or two. Make the coil heat up slower and increase surface of the coil. Stay away from nano coils and stay more towards a micro coil. One of my favorite single coil builds for a medium warm vape was 9 wrap micro coil with 28g (single coil) sometime I would do 10 wraps for higher ohm.

 

[Despraci]

some options are
lower the volts / watts
Raise the resistance of the coil(s)

Long metal drip tip will help cool the vapor down... example: Stainless Steel Drip Tip A15 - 101 Vape

Delrin drip tips also help reduce heat transfer.

 

[Shootist]

First off the iTaste 134's use a Pulse Width Modulation control chip. What that means is no matter what wattage or voltage you have it set to it is always pumping out around 6 volts to the coil for a period of time then shuts off then back on. It does this repeatedly to supposedly average out to the wattage/voltage it is set to. What happens is the coil starts to heat rapidly, faster than it would with a flat DC voltage, and can actually get hotter than what it is set for causing you to have a warmer vape.

Set the wattage lower and try that. If the 134 doesn't go below 8.5 watts then your kind of stuck. Even if you raise the ohms of the coil if it can't go below 8.5 watts it will just deliver more average voltage to the coil which could cause you to have even a warmer vape.

I personally try to state away from Mod's that have these PWM chipsets in them. But I do own 2 Vamo's and they do have that style chip. I just run it at a lower voltage than my Provari.

 

[volume control]

Longer drip tip is the best way fme

 

[twgbonehead]

You can also pulse the fire button, rather than holding it on continuously.

 

[DaveP]

An RDA puts you really close to the coil. 8.5 watts close to your lips might just be hotter than you want it to be. More air (increasing the size of the air hole) will help. More coils with smaller wire will heat faster, but at a lower wattage rating. 6 coils of 32ga Kanthal around a 1/16" drill bit will give you about 2 ohms. 9 coil turns might get you to 3 ohms. Somewhere in between is where you might want to be. Wind some turns and measure with an ohm meter using the leg length it will take to attach it to the posts and add or remove coils as necessary until you get the resistance you are looking for. Remove it from the drill bit when measuring, of course and slide it back on to adjust turns.

It's a trial and error operation until you get a feel for how many turns you need.

 

[Weizenheimer]

First off the iTaste 134's use a Pulse Width Modulation control chip. What that means is no matter what wattage or voltage you have it set to it is always pumping out around 6 volts to the coil for a period of time then shuts off then back on. It does this repeatedly to supposedly average out to the wattage/voltage it is set to. What happens is the coil starts to heat rapidly, faster than it would with a flat DC voltage, and can actually get hotter than what it is set for causing you to have a warmer vape.

Set the wattage lower and try that. If the 134 doesn't go below 8.5 watts then your kind of stuck. Even if you raise the ohms of the coil if it can't go below 8.5 watts it will just deliver more average voltage to the coil which could cause you to have even a warmer vape.

I personally try to state away from Mod's that have these PWM chipsets in them. But I do own 2 Vamo's and they do have that style chip. I just run it at a lower voltage than my Provari.

Make sure the air hole is right in front of the coil. Aside from that, I have to wonder if the explanation above isn't the best bet, because right now I am vaping a 1.5 ohm single microcoil with a short metal drip tip with pretty tight airflow (~1.5mm I'd say) at 15 watts, and it isn't hot at all...

 

[Midniteoyl]

Not really 'cause I vape a Origen @ 1.2 ohms on the 1mm air hole @ 6v... Not hot. Avg power is avg power.. Its not like you see the coil go HOT to cold to HOT... Your light bulbs run at 60hz, you dont see them go BRIGHT the dim to BRIGHT, right?

I believe the problem is too thick a wire, taking too long to heat up and thus by the time the juice vaporizes, a lot of latent heat is in the RDA. For the ohmage the OP is wanting, a smaller wire is really needed so it can heat up quickly and vaporize the juice without heating up the rest of the RDA.

8.5w @1.6ohms is only 3.7v.. That'll take awhile to heat up on such a thick wire.

 

[tayone415]

I recently into RDAs and is there way to make the vapor cool, less hot. I'm using a single coil at 1.6 ohms on a 26g kanthal cause I can't seem to make a 3ohms coil. Would dual coils make my vape less hot? Also not matter what kinds of different ejuice I try it's always harsh for my throat for the first few puffs i take until I get use to the harshness. I don't want to vape like that, any solutions? I'm using a itaste 134 mini 18500 at 8.5 watts, TOBh atty clone, mt dew juice 40pg/60vg 6mg nicotine from a local shop.
Thanks


twerk team bravo

First, dual coils will make your vape hotter. There are different ways to make your vapor cooler and less harsh. One is to go with a higher VG blend or all VG, and lower your nic level. The nicotine is what gives you most of the throat hit and is amplified with PG and the higher the PG and nic level the harsher the hit. You could also try a wider bore tip that also stays wider on the bottom, helps cool the vape IMO. Also nic is harsher when it first starts to burn, that's why you may have notice some people blowing vape back out through their air holes the first drag before inhaling. With the TOBH clone you can open up all 3 holes, and make sure your coils are lined up to the holes. If you wanted to do dual coils and stay at 1.6 you'd either need to double the amount of your wraps that you used to get the 1.6 ohm coil since a dual would cut the resistance in half or you could use thinner wire like 28g, it won't heat as fast as 26g. Also make sure your wicking is blocking the air holes and that you aren't using to much wicking material to block airflow.

It's also something to get used to off, I never dripped on a VV/VW mod, but on a mech I started out with a .46-.48 ohms and thought it was way to hot, now I vape between .18-.23 ohms on a dual coil build with a dripper and it doesn't feel hot to me anymore.