How to get same vapor experience from different coils/tanks

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Muwarrior21

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hey guys pretty new here

My question relates to some of the basic ohms law stuff etc but here goes

I have noticed that in my kanger toptank mini with .5 ohm coil i am in my sweet spot at about 35 watts in wattage mode on my box

I also have a herakles plus tank that has bit lower ohm coils at .4 but i find i have to crank up my wattage to about 50 watts to get similar vapor flavor density and temp etc

Does this make sense and if so is it mostly due to lower resistance needing higer watts to produce similar heating of the coil or is it more to do with coil design / materials that say herakles uses that requires their coils to run at higher wattage. I see the herakles are rated up to 100 and kanger i think is around 60 or 70

I did notice that in wattage mode for both tanks when i get same experience / flavor that the voltage displayed ends up about the same at roughly 4.5????

Is it safe to say that if i had variable voltage these dofferent coils and tanks would then give me similar experience In vapor or am i missing something

Just trying to understand why my herakles requies more wattage output to get the similar end result?

One other question...
Am i correct in saying that lower ohm coils will generally heat up faster or more? ..... But confusing part to me is that some of these thick / heavy gauge wires although low ohm have a lot more material to heat up so in effect do they actually heat slower compared to a thin wire with more resistance but less mass of wire material to heat?

Seems like the herakles although having lower ohm there is more wire and takes more power / wattage to get up to the same vape production that i am getting with the kanger coil?any help would be awesome!!!

Loving grizzly vapes as i start to explore anyone else?????
 

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hey guys pretty new here

My question relates to some of the basic ohms law stuff etc but here goes

I have noticed that in my kanger toptank mini with .5 ohm coil i am in my sweet spot at about 35 watts in wattage mode on my box

I also have a herakles plus tank that has bit lower ohm coils at .4 but i find i have to crank up my wattage to about 50 watts to get similar vapor flavor density and temp etc

Does this make sense and if so is it mostly due to lower resistance needing higer watts to produce similar heating of the coil or is it more to do with coil design / materials that say herakles uses that requires their coils to run at higher wattage. I see the herakles are rated up to 100 and kanger i think is around 60 or 70

I did notice that in wattage mode for both tanks when i get same experience / flavor that the voltage displayed ends up about the same at roughly 4.5????

Is it safe to say that if i had variable voltage these dofferent coils and tanks would then give me similar experience In vapor or am i missing something

Just trying to understand why my herakles requies more wattage output to get the similar end result?

One other question...
Am i correct in saying that lower ohm coils will generally heat up faster or more? ..... But confusing part to me is that some of these thick / heavy gauge wires although low ohm have a lot more material to heat up so in effect do they actually heat slower compared to a thin wire with more resistance but less mass of wire material to heat?

Seems like the herakles although having lower ohm there is more wire and takes more power / wattage to get up to the same vape production that i am getting with the kanger coil?any help would be awesome!!!

Loving grizzly vapes as i start to explore anyone else?????

It will never be the same, until you start building ur own coils


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You also have to consider other things such as airflow, chimney diameter, deck size, prebuilt coil size, etc etc.

[edit] Assuming an RTA. Each tank has different characteristics, some are airier some have a tighter draw, some have a looser draw, some heat up quicker, some heat up slower. So its almost impossible to get the exact same vape (assuming same build) from 2 different tanks (tanks can be similar but IMO not exactly the same).

For DIY coils you have 3 main variables to consider.

1. Material (nickel, nicrhome, titanium, kanthal, ss, etc)
2. Surface Area (wire gauge, twisted, claptons, fused claptons, etc) + how many wraps)
3. Inner Diameter
 
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