How to get the OHM's I need wrapping my own coil?
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What resistance are you looking for? With 28awg Kanthal, it's going to be hard to get anything over 1.5Ω. You'll need about 7-8 wraps to achieve that. The lower the awg, the thicker the wire and less resistance you'll have. Most folks that buy 28awg are trying to achieve very low resistance coils.
What atty are you using and what ohm's are you trying to achieve?
What atty are you using and what ohm's are you trying to achieve?
I went on ebay and bought 28awg and 30awg. The lower resistance is fine as I do use a lot of 3.7 mods. But I also would like to enjoy my new vv/vw mods as well. I'm taking it 32 is the best then for higher ohms? I've been seeing where most recommend not to go over 32awg. I'm taking it this isn't so?
This is very true. I watched riptippers youtube video on 28awg, and he uses a 7-8 wrap, well on the follow-up video. The first one I think he did a 4-5 rap, and got .7 ohms.
There is a sticky at the top of this forum with a table showing ohms per inch of each type of resistance wire. I'm sure that could help you achieve your desired ohms.
I used some of the 32 gauge that came with my atty. I wrapped it 5/6. I got 3.1 ohms out of it but I'm getting an awful metallic taste out of it. I did oxidize the stainless and made sure I clean cut and burned off the excess fringes. The coils are burning great though. No hot wires. Any thoughts as to what it can be?
That is possible. I may have made the coil just a hair too loose. On the other hand that horrible taste has greatly diminished. Also the wick seems to be wicking just fine. Lucky me considering my first actual working coil. I made the wick then used one size larger of a drill bit to make my coil so all I had to do was slide it over the wick. Went on pretty easily.
It must might be a wicking issue I'm finding. I'm having to keep it tilted to keep the wick wet. The wick is hollow still. Not squished or anything. Should I make it with less mesh or more?
I actually rolled a solid 70mm #400 wick and rolled about a 50mm #400 around a small paperclip. I found that I got more dry hits with the 400 rolled solid compared to the wick with a center hole.
As for #500 I've read the solid wick will wick better, but I'm still waiting to get my #500.. So no experience with that yet.
For the most part, people over analyze all this genesis stuff. If it's not wicking, make sure you have the fill screw out. They just don't wick well with it in (no matter what people tell you). I've used mesh from 325 to 635 in solid and "tube" configurations and I'll be damned if I can tell that one works better then the other. As far as a metallic taste, that is usually from a short or micro short, a loose coil or the top leg going to the positive post being too far from the post. Make sure the top coil is close to the post but not touching, then poke the coils during a dry burn to make sure all the coils not only glow evenly, but heat up at the same pace.
To the OP, if you added a wrap and you're still getting the same resistance then you definitely have a short. Make sure your positive post is isolated and your wick isn't touching it at all.
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