i have been rebuilding for a month but..

[ricobrody91turtlepower]

hello everyone. I have been into rebuildables for about a month now and I cannot seem to get the dense vapor one should get from building your own coils. I use from 28, 30, and 32 gauge kanthal. I build silica wrapped wicks and i do micro coils. Ohms range from .5 to .9 and i still cannot get the vapor.. i get more vapor from my aspire bdc and my protank 2. i made sure my coils aren't touching metal, that they are evenly spaced, that the airholes line up with coils, my battery is freshly charged (vtc5 sony), and that the coils burn from inside towards the outside. to me i believe that the coils are not as intense as it should be, in the sense of heat level. i watch youtube videos constantly and do exactly as the experienced people be do. i do not do any complex builds like diamond coils or twisting my kanthal, just plain and simple coil builds so i shouldn't find anything wrong with them, other than that my coils do not "pop" as hard as i see others. i do not get a lot or even dense vapor, help me please. has anyone has this problem? i really enjoy building coils but this is pretty frustrating. the mechanical mod im using is smoktech magneto, nimbus clone, and a steam turbine. any help advice will do thank you.

 

[steved5600]

picks would help. Going sub ohm is not a guarantee of lots of vapor. Two factors juice flow and will the battery handle it. Is the battery you using high enough current to be doing sub ohm. Assuming 4.2 volts and .6 ohms your doing 29 watts at 7 amps. Hopefully you not using a kick as it will not do that. Please supply a pic if you can.

 

[Xaiver]

I have this happen now and again too. I don't do sub-ohm coils though, and I typically avoid micro coils. My coils are usually around 1.3-1.9 ohms, and I run my ProVari between 3.7 and 4.3 volts, typically. I frequently get those giant clouds, but I've found that it depends a lot on the wicking material. A bad wick can ruin your whole build.

When I use a cotton wick, it manages to keep itself wet without flooding, and doesn't dry out too much.
When I use a standard silica wick, it drys out too fast for me and burns, not much of a cloud.
German Silica is the one that I prefer. It's a bit looser and the wick will seem like it's unraveling when you're working with it, but it wicks very quickly.

Honestly though, the biggest clouds I've had was from a cotton ball threaded through a small coil. Not a micro coil, I don't like nudging the wires around after they're in place. I also use NiChrome wire, no torching, and it doesn't wrap super tight like Kanthal can. The cotton seemed to gunk up on me a lot faster though. I would get about a day out of it before the flavor flattened out and I had to replace it.