I stick 50watt "Low Power"

[Dalton Randall]

I have had my istick 50 watt for a few weeks now and I've have gotten a low power sign on the screen a few times but that happened when I was making dual parrell coils for it and one coil ran at .2 and so did the other

I was just wondering if the low power happens because it doesn't have enough volts of watts to run could at that low of ohms or why does it do that

Also the battery was fully charged and didn't do it for any other coils I built for it

 

[juggler86]

If youre running each coil at .2 that equals .1 which the istick camt fire

 

[UnSneaky]

you need to make 1 parallel coil .4 ohms when you make them dual it will cut to .2 ohms

 

[Cloudmann]

Agreed. You were trying to fire the device below its resistance tolerance and you triggered the low ohm safety cutoff. It did exactly what it was designed to do.

 

[TheotherSteveS]

you need to make 1 parallel coil .4 ohms when you make them dual it will cut to .2 ohms

You mean one coil at 0.4 right. What you mean by parallel??

 

[Rickajho]

With a 0.2 ohm build you are trying to draw nearly 90 watts from a 50 watt device. Thus the obvious.

 

[bwh79]

You mean one coil at 0.4 right. What you mean by parallel??

Means when you make parallel or dual coils (two different words for the same thing; "parallel" refers not to their physical orientation but rather to how the two coils are connected electrically, the other option being "series"), you need to make each one 0.4 so that, when combined, the net ("total") resistance is 0.2, since resistors wired in parallel don't add, but divide.

 

[juggler86]

Means when you make parallel or dual coils (two different words for the same thing; "parallel" refers not to their physical orientation but rather to how the two coils are connected electrically, the other option being "series"), you need to make each one 0.4 so that, when combined, the net ("total") resistance is 0.2, since resistors wired in parallel don't add, but divide.

Jesus stop. What your saying makes no sense at all. Parallel and Series is how batteries are wired not how coils "connect electrically"

A parallel coil is when you wrap a single coil with 2 strands or more of wire

 

[Dalton Randall]

Thanks I thought that was the reason I just didn't know for sure

 

[bwh79]

Jesus stop. What your saying makes no sense at all. Parallel and Series is how batteries are wired not how coils "connect electrically"

It's how any electrical components (including resistors, which is all our "coils" really are from an electrical perspective) are wired, not just batteries.

A parallel coil is when you wrap a single coil with 2 strands or more of wire

Electrically, there is really no difference between this, what you're calling a "parallel coil" (try not to be too jealous of my mad MS-Paint skillz; I'm just illustrating a point, not a textbook):

... and this, which is "two coils wired in parallel":

...both are a "parallel" circuit, and the total resistance is found by the formula:
R_t = 1 / ((1/R₁) + (1/R₂) + (1/R₃) + [...] + (1/R_n))

...where R_t is the total resistance, and R₁-R_n are the individual resistances of each coil/resistor in the circuit. In the (most common, for our purposes) case of two, identical coils, this can be simplified to:
R_t = R_i/2

...where again, R_t is the total resistance, and R_i is the individual resistance of each of the two (identical) coils. I'm pretty sure that in the post I replied to, when Unsneaky said "you need to make 1 parallel coil .4 ohms when you make them dual it will cut to .2 ohms", they were talking about the second type: "you need to make 1 parallel coil .4 ohms when you make them dual it will cut to .2 ohms" == "you need to make each individual coil in the circuit at .4 ohms so that when you wire them in parallel, it will total .2 ohms."

Now on the other hand, a series dual coil (or, "two coils wired in series") is a different animal entirely, and would look something a bit more like this:

...and in this case, finding the total resistance would simply be a matter of adding up all the individual resistances in the series:
R_t = R₁ + R₂ + R₃ + [...] + R_n

 

[ponderosa]

Just offering an alternative answer here:

Everyone else is almost 100% probably right, but I just wanted to say this: with my istick 50w, every now and then, pretty rarely, I get a low power warning or the device just shuts off, like it's out of battery. I plug in the charger and it immediately comes back on, at full battery again. Then I'm good to go and I can unplug. This doesn't sound like your problem, but just in case it is...