Is kanthal ribbon worth it?

[pdib]

I tried to buy some of this stuff yesterday, and they asked me what I intended to use it for. Well, I told them. They refused to sell it to me!!!!



So I went out to my car and shut my door on my arm a good coupla times. Went back in, and, when they asked, I just showed them the bloody pulp that used to be my arm .. . . . . .. . They sold it to me! SCORE!

 

[Jeremy Evans]

Here, now, before you even ask, allow me to borrow this photo from Super_X. It's this stuff.

I looked everywhere at CVS yesterday and couldnt find the "super .....in wickin" edition rolled cotton. SMH, I was so dissappointed

 

[Jeremy Evans]

I have some ribbon wire at home .8 and .5, but to be honest I don't really like it at all, not on any wick material SS, cotton or ekowool. It's just a PITA and even when setup it's not that great, much better results with standard wire

 

[Butters78]

I'll probably skip trying it for now and focus on trying Ekowool heh.

 

[icyice]

To the Op:

I think it really depends on what type of build you're going for, if you want to use micro coils then I believe your better off using a small ga kanthal. However if you're going for sub ohm builds then it can be a vapor filled wonderful vape, assuming you have the patience to work with the ribbon wire.

I'm currently vaping on a 0.4 dual coil ribbon wire on my k1, with 2 wraps on each coil, and I'm getting fat clouds and wonderful vapor on my Igo-W!

 

[BigLebowski]

Silica doesn't do so good with a micro coil (he said again). Cotton is the bomb in them.

I couldn't imagine using it on an RBA, seems like it would go up in one juiceless puff. I guess as long as you don't let it get that far.

 

[Butters78]

Just loaded up a microcoil and I have no desire to try ribbon atm. Not until I try gennies.

 

[Vedra]

To the Op:

I think it really depends on what type of build you're going for, if you want to use micro coils then I believe your better off using a small ga kanthal. However if you're going for sub ohm builds then it can be a vapor filled wonderful vape, assuming you have the patience to work with the ribbon wire.

I'm currently vaping on a 0.4 dual coil ribbon wire on my k1, with 2 wraps on each coil, and I'm getting fat clouds and wonderful vapor on my Igo-W!

Getting straight to the point, ribbon seems to work best on sub ohm rigs, IMHO because of an increase in surface area. I'm currently vaping a "microcoil" ribbon at about 1.1 ohms, and it works okay, but nowhere near as well as a 2 ohm 30 gauge micro coil. In the the micro vs sub war, my vote goes to microcoils. I'm a fan of efficiency, and seriously annoyed by unnecessary risk. Maybe I'm just old, but overall, I get comparable vape from less power. As always, ymmv.

 

[Jeremy Evans]

Just loaded up a microcoil and I have no desire to try ribbon atm. Not until I try gennies.

I dont even like it in my gennies, lol

 

[SuperDave68]

I am running .5 kanthal ribbon 4/5 wrap, .125 dia (1.8 ohm) in a AGA T2 on a SS rope/cotton hybrid wick with great results. can't compare it to round wire though, when i got the aga after the provided mystery wire popped i went straight to ribbon to try and eliminate hot spot issues with the mesh wick, then scrapped the mesh and went to cotton.

 

[calisun]

I recently got .8 ribbon K with dual coil setup on RDA and wow, I noticed big improvement on favor and NIC delivery.
I have it setup at .8ohms(I do not like .5 or below). But this may differ person to person. I personally love ribbon wire. It also made some of my juice really sweet. Need to add some plane VG and PG to tone flavor and NIC down.

 

[Mitey F]

Perhaps I'm just better at wrapping coils with regular kanthal round... but I find that standard round 26 works better for me than ribbon. And it's easier to wrap.

Every once in a while when I need to wrap a new coil, I'll bust out the ribbon. I usually get about 2-3 days into a ribbon coil and trash it, and go back to regular wire.

I wrapped a ribbon coil earlier today, and am currently vaping on it. It leaves me yearning for 26 round...

 

[Thrasher]

i like it a lot for drippers, vapes stronger, and stays clean longer, dryburns clean faster. but like others i have so much round wire i wont go out of my way for more until it gets a little cheaper.