Is there huge difference between ribbon and regular coil wire ?!?

[flexsr]

Hey family,

I don't stay up with the trends at all much like I use. Been using regular 26 gauge or 28 gauge single coils for my mods. I mainly use a bottom feeder mod. Does the added surface area of ribbon wires make a noticeable wow difference for the better ? If not ribbon, is there something else earth shattering ?
Not into Fancy builds. Tried a few when started out and learned a few things 1. I suck at building 2. I don't like to do it 3. Usually build is a small a upgrade from my single coil I use in my bottom feeder.

Thx much guys.


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[edyle]

I do not know the answer to your question.
My very first roll of wire was ribbob wire.
Worked fine.
But I did deliberately get 4 rolls of regular round wire of different gauges, just because there's more wealth of information and experience available in detail - take the steam engine coil calculator for example.
It could be done (calculator) but you'd have to account for ribbon wire by having:
- 2 dimensions to account for (example 0.1mm x 0.3mm)
- instead of just1 dimension (diameter)

but If you are an experienced vaper which by the sounds of it you are, ribbon wire is definitely worth a try;
- same wraps
- same ID
and here's the trial and error part:
- same ohms

 

[Thrasher]

Ribbon was popular before the high power mods, the advantage is not needing to wrap a huge coil that requires a lot of power. Where it shines is mid power builds on a mech where massive coils won't work well.

For the same .5 ohms at 35 watts you can have 3x the surface area making more vapor.

In a high power box twisted and very low guage have the advantage I think because you get bigger coils you can just brute force into working well..


If you don't want to, use high power or don't have a high power mod ribbon is def worth checking out. My dripper is setup with 28g equivalent and runs awesome at a low 25- 30 watts on a mech

When ribbon first showed up it was labeled bakkero wire, check out some YouTube vids to see what we could pull off before high power box mods existed

 

[petrotech]

i like this:

Youde Twisted Kanthal Wire

32 gauge, twisted micro/contact coil. 7-8 wraps around a 2mm bit is 1.4ish ohms.

it gets me a lot better flavor than my standard 28 gauge coils.

 

[Bunnykiller]

the only difference I see is one is flat and the other round... as far as taste/vapor no difference... well maybe a bit of a difference... ribbon went into burnt conditions faster but then I may have had too much wick in it....

 

[Cloudmann]

The only wires I've noticed a slight difference with are twisted/clapton types. The coils themselves act a bit like a wick and hold liquid in the grooves and meshing. They burn more liquid and create a bit more vapor and flavor. That said, they chew through liquid noticeably faster, too.

 

[VictorViper]

Ribbon is finicky stuff, miserable to work with, hard to rewick... and it's bloody fantastic. Some atomizers were designed for it a few years back. I happen to own one of those atomizers and I reserve my flat kanthal for it exclusively. A modest 0.8ohm coil (~20W on a mech) yields a perfect vape.

 

[tj99959]

It's just a different way to end up at the same vape that you like.

After I figured out the vapor/throat hit/flavor that I wanted, it was easy to find dozens of ways to get it.

But I agree, ribbon wire is a PITA compared to normal wire.