Schnarph, you don't have to rationalize getting a voltage meter if you use mechs. It's for your and your battery's safety. There's no other way for you to tell if you have over drained your battery on the fly other than the "feel" of the hit. You always should be aware of your battery's charge state as well as be able to diagnose flaws in your builds. I wouldn't advise using the sigelei #20 for sub-ohm vaping. I really don't have faith in that switch. Both the build and the materials used are questionable to me. I haven't been in the sigelei thread in a long while, but I bet it's a pretty difficult thing to modify up to fail-safe specs. Plenty of inexpensive mechs out there that do the job very well.
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I picked up an MKB-TS and am thoroughly enjoying in. Have a non air flow cap coming this week along with maybe an EA clone. I finally got my RSST to stop leaking to so all is well. Got a great build done the other day with it. SS cable with mesh and 0.08 ribbon. A very nice 0.8ohm coil. Vaping Picc's strawberry snizzle and its beautiful.
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The mkb is one of my favorite mods I own. Very solid device. Looks great with a term c on it too
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I actually am using the rsst on it now. But I actually have stealth cap coming.
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I want to pick up a nemesis one of these days!
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I wanna pick up a lot of stuff! When will it end?!? Lol. Replacing one addiction for another. Every time I think I am getting close to having what I want something cooler comes out. But I love every minute of it.
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Went over to empire mods today. As much as it was awesome to be in a b&m, I should never be allowed to enter any vape etablishment.
I don't even drip but wanted an empire mod....
Was gonna pick up another rsst but instead I'll wait till Monday and get a igoW. I need at least one dripable topper.
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I don't even drip but wanted an empire mod....
Was gonna pick up another rsst but instead I'll wait till Monday and get a igoW. I need at least one dripable topper.
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Got my Poldiac "Aname" last night. This thing and the Nemesis are the hardest hitting mods I've tried to date. With a 0.7ohm coil, I get 0.25 Vdrop. With a 2ohm clearo, I get 0.1 Vdrop. Dayyym!
One of my favorite mechanical's to this day, is the one I bought as my first mod. The Omega from AltSmoke, and it is top firing by a unique design. It's been retired for a LONG time now, but it will never be discarded.
Been looking at these mechanical mods. I know I'm kinda taking a step backwards from my provari but I think I may just get one of these to play with. So you'd say the omega is > the silver bullet?
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I was feeling the need to fiddle today, and did something silly.
One coil with a gap in the middle. 27g kanthal, silica wick, 17 wraps, 1mm(?) ID coil, 1.6ohms.
It hits about the same as more traditional 30g coil at 1.3ohms on my copper mod.
I finally found a use for the 27g I already have.
One coil with a gap in the middle. 27g kanthal, silica wick, 17 wraps, 1mm(?) ID coil, 1.6ohms.
It hits about the same as more traditional 30g coil at 1.3ohms on my copper mod.
I finally found a use for the 27g I already have.
I was feeling the need to fiddle today, and did something silly.
One coil with a gap in the middle. 27g kanthal, silica wick, 17 wraps, 1mm(?) ID coil, 1.6ohms.
It hits about the same as more traditional 30g coil at 1.3ohms on my copper mod.
I finally found a use for the 27g I already have.
That the igoW? How is it? Didn't care for the igo L all that much.
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Micro coils (what you have there) are great, but I find they work better on regulated mods. You often need extra power to get the coils glowing fast enough. More wick will help in the flavor dept. You also don't need that gap. One tight fat coil is best with micro. Pretty pics.
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It's a $6 Nimbus clone, at least I've been told that's what it is.
I don't have anything high-quality to compare it to, but I do like it.
I'm not planning on dual coils with this one, so I drilled the existing air hole out to 1/16".
If I change my mind on that, another $6 is no big deal.
I have a pre-order IGO-W on the way, about 2 weeks out.
The possibility of dual coil on these is wasted on me, but they look nice and the extra space compared to my little Phoenix RBA's is great for silly coils like the one above. It takes all kinds, but I'm not in to sub-ohm myself.
After using it a few hours, it's reading 1.3ohms now. I'm not sure why I put a gap in there, it was hitting fine before that. I ran all the cheap silica I could fit through it, having re-wicked it once already.
On your suggestion, I put it on a Vamo at 11.5 watts. It does seem to work better, even though ohm's law says that's only 3.85 volts.
The micro coil has interesting characteristics. Regulated power, even with PWM, can be a great thing.
I was feeling the need to fiddle today, and did something silly.
One coil with a gap in the middle. 27g kanthal, silica wick, 17 wraps, 1mm(?) ID coil, 1.6ohms.
It hits about the same as more traditional 30g coil at 1.3ohms on my copper mod.
I finally found a use for the 27g I already have.
Impressive! How did you get that coil wrapped so evenly and so tight? Did you use a threaded screw?
I used a paper clip!
The coil is about 1mm ID, just guessing. Getting silica wick in was the tricky part, I dampened it with juice first. I used 2 out of 7 strands from 2.5mm wick, folded over to thread through just like sewing. Kinda messy process, but it was pretty quick. I find it mind boggling that I can chain vape 100% VG with such a thin piece of wick. FYI, the small gap in the middle is completely unnecessary for that particular coil, it glows from the middle out either way.
Next time try using a small nail to wrap the coil. When your coil is done, remove it from the nail and hold it compressed between a pair of tweezers. Hold the compressed coil over a flame (don't burn yourself). When you release the tweezers, the coil will retain its compressed shape. Next, take a length of kanthal and form a small hook at one end. Make sure the hook is small enough to pass through your coil. Hook a piece of silica in its center and thread it through the coil using the kanthal wire as a lead. You will get a double width of silica snugly fit inside your coil. This is how I do my coils on RDAs. Experiment. It's a piece of cake.
That's kinda funny, I did all that, except for the use of a nail. I used reverse action tweezers to hold the coil while torching. The slight gaps near the center post are from turning the post after the coil was attached to get it away from the cap at the other end. The gap in the middle was done with by wiggling the back side of an Exacto knife between coils, it was all compressed together before hand. I still can't explain why I did that since it wicked fine already, other than I read about it somewhere and had little to lose. I used a folded piece of 32g kanthal to thread the wick through, just as you described. On the first try too much of it shredded and it broke halfway in, which is why I lubed it with e-liquid on the next attempt which worked much better. Cheap silica frays very easily, as I'm sure you know.
When I make Protank coils, I wrap the coil around wick and a sewing needle. That only takes one or two minutes. I didn't think that would work with a 17 wrap of 27 gauge. I figured the wick would be crushed and frayed everywhere, and the coil would never look that nice and straight. Yes, the experiments continue... especially the cheap ones. It's only time lost, and it gives my hands something to do while watching How It's Made.
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