long time lurker, new poster. thoughts on current build?

[melonius thunk]

hey yall, been lurking the forums for a long time, but just signed up. Been vaping for little while now and I love it. Current set up is a m16 sentinel and plume veil 1.5 clones running MNKE 18650s and Sony VTC4s. How's this current set up look? First "real" build I've done myself instead of having it build at a B&M. looking for a good mix of flavor and cloud.

Dual parallel 26g kanthal, 7 wraps around a 1.8mm screwdriver, running between .3-.4 ohms

 

[Scy123]

How does it vape? Looks like it would take a long time to heat up. I also counted like 16 wraps.

 

[Warpigs]

Welcome to ECF! I don't build so I cannot offer any information on that. But I'm sure someone will chime in

 

[Scy123]

Nvm i missed the dual parallel part.

 

[fate007]

Suicide bunny mothers milk is great

 

[Susan~S]

Hello and welcome to the forum MT. Glad to have you here!
Congratulations, looks like your lurking has paid off in spades for you. You spent your time wisely!

+1 on your choice of batteries
+1 on building within the CDR of your batteries (with headroom to spare)
+1 your coils look nice and tight

So, how does it vape? If you do not have a coil calculator here are a few links for you regarding building coils and getting the resistance just where you want it:

1. Steam Engine
2. Coil Toy Calculator

 

[melonius thunk]

It vapes very well, pretty rich flavor and dense clouds, but there does seem to be a ramp up time once my batt has been drained a little. Fresh batteries have it wicked hot in about a second. I'm thinking about doing the same thing with a couple less wraps, I'd like to reduce the heat up time a bit

 

[melonius thunk]

here's a shot of it firing, not quite at top heat but damn close.