Hard to beat the basic micro coils on a 5/64 drill bit with about 8 - 10 wraps of 28 gauge Kanthal. Should get a coil at 1.4 to 1.6. I love my cotton. Organic cotton wicking, painted on the side wall, assemble, fill, vape. I've tried a lot of different builds, but this basic one I can knock out in 5 minutes or less, and back to vaping my good juice.
On page one of this thread I was calling my mini coils micros. I used a larger bore because I wicked with German silica at the time. After realizing what I was making wasn't a true micro because of the diameter, I called them "almost micros" or "big-bore micros" until I decided mini coil would be a fitting and easy name.
That term does get used some, but I don't think it's caught on much outside ECF like Supe's term micro did. Instead, the big reviewers were calling any coil with touching wraps micros, even though they were much bigger than micros ever intended to be. What I don't understand is why people get upset when it's pointed out what they are calling micro is actually a mini or macro. None of the terms are derogatory, it's just categorizing by size.
Micro was named for a specific diameter range.Outside of that, it's just not a micro. If someone doesn't want to call their coils mini or macro that's fine, but outside of micro coil range isn't a micro coil, it's a coil.
Jerms…your above statement is both
TRUE and
NOT TRUE. A problem.
And the folks still making videos with hand-over-hand winds calling them
microcoils give me fits for baffling those trying to get things to work.
But it's not that to dismiss the use of the term for one size variant or another is derogatory, it's not accurate. Reviewers and many others have focused on the purpose — the function of the coil — rather than its size.
I think the term
microcoil in and of itself is woefully inadequate to accurately describe what we're chasing. And marvelously confusing.
A
micro coil by super_x's initial description encompasses both size AND function, characteristically the substantial change in electron flow, cool operation, symmetrical propagation of heat, etc. what I described on some threads as "The Effect". The very reason the configuration is beneficial and practical. So in our language should we dismiss the objective, function, for size? The term
mini on the other hand as applied to contact coils, a more apt name generally, is also dismissive of function as
mini can merely imply
minituarized, a generic term which could include everything, including micros, in the range below 2mm.
Since the nomenclature is so ambiguous the consequences
have been its inappropriate and incorrect use. Or perhaps more importantly deterred many from appreciating the value of the geometry and adopting it for their own use. So what we call it is far less important than the benefit we may cause others to enjoy by understanding it.
To me the phrase
contact micro coil is distinguishing of both size and function. It stimulates the curiosity and begs the question...
And, what is contact?
But we on this forum no matter how adamantly we may insist upon it will not exclusively control the etymology of this reference. The public will, in either a state of misunderstanding about it or clarity.
We may however be able to constructively influence the appreciation of what a
microcoil actually is — by promoting a resolution of the the word's ambiguity and resulting conundrum among its users.
Good luck.
