Mutant 26650 & Clone TOBH 26650 & MNKE 26650 battery...help

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I'm getting frustrated because my new gear does not seem to be performing very well and now my little black ohm reader crapped out. According to this I can use my 24 gauge A1 kanthal and wrap 2 coils 8 times around a 3/32 mandrel and I will get close to .30 ohm build. Will this work with my new gear? I can't test it until payday when I will just buy a multi-meter.

Thanks everyone.

 

[Dissonance]

A multimeter may not be a good idea... Unless you get a really high quality one, it's going to be much less accurate than an ohm meter & leaves more room for human error (especially if you don't know how to use one properly).

Other than that, it should work, and the method you described should be ~.3Ω. The MNKE batteries I've found aren't the greatest... You'd notice an improvement with better batteries. What did you mean by your new gear doesn't seem to be performing well?

 

[johndoe1027]

I'm getting frustrated because my new gear does not seem to be performing very well and now my little black ohm reader crapped out. According to this I can use my 24 gauge A1 kanthal and wrap 2 coils 8 times around a 3/32 mandrel and I will get close to .30 ohm build. Will this work with my new gear? I can't test it until payday when I will just buy a multi-meter.


Thanks everyone.

It looks like you are correct. 8 wraps of 24ga around 3/32 should be ~0.3 ohm and that makes for a 14A draw. You'll be ok with that build. I don't have experience with the MNKE's but they are rated at 20A continuous. That leaves you 30% headroom.

I agree with Dissonance. I have 2 multimeters and both are useless for measuring sub-ohm coil resistance. I know people don't have great luck with the little 510 ohmmeters but a multimeter that's good for checking sub-ohm builds cost hundreds of dollars. I just try to be real nice to my 510 ohmmeter. I don't tighten the atty on too hard and I don't use it as a build deck.

 

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I stepped up from my k100/IGO-L to a Mutant clone, a TOBH clone, and new MNKE 26650 battery with charger. No matter what build I do my coil never really pops like I see in the tutorial videos that I copied to a "T". I just checked my TOBH clone again and right now it's at .9 ohms. Fresh battery and it's still just kind of hissing.

All I can say is that my k100/IGO-L is kicking ..... lolz

 

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I will stick with this build til payday to stay on the safe side. I just went out and bought a cheap multi meter before I check this forum again. lolz. Well thanks for checking AND the great advise, Dissonance and johndoe1027.

 

[johndoe1027]

Glad to help. I've never tried 0.9 on a RDA so I can't speak to how it should perform. I run a lot lower than that. I had a 1.0 ohm coil on my Kayfun and it was fine but it didn't chuck big clouds.

 

[CloudKick]

I stepped up from my k100/IGO-L to a Mutant clone, a TOBH clone, and new MNKE 26650 battery with charger. No matter what build I do my coil never really pops like I see in the tutorial videos that I copied to a "T". I just checked my TOBH clone again and right now it's at .9 ohms. Fresh battery and it's still just kind of hissing.

All I can say is that my k100/IGO-L is kicking ..... lolz

If you're coils are heating up nicely before wicking and they're glowing pretty fast (within 3-4 seconds of firing), then you have a wicking issue on your hands. Try a different wick method. If your coils are not heating up evenly and quickly then you don't need to re-wick, you need to rebuild.

 

[johndoe1027]

If you're coils are heating up nicely before wicking and they're glowing pretty fast (within 3-4 seconds of firing), then you have a wicking issue on your hands. Try a different wick method. If your coils are not heating up evenly and quickly then you don't need to re-wick, you need to rebuild.

Yes, and/or grab some ceramic tipped tweezers and reshape the coils if they aren't heating evenly. I've fixed a lot in my mere handful of builds with those bad boys. Be easy with them. Kanthal is VERY malleable when hot. I squeeze w tweezers, fire and let go of fire button as soon as I see movement. Repeat as needed.

 

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I just rebuilt it again with some new 26 gauge kanthal at .7 resistance and I used a new battery from kidney puncher. I think it was a bad battery and they 24 gauge was taking way too long to heat up. It is hitting better and much more vapor production. Maybe that 24 is too much or I just suck at coils. lol