Muted flavour with thicker wire?

[TheBoom]

I had my igo-l set up with the silica and wire provided (32 ga kanthal i presume) and was having a really good vape. It metered out at ~1.9 ohms about 3-4 wraps and 9 watts was the sweet spot.

Then a couple of days back i decided to do something silly and stack two 18350s for a hotter vape. The coil popped lol.

So i redid my igo-l with 28 ga this time round. About 6-7 wraps at ~1.3 ohms. Air hole is aligned right in front of coil. Using the same exact e-juice.

What bugs me is that the flavour is very noticeably muted. I've tried increasing the wattage and still no improvement. Any one else has similar experiences?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.


Edit : Forgot to mention that i've been reading the forums and saw that many users reported better flavour with lower gauge wire, hence i wanted to try it with 28 ga.

 

[martydmb]

Same wick? I have muted flavor from my aga-t2 also. Tried both 32 and 28awg. 32 seemed better for flavor but I just started last weekend but flavor mutes quick and I end up doing dry burns and its fine for about 5-10 drags and back to muted. My murdock radiator fluid has better and more intense flavor in my 2.0ohm boge carto in my glass tank than my aga-t2. I also heard the same about 28awg so I picked that up also.

 

[pdib]

Fatter wire can take a bit longer to heat up. More importantly, I think it can really magnify subtle differences in build. Like an elephant stepping on your toe, hard or light vs. a dog. (?) Try wrapping closer together, my wraps actually touch each other. And/or wrap a smaller diameter coil (1/16" wick rocks). Both these things enhance flavor and turn a cigar-like vape into a firecracker.

 

[grainey1968]

Tight coils on 28g wire has been great for flavor and vapor for me. I try and get all me coil to touch one another and the heat time is really improved than spacing the coils out. When I fire my coils for the first time - I use some pliers to squeeze the coils together. Give it a try!

 

[pdib]

Tight coils on 28g wire has been great for flavor and vapor for me. I try and get all me coil to touch one another and the heat time is really improved than spacing the coils out. When I fire my coils for the first time - I use some pliers to squeeze the coils together. Give it a try!

Yep. ↑ I do that too. Before installing wick, or coil in atty, I torch to anneal and squeeze tight with parallel action pliers (not always, when I feel like it)

 

[BJ43]

I had my igo-l set up with the silica and wire provided (32 ga kanthal i presume) and was having a really good vape. It metered out at ~1.9 ohms about 3-4 wraps and 9 watts was the sweet spot.

Then a couple of days back i decided to do something silly and stack two 18350s for a hotter vape. The coil popped lol.

So i redid my igo-l with 28 ga this time round. About 6-7 wraps at ~1.3 ohms. Air hole is aligned right in front of coil. Using the same exact e-juice.

What bugs me is that the flavour is very noticeably muted. I've tried increasing the wattage and still no improvement. Any one else has similar experiences?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.


Edit : Forgot to mention that i've been reading the forums and saw that many users reported better flavour with lower gauge wire, hence i wanted to try it with 28 ga.

It is all about wire temp, the 9 watts on the the 3/4 wraps of 32g had all that heat concentrated on a small area, on the 28g 6/7, 9 watts would be spread out over a much larger area and therefore cooler where the wire heats the juice. Raise your watts or volts until the wire temp gets to your flavor sweet spot.

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...-about-wire-temp-read.html?highlight=Watts+do

 

[Jerms]

I get better flavor from thicker wire (to me 30ga is "thicker wire" lol). Compared to 32ga, 30ga bumped up the subleties of juice. Like others said, power needs to be bumped up to compensate for reaction time and thicker wire just needs more heat. Tightly wrapped coils makes a big difference too. Before making micro coils, I had to stack batteries in my VAMO for even 30ga because I wasn't happy with only 11 watts. With a micro coil I can vape at 9 watts perfectly fine at 30ga, so willing to try some 28ga next.

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[TheBoom]

Ahh i get it, thanks for all the advice guys. My coils were too spread out i think, need to hone my silica coiling skills. Spent too much time on genesis wicks and got used to easy coiling.