My first parallel coil. And want some advice

[ricoohittman]

Just built my first parallel coil took 2 failed attempts to get it right it's at 0.23 ohms. Also. So I wanted to know what's the best way to wick this? Right now I just got a small amount of cotton. Thanks for any help

 

[G-weezy]

I would try to center the coil more. Leave a little more tail to tuck some under the coil. Besides that I can't think of anyway to wick.

 

[OthatGuy]

With rayon!

 

[DoctorD]

Are you looking for flavor or clouds? I'm a flavor chaser myself, so I wick through the coils and also place the excess cotton underneath the coil for a cotton cloud, but if you're cloud chasing try raising the coil up off the deck. Make sure you have adequate airflow if you're doing this though, or you'll get burned cotton and a very hot vape. Oh, and I also use Japanese cotton, it's much more coarse and tends to hold up a lot better than regular "organic" cotton.
Here's what my parallels look like (9 wraps for 28g Kanthal, the flavor is to die for, better than any non-parallel build I've ever done.)

 

[ricoohittman]

DoctorD. Thank you for the advice I took it and I'm glad I did haven't got any Japanese cotton yet but I will be trying that soon. Thanks again

 

[johndoe1027]

My atty is very different but here's a pic of what's been working for me. As G-Weezy said, try to center the coil. If you look at the left post of my build, far side of the post you can see how I've been trying to center my coils. I kind of bend two 45 degree angles so that the leg still goes into the atty post straight but essentially moves the coil over when you do that to both sides of the coil. Then I'll trim my wick about 1/2" longer than the coil. I tuck the remaining wick under the coil. Since my coil is still offset to one side I tuck the side that's closer to the edge last. Not sure if that makes a difference it just makes sense to me. Hope this helps!