My resistance is too low

[rzil]

I can't figure out how to make a 1.6 ohm coil , I use 30 AWG A1 kanthal wire and even with 10 wraps I get 0.5 ohm .

I don't want to go sub ohms , at least not for now .


Solved : kayfun center pin was too high , thx every1

 

[Equilibrium]

With 30g wire - 8 wraps on a 1/16" drill bit should get you where you want to be. ~1.6 ohms

Or 7 wraps on a 5/64" drill bit

 

[Susan~S]

What size tool are you using to wrap your coils around?

 

[tj99959]

Better get a different ohm meter.

My 6/7 wrap of #30g reads 2 ohms (well 1.98 ohms actually)

 

[Baditude]

Are you certain that your ohm reader is working properly? Is it reading factory made coils (clearomizer, cartomizers) at the correct resistance?
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How are you making your coils? Are you making open spiral coils or microcoils where the loops are touching each other? What are you wrapping the loops around and of what diameter (drill bit or screw driver)?

Using a coil wrapping calculator: Coil Toy Calculator

30 gauge wire around a 2.0 mm screwdriver/drill bit should require 7 loops to make a target resistance of 1.5 ohms.

 

[Bunnykiller]

are you dry burning your coil to oxidize it?? it does make a difference....

 

[rzil]

What size tool are you using to wrap your coils around?

2mm , and The ohm meter is fine , it does show the right number for my PT2 so i must be doing something wrong

 

[Funk Dracula]

What are you rebuilding? An RDA? A Kayfun? A Protank head?

Most likely your coil is touching something and shorting.

 

[Shipmonster]

With 30g wire - 8 wraps on a 1/16" drill bit should get you where you want to be. ~1.6 ohms

Or 7 wraps on a 5/64" drill bit

+1
I use 5/32 because it's an easy, quick wrap and the cotton slides in super easy.

 

[rzil]

Problems solved thank you guys .

After it got dissembled by mistake , I noticed that there might be a chance the center pin is too high and barely make contact with the 510 connection ...
reconnected all the parts with the pin a bit lower and now the numbers make sense.

 

[Miata GT]

Sounds like you have a short. You are removing to wrapping tool before taking the reading, yes?

edit: late post! Glad you got it resolved!

 

[likeego]

Are you torching your wire and crimping it together? When I first started building I got resistance that was really low (and at the time only had an SVD, which couldn't fire the coils). Torching and pinching the wraps close together (making it a micro coil) seemed to fix the problems. I personally find micro coils the easiest to build.

Edit: just read the post above and realized that all is fixed. My bad