My very first build - Trident Clone

[Skorpeyon]

So, last night I built my very first rda coils. A friend of mine gave me some 32ga wire which I used because my 28ga isn't coming in until Saturday. Looking for an interesting way to utilize it, and also looking for a way to get a lower resistance, I ended up watching RipTripper's video here and ended up with a pair of very cool-looking coils. I think once my 28ga comes in I'm going to twist that as well. I didn't have a drill on-hand, but I found that a Dremel works perfectly (at the lower settings) using the disc attachment. This is basically a metal bar with a screw on the tip. I loosened the screw, slipped a looped end of wire around it, and tightened it back down. It took only a few seconds to make a beautifully twisted wire that also straightened out all the kinks that were in it since my buddy had wrapped it around a business card for storage.

Wrapped those around a small allen wrench, squeezed it tight with a pair of pliers while heating it up, and made a second one just like it. 9 wraps around that small wrench and a bit of cotton later and I had a 1.5 ohm dual coil Trident clone pumping out as much vapor at 6v as my buddy's .3 ohm did when I'd tried it earlier that night. I promised myself this wouldn't become a hobby... but I'm not sure I can keep that promise anymore. Way too much fun! I also have an Omega clone coming from Focalecigs eventually.

Sidenote: I mainly bought the clones because, honestly, I wanted to try it out without spending a ridiculous amount of money and the only cheap RDAs I found were clones. Now that I know I enjoy it I'm more willing to buy a real RDA.

Edit to add photo:
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[Jetfoi]

I also just ordered a trident clone and a true trident just to fool around with the sub ohms..I need to check out RIPTrippers videos and find good ways to build...I currently build kayfuns and get around .8 ohms using 30gauge wire. I have some 28 gauge coming...but well see what happens...


glad to see your enjoying this and doing the twisted coil!

 

[Skorpeyon]

I also just ordered a trident clone and a true trident just to fool around with the sub ohms..I need to check out RIPTrippers videos and find good ways to build...I currently build kayfuns and get around .8 ohms using 30gauge wire. I have some 28 gauge coming...but well see what happens...


glad to see your enjoying this and doing the twisted coil!

Oh yeah, the twisted coil, even without it's resistance-lowering properties, just plain looks pretty! I think a lot of why my resistance was so high is simply that I'm not making super-tiny coils because I didn't have anything really small to wrap the wire around. I'm happy with it, but I do want to get them down to the sub-ohm level if only for my battery life on my AnyMOD. I burned through it from about 90% to below 70 in just a couple hours vaping this setup because I kept it at 6v to get some real good vapor.

 

[Jetfoi]

so the smaller the coil the lower the ohm? now what about airflow? bigger airflow with lower ohms creates bigger clouds...correct?

 

[Skorpeyon]

so the smaller the coil the lower the ohm? now what about airflow? bigger airflow with lower ohms creates bigger clouds...correct?

While I'm absolutely not an expert, there are a few things, to my understanding, that creates big clouds. More heat+airflow=bigger clouds. The reason the lower ohm is associated with big clouds is because less resistance takes lower voltage to heat up faster. So if you have a .5 ohm resistance in your coil, for example, you can vape that at 3.7v in a purely mechanical mod (mine is a vv/vw/mech mod called the AnyMOD and I love it since I can put any coil on it I want and vape, this is the main reason I got it) and it produces great vapor.

If you did the same with my 1.5 ohm resistance dual coils it would work, but not produce as much vapor. If your RDA has larger air holes, it helps to make the cloud "airier" and give it more volume. Dual coils vs. single coil also a modifies vapor production since a single coil is only heating up one spot along one wick, where as two coils with two wicks produces twice the vapor. It also cuts your resistance in half. Were I vaping only one coil with this same setup it would be a 3.0 resistance, not heat up as much, only heat half the area, and produce much less vapor. Again, this is my understanding. Anyone who wants to correct me, feel free, as I'm by no means an expert.

Remember, though, if you are going for bigger clouds, and more vapor, you will burn through your e-juice faster, so it's a balance thing. I only vape this setup at home. When out and about I carry an Anyvape Mini Davide and a Kanger VV EVOD Twist. That way a) I don't annoy people with huge, voluminous clouds wafting toward them, especially because lots of people don't really understand e-cigs yet and b) I don't have to drip while in, say, a moving vehicle (difficult for me) or while at work (making me less productive).

 

[Cloud Junky]

So, last night I built my very first RDA coils. A friend of mine gave me some 32ga wire which I used because my 28ga isn't coming in until Saturday. Looking for an interesting way to utilize it, and also looking for a way to get a lower resistance, I ended up watching RipTripper's video here and ended up with a pair of very cool-looking coils. I think once my 28ga comes in I'm going to twist that as well. I didn't have a drill on-hand, but I found that a Dremel works perfectly (at the lower settings) using the disc attachment. This is basically a metal bar with a screw on the tip. I loosened the screw, slipped a looped end of wire around it, and tightened it back down. It took only a few seconds to make a beautifully twisted wire that also straightened out all the kinks that were in it since my buddy had wrapped it around a business card for storage.

Wrapped those around a small allen wrench, squeezed it tight with a pair of pliers while heating it up, and made a second one just like it. 9 wraps around that small wrench and a bit of cotton later and I had a 1.5 ohm dual coil Trident clone pumping out as much vapor at 6v as my buddy's .3 ohm did when I'd tried it earlier that night. I promised myself this wouldn't become a hobby... but I'm not sure I can keep that promise anymore. Way too much fun! I also have an Omega clone coming from Focalecigs eventually.

Sidenote: I mainly bought the clones because, honestly, I wanted to try it out without spending a ridiculous amount of money and the only cheap RDAs I found were clones. Now that I know I enjoy it I'm more willing to buy a real RDA.

Wrap four strands of 32ga together, it gives some good flavor. this set up is at .4Ω, I twist it until it snaps I have no issues with it and it rocks hard...

 

[Skorpeyon]

Wrap four strands of 32ga together, it gives some good flavor. this set up is at 4.4Ω, I twist it until it snaps I have no issues with it and it rocks hard...
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Honestly, second day, I've had not a single issue with this setup so far. I want to keep my ohms low since I like the big clouds it produces and 1.5 seems just GREAT for what I want. The only real reason I want to go lower at all is so I can bring down the voltage (6.0 is as high as my VV mod can manage to go) and slow down how fast my battery drains. Vaping at such a high voltage makes it die within a few hours, and then I have to charge it back up for 3 hours. I plan to get a battery charger and a few extra batteries, though, after which I probably won't mind as much. Then I can just pop a new one in if the charge goes too low. Right now I have to charge it in the mod and it's not a passthru.

 

[Skorpeyon]

Here is a photo of my build.

 

[brunsde1770]

Nice builds keep on twisting!!!!

brunsde1770 on youtube

 

[Skorpeyon]

So the RDA I used in that pic broke. I just got a replacement today and my damned MOD got fried last night. The display and buttons work fine but it doesn't output anything when I press the button. So looks like it'll be a while before I can do anymore dripping.