Official ProVari 3 Thread - P3

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DPLongo22

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With my pea-sized brain, I figured that if the ohm of the coil is less (or more for that matter), the wattage would need to be adjusted to produce the same vape. I see the volts did indeed go down, when I usually vape on a 1.8 ohm coil, the volts usually show 4.4. But on the 1.6 ohm coil, the volts now show 4.2. Still not a very big difference, but I guess the volts vs watts difference is still somewhat lost on me.
Worry not the numbers, Rybster, and just follow your taste buds. Move the numbers as required, but only when you're not getting the experience you want.

Peter_C, thanks but no waiting required. Haven't I mentioned that I am Santa Claus? ;-)
 

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With my pea-sized brain, I figured that if the ohm of the coil is less (or more for that matter), the wattage would need to be adjusted to produce the same vape. I see the volts did indeed go down, when I usually vape on a 1.8 ohm coil, the volts usually show 4.4. But on the 1.6 ohm coil, the volts now show 4.2. Still not a very big difference, but I guess the volts vs watts difference is still somewhat lost on me.

Oh my... perhaps I can make it easy (though I am sure others have tried).

If I set my power at 10 watts:
with a 1.5Ω coil, it will produce 10 watts;
with a 1.8Ω coil, it will produce 10 watts.
I hath commanded it to stay at 10 watts and it doth obey me.
It stays at 10 watts by automatically adjusting the voltage to whatever level will produce 10 watts with the resistance of the coil being used.

If I put it in voltage mode and set it at 4.0 volts:
with a 1.5Ω coil it will fire at 4.0 volts;
with a 1.8Ω coil it will fire at 4.0 volts.
I hath commanded it to stay at 4.0 volts and it doth obey me.

The difference is that when it is set in the voltage mode, you are setting the input, irrespective of the output, so:
with a 1.5Ω coil fired at 4.0 volts ≈ 10.6 watts are produced;
with a 1.8Ω coil fired at 4.0 volts ≈ 8.8 watts are produced.

But as Sir DP related, one really should vape by taste. I posted the above only in hopes of clarifying the concept.
 
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Peter_C, thanks but no waiting required. Haven't I mentioned that I am Santa Claus? ;-)

Hey Santa? I have this last minute gift desire, and my lovely wife is done for the year. By chance if you have any extra room on the sleigh coming to Ohio, would you mind dropping off a...

/sigh

None of my letters to Santa have ever been answered; really ought to stop kidding myself.
 

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Oh my... perhaps I can make it easy (though I am sure others have tried).

If I set my power at 10 watts:
with a 1.5Ω coil, it will produce 10 watts;
with a 1.8Ω coil, it will produce 10 watts.
I hath commanded it to stay at 10 watts and it doth obey me.
It stays at 10 watts by automatically adjusting the voltage to whatever level will produce 10 watts with the resistance of the coil being used.

If I put it in voltage mode and set it at 4.0 volts:
with a 1.5Ω coil it will fire at 4.0 volts;
with a 1.8Ω coil it will fire at 4.0 volts.
I hath commanded it to stay at 4.0 volts and it doth obey me.

The difference is that when it is set in the voltage mode, you are setting the input, irrespective of the output, so:
with a 1.5Ω coil fired at 4.0 volts ≈ 10.6 watts are produced;
with a 1.8Ω coil fired at 4.0 volts ≈ 8.8 watts are produced.

But as Sir DP related, one really should vape by taste. I posted the above only in hopes of clarifying the concept.

That is the most simple and easily understood way I have read to date, may I blog this for easy finding (proper credit given of course)?
 

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No, no! I meant posting that when AntiProVarians go on and on about a ProVari being too expensive when they haven't tried one and it's clear they could afford one. I actually only posted it in a thread once. Then one of my friends PM'd me and said I should take it down since it was mean, which I did.

Just so you all know, I encourage people to send me a PM if they think I've crossed the line. People often take me wrong and I don't realize it, hence posts you may see about the princess having claws.

No offense taken.

Just a lil story for the haters.

They too can afford it!

Jim
 

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Oh my... perhaps I can make it easy (though I am sure others have tried).

If I set my power at 10 watts:
with a 1.5Ω coil, it will produce 10 watts;
with a 1.8Ω coil, it will produce 10 watts.
I hath commanded it to stay at 10 watts and it doth obey me.
It stays at 10 watts by automatically adjusting the voltage to whatever level will produce 10 watts with the resistance of the coil being used.

If I put it in voltage mode and set it at 4.0 volts:
with a 1.5Ω coil it will fire at 4.0 volts;
with a 1.8Ω coil it will fire at 4.0 volts.
I hath commanded it to stay at 4.0 volts and it doth obey me.

The difference is that when it is set in the voltage mode, you are setting the input, irrespective of the output, so:
with a 1.5Ω coil fired at 4.0 volts ≈ 10.6 watts are produced;
with a 1.8Ω coil fired at 4.0 volts ≈ 8.8 watts are produced.

But as Sir DP related, one really should vape by taste. I posted the above only in hopes of clarifying the concept.

Dear Favorite of All Felines:

Your explanation makes the mostest sense and I will endeavor to remember this. Though this concept seems to sink in my small brain and I think to myself, ah yes, that makes total sense. Sadly however, a day or two latter, the knowledge so many of my Provarinati family have endeavored to impart to this brain, seems to evaporate whilst I slumber. Still, this is the bestest of the best explanations I've been given!

It's like Aperture settings in my DSLR. It has taken me years to finally get that F4 produces greater bouquet, whilst F22 does not. Most assuredly my feeble mind sees the number 22 and assumes a higher number should mean more open. It wasn't until I put a 1 and / in advance of the Aperture setting to get this brain to recognize that F4 (1/4) is actually larger than F22 1/22. Thus if one should wish a photograph to incorporate a pleasantly blurred background, with a in focus foreground, one must employ a larger aperture, not a smaller one. Whew, me thinks this head may now explode..........:p
 
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Just so you all know, I encourage people to send me a PM if they think I've crossed the line. People often take me wrong and I don't realize it, hence posts you may see about the princess having claws.

So that's why I woke up with scratches on me. I thought you were declawed.:)
 

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Dear Favorite of All Felines:

Your explanation makes the mostest sense and I will endeavor to remember this. Though this concept seems to sink in my small brain and I think to myself, ah yes, that makes total sense. Sadly however, a day or two latter, the knowledge so many of my Provarinati family have endeavored to impart to this brain, seems to evaporate whilst I slumber. Still, this is the bestest of the best explanations I've been given!

It's like Aperture settings in my DSLR. It has taken me years to finally get that F4 produces greater bouquet, whilst F22 does not. Most assuredly my feeble mind sees the number 22 and assumes a higher number should mean more open. It wasn't until I put a 1 and / in advance of the Aperture setting to get this brain to recognize that F4 (1/4) is actually larger than F22 1/22. Thus if one should wish a photograph to incorporate a pleasantly blurred background, with a in focus foreground, one must employ a larger aperture, not a smaller one. Whew, me thinks this head may now explode..........:p

I think you should set your Precious Thrice to voltage, pretend it is a 2.5 and forget about that nasty watt thing. It's not important.
 

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I think think I should be applauded for the restraint I've shown in posting this over the years.

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Anyone who is an ex-smoker could afford one.
Some simply choose not to.
Then some of those whine about it.
 

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Now to totally confuse you. If you change the juice you are vaping then you may have to change the wattage to suit your taste buds.9 watts with a 1.8 ohm coil vaping burger king ejuice may taste great, but when you use McDonald's ejuice with a 1.8 ohm coil at 9 watts in might not taste so great. You might have to go higher or lower with your watts. Did I totally screw you up?
 

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Oh my... perhaps I can make it easy (though I am sure others have tried).

If I set my power at 10 watts:
with a 1.5Ω coil, it will produce 10 watts;
with a 1.8Ω coil, it will produce 10 watts.
I hath commanded it to stay at 10 watts and it doth obey me.
It stays at 10 watts by automatically adjusting the voltage to whatever level will produce 10 watts with the resistance of the coil being used.

If I put it in voltage mode and set it at 4.0 volts:
with a 1.5Ω coil it will fire at 4.0 volts;
with a 1.8Ω coil it will fire at 4.0 volts.
I hath commanded it to stay at 4.0 volts and it doth obey me.

The difference is that when it is set in the voltage mode, you are setting the input, irrespective of the output, so:
with a 1.5Ω coil fired at 4.0 volts ≈ 10.6 watts are produced;
with a 1.8Ω coil fired at 4.0 volts ≈ 8.8 watts are produced.

But as Sir DP related, one really should vape by taste. I posted the above only in hopes of clarifying the concept.

This is a truly scary thought: I think I get it! (Cue music to My Fair Lady) Thanks :)
 

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Now to totally confuse you. If you change the juice you are vaping then you may have to change the wattage to suit your taste buds.9 watts with a 1.8 ohm coil vaping burger king ejuice may taste great, but when you use McDonald's ejuice with a 1.8 ohm coil at 9 watts in might not taste so great. You might have to go higher or lower with your watts. Did I totally screw you up?

Yes :unsure:
 

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To make things even more confusing, I vape one juice 99% of the time. It not only tastes different at different temperatures, it tastes different in different devices at different temperatures.

1) I put juice in some sort of juice delivery system. If the battery has variable anything, I set it for roughly the range I like it. I fine tune by adjusting up or down. I may fine tune it throughout the day, but generally, I just leave it there.

All these posts warm my heart. For years the ProVarinati were told how much better the ProVari would be if it had VW, to which we would try to explain that the ProVari worked just fine without it.
 
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