Ohms of this coil?

[Aadavis94]

Anybody have any idea what the ohms of a coil would be that is a parallel build of 28 gauge nichrome 80, and 30 gauge kanthal, 10 wraps around 2.8 mm.

 

[Romano Cheese]

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[edyle]

nichrome 1.5 ohms
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kanthal 3.1 ohms
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1/R = 1/1.5 + 1/3.1 = .99

R= 1 ohm

 

[Cacique]

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Always a good idea to have an ohm meter around.

 

[Bunnykiller]

I get 1.01... 1/( .666 + .322) = 1/.988 = 1.01

but .99 is close enuf too

 

[dbrandt01]

Go buy an ohm meter or multimeter and test it yourself. I'm not going to find out the ohms for you if you're not going to test it before you use it. Especially if you have a short and you don't know it because you didn't test. I would NEVER vape something without testing the resistance myself. Not a helpful answer with ohms, but better to be safe.

 

[Aadavis94]

Go buy an ohm meter or multimeter and test it yourself. I'm not going to find out the ohms for you if you're not going to test it before you use it. Especially if you have a short and you don't know it because you didn't test. I would NEVER vape something without testing the resistance myself. Not a helpful answer with ohms, but better to be safe.

I was just wanting an idea before I wasted the wire and building it. and I didn't know the how to find the resistance when using two different kinds of wire. Thanks for that though

 

[Bunnykiller]

since one wire is lower in resistance it will heat up faster/more than the other and will result in less than equal performance resulting in one wick being abused more than the other....

unless its going to be a parallel wrapped coil set

 

[edyle]

I was just wanting an idea before I wasted the wire and building it. and I didn't know the how to find the resistance when using two different kinds of wire. Thanks for that though

You should play around with steam engine and plug the numbers in trial and error;
don't aim for the same ohms of each single coil; aim for the same heatflux

 

[Aadavis94]

since one wire is lower in resistance it will heat up faster/more than the other and will result in less than equal performance resulting in one wick being abused more than the other....

unless its going to be a parallel wrapped coil set

It is gonna be a parallel wrapped coils.

 

[roxynoodle]

A parallel coil works the same as dual parallel coils. So you can use Steam Engine to find the resistance of each, and then do the math like others above showed you:

1/R = 1/R1 + 1/R2