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[TheKiwi]

If you're sticking to single coils on the veritas (which I do), you might wanna consider doing a single horizontal, and letting the wick tails sit in the 2 ditches on both sides. That way everytime you tilt back to vape, the juice saturates both ends.

Front view

Notice how when I tilt the atty back, the excess juice flows into both ditches and really saturates the wick

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[AMDTrucking]

 

[zipflint]

Thanks gang! I will probably go the single wick, horizontal route when I do a rebuild.

 

[zipflint]

Rebuilt the Veritas with a horizontal coil. Wicking IS improved, which only makes sense. Flavor and vapor production are about the same. Thanks for the help, gang!

Veritas horizontal coil by zipflint, on Flickr

Veritas vapor! by zipflint, on Flickr

 

[TheKiwi]

Yeah!!! Welcome to the single horizon veritas club! It's the only build I run on my veritas now and it's superb.

If you vape with the airhole tilted downwards towards you, you'll see that you can drip a whole ton, and vape it right till its dry. Def my favorite thing about the veritas.


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[zipflint]

Yeah there is some really thoughtful engineering going on in the Veritas. I'm still a Magma fanboy but the Veritas is right up there. I've got a couple Origen clones I haven't cleaned and built yet but I'm expecting good things.

 

[vapero]

Yeah there is some really thoughtful engineering going on in the Veritas. I'm still a Magma fanboy but the Veritas is right up there. I've got a couple Origen clones I haven't cleaned and built yet but I'm expecting good things.

I much prefer the origens over the veritas every day, I have 2 origens and 1 veritas

 

[AMDTrucking]

E.H.Pro Billow has arrived today. (Little Buddha)

Very high quality machining of parts, thick glass, tons of Airflow. I like it.

Real capacity is 5.0 ml

 

[AMDTrucking]

E.H.Pro Billow evolution:

I started with 28 Gauge spaced coil at 0.704Ω – it sucked.

Then I did 26 Gauge micro coil at 0.411Ω – better, but not best.

And the last one: 0.9mm flat ribbon at 0.278 Ω – I think I like my Billow now.

 

[USMCotaku]

Made a nice little stove top today (I guess technically yesterday, since it's now almost 5 am). Ohms at .5, and hits as good or better then my last build of dual coil at .3 ohm

Sent with one hand, the other is busy vaping.

 

[zipflint]

Super basic, 0.5 Ohm single coil build on a Doge clone. I'm surprised at how much flavor this thing provides.
Doge clone deck by zipflint, on Flickr

Doge clone vapors 001 by zipflint, on Flickr

Sir Lancelot and Doge clones by zipflint, on Flickr

 

[YePsTeR]

Lot of great coils here!!!

 

[KurrptSenate]

tried something new for my wifes Taifun GT

twisted 30 gauge, then twisted that with some .6 x .07 flat ribbon

worked so well I ripped the coil out of my erlk and put one in there. the wire required a good bit or torching to remove the springiness to it. I actually turned down the wattage because the vapor was so nice for a tank

 

[DTR.]

A few coils I have been experimenting with.



Single twisted pair 28 gauge dual coil in my Big Buddha.

Twisted 6 strand 30 gauge single coil Kayfun

Dual 6 strand twisted(12 total) 30 gauge single coil 30mm Kayfun

Zipper inspired two opposingly twisted 4 pair 30 gauge chimney build in 30mm Kayfun. This thing makes mad vapor but spits a lot of hot juice.

 

[zipflint]

I don't see a whole heckuvalot of of nickel builds in here. I'm hoping to get a Vaporshark DNA40 soon and I'm totally clueless about Nickel and its properties. I don't know if it's soft, springy, etc. I'm guessing I treat it just like kanthal (torch to remove some of the springiness) but don't know jack about how many wraps to get something like 0.7-1.0 Ohm resistance, like I'd do for 28 gauge kanthal, usually about 5-6 wraps around a 2.4mm bit.

There's at least two threads but reading from the beginning is lots of speculation, and reading backwards is hard to grok because it's complex builds that are explained in reverse.... Since Nickel is NONresistance, and since the DNA40 can temperature-limit, I guess I should be thinking about this all differently. I get the impression that I might need something like 8 wraps and wind up with a resistance around .4 but the heat limitation will keep it "in line" with what I'm used to getting out of my usual builds.

Am I thinking in the right direction?

 

[TheKiwi]

- nickel 200 is extremely extremely soft

- nickel 200 is technically NOT a non-resistance wire. It does however have extremely low resistance, such that it is negligible compared to kanthal. But when used on itself, it can still function as a resistance wire much like kanthal

- following the point above, youll see that the builds for nickel 200 are pretty huge. Most folks are using 2.5 mm to 3+ mm inner diameter. Additionally the coils are typically 11 to 16 wraps depending on the inner diameter.

- dependin on the gauge you use, you're likely to end up in the region of 0.06 to 0.3 ohms.

Eg 12 wraps on 3/32 inner diameter with 28ga ni200 typically gives me 0.15 ohm

- there's been debates about contact vs spaced coils. Many have found that space coils give more consistent readings.

Some of my builds:

I've also been doing kanthal/nickel hybrids

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[zipflint]

Thanks heaps! At least I know where to start now. That's a HUGE help!

- nickel 200 is extremely extremely soft

- nickel 200 is technically NOT a non-resistance wire. It does however have extremely low resistance, such that it is negligible compared to Nickle. But when used on itself, it can still function as a resistance wire much like kanthal

- following the point above, youll see that the builds for nickel 200 are pretty huge. Most folks are using 2.5 mm to 3+ mm inner diameter. Additionally the coils are typically 11 to 16 wraps depending on the inner diameter.

- dependin on the gauge you use, you're likely to end up in the region of 0.06 to 0.3 ohms.

Eg 12 wraps on 3/32 inner diameter with 28ga ni200 typically gives me 0.15 ohm

- there's been debates about contact vs spaced coils. Many have found that space coils give more consistent readings.

 

[t2ak]

Super basic, 0.5 Ohm single coil build on a Doge clone. I'm surprised at how much flavor this thing provides.
Doge clone deck by zipflint, on Flickr

Doge clone vapors 001 by zipflint, on Flickr

Sir Lancelot and Doge clones by zipflint, on Flickr

Quick question, What camera are you using? Lens/arpeture? love the field of focus on it.

 

[bholcomb22]

I did my first twisted build , and frankly I'm not impressed. I did twisted 26 gauge dual coil 6 wraps. Came out to about .25 ohms. Takes way too long to heat up, and I get more vapor off a standard 24 gauge coil.

Any suggestions? I have 22,24,26, and 28 gauge kanthal.

 

[t2ak]

I did my first twisted build , and frankly I'm not impressed. I did twisted 26 gauge dual coil 6 wraps. Came out to about .25 ohms. Takes way too long to heat up, and I get more vapor off a standard 24 gauge coil.

Any suggestions? I have 22,24,26, and 28 gauge kanthal.

twisted 28g should be around 0.5ohm and heat up about as fast as plain 26g.

I use twisted 30 and 28 alot. I love the flavor and you still can easily hit subohm while still getting a quick heat up.