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[Dissonance]

Dual 7/6 wraps with twisted 28g kanthal around a 14g syringe needle. Takes a second to warm up but nice thick vapor with amazing flavor. Was a bit worried at first since before heating & squeezing the coils together it was only reading .37Ω... Still within the capacities of my battery just a 'lil low for my tastes.

 

[DateVapist]

My latest build, a .3ohm dual macro coil with 24 gauge. The vape is dense, warm and flavorful and it performs well even with a short pull. I just recently started working with 24 and I like it a lot!


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[sedge]

I posted this question elsewhere but just in case I'll put it out here too:

To all the vertical coil builders out there...what are the advantages and differences?
And what are some techniques to success?

I can see that the wick that comes out of the botton is close to the drip well so the juice doesn't have to travel to far, but I always see the wick tail comming out of the top looped over and back down. It seems like that part of the wick would dry out faster causing dry hits.

 

[DeadbeatJeff]

When I do vertical coils I don't have the top wick looped -- I cut it off about 0.5cm above the coil, so it only draws from the bottom.

It works great that way in vertical macro coils

 

[dugga]

Here's something I've been working on……

24g wrapped on a piece of 28g that was then removed. 1 wire in a IGO W coming in at .24 ohms.

It's a hot one and kicks out some serious vapor.



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[IIKEVOII]

How do you have it wicked?

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[DeadbeatJeff]

How do you have it wicked?

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this^

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[TreoTahoe]

.6 dual micro coil warm dense clouds

 

[dugga]

How do you have it wicked?

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Laying on a bed of cotton.


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[NikZak]

Hey there folks, I got bored yesterday and decided to pull my Igo-L out and try my hand at another coil, this time a little more interesting was the plan

First attempt sucked, too many turns (I believe three 7 wrap coils was the outcome in 28ga, resulting in around 2.8ohm, way to high) and was difficult to wick and didn't wick well so it was scrapped

It worked, just wasn't as good as I was hoping, so I went back to the drawing board and made the next crestion

Triple coils again but this time triple vertical, 4/5 wraps per coil still in 28ga and coming in at 1.5ohm and wicks brilliantly!

Still not as neat as some of the other awesome builds here, but I'm getting there

 

[NicksCloud]

I want to know what you need that large level for when making coils

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LOL! Nice

 

[pdib]

I posted this question elsewhere but just in case I'll put it out here too:

To all the vertical coil builders out there...what are the advantages and differences?
And what are some techniques to success?

I can see that the wick that comes out of the botton is close to the drip well so the juice doesn't have to travel to far, but I always see the wick tail comming out of the top looped over and back down. It seems like that part of the wick would dry out faster causing dry hits.

I've found that verticals give a very even-mellow vape. Full flavor and not too any one thing in particular. I was playing with how the air flows over the coil a while back, and how that affects flavor, TH, etc. On a horizontal coil, I found that the more air that gets under the coil, the more TH and zingy/acidic flavors you're going to get. More air over the top is mellower, sweeter, and less exciting. It seemed to me that a vertical coil is balanced in this respect. There is no top/bottom. I think all this has to do with the fact that heat rises, and that there's more airspace (usually) above a coil than below it (further inviting the vapor/heat to expand in that direction). So, "top-air" is hitting more of the effective area and "bottom-air" is "missing the point". After all that, me being a guy who likes full flavor, but needs some acidity and some appreciable TH, this was my resulting favorite build.

Vertical section for balance (centered in air path), and a very high horizontal coil with almost all the air passing under it, to add the kick.


air hole was at squonk-hole-minus-thirty-o'clock ↑ . . . . . (so, I guess that'd be 7:30 in this pic )

 

[sedge]

Excellent explanation Bee. Thank you.

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[Tbev]

Rayon wicks after 20mls of Custard, that's where the coloration is coming from, no burning or gunning of the wick/coils. @0.5 0hm

Fairly dry..


After dripping :

 

[Tbev]

This is the first parallel coil I've ever wrapped, it's wicked! I'm running it on a junk mod BC the threads on this pos authentic atty ate the threads out of my copper nemi and this Chinese pos, by the way this mod is not getting hot I'd say the coil can't be below 0.5 0hm but it performs like it sure is!

Wicked with RAYON!

Anyone familiar with parallels wanna take a guess at the res. it's at least 2mm, 28ga.... dunno how many wraps... No lectures please my batteries are dead in my meter.

 

[treehead]

Here's a HARD AS HELL parallel to try if you like dense flavorful vapes, a 24 gauge dual macro coil, wrapped 4 times on a micro-screwdriver slightly smaller than a 1/8th" drill bit, and one consecutive wire, well two uninterrupted lengths of wire. WHOO building a parallel coil inside one side of an RDA is friggin stressfull, especially if you want it to look purdy. (came out to .35 ohms, wicked with shiseido cotton, takes a tiny bit long to heat up for my tastes, maybe a full second to get angry, but when she does it's super good flavor, and a dense mouthful, can chase clouds with 2 second pulls).

that'll do pig.
Here it is wicked and beaten by electricity.

 

[treehead]

Nice parallel Tbev! I just wrapped some yesterday coincidentally lol. Mine came out to .35, no lecture needed brother . How's she doin in the ol' Trident? You have to fire mine for a tiny bit as your bringing it to your mouth to actually start hissing, but she puts out after that half a second. Flavorful.

 

[AndriaD]

The last two posts just provided me with an actual good reason for a mech: not being limited to that "10 second" draw. The 10-second rule was why I found the 28ga so unusable at the higher resistance I prefer; by the time it was actually making good vapor, the 10-sec rule would kick in and shut it down.

Ok, finally a mark in the PRO column for mechs, aside from "looks pretty" and "won't die like electronics do".

I do wish some of these electronic gizmos would make that "10-second rule" something you could program to suit yourself; 15 seconds would be a lot better.

Andria

 

[treehead]

I've found that verticals give a very even-mellow vape. Full flavor and not too any one thing in particular. I was playing with how the air flows over the coil a while back, and how that affects flavor, TH, etc. On a horizontal coil, I found that the more air that gets under the coil, the more TH and zingy/acidic flavors you're going to get. More air over the top is mellower, sweeter, and less exciting. It seemed to me that a vertical coil is balanced in this respect. There is no top/bottom. I think all this has to do with the fact that heat rises, and that there's more airspace (usually) above a coil than below it (further inviting the vapor/heat to expand in that direction). So, "top-air" is hitting more of the effective area and "bottom-air" is "missing the point". After all that, me being a guy who likes full flavor, but needs some acidity and some appreciable TH, this was my resulting favorite build.

Vertical section for balance (centered in air path), and a very high horizontal coil with almost all the air passing under it, to add the kick.

I'm glad someone else thinks about things as hard as I do . There's benefits to both horizontal and vertical, I like vertical (or tilted 45) just because I hypothesize that the vapor being produced doesn't get shot straight back into the deck below, rather get's shot into the airspace within the chamber, and even better at the incoming airflow. If you can't decide why not both!?

I noticed that if I directed the airflow from the side, that I guess the airflow got "boxed in" by the coils, and the clouds became denser, more flavorful, and more consistent too. I dig it, but the battery life was not solid.

 

[treehead]

I am so thoroughly happy with my BCV BFM. I got a 1.6 mm ID there at 6/7 wrap with 26g. At 0.23 ohms it is perfect. Quickly heats up. Just amazing flavor and tons of vapor and not too hot. At first it was a bit much but I dialed in the afc perfectly.

I think were vaping soul mates brother , that's basically what I vape on 18650 currently, on dual coil. But yep, .2ohms, 1 seconds pulls, immediate and huge vapor/flavor. Almost "cloud" competition worthy, but still balanced for flavor. I can't wait until my mutant and Tobh 28.5mm gets here! I'm saving up for the cerebus now, I love the tri-coil idea. Quad coils are ok, but a little taxing on the battery, dual coils are my current favorite but still looking for more, I think I'm a tri-coil guy.