What size ribbon is that? The .8mm?
I have seen that video, but what I have found from my own experimentation, is that the more coil I leave open the better the flavor and vapor. But maybe that is just me.
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What size ribbon is that? The .8mm?
I have seen that video, but what I have found from my own experimentation, is that the more coil I leave open the better the flavor and vapor. But maybe that is just me.
Very basic rebuild on my Russian 91%.
28g twisted on 2.4mm id = ~1ohm
Mostly I'm posting this to show the crazy big juice channels on this thing. They are around 2.2mm (maybe a hair bigger) and have posed issues with wicking (mainly easily floods).
Only way I've found to keep it from flooding (most of the time anyway) is to put something smaller (1.3-1.5mm) in the channels and pack the cotton down then remove what I had in the channels (normally an Allen wrench). Then fluff the cotton around the hole left by the Allen.
If anybody else has run across an issue like this and has a better way to wick let me know
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I have not seen this wire wrap yet, and I was playing at the work bench and opted to try this since the Tidal Wrap worked out so cool.
What I did was take .8mm ribbon, approximately 7 feet, and twist it. Once that is done, double it and twist it again. Take another 7 feet and twist it the opposite of the first (drill in Reverse), then double it and twist again(drill still in reverse). Put both wires together and twist (drill forward).
So far so good. It kicks out both good flavor and great vapor, and it cools down faster than the tidal wire.
Only down side is, that it is harder to fit through the drilled out holes in my rda. Easily fixed with needle nose pliers, just flatten a bit.
Until I hear someone else has prenamed it, I am calling it "Barbed Wire".
.56 ohms
What I did was take .8mm ribbon, approximately 7 feet, and twist it. Once that is done, double it and twist it again. Take another 7 feet and twist it the opposite of the first (drill in Reverse), then double it and twist again(drill still in reverse). Put both wires together and twist (drill forward).
So far so good. It kicks out both good flavor and great vapor, and it cools down faster than the tidal wire.
Only down side is, that it is harder to fit through the drilled out holes in my rda. Easily fixed with needle nose pliers, just flatten a bit.
Until I hear someone else has prenamed it, I am calling it "Barbed Wire".
.56 ohms
heyup lucky_x16 
Yes i'm with you on the coil exposure equalling more flavour.
As regards the slow cool off of the Tidal wire, i've never noticed this, i presume you vaped it at around 0.5Ω ? i've only vaped it at between 0.07-0.15Ω.
Slow heat up can result in slow cool off as the wire is being heated fully compared to a lower ohm build that requires maybe a 1 sec pulse to achieve the same result vape wise. But its a balancing act. If i use 20ga nichrome at 0.08Ω im just about tiptoeing across the fine line and i do notice a slow cool off, less wire as in 20ga A1 works okay for me at 0.08 and is pretty much a perfect vape.
The higher power builds dont mind being covered in extra cotton and still give good flavour orelse i wouldnt vape them
Yes i'm with you on the coil exposure equalling more flavour. As regards the slow cool off of the Tidal wire, i've never noticed this, i presume you vaped it at around 0.5Ω ? i've only vaped it at between 0.07-0.15Ω.
Slow heat up can result in slow cool off as the wire is being heated fully compared to a lower ohm build that requires maybe a 1 sec pulse to achieve the same result vape wise. But its a balancing act. If i use 20ga nichrome at 0.08Ω im just about tiptoeing across the fine line and i do notice a slow cool off, less wire as in 20ga A1 works okay for me at 0.08 and is pretty much a perfect vape.
The higher power builds dont mind being covered in extra cotton and still give good flavour orelse i wouldnt vape them
heyup lucky_x16
As regards the slow cool off of the Tidal wire, i've never noticed this, i presume you vaped it at around 0.5Ω ? i've only vaped it at between 0.07-0.15Ω.
Slow heat up can result in slow cool off as the wire is being heated fully compared to a lower ohm build that requires maybe a 1 sec pulse to achieve the same result vape wise. But its a balancing act. If i use 20ga nichrome at 0.08Ω im just about tiptoeing across the fine line and i do notice a slow cool off, less wire as in 20ga A1 works okay for me at 0.08 and is pretty much a perfect vape.
The higher power builds dont mind being covered in extra cotton and still give good flavour orelse i wouldnt vape them
Yea, I stick to between .4 ohm and .6 ohm preferably that is, for my mechanical attys. For me that is where it's smoothest. With the batteries I use, the ramp up on the coils has been incredibly fast, but with all the wires in a tidal wrap, it just stores the heat.
5/6 Wrap Twisted 26g around the trusty bluedriver; .45ohm; Organic Cotton for wick; Sitting on a Freakshow
Just got my bottom fed vertex.. And man...this could be my favorite rda yet
It does have a remarkably shallow well though, so non-squonking folks might not be a fan. But the flavor and vapor production off this fella is on point.
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It does have a remarkably shallow well though, so non-squonking folks might not be a fan. But the flavor and vapor production off this fella is on point.
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That's two bling out coils. That 5th pic looks like it should be a jewelry case
Two of my 24 gauge kanthal builds. I'm fairly new to lower gauge, but I'm liking the results. I tend to take short draws and these are working well for me.
24 gauge parallel ~2.7mm ID @ 0.2ohms
Dual 24 gauge ~3.0mm ID @ 0.38ohms
24 gauge parallel ~2.7mm ID @ 0.2ohms
Dual 24 gauge ~3.0mm ID @ 0.38ohms
Just got my bottom fed vertex.. And man...this could be my favorite rda yet
It does have a remarkably shallow well though, so non-squonking folks might not be a fan. But the flavor and vapor production off this fella is on point.
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Where did you find/get/have it made?
There's a ecf member Chowderhead who sells BF-Ed atties. It's called catfish atties
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Back to the Clapton I go (keep going back and forth between a Clapton and stovetop set up.... Clapton gives me more flavor, stovetop gives me more vapor....decisions )
Sent with one hand, the other is busy vaping.
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Sent with one hand, the other is busy vaping.
This is a build I did about a month ago and still rocking, though the coils are starting to get a bit rusty...
It's a dual twisted 28ga, parallel sleeper build, clocking in between .26 and .28 ohms depending on the mood of my reader
Each coil is about 6/7 wraps around a 2mm post.
I just wanted to show off the glow
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What gauges do you use?Back to the Clapton I go (keep going back and forth between a Clapton and stovetop set up.... Clapton gives me more flavor, stovetop gives me more vapor....decisions [emoji14])
Sent with one hand, the other is busy vaping.
It is a bear to chase between vapor and flavor. Gotta find that balance where your satisfied.
i'm still finding empty rda's to build on and after USM saying about liking stovetops and claptons i had to put the two together, she's a little rough looking but its not a straight clapton, it's 26ga A1 with 0.9x0.1 ribbon wrapped clapton style and then clapton style 30g A1 over that, the ribbon when wrapped or curved splits apart, you can just make it out in the stovetop.
And here is something else ive been playing around with, its 2strand twist of 30ga A1 wrapped clapton style over 26ga A1 ...
when a coil is wrapped with this wire it looks just like a clapton on heat up...
And here is something else ive been playing around with, its 2strand twist of 30ga A1 wrapped clapton style over 26ga A1 ...
when a coil is wrapped with this wire it looks just like a clapton on heat up...
I've been intrigued by the idea of making a clapton coil out of two different gauges of twisted wire, but I'm too lazy to even do a standard clapton so that'll probably never happen lol.
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