Post pictures of your working wick and coil setup

[USMCotaku]

technically you do get a bit more surface area...
for example on contact coils your wick is just touching lets say 60% of the inner circumference of the wire as the next wire prevents the wick to "hug" a bit more circumference of the coils, with spaced ones your wick is free to hug a bit more of each individual loop thus giving you more surface area

Considering its not flat wire, when the wick expands it would have the same effect on non spaced. If there was a difference, it would be negligible. I still say the main difference is more wick material inside the heating area, not coil surface area. The only real way to increase surface area of round wire is to do build like twisted wire, Clapton's etc..

 

[fractalsauce]

So this build is 24AWG Nichrome80 wrapped with 32AWG Nichrome80. First Clapton build! Stable at 0.16Ω in a Mutation X atty on (and only used on) a Barbaric mods parallel 18650 unregulated box mod with 2 Sony VTC5's.

 

[jj6404]

28 Guage twisted

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[RiceBurner95]

Simple 26 gauge 8/9 wrap at 1.0 ohms, KohGenDo wicked, modified (much larger juice channels on the deck) Subtank Mini. Pretty basic but good vape. Typically wick it loose and short, just long enough to brush the deck when soaked and pushed down. Seems to do well at my typical 22-26W.

 

[Vapey_McVape]

Twisted 26g .8ohm, 5mm id, 8 wraps.

Fantastic vape at 45 watts!

 

[whosrandy]

Simple 26g parallel to 26g|32g clapton. 5 wraps .27 ohm. 2mm


20150409-DSC_5347.jpg by bmilcs, on Flickr

20150409-DSC_5360.jpg by bmilcs, on Flickr

20150409-DSC_5363.jpg by bmilcs, on Flickr

 

[zipflint]

Great lookin' coils and REALLY great photography!

 

[sedge]

Tilemahos Clapton

 

[zipflint]

Rewicked my big 'ol SubTank rebuildy deck. I really do love this thing. Like a Kayfun but with better airflow. Flavor ain't too shabby either!
SubTank RBA build 0002 by zipflint, on Flickr
SubTank RBA build 0003 by zipflint, on Flickr
SubTank RBA build 0004 by zipflint, on Flickr
SubTank RBA build 0005 by zipflint, on Flickr

 

[whosrandy]

Twisted 26g .8ohm, 5mm id, 8 wraps.

Fantastic vape at 45 watts!

HOLY INNER DIAMETER BATMAN.

That's crazy. Enjoying it? I barely stray from 2mm. I feel like I lose vapor past 2 - 2.5. I must be doing it wrong .

 

[USMCotaku]

Here's my newest build....

26 gauge twisted, sleeper coil (the post holes in that atty are quite large, so I didn't have to do sleeper coil style, but I find they heat more evenly for me). 6 wraps per coil, .2 ohms

And check out that airflow

Sent with one hand, the other is busy vaping.

 

[The.Drifter]

Very nice build USMCotaku

I also decided to go with 26G for my tonights build on my Lancia.

Quad 26G coils, 7/6 wraps each over 2.5mm pin also came out to 0.2 Ohms.

 

[USMCotaku]

Nice and clean..... I'm ocd about my coils , yours pass the ocd test
Sent with one hand, the other is busy vaping.

 

[ShakotanFun]

Its a 26g twist kind of day. Double twisted verticals on the Veritas, AMAZING. Twisted 26g sleeper coil on the Mutation, AMAZING.

Just noticed the same build as yours USMC, i really dig this sleeper!

 

[Alawot]

26ga, 8 wraps on a 2mm bit,came out to 0.801 Ohms

 

[Braaapp]

single coil 2mm 4 strand 30ga diamond braid .7Ω in one derringer clone, dual coil 2mm 32ga on 28ga clapton 0.65Ω in the other.

 

[Braaapp]

0.8 x 0.1mm ribbon twisted, 6/5 wraps on 2mm, 0.43Ω in a drilled igo-w. Great flavor and vapor.

 

[whosrandy]

Removed 2 loops per coil so 6 wrap 4x30g twisted. .32 ohm dual 2.5mm delicious.

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[Tom Forde]

On a doge v2, 26g n80/28g A1 fused Clapton wrapped with 32g A1

& on the MutationX v3 2x26g n80/ 1x 24g A1 with a 34g Clapton

 

[Anthony71688]

My second dripper build. Twisted 26 gauge nichrome 3mm diameter on my mutation x v2 clone comes in at .3 ohms on my istick 50w. I need to get some thinner wire so I can do even more crazy builds. Only have 24g and 26g nichrome at the moment besides from my ni200 wire I use in my subtank mini on my vaporshark rdna 40.