Pure nickel wire?

[juggalofisher88]

So I just bought some "pure" nickel wire off ebay, and I'm here for my normal buy first ask questions layer routine..... I know I know I need to research first if I did I wouldn't have 4 ultrafire "4000"mah batteries collecting dust never used.....
Anyways back to the topic I was buying some kanthal ribbon to try first before buying the big spool from my b&m. And the seller had this stuff so I threw it in cart and checked 7.25$ for 50ft
The listed specs in description was..

28 Gauge Pure Nickel Wire Specifications:

·.Heat resistant up to 1400 degrees Celsius

·.Resistance = 0.3778 Ohms/ft. at room temp

·.0.0126 in. .32004 mm

·.Shape: Round[\code]

Anyone tried this? Is it similar to nichrome? Which I haven't tried.. 
And also look at that ohms/ft!!
That's ridiculous low right? So I'm going to have to make huge coils right? 
Blah Blah Blah any feedback would be great. 
Thanks

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[juggalofisher88]

Bump

 

[gratefulbuddy]

you would use this for nr-r-nr setups as the nr wire

 

[juggalofisher88]

you would use this for nr-r-nr setups as the nr wire

Not sure what that means lol, is it not usable for coils?

 

[Cullin Kin]

NR stands for non-resistance from what I've gathered on de googliez. So what grateful is saying is a NonResistance-Resistance-NonResistance where the leads of the coil are the nickel and the actual coil is kanthal or wire with resistance. How you are supposed to do that, I don't know. Actually it says you crimp the two wires together to form one.

Here is a little excerpt:

'This wire is for use with atomisers requiring no-resistance leads from the coil. If you want to build coils for wicks you need to buy some Kanthal A1 or Nichrome.'

So it looks like you will not be able to use that for the whole coil and I would suspect this setup produces quite low resistance.

It's amazing what you can find with a google search.

Edit: Here is a little more info:

'This high quality Nickel (N6) NR wire with a nickel content of more than 99.5% is mainly used to connect the main heating coils (normally Kanthal/Nichrome) to the negative and positive posts of your RBA (rebuildable atomizer). This allows heating to occur exactly where you want it, which is at your wick. Because NR wire has extremely low resistance, it does not heat up and glow when connected in series to a resistance wire. This allows a more efficient vape without heating up the entire tank/atomizer.

NR is most commonly used on RBA’s with the negative and positive posts located far away from the coils (Odysseus, Ithaka, Killer, Diver, etc)'

Seems kind of cool. I would wait to hear from someone who has done this though to chime in...

 

[juggalofisher88]

Thanks! I guess I'm going to need some imagination to use this stuff gonna make building interesting to say the least

 

[tobarger]

If you don't have an atomizer that requires NR-R-NR coils then you don't need Pure Nickel wire

 

[CloudZ]

Thanks! I guess I'm going to need some imagination to use this stuff gonna make building interesting to say the least

You can't build a heating coil with it, it is not resistance wire. It's only application to vaping is nr-r-nr.

 

[gratefulbuddy]

To add: In the old days (a few years ago lol) some rbas required the use of coils that had long legs of a non-resistance wire that would carry current to the coil without heating up. The reasons for this varied and going into them would make this post MUCH longer, but to suffice it to say - a non-resistance wire ->to-> resistance wire ->to-> non-resistance wire setup was a necessity. Nowadays this has mostly been replaced by posts or screws to secure the resistance wire thus eliminating the need for non-resistance wire.
A great example is the (pre-update) gg ithaka and the rose atomizers. Very similar functioning setups with a huge difference. The (pre-update) ithaka required the use of nr-r-nr wire setups while the rose uses a set screw system for the res wire directly thus doing away with the nr wire setup.

Long story short :
Like all other posters said - If you don't need it, you don't need it!

 

[abpigdoc]

Like the Rene 41 in my Rose, mucho!