I just build my first dual coil on my third attempt and it is a success on a Twisted Messes. I used kanthal 24G with 5 wraps 3mm inside diameter reading .3 ohms. I had it at 100 watts. When I was trying to get the juice out by firing my alien with the top off on the rda the whole top was in a flame I had to blow out. What did I do wrong? Am I using too much wattage?
RDA caught fire for a second
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Hi Deth
Yes a 100 w would normally be a bit much on a .30 ohm coil. I'd normally expect to vape in the range of 30 to 50 on that. I am a bit confused about your comment about trying to get the juice out by firing it. We're you trying to burn the juice off the coil? Did you remove the wick first? Firing a coil like that is called dry burning and yes a small flame can appear as the grunge burns off. But beyond that no there shouldn't be anything burning.
When you get it cleaned up and going again try starting around 20w and work up by about 5w's each time until you get what you like.
Oh and congrats on that 1st coil.
Yes a 100 w would normally be a bit much on a .30 ohm coil. I'd normally expect to vape in the range of 30 to 50 on that. I am a bit confused about your comment about trying to get the juice out by firing it. We're you trying to burn the juice off the coil? Did you remove the wick first? Firing a coil like that is called dry burning and yes a small flame can appear as the grunge burns off. But beyond that no there shouldn't be anything burning.
When you get it cleaned up and going again try starting around 20w and work up by about 5w's each time until you get what you like.
Oh and congrats on that 1st coil.
Isn't 30-50 on a .3 ohm build a little low?Hi Deth
Yes a 100 w would normally be a bit much on a .30 ohm coil. I'd normally expect to vape in the range of 30 to 50 on that. I am a bit confused about your comment about trying to get the juice out by firing it. We're you trying to burn the juice off the coil? Did you remove the wick first? Firing a coil like that is called dry burning and yes a small flame can appear as the grunge burns off. But beyond that no there shouldn't be anything burning.
When you get it cleaned up and going again try starting around 20w and work up by about 5w's each time until you get what you like.
Oh and congrats on that 1st coil.
It all depends on your device, your juice, and your preference. The vape in my hand now is a Crown 1 with an RBA @ .24 ohms & a mav VG juice and I'm vaping it at 40w. It really comes down to what you like.
So glad it was your RDA and not a battery. RDA much easier to extinguish than a battery. LOL CHEERS!
This can also happen if your coil has hotspots but the above posters are correct to much wattage for a .3. It is a learning process and you have a wealth of knowledge here to pull from so you don't make the same mistakes we did in the earlier days of vaping and dripping. I have been dripping for over 3 years and I am still learning because it is constantly advancing as people come up with new coil builds, wicking material advances, devices advance and juice changes. As always I suggest you download the vape tool app. It has a good coil building calculator and even suggests a sweet spot for wattage settings. This can help you alot with basic coils and even twists and claptons beyond that it is just learning as you go and asking if you are unsure. Good luck with your builds and congrats on your first build.
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Thank you very much. I'm just wondering. If I like to be a cloud chaser and I have the Smok TFV8 OR the TFV12 why would one want to continue to drip. I'm guessing you can build and get bigger clouds?
Yeah it's all in the type of coil, the type of wire, mod, and juice. I like to run stainless wire and have been running braided coils like in my avatar. The one in my avatar is 10 stands of 28g stainless steel wire 5 wraps at .11ohms it has awesome flavor, killer clouds, and heats up quickly. I use Japanese organic cotton and an 80/20 VG juice. I built a similar coil for a friend and he just won a cloud comp with it this week.
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Do lots of reading and watching videos on YouTube. Learn before trying is the best advice I have.
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November your wattage is good it's your wicking style Bc I'm just going to take a wild guess but I'm going to say the cotton didn't look dry so you keeped going with it and I learned this at a very young age cotton balls not only will burn but will in golf in flames if the right amount of air hits it and one time when I first started vaping I had a couple friends over and we was smoking some wacky weed and I hit my mod a couple times and my buddy reached for it and not thinking I handed it to him and it was completely dry and I got to watch a normal not trained or and conditioned human in hail a complete fire ball down his throught and walk away from that still breathing lol
Not trying to be rude or sound like a know it all Bc I definitely don't know it all about e-cigarettes but I'm running a 0.4 ohm coil in my smok baby beast and the recommended wattage for my 0.4 ohm coil is 55w to 65w recommended wattage for that coil so I would say at 50w he should be fine but for even a nother extra safety precautions and start it at 40w when you first build your coils but that's itHi Deth
Yes a 100 w would normally be a bit much on a .30 ohm coil. I'd normally expect to vape in the range of 30 to 50 on that. I am a bit confused about your comment about trying to get the juice out by firing it. We're you trying to burn the juice off the coil? Did you remove the wick first? Firing a coil like that is called dry burning and yes a small flame can appear as the grunge burns off. But beyond that no there shouldn't be anything burning.
When you get it cleaned up and going again try starting around 20w and work up by about 5w's each time until you get what you like.
Oh and congrats on that 1st coil.
Hi Deth
Yes a 100 w would normally be a bit much on a .30 ohm coil. I'd normally expect to vape in the range of 30 to 50 on that. I am a bit confused about your comment about trying to get the juice out by firing it. We're you trying to burn the juice off the coil? Did you remove the wick first? Firing a coil like that is called dry burning and yes a small flame can appear as the grunge burns off. But beyond that no there shouldn't be anything burning.
When you get it cleaned up and going again try starting around 20w and work up by about 5w's each time until you get what you like.
Oh and congrats on that 1st coil.
What Smoke_too_much said....
Juice is flammable. To much wattage, not enough wattage... Dry burning a coil with juice on it will catch on fire.
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^exactly. Juice is flammable. Hot spots (especially during dry burning between wickings) will flame up if you heat too hard and don't slowly pulse.
TBH: I vape .30 coils around 50w and it's lovely. I'd say max ~65w on a .3
TBH: I vape .30 coils around 50w and it's lovely. I'd say max ~65w on a .3
So I have a question if e-juice is flammable then why doesn't it can bust into flames when the coils gets hot Bc know they get hot enough wicked currently to put burn spots on clothes and paper and will actually start smoke and flame up a little bit so I know they get hot enough to combust anything that's remotely flammable and if e-juice was flammable then how the heck did the guy that invented vapor cigarettes get that past the epa
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