Rebuildable atty
- Thread starter petermaxx
- Start date
- th_trl_thread_readers 0
- Status
Thickness of wick/mesh/(any other liquid holding material) = No
Number of coils = different in length of resistance wire = Yes
* My above mention applies to getting more/less flavour of a particular liquid you put on and vapour. Does not apply to change the taste. Kinda difficult to have a fruity flavour changing to a tobacco flavour and vice versa with just varying the setup without changing the liquid.
Hope this helps.
Amount of vapours is how effective the coil is vaporizing the liquid. Lower the resistance = higher heat = more effective in burning the liquid.
Depending on the type of wire you use but in general more coils = longer resistance wire = higher resistance.
depending on the thickness of the kanthal/nichrome and wick u're using. 32AWG(approx 0.2mm) coil to 4 rounds on 2mm diameter wick would give you roughly 1.8 - 2.0 ohms. After roughly a day of vaping it would drop by approx 10% and level off.
my suggestion get a thinner wick and overlay them, more surface area for wicking.. if you dont like the warmer vape do more coils and use more VG to increase the vapor production
SS Mesh a good choice for wick also
SS Mesh a good choice for wick also
Ummm, don't know if silly question here. I got some stainless steel atomisers recently and the vape is so tasty, nice smoke and really clean... no rubber, polyfill, burnt taste whatsoever. Would a GG oddy be capable of such a vape?
Thanks for the advise muramasa. Really thinking about getting it through the local provider. Looking at their popularity I don't think I would have a problem selling 2nd hand should I not like it as well!
So can I say it's not the number of coils that matter it's the length of the resistance wire that matters right? Longer means can coil more rounds but doesn't affect the rating at all right?
Half correct. Why?
Assuming we are only talking about fix voltage. Not touching into Variable voltage.
Indeed it will be the resistance that will be providing the heat source thus the lower the resistance the better vaporizing of the liquid on wicking material.
But having more coils does helps also as it means heating up more surface area of the wicking material thus more vapour too.
Nobody can tell you what is corrct or wrong. Some wraps 2 coils and they say their setup is fantastic. Others wrap 6 coils and say their setup is awsome. You have to slowly play around with different kinds of setups to get the ultimate setup for yourself for rebuiltables. That is why there is different sizes of Nichrome wire or different guages of Kanthal wire.
Ok... Let me fill u in on a bit of technical basics.
AWG = American Wire Gauge. XXAWG or XXGauge means the diameter of the wire. Bigger number = smaller diameter and vice versa. (don't as me why big is small and small is big. ask the Yanks)
Nichrome/Kanthal has a specification called Ohms/foot or Ohms/meter depending on where u're from. Which means that Bigger gauge wires being thinner has higher resistance and smaller gauge wires being thicker have lower resistance.
So the longer the kanthal/nichrome the higher the resistance given that they are of the same gauge.
For hand coiling purposes, I recommend 32AWG or 34AWG . Anything thinner than that won't have the strength to withstand the repeated heating and cooling.
i've been fooling around with the Vivi recently. I tried wrapping 32awg 4 wraps 2 wicks. Read out 2.2ohm. running 4.0-4.2v
Notice the wicks quickly turn dark brown where the coils are. What am i doing wrong?
taking in not much vape but makes me cough
Notice the wicks quickly turn dark brown where the coils are. What am i doing wrong?
taking in not much vape but makes me cough
I understand the gauges and stuff but what I mean is for example if I have 3 cm of wire and coil 4 coils on my wick or coil 6 coils on my wick the resistance is still the same right? It's just that it covers more surface.
32AWG is the diameter. Kanthal A or D refers to how high of a temperature it can burn.
Check out this thread, post #16: http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/apv-discussion/298702-kanthal-a1-32-awg-2.html
There are AWG to metric/imperial conversion tables on the interweb. Google is your best friend..
As for kanthal a or d, it's already answered in the previous posts.
- Status
