I just got the $20 el cheapo kayfun lite plus clone and I must say, Im incredibly impressed with what I got for the money. I also ordered some 28,30, and 32ga kanthal and I have organic cotton. Im becoming obsessed with trying to build the perfect coil and as usual, im having some successes and failures.
I have rebuilt my protank coils for a long time and find that twisted 32ga or 30ga kanthal works best. However, now I have a larger deck to build on and I have been trying the 28ga with very little success. ( Im using the same principles in coil wrapping as usual ie, pinch tight and torch, glow orange on device and pinch until uniform.) Im using cotton with the other gauges so my wicking is not an issue. Yet still, I cant make any 28ga coils that work well.
Being that my vamov3 will only fire above 1.2ohm, could this be the problem? I see people with mechanicals who only use 28ga and blow great clouds of tasty vapor. I can get nice hits, but they taste like crap and my 30ga builds completely blow them away in all areas.
Ive tried
30ga 1/6 from 7-10 wraps (pleased)
5/64 from 6-8 wraps (also pleased)
3/32 at 7 wraps (ok)
28ga 1/16 9-11 wraps (not impressed)
5/64 8-10 wraps (also not impressed, but a little better)
3/32 7-10 wraps (same old not impressed)
So basically im getting better performance, flavor and vapor from my 30ga and poo poo from my 28. It seems to take way too long to get up to speed and never produces the thick, flavorful vapor that I like. Why is this? So many people love this stuff and im not really seeing the greatness for myself. Does 28 need to be wrapped to a lower ohm than my vamo will fire, to get awesome results?
I have rebuilt my protank coils for a long time and find that twisted 32ga or 30ga kanthal works best. However, now I have a larger deck to build on and I have been trying the 28ga with very little success. ( Im using the same principles in coil wrapping as usual ie, pinch tight and torch, glow orange on device and pinch until uniform.) Im using cotton with the other gauges so my wicking is not an issue. Yet still, I cant make any 28ga coils that work well.
Being that my vamov3 will only fire above 1.2ohm, could this be the problem? I see people with mechanicals who only use 28ga and blow great clouds of tasty vapor. I can get nice hits, but they taste like crap and my 30ga builds completely blow them away in all areas.
Ive tried
30ga 1/6 from 7-10 wraps (pleased)
5/64 from 6-8 wraps (also pleased)
3/32 at 7 wraps (ok)
28ga 1/16 9-11 wraps (not impressed)
5/64 8-10 wraps (also not impressed, but a little better)
3/32 7-10 wraps (same old not impressed)
So basically im getting better performance, flavor and vapor from my 30ga and poo poo from my 28. It seems to take way too long to get up to speed and never produces the thick, flavorful vapor that I like. Why is this? So many people love this stuff and im not really seeing the greatness for myself. Does 28 need to be wrapped to a lower ohm than my vamo will fire, to get awesome results?
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