Reluctant Dripper

[John Lever]

At my B&M I decided to give and try an rda. I overpaid $35 for an Atty clone, which included him doing a dual coil build 1.5 ohms to run on a MVP. It works and puts out good taste, but the volume is puny compared to a nautilus Mini. I'm sure the answer is a more powerful mod, but I was hoping to run this combo. He has some sigelei Minis for $90, but I can't go the 100% markup. I also have a VTR but I doubt the extra 1 volt is going to help a lot.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

 

[Smann245]

You just need WAY more power in my humble opinion. Lots of stuff available online for reasonable prices.

 

[Rule62]

A 1.5 ohm dual coil is pretty high resistance for a dripper. I can understand why the performance is lacking.

 

[joelmora89]

You can ghetto rig it and put tape on one side and make a single coil that should be looking a little better

 

[samturdo]

my aerotank at 2.0 ohms gets better clouds than a nautilus with an unregulated mod...something is wrong here

 

[Norrin]

A 1.5 ohm dual coil is pretty high resistance for a dripper. I can understand why the performance is lacking.

I run mine around 2 ohms but using an 8.4V mech, not great vapour admittedly but it gives great flavour.

You want vapour you need power, airflow, wicking ....blah blah blah. But power is what you need to start, then you will have the other things to think about, but why bother if you have the taste? Haven't tried to get a cloud chasing set up, but can't imagine you will get great flavour with them.

 

[chrisKRAWLER]

Only way to drip on an mvp and have good flavor/vapor is single coil @ around 1.3-1.5 ohms. Try a single 28 guage coil on a 2 mm at around 7/8 wraps.

 

[WattWick]

my aerotank at 2.0 ohms gets better clouds than a nautilus with an unregulated mod...something is wrong here

It's due to differences in wire gauges. I would almost be willing to bet the clerk set up OPs dripper with 28 awg or 30 awg or such. Which translates to a whole lot of metal for 2x 3 ohm coils.

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While one solution is more power, the more sensible solution is to lower the power requirement. After all, you want to vaporize liquids - not heat metal. Drippers don't require more power by design. That's all down to the coils. You may not be chasing clouds with the bearded ones... but that may not be the objective, either.

First and easiest thing I'd try would simply be to rip out one of the coils. Should be doable even if OP isn't comfortable winding coils yet

(This post may contain slightly offensive wording. No offense intended. I just found it a bit funny.)

 

[K31Scout]

I have run a $15 fastech Magma clone single coil 1.2 ohm on an MVP and it was great. Better on a 15w device but not too bad on the 11w MVP and holds about 25 drags worth of juice.

 

[John Lever]

If I took out one coil, wouldn't the remainder be a 3 ohms?

 

[WattWick]

If I took out one coil, wouldn't the remainder be a 3 ohms?

Aha! Excellent point! Why didn't I think of that?

You are absolutely right. My head was elsewhere. It may still be.

 

[Rwb1500]

You should be able to get decent performance with that setup. I used drippers on an MVP for a little while.

Do you know what kind of wicking material they used?

Are the airholes lined up with the coils?

Do you mouth inhale or lung inhale?

Airflow is a HUGE part of making RDAs work properly.

When you're ready to start building you're own we'll be here to walk you through it. It's not too hard.

If you want showing us a picture of the current build might help us figure out a way to help you make it work.


(Boom, 500 posts.)

 

[John Lever]

Thanks, I'll post a photo tomorrow when it's light. He used rayon wicking. I'm mouth inhaling. Thank you. Hoping that the VTR will give it enough kick to work. If I decide to upgrade, would a Sigelei 100w be a good choice? Oh, wow, I didn't intend for this to go over the cliff!

 

[John Lever]

Problem solved. The Atty fit the VTR with a long drip tip and the 6v puts out an adequate volume. Still, an upgrade may be in order...

 

[VHRB2014]

A mech mod and a good battery wold make that atty sing.


About 30 bucks and some learning curve, but you could turn that around and enjoy it for cheap if you do the homework.

Cheers,
Randall

 

[bholcomb22]

A 1.5 ohm dual coil is pretty high resistance for a dripper. I can understand why the performance is lacking.

It completely depends on the mod bro....

I have a 1.4 ohm 26 gauge dual coil on my mutation x running at 50 watts on IPV2 and it puts out more vapor than my .22 ohm 24 gauge build on my mutation x v2.....
Resistance doesn't have much to do with anything when you have a high power regulated device... It's not all about super sub ohm anymore.


For the OP. You should definitely get a mech mod and build lower resistance, or get a high powered VW device.... I would recommend at LEAST 30 watt device if you are going after big clouds...

 

[readeuler]

If you build it yourself, it's totally doable with a VTR. Probably an MVP too, but I can neither confirm nor deny.

My dual coil fogger is a delight at 1.2 ohms, dual 30 gauge, 15 watts. I've been using a single coil magma build, 1.6 ohms of 28ga that's also very nice.

I'm also upgrading as far as wattage available goes, but the only upgrade that's strictly necessary is some Kanthal, rayon (or cotton) and youtube videos, the way I see it

 

[John Lever]

Here's the build the B&M guy did. It leaks like a sieve. He says just hold it upright. Is this normal? Thanks.

 

[edyle]

If I took out one coil, wouldn't the remainder be a 3 ohms?

Yes but you would be putting all the power to that 1 3 ohm coil instead of half the power to each 3 ohm coil.

 

[bholcomb22]

WOahh

Are those horizontal coils?

If they are.... That could possibly be the worst wick job I've ever seen....