I have a Dark Horse right now that I traded a friend, I had him build me dual coil, with 28g wire, 12 wrapped, It's on my MVP and I have the settings cranked because it's not producing as much as I want it to. Will a single coil build with just 7 wraps make it better? Also ordered a Magma clone and 28g a1 wire and reylon cotton
My reader is showing 1 ohm, Maybe I should just buy a new mod? LOL they have the clones for like 20 dollars which are basically just battery holders. Maybe going subohm is what I need, but I don't want to have to spend the money for one considering I'll have to get my hubby one too lol.
And theres the catch with using dual coils.. Two coils means that at whatever wattage you have set, only half of that wattage is going to each coil. So if you liked vaping your Dark Horse with a single coil at say 15w, youre going to need 30w in order to send 15w to each coil in a dual setup. If youre still set at 15w, each coil is now only getting 7.5w versus a single coil that would take all that power by itself. Alot of factors involved as well. Thicker wire, takes more power to heat up as well, and two of them just takes even more power. I wouldnt rush out and buy a new mod yet. Get comfortable finding the vape style you like, and get more familiar with rebuilding coils first. Otherwise you could be wasting alot of money down the line chasing something you didnt like in the end.
At this point I would also say stay away from mechanical mods too (the 'battery holders'). A mechanical mod is a much more complicated and 'intimate' affair. There is no power regulation, meaning in order to get say 20w, you need to build just the right coil that will produce 20w from the battery by itself. Theres no chip in there that will just give you 20w out of nowhere. There is also no protection from short circuits, low resistance, overamperage, etc. Youre sucking power directly from a battery to your tank/dripper without it being safely watched over by a chip. Battery safety is serious business when it comes to mechanicals, as just the right conditions can lead to it turning into a pipe bomb in your face. This is where subohming came from, the lower the resistance of the coil, the more power you will draw from a battery. Over exert the battery, things heat up, venting can happen, thermal runaway starts, and BOOM. There is no real need to use subohm coils on a regulated mod, as you can just set it to the wattage you want and voila, the chip inside will deliver what you ask. Subohm coils are the only way to draw more power from a mechanical, but at the same time you are also increasing the amps drawn from the battery, while also shortening how long the battery lasts. Ive been at this for a little over a year, and consider myself somewhat sufficiently educated on vaping and I just barely bought my first mechanical like last week. Ive gone through enough tanks/drippers/mods that now I know what kind of vape I like so I decided to finally get one to see what the big difference was. With all the regulated mods available nowadays, theres really no reason you need one, they are alot more involved than simply throwing a coil in a tank and vaping away. Mechanical mods are kind of a thing of the past as far as vaping goes, its kinda like driving an old muscle car as opposed to getting something newer like a Honda.
It sounds to me like you guys are somewhat new to vaping, so trust me, while your vape style may stay the same over time, if youre like alot of us here youve just begun down the road to find the perfect vape. When I first started I thought my Kanger Evod and Protank was IT. Then came another mod, another tank, and it kept going until I finally settled in just a few months ago with my Sigelei Mini and a couple drippers. And even now, I havent used the Sigelei in 4 days, Ive been using nothing but the new mechanical.
