Spaced coil

[shane stafford]

Hi everyone!
So I decided to experiment with spaced coils today, and I was wondering what advice everyone could give me(I.E. technique, wire gauge, wraps, wicking) I found that a dual 22g with 4 wraps around a 3/32 bit works well, but I'm open to any ideas.
Thank you all

 

[shane stafford]

Hi everyone!
So I decided to experiment with spaced coils today, and I was wondering what advice everyone could give me(I.E. technique, wire gauge, wraps, wicking) I found that a dual 22g with 4 wraps around a 3/32 bit works well, but I'm open to any ideas.
Thank you all

Also, here's a photo of the build described above.

 

[Tom Forde]

Try wrapping your spaced coil parallel to another gauge wire. Then remove the wire you used in parallel to the bottom wire. It'll give you even spacing every time and you can use different gauges for wider or closer spaced coils.

24g wrapped parallel to another strand of 24g that I pulled off to make it a spaced coil

 

[shane stafford]

Try wrapping your spaced coil parallel to another gauge wire. Then remove the wire you used in parallel to the bottom wire. It'll give you even spacing every time and you can use different gauges for wider or closer spaced coils.View attachment 469813
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24g wrapped parallel to another strand of 24g that I pulled off to make it a spaced coil

That's what I did, but I did end up tweaking it when I put it in my rda, but thank you!

 

[Tom Forde]

That's what I did, but I did end up tweaking it when I put it in my rda, but thank you!

No problem. You could even double or triple the width with a triple or more parallel to get whatever spacing you want

 

[gmoney$]

That idea of parallel wrapping and removing one of the wires is kinda brilliant. The other popular method I use is wrapping on a machine screw of the diameter you want. Then you thread the coil off the screw and have a spaced coil. What I do then is put the coil on a screw driver of appropriate diameter and compress the coil to create tighter, but still even, spacing.

 

[shane stafford]

Try wrapping your spaced coil parallel to another gauge wire. Then remove the wire you used in parallel to the bottom wire. It'll give you even spacing every time and you can use different gauges for wider or closer spaced coils.View attachment 469813
View attachment 469814
24g wrapped parallel to another strand of 24g that I pulled off to make it a spaced coil

wha[GALLERY=][/GALLERY] also, what is that build coming out to? Ohm wise?

 

[shane stafford]

That idea of parallel wrapping and removing one of the wires is kinda brilliant. The other popular method I use is wrapping on a machine screw of the diameter you want. Then you thread the coil off the screw and have a spaced coil. What I do then is put the coil on a screw driver of appropriate diameter and compress the coil to create tighter, but still even, spacing.

thank you! I'll have to try that out, sounds like a more efficient method

 

[Tom Forde]

wha[GALLERY=][/GALLERY] also, what is that build coming out to? Ohm wise?

It's 24g N80, 8 spaced wraps single ohm'd out at .4-.5 on my trusty Sig100's ohm reader (mine has been as accurate as my stand alone ohm reader) so duals were in the .2 range