starting out with coil building? ??

[okaycarmen]

I am listing all I know about my mods and what I have please let me kniw if I am missing any information towards building ny own coils and vaping Ir any suggestionsMechanical mod:Atomaxami (?) Nemesis cloneBattery:LG 18650 3.7V 30amp limit Kanthal:28 gaugeI bought an ohm reader and the kuro coiler (cw-30)What kind of coils should I be building?? Or what other information should I know? I am also confused about what wattage is? (Side note I don't want to build sub ohms)

 

[CampbellMC]

I haven't started building my own coils yet (Everything is in the mail currently ) but your best bet is youtube most likely. Type in whatever RDA you have, and there is usually 200 videos about different coil set ups for each one. You can also google "RDA NAME coil building" to get more results from here and resources, and just general "How to" guides are all over the place. I noticed you didn't list any cotton either. You will most likely want to get Japanese Organic Cotton, very pure, Koh Gen Do seems to be the favorite around here.

 

[Baditude]

You Tube videos on mods, delivery devices, and coil building is a good suggestion. Prepare for hours of research.

There are a number of articles which I have written for beginner vapors here: Baditude's Blogs

 

[okaycarmen]

Thank you

 

[okaycarmen]

Thanks! ill definitely check that out!

 

[classwife]

Moved to New Members from Simple Solutions



Simple Solutions is to assist the Beginning Vaper with getting started

 

[vince01]

As Baditude says research is key, I would suggest you bookmark an ohms law calculator and coil toy - coil resistance calculator, and have a play around with them to get a better idea of what will be available to you with your device

 

[Dizzo]

A watt is a measurement of how much work is being done by the electricity. It is a different way to measure than volts.
If you have an ohm meter, you'll be fine. Figuring out how you like to wrap is half the fun

 

[Rsunderl]

Hi okaycarmen and welcome aboard!

At the risk of embarrassing him, Baditude's blogs are a definite must read. As others have said, YouTube has many good videos on how to build all kinds of coils. Yes, a good caculator program and a decent meter are must have tools, too.

While you are learning, you should keep to one kind of coil at a time until you master it and see what it can do, then move on if you want.

And remember, check your coils on the meter before you ever attempt to put them on your device and fire them up. Never know when you think it looks good, tested out OK the first time, but got a short while mounting it.

I'm sure you'll do fine and Happy Vaping!

 

[Oxytyramine]

As said above, youtube is your friend. Spend some time wrapping, burning, and rewrapping coils until they come out real nice every time. Kanthal is fairly cheap, and once you can wrap a good coil the coil itself can last for months with weekly rewicking. If you spend two hours practicing coils you will get really good really quickly. The biggest piece of advice I can give, that hasn't been mentioned yet, is to ignore coil building videos that "tidy up" sloppy, poorly rolled coils by heating them up after they're on the atomizer. It is NOT hard to roll a good coil from the start and the better the coil is BEFORE you put it on the RBA the better it will work when all is said and done.

Note: I still tidy up my coils via heat and needle nose pliers, but not nearly to the degree I see some people on youtube doing it.

A watt is a measurement of how much work is being done by the electricity. It is a different way to measure than volts.
If you have an ohm meter, you'll be fine. Figuring out how you like to wrap is half the fun

Agreed. When I first started I found that wrapping parallel coils was easier for me than normal single strands.