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[NolaMel]

Yeah,my ssocc's are the newer style too,the round ones.I remember not liking the square ones years ago when i tried them in a subtank,but the round ones work really well.
As for those 1.8 coils,those may work out good,depending on your vape style now,would be worth giving one a try to see when the current coil needs replaced.I don't use a very gunky juice,but i got over 2 weeks from the Atlantis .5 ohm coil i ran in mine,they just seem to keep going,i probably could of went longer with it,but i got bored and wanted to try something different in the BB haha.

Ivapesupply has the occ ni200 (0.15) for $1.30 a box. I don’t remember if I tried those back then, but the price is right! CNY30 still works as a discount code too.

 

[NolaMel]

That must of been an Euc ceramic,people rave about how good those are,but i didn't care for them too much.I agree though,for the most part,i rarely use a drop in,but i did try several different ones so i could find 1 that i really liked just to keep as back ups for in case i either get lazy and don't want to rebuild at the time,or more importantly if i would be in a situation where i couldn't build for a while.I figure if i got hurt or something,i could probably get my wife to swap a drop in for me,but she would be completely lost if i tried to have her rebuild or even rewick haha.
I never intended to have a large stash of them though,i planned on maybe 5 or 6 boxes,but then when i found the Kanger ssocc's for .50 cents a box,i ended up ordering like 40 boxes of them,i couldn't pass up a deal like that haha.

You never know. I have an issue with my thumb joint that now requires wearing a thumb/wrist immobilizer splint for several weeks when it flares up. I quickly discovered I’m not dexterous enough to build with one hand. I prebuilt and dry wicked all my backup tanks, and bought a pile of dropins for just that reason. At my age, I think of it as vaping insurance.

 

[gsmit1]

Ivapesupply has the occ ni200 (0.15) for $1.30 a box. I don’t remember if I tried those back then, but the price is right! CNY30 still works as a discount code too.

Nickel is only supposed to be used in TC though.

 

[gsmit1]

I grabbed 5 boxes of those nickel coils and a SS VC X1 RDA while I was over there. Thanks @NolaMel

 

[NolaMel]

Nickel is only supposed to be used in TC though.

Didn’t think about that! I don’t TC or typically go that low in ohms. You can only use nickel in TC, not wattage? I was cruising through clearance when I saw them. I went to look for nitrile gloves for my youngest for work. I get a giggle seeing Amazon out of masks, sanitizer and gloves then a lot of vape sites are full stock.

 

[gsmit1]

Didn’t think about that! I don’t TC or typically go that low in ohms. You can only use nickel in TC, not wattage? I was cruising through clearance when I saw them. I went to look for nitrile gloves for my youngest for work. I get a giggle seeing Amazon out of masks, sanitizer and gloves then a lot of vape sites are full stock.

Do NOT take my word for this. I am NO expert and am only expressing my own considered opinion based on my own research.

EVERYbody says you cannot vape nickel or titanium in wattage mode. I am personally unconvinced. The reasons given for TC only for these metals are based upon temperatures decades above what we approach while vaping and or industrial conditions such as welding or refining.

I have done some serious research and have worked with titanium in an industrial setting myself. We had all the safety literature there. I am personally unconvinced of the dangers posed by using these metals in conventional vaping setups.

Again, do NOT do anything based upon my not firmly settled opinion. I am not recommending or suggesting anything. Just thinking out loud.

 

[gsmit1]

HOWEVER

If somebody has a specific allergy to nickel that is an entirely different story.

 

[NolaMel]

Do NOT take my word for this. I am NO expert and am only expressing my own considered opinion based on my own research.

EVERYbody says you cannot vape nickel or titanium in wattage mode. I am personally unconvinced. The reasons given for TC only for these metals are based upon temperatures decades above what we approach while vaping and or industrial conditions such as welding or refining.

I have done some serious research and have worked with titanium in an industrial setting myself. We had all the safety literature there. I am personally unconvinced of the dangers posed by using these metals in conventional vaping setups.

Again, do NOT do anything based upon my not firmly settled opinion. I am not recommending or suggesting anything. Just thinking out loud.

The suggested dangers were tied to the decomp/off gassing as it got superheated, no? I could see that if you got closer to the melting point, but that would be way hotter than a mod could reach?
I was asking more out of curiosity. I use stainless or kanthal to build, and rarely get to 20 watts at most. After decades of smoking, working in a chemistry lab, and using lead solder for stained glass, nickel would probably fall low on the list of dangers in my life anyway . Given I have several lifetimes worth of wire already, I probably won’t have to find out.

 

[BillW50]

EVERYbody says you cannot vape nickel or titanium in wattage mode. I am personally unconvinced. The reasons given for TC only for these metals are based upon temperatures decades above what we approach while vaping and or industrial conditions such as welding or refining.

Strangely Evolv instructs people to use wattage mode with Replay. You can enable Replay in TC too if you want. I've played around with nickel in wattage mode. And here is what happens. From room temperature to about 410°F, the resistance doubles. And most mods nowadays adjust the power in wattage based on real time coil resistance. So as the coil heats up, the mod sees the wattage drop. So it gives it more power. And you end up with a snowball effect and it gets hotter and hotter until the mod can't raise the voltage any higher.

How fast it climbs depends on the resistance and power setting. I've seen it take 10 seconds to climb 50°F hotter. I've also seen it get 50°F hotter every half a second. Although I agree with you gsmit1. As I don't think nickel is as bad as they make it out to be. I am not sure about Titanium, since that can burst into flames somewhere around 800°F I thought. But so does dry cotton at 726°F.

Anyway back to Evolv and their instructions say use wattage mode. There are the only ones I think that even suggests wattage mode. Although they are saying to enable Replay mode soon so the temp will be locked in.

 

[NolaMel]

Strangely Evolv instructs people to use wattage mode with Replay. You can enable Replay in TC too if you want. I've played around with nickel in wattage mode. And here is what happens. From room temperature to about 410°F, the resistance doubles. And most mods nowadays adjust the power in wattage based on real time coil resistance. So as the coil heats up, the mod sees the wattage drop. So it gives it more power. And you end up with a snowball effect and it gets hotter and hotter until the mod can't raise the voltage any higher.

How fast it climbs depends on the resistance and power setting. I've seen it take 10 seconds to climb 50°F hotter. I've also seen it get 50°F hotter every half a second. Although I agree with you gsmit1. As I don't think nickel is as bad as they make it out to be. I am not sure about Titanium, since that can burst into flames somewhere around 800°F I thought. But so does dry cotton at 726°F.

Anyway back to Evolv and their instructions say use wattage mode. There are the only ones I think that even suggests wattage mode. Although they are saying to enable Replay mode soon so the temp will be locked in.

Your explanation was very good on the ramp up. Now it makes sense for the TC limitation. Either TC has been mainstream for longer than I realized, or the Kanger coils aren’t as old as I thought. I remember the og coils from when the subtank (??) came out. So, the occ coils were introduced specifically for TC users? I just don’t think of TC and drop in coils as going together.

 

[gsmit1]

Strangely Evolv instructs people to use wattage mode with Replay. You can enable Replay in TC too if you want. I've played around with nickel in wattage mode. And here is what happens. From room temperature to about 410°F, the resistance doubles. And most mods nowadays adjust the power in wattage based on real time coil resistance. So as the coil heats up, the mod sees the wattage drop. So it gives it more power. And you end up with a snowball effect and it gets hotter and hotter until the mod can't raise the voltage any higher.

How fast it climbs depends on the resistance and power setting. I've seen it take 10 seconds to climb 50°F hotter. I've also seen it get 50°F hotter every half a second. Although I agree with you gsmit1. As I don't think nickel is as bad as they make it out to be. I am not sure about Titanium, since that can burst into flames somewhere around 800°F I thought. But so does dry cotton at 726°F.

Anyway back to Evolv and their instructions say use wattage mode. There are the only ones I think that even suggests wattage mode. Although they are saying to enable Replay mode soon so the temp will be locked in.

Ya know what's funny? Just to be a stubborn jackass, one time I put a Lotus RTA with a Ti1 build in it on a tube mech. Single battery. .19 ohms cold.

It did just what I thought it would do. As the resistance climbed, the wattage dropped. I could feel it. It actually got cooler toward the end of the pull. Titanium also has a monster TCR curve.

Moral of the story? These deadly metals might actually be safer on a mech than on a regulated device

 

[gsmit1]

Almost like built in TC.

 

[BillW50]

Your explanation was very good on the ramp up. Now it makes sense for the TC limitation. Either TC has been mainstream for longer than I realized, or the Kanger coils aren’t as old as I thought. I remember the og coils from when the subtank (??) came out. So, the occ coils were introduced specifically for TC users? I just don’t think of TC and drop in coils as going together.

Going by memory, Evolv came out with TC in 2014 and Kanger came out with OCC coils in 2015. Lots of companies had TC mods by 2015. Although the early ones were nickel only TC.

 

[gsmit1]

Going by memory, Evolv came out with TC in 2014 and Kanger came out with OCC coils in 2015. Lots of companies had TC mods by 2015. Although the early ones were nickel only TC.

I think the DNA 60 was the first to offer TC in other metals than nickel. Of the Evolv boards.

 

[BillW50]

I think the DNA 60 was the first to offer TC in other metals than nickel. Of the Evolv boards.

Actually it was the DNA200 which came out in 2015. The DNA60 came out in 2016. The DNA60 is more or less an updated DNA40 board. Fits in the same mods that fit a DNA40 board too.

 

[gsmit1]

Actually it was the DNA200 which came out in 2015. The DNA60 came out in 2016. The DNA60 is more or less an updated DNA40 board. Fits in the same mods that fit a DNA40 board too.

Before my time. I was just thinking that because the DNA 40 is nickel only and the 60 can do other metals.

 

[mav2000]

Justb a question guys. Which is a better clone of the xeta? YFTK or SXK?