Temp control vs wattage
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Are you using different coils because the resistance is the same unless something is wrong.
Same coil, nichrome 26 ga 10 twists. The resistance in wattage mode is all over the place. Made my 1st coils yesterday. Started out at 0.56 thrn jumped to 0.91.
This morning 0.65 then jumped to 1.2
However in tc mode its 0.42 but i havent tried it yet.
This morning 0.65 then jumped to 1.2
However in tc mode its 0.42 but i havent tried it yet.
I use temp control exclusively. My set up is described below. TC is watts with a temperature limit. Do a stainless build. try temp control at your usual watts and a very high temp setting then gradually reduce the max temp setting and see what happens. I vape 1.3 ohm coils. In power mode I don't go above 20 watts. In TC mode I can up that to 30 watts. I much prefer the TC results.evening everyone,
Trying to understand the difference between temp control and using wattage mode.
I have a Eleaf Ipower 80w with a dotmod petri rta.
Are there any advantages of using temp control ?
On a side note in wattage mode my resistance is 1.2 and in tc its 0.41 NI.
Thanks
None of my SS316L coils in TC Mode will even produce a vapor if I do not raise the wattage at least 3 times what I vape at in Wattage Mode. You need to raise the wattage for the coil or the build you made.
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You also can't use TC with poor connections, which is what resistance jumps are telling you is happening. But then, wattage mode can also give sudden increases of power in response to unstable resistance readings. Unfortunately, if you have TC on your mod it probably doesn't have voltage mode, which generally avoids these issues, although is still no substitute for good connections.
Edit: unless instead you're getting shorts between the coils. Trying to think why Ni mode would measure different, it might use more/less current to sense, or it could be a limit displaying (NIckel is usually very low ohms) if it says "out of range" when fired (set power limit low enough and trying it won't hurt anything, it's using NI or TI without TC that must be avoided).
As to advantages, I think I'd like something that's more a true temperature regulation, or acts different than my Pico. It's really a temperature protection that you can kind of slam and force to regulate. It's great for unexpected going dry or if you sometimes don't really pull, such as might happen on a lung hit cloud setup. But I'm more likely to be lazy 9 drags out of 10 and yet sometimes want to just blow a cloud and actually use some of that airflow I have dialed in. The device would have to respond to the coil being cooler than normal and crank up some power.
Edit: unless instead you're getting shorts between the coils. Trying to think why Ni mode would measure different, it might use more/less current to sense, or it could be a limit displaying (NIckel is usually very low ohms) if it says "out of range" when fired (set power limit low enough and trying it won't hurt anything, it's using NI or TI without TC that must be avoided).
As to advantages, I think I'd like something that's more a true temperature regulation, or acts different than my Pico. It's really a temperature protection that you can kind of slam and force to regulate. It's great for unexpected going dry or if you sometimes don't really pull, such as might happen on a lung hit cloud setup. But I'm more likely to be lazy 9 drags out of 10 and yet sometimes want to just blow a cloud and actually use some of that airflow I have dialed in. The device would have to respond to the coil being cooler than normal and crank up some power.
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Mcclintock you were right about my poor connections. Turns out that i got a error message on my mod "atomisor short"shortly after starting this thread.
I took everything appart and i had a lose leg. Now my resistance is back down. Thanks for the tip and thanks everyone for posting. Im learning allot on this forum.
I took everything appart and i had a lose leg. Now my resistance is back down. Thanks for the tip and thanks everyone for posting. Im learning allot on this forum.
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