The Clapton coil

[mrdee3]

I made this coil by wrapping 32 gauge around 24 gauge. The idea came to me when a friend of mine was jamming on his guitar, thought to myself wow those strings would have a lot of surface area. This coil is .5 ohms it vapes like a .2 ohm dual coil, I am loving this build.

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[mrdee3]

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[Mikey6]

That is crazy looking. Stop giving me ideas for random stuff I need to try. How much of a pain was it to wrap that?

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[mrdee3]

It's not bad I did it by chucking the 24 gauge in a drill and turning it slowly while feeding the 32 gauge on.

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[asdaq]

Is it 32G or 28G on the outside then?

 

[mrdee3]

Sorry it is 32

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[SLIPPY_EEL]

im loving that coil man looks awesome

so did you put the thicker gauge in the centre of the chuck and the smaller in the side of the chuck or how did you do it?

 

[SLIPPY_EEL]

it looks just like a heating element on a fire, its.... beautiful

 

[mrdee3]

Yes the 24 was in the center of the chuck and the 32 was on the edge, and thank you

 

[NatureBoy]

Wow, that looks awesome! I'd love to try that but my eyes and hands won't let me. Killer coil though man!

 

[SLIPPY_EEL]

ive almost got it....




lol its not the easiest, I didn't wind off enough 32g from the spool and had it going through a hole on the spool so had to stop, dang!
will try tomorrow now but im running short on 32

 

[mrdee3]

The Clapton Coil - YouTube

 

[Tintreach]

Did this yesterday at the B&M 32 over 26g. 5 wraps .5 ohms and worked great. Think next weekend I'll make a bunch and play around with more builds but so far, it looks to be a winner.

@Rip
Would be cool to see a diamond coil build with a Clapton wrap. Think that's the next step of insanity at this point.

 

[Zanderist]

What is the taste like?

 

[Tintreach]

It's great and for some reason doesn't seem to burn through the juice as quick as a single wire coil. Dare I say, it may be more efficient?

 

[Zanderist]

I've thinking just after seeing the picture of thing glowing you could regulate it according to the infrared heat it was giving off.



This is from the Application notes of the LM338t IC.

The photo transistor would be subbed for a thermopile and be mounted within the tank.
thermopile | Mouser Electronics, Inc.

How did you get it to retain its shape? I have guitar strings and they are very 'springy'.

 

[Extremeodd]

I whipped up a good foot of this wire using 26g and 32g and with dual 3/4wrap 1/16th in ID coils @ 2ohm, its insane. Quite easy to work with, only issue was the center post hole of my igo-w, it could barely hold one strand. I ended up capturing the ends of the leads under the head of the screw, kinda a PITA but worked nicely. It was really quite easy to wrap the coils after torching the wire, little issue holding its shape. However when I tried it with the 26g core removed, was freaking impossible to make a microcoil. Basically wrapping a spring from a spring, wouldnt even begin to hold its shape.

 

[Zanderist]

heat it with a blow torch on its form and then dip it into a thing of water.

 

[Mitey F]

Here's a slightly different question... what are you shooting with? Those are nice sharp photos.

 

[pdib]

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Great idea! Love it!

I started wondering if it would work with only the 24g running all the way to the posts . . . . . if the 32g wrap didn't go all the way to the ends. Would the current find the 32? Then I got to thinking, the 24 is so much the shorter path, the lower resistance path . .. . Naw, pro'ly wouldn't jump over there. THEN I got to thinking, why would the current travel the WAY longer, higher res. path in the coil pictured? THEN I looked at the picture again and asked myself, "is that outer wrap even running current?" The glow looks to be emanating from beneath it. . . . . .hmmmmmmmmmm, maybe that's why it meters at .5 and vapes like it's .2Ω?