Nice@Boden, I tried a 30g parallel coil on my Velocity. Landed at 1.44 on my meter.
Who says only sub-ohms can chase clouds?
Its strange, people will throw silly amps at a build but tell them they can use 6-11V (if the mod will push it) and its like you just asked them to jump off a cliff.
I understand that thick wire is easier to work with which explains why most use it. I just don't understand why people looking for high performance use it.
The physics of a high performance contact coil is simple, cover as much wick with wire as possible, have lots of venting to let vapor get through the coil and keep mass as low as possible. Basically, lots of wraps of small wire in parallel.
Thinking about vapor venting between the wraps helped me to understand what the Clapton wire does. The flavor diference over a solid wire of the same diameter is because the vapor can get away from the coil faster because of all the little slots created between the wraps.
This explaned why I was noticing a big flavor diference when using a 24/32 Clapton vs. 24 gauge, the Clapton was better. But when I compared 30/38 Clapton to a 30 gauge parellel coil there was a loss of flavor and vapor with the Clapton because of the added mass but not much added coil venting.
