Hey guys, thanks for the info! I just spent about two hours trying to create a "perfect" coil. I used Kanthal A1 and soft silver no res wire. I made a "dual coil" and wrapped it around a 3mm wick doubled over. It is reading EXACTLY 1.0 ohm on my Provari V2, and I cannot raise power above 3.4. It is a pretty good vape, but I find that in order to get *big* clouds of vapor, I have had to change the way I draw on it. I usually take pretty fast, analog-like pulls, but for this coil, I find that pulling very slowly for about 5-8 seconds is the only way to get a good blast. I mouth inhale, so this is actually a pretty good vape. LOTS of flavor coming out, very low throat hit (12 mg nic), and a big cloud of vapor. I still don't understand how to make the coil higher resistance. Do I use a longer piece of resistance wire (as in use same coils but don't cut off the excess, wrap it in twists to the no-res wire?) I want to make a 3.0 ohm coil, I'm not sure what this "dual coil" set up is offering me vs. a single coil setup. I just got all my wire so I'm experimenting with coils to try to learn. Thanks for any advice you have!
If you want 3ohms or above don't use duals as first attempt. Make a single coil with 6, even 7 wraps around your wick. A good idea can be to get a multimeter (a few bucks I guess) and measure the Kanthal by length. So you can choose what length will give you what you want (don't forget to measure the internal resistance of the multimeter and deduct this from the data you read on the Kanthal).
As for dual coils - the idea is to have almost double the heat on lower resistance set ups. My first such was 0.9 ohms so could not fire on my ProVari (V1) at all. Again, getting a multimeter can help you in this, as well. Generally a good dual should not be lower, than 1.5 ohms.
