Howdy fellas and ladies,
I've been vaping for a few years now and have had a go at building various mods and dripping attys for fun and a little profit. I find that you can dramatically improve the function of many single coil units by simply adding a second coil and wick.
Take a cheap copy of a Mini Protank v1 for example. Normally, only a little better for vapour volume than a cheap clearo. I bought a bag of 50 pre-wound 3.5ohm coil and wick on the web for £1.99 inc postage. I piggy-back two of them and twist the leads so that you end up with two coils oriented parallel above each other, wired in parallel and then fit the double-coil assembly deep into the coil core body. Fit no flavour wick. The second wick and coil is there in place of the flavour wicks. As long as you keep the coils free of the core sides and chimney they will both fire hot even from an ego battery or passthrough. Reassemble the core, running the doubled coil leads through the base and build core back into the tank base.
The good thing with experimenting with this is that you can use an old, knackered core and build twin coils into it then you can try it in an existing tank by substituting it for the single coil core normally used.
Relatively massive vapour is produced from this modification and on 3 to 4 ohm coils it runs well on an Ego-style battery.
I build all kinds of ecig equipment every day so am used to tiny, fiddly operations. I find this easy but if you've never played around with coil and wick you might be best to learn how to fit a new single coil to a Kanger-style core before going for the double!
Note that it doesn't seem to matter whether you let the two coils touch a little. They still heat evenly and well. It it just like doubling the size of coil and wick. Also, this should work well on any Kanger-style single coil core.
I run it on 5v. This voltage area seems to provide max flavour and vapour from less liquid.
I can post photos next time I build one if anybody is interested in having a go at this and I'll happily answer any questions about it. Honestly, it works fantastically well and breathes new life into old atomizers. I know there are 'proper' dual coil units already but this is just a suggestion for improving older, weaker single coil jobs..
Of course, someone might have already posted this idea somewhere before. Oh well
I've been vaping for a few years now and have had a go at building various mods and dripping attys for fun and a little profit. I find that you can dramatically improve the function of many single coil units by simply adding a second coil and wick.
Take a cheap copy of a Mini Protank v1 for example. Normally, only a little better for vapour volume than a cheap clearo. I bought a bag of 50 pre-wound 3.5ohm coil and wick on the web for £1.99 inc postage. I piggy-back two of them and twist the leads so that you end up with two coils oriented parallel above each other, wired in parallel and then fit the double-coil assembly deep into the coil core body. Fit no flavour wick. The second wick and coil is there in place of the flavour wicks. As long as you keep the coils free of the core sides and chimney they will both fire hot even from an ego battery or passthrough. Reassemble the core, running the doubled coil leads through the base and build core back into the tank base.
The good thing with experimenting with this is that you can use an old, knackered core and build twin coils into it then you can try it in an existing tank by substituting it for the single coil core normally used.
Relatively massive vapour is produced from this modification and on 3 to 4 ohm coils it runs well on an Ego-style battery.
I build all kinds of ecig equipment every day so am used to tiny, fiddly operations. I find this easy but if you've never played around with coil and wick you might be best to learn how to fit a new single coil to a Kanger-style core before going for the double!
Note that it doesn't seem to matter whether you let the two coils touch a little. They still heat evenly and well. It it just like doubling the size of coil and wick. Also, this should work well on any Kanger-style single coil core.
I run it on 5v. This voltage area seems to provide max flavour and vapour from less liquid.
I can post photos next time I build one if anybody is interested in having a go at this and I'll happily answer any questions about it. Honestly, it works fantastically well and breathes new life into old atomizers. I know there are 'proper' dual coil units already but this is just a suggestion for improving older, weaker single coil jobs..
Of course, someone might have already posted this idea somewhere before. Oh well
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