thank you for your help...but i still have
A LOT of questions. heres just a few for now...
first...why does my boyfriend cough when he hits my sigelei at a wattage higher then 10watts?
second...
can you explain resistance to me? I understand to get big clouds you want low resistance, i understand ohms is the measure of resistance, I started using the Mod range calculator on steam engine and for my sigelei 50 watt it says this....
View attachment 610703 but i dont understand whats it telling me....can you explain it to me pretty please?????
your elaboration would be MUCH appreciated.
There could be several reasons your boyfriend coughs when he tries your vape gear.
Whether or not he's a smoker, he's not used to inhaling vapor. Vapor is denser than regular smoke, so he is simply not used to inhaling vapor. Even when I was a smoker, I would cough, and I've noticed that non smokers who try vaping also cough. I had to work my way up the vaping ladder. I started with the smaller Ecigarettes, and worked up to full fledged vaporizers. As I got used to inhaling vapor, I could up the watts, lower the ohms, and be able to inhale more and more. Not everyone goes to the full fledged "subohming", and it's not necessary to subohm to enjoy vaping. If he wants to vape, start him with a starter system, one that has a high resistance then work up from there if he wants to go higher. Subohming has it's own perks as far as flavor, and heat that adds certain qualities to vaping that not everyone really wants or needs.
Another possibility of him coughing, could be the amount of nicotine he is getting. If he is a non smoker, he is not used to getting ANY nicotine. The "throat hit" is what many smokers look for, but it can make a non smoker cough. Nicotine is one of the main factors of that "throat hit" feeling, vapor quantity and Propylene Glycol is another. Personally, I would just recommend lowering the wattage down to 10 like you are doing now.... he won't get the clouds...but he's not used to getting clouds.
If he never smoked, or is considered a non smoker, see if you can get some non-nicotine e-liquid.
As far as what ohms is.. ohms is simply the resistance the wire gives. As a general guideline, the bigger the wire, the more energy can go through the wire. Since the wire is bigger, it has more surface area to heat up. If I take one type of wire, say kanthal, the thinner wire doesn't let as much energy go through it... If you take a thin wire, say 32 gauge, 8 wraps around a 2.5 mm bit would be about 1.8 Millimeters wide and have a high ohms reading of around 3.5 ohms. Those 8 wraps however on the same 2.5mm bit on a thicker wire, say 24 gauge, would be 4.5 milimeters wide and be about .7 ohms. So the thicker coil would be more than double the surface area to the wick... more surface area = more heat applied to the juice = more vapor. However, the thicker wire requires more wattage to heat up.
What that sweet spot is telling you doesn't have to do with vape quality, but more about the sweet spot to use your mod at to get a good balance of what your mod can use compared to what it is most efficient at. If you run the mod at max power all the time, your mod won't be as efficient at using the battery's power. The sweet spot is just telling you what resistance you get the maximum use of your mod. This part of steam-engine is designed to help sort out some of the exaggerations of Variable voltage/variable wattage mods. Some mods claim to support .2 ohms, but they only support that low ohms for a certain range... let me explain.
All mods have a volt and amp limit. volts are how strong the power is going, and amps is the total amount of power being used. the if your mod had an amp limit of... say... 5 amps, it would be limited. Just for learning sake, go over to
www.ohmslawcalculator.com and plug in .2 ohms and 5 amps then hit calculate... If the mod claimed it supports .2 ohms, and the board had a 5 amp limit... you could only run that .2 ohms up to 5 watts... which isn't much power at all... but, it can still make the claim it supports .2 ohms. If you put a 1.8 ohm coil in, it can run that coil at 55 watts... so, that mod can run at 55 watts. So, it can truthfully say it's a 55 watt mod that runs .2 om coils... but it cannot run a .2 ohm coil at 55 watts because of it's amp limit. Going back to the sweet spot, that is the best ohm rating that your mod can have the best power range.
Again, long post.. I have the bad habit of doing that.
hope that helps... Feel free to ask if you have any other questions... I'm crazy enough to like answering questions.
