Ok...bought an IGO-L...which I'm really loving by the way. But I've been wanting to make it dual coil. Opened up the stock airhole to 1/16" and drilled another right where the 2nd coil would go. Now even with a single coil, with all the airflow I pulling clouds! But...when I try to put a double coil on it, the sigelei keeps saying low load! I've wrapped with a single piece of kanthal...made two individual coils ..but no matter what I do, it keeps flashing low load! I know I've seen people do this on youtube...but when i try it, no soap. I'm using 3mm silica and 32 guage kanthal.
what am I doing wrong? IGO-L + Sigelei Zmax
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No it flashes low load whenever a coil is below like 1.4 ohms. But I've wrapped two seperate coils that each reach 1.5 ohms...they'll fire if they are on their singly, but not when both are on there.
As I understand it If you're dual coiling you have to halve the Ω's of one individual coil, so if you've got 2 x 1.5Ω coils the resistance is .75Ω
Most people do two 1.8's or 2.2Ω's to get .9 or 1.1 respectively also only a mech mod can cope with low or sub Ω
Most people do two 1.8's or 2.2Ω's to get .9 or 1.1 respectively also only a mech mod can cope with low or sub Ω
If you have two 1.5 ohm coils in that atty at the same time then your resistance is .75 ohm
For two coils of the same resistance in parallel, the resistance is R/2 i.e. two 1.4Ω coils in parallel = 0.7Ω. That would be fine if you were using a mechanical mod, but won't work on today's regulated mods. To stay above 1.4Ω with two parallel coils, each needs to be greater than 2.8Ω.
As an analogy, with two parallel coils, you're turning a two-lane highway into a 4-lane.
As an analogy, with two parallel coils, you're turning a two-lane highway into a 4-lane.
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Ok...actually got it to work. Wrapped two 3 ohm coils and got them in place. You're right about mec mods running them better. With the zmax, it took too long to heat up, the coils heated unevenly. Just gonna stay with the single lol.
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