What build for clouds

[mhertz]

Place coils close to the airflow and not close to posts, use good wicking, and if you make your ID shorter(2 or 2.5mm) then that equals more vapor produced in a shorter amount of time(better ramp-up), due to less saturated wick-volume cooling down coil, although for hot builds, sometimes upping the ID is needed(3 - 3.5mm, but I would say it's a too low build then, if needing that), especially if wanting to take longer draws than one sec... If you don't mind taking "long"(for me ) draws(2 sec+), then you can build pretty high with nice vapor production still... There's no "one-answer-for-all" to "what build for clouds", but as stated, steam-engine is a great tool/guide to use for when you have determined what heat-flux you prefer to vape at, then compare different gauges of wire and builds(single-wire vs parallel) for maximum amount of surface-area under wanted resistance and least amount of heat-capacity preferably...

 

[Nikea Tiber]

You are so very wrong about Claptons, have no idea where getting this from. Fused Claptons suck down the juice almost like a wick in themselves. Basic physics brother, more juice vaporized = more flavor and vaper production.

That and basic claptons and fused claptons are easy to make, but like anything you just have to learn how to do it. I can knock out a 2 foot shot of fused clapton in just a couple minutes and I only learned how to do it a couple months ago.

I've made over 50 feet of various types of roto-wound coils, normal, fused, twisted fused, alien, etc. They look nice but they aren't worth the time, especially if you are building for mech use.
More wire surface area != more vapor or flavor. Once your coils are at temperature, the vaporization of ejuice to vapor is no longer happening on the surface of the coils because they are too hot for liquid ejuice to touch and remain a liquid. This means that wire surface area is basically irrelevant, heat flux and coil mass are much more important.
Because the vaporization of ejuice happens in the wick at this point, all the extra coil mass you wound is doing nothing other than retaining heat for longer than it needs to and sucking power while you wait for the basically dead outer wrap to heat up.
You want clouds and flavor? You want a quickly-reacting, lightweight coil with a well-constructed, efficient wick that has enough inner diameter to resist burning from applied power.
It is really simple thermodynamics.