What is preheat mode - and how does it affect coil life?

[Yodara]

Howdy friends of the clouds,

can anyone help with this?

I use a aspire skystar mod with freemax double mesh coils now again after a long time.

The skystar mod has a preheat option - just "soft", "normal" and "hard".

How do these differerent settings affect coils life? What is the benefit?

Much appreciated!

P.S. I am back to vaping from today, my parcel just arrived. Let's do something for our health. Will miss those cigs but...gootta be more responsible, I am almost 25 now. But why....anyway. I need a diary probably.

 

[zoiDman]

If I'm using a High Mass, Multi-Wire Coil, it might take awhile for the coil to Heat-Up to the temperature that I want to use. So a Pre Heat can give the Coil a Short Blast of a Higher Wattage than what I have the Mod set to.

This can Help in giving me a more Uniform Hit. And Shortens the Long Ramp-Up Time that can be a Problem with some types of Coils.

If you use Low Mass, Single Wire builds, the effect isn't so noticeable. Because Low Mass, Single Wire builds have shorter Ramp-Up Times.

How much might Pre-Heat effect Coil Life? Hard to say. It's one of those things that you just Kinda have to play around with and see what happens.

 

[zoiDman]

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P.S. I am back to vaping from today, my parcel just arrived. Let's do something for our health. Will miss those cigs but...gootta be more responsible, I am almost 25 now. But why....anyway. I need a diary probably.

Quitting Smoking is the Single Greatest thing you can do to Improve your Health. And the Earlier you do it, The Better.

Good Job.

 

[UncLeJunkLe]

I find that preheat doesn't seem to affect coil life, but I'm not a high wattage vaper. I require preheat for any coil made with 28g wire or thicker.

The few mods I have that don't have it, I don't enjoy much and have relegated them to my small clearomizers that use 30g wire and thinner.

The benefit is as Zoidman stated.

 

[ShowMeTwice]

Agree with Zoidman ^^^ and Uncle ^^^.

I use preheat on DNA mods and mods flashed with Arctic Fox.

Preheat doesn't affect coil life for me (Clapton's, Alien's yadda, yadda).

Play with your settings and see what you like best.