What Is Up With All of These Crazy Coil Builds

[Sirius]

Recently I was feeling a bit nostalgic about clouds so I built a 26ga set @ .233 ohms. This was the result:

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[Sirius]

What I built it on...This old Stillare atop my first mod the old brass King.

Still works but Woah Nelly! *cough cough
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[Sirius]

let us know how it works out

I'll stick to modwomping with my REOs and single .60 ohm single 26ga Killa.
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[Sirius]

There is something in life called the 'law of diminishing returns'. This applies to many things, including vaping. What it means is, there is a point where effect/improvement PEAKS, and you start to get diminishing returns in terms of profit, or in THIS case, better vapor, per effort spent.

In other words, yes, making a GOOD coil improves the quality of vapor in HUGE ways. However, when it comes to clapton coils, or all the fancy coils, they might have some improvement...but they aren't worth it for the vapor who is simply trying to get the best vape for themselves. When you get into making advanced coils, you leave the realm of practicality and enter the realm of hobby/sport.

I agree with this..well said supermarket.

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[Sirius]

I've gotten a lot simpler, as time's gone on, with my vaping. I used to spend a lot of time DIYing, developing recipes, collection gear, building genisis coils and mesh wicks, back when that was the thing to do.
Nowadays, I just vape. I have maybe a half dozen DIYs I make, one standard dual coil set up, that I know always works, and only use Reos with bottom feed attys.

Yep...If that is rule #62 then I'm Vaping by it. lol
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[Sirius]

Lately I've been feeling like vaping is taking up more of my life than it is giving back so I keep it simple. Fancy coil builds are something I'm going to pass on, I didn't need a hobby just needed to quit smoking.

But for those who enjoy it by all means twist away.

A simple twisted 28ga single @ around .60 ohms or so is a very good flavor coil
But I find NO difference in flavor from those and single untwisted 26ga at the same resistance really.

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[USMCotaku]

The Clapton doesn't really fall into the diminishing returns category.... With just a little practice they become pretty easy. I can make a strand at near full speed on my drill.... Enough done for a couple rebuilds in a minute. The Clapton is my favorite flavor build. I agree some coils are more difficult then the benefits they produce are worth though... At that point, you are building because you enjoy it.
Oh, my favorite cloud build is a stovetop... Another that isn't too hard to do...

Stovetop cloud on a panzer mech...

All mine
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[vapero]

Ask those braided double helix Clapton alien tiger sleeper build coils remained me of either hippies selling their necklaces or pre teen girls making beat necklaces. I was happy with my simple coils....

Until ud began selling premade Claptons... Now I get it, the flavor is impressive, really really impressive, I've been using it for almost a week and every time I take a vape I still feel impressed by it

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[herb]

I have tried nearly every coil type out there is the last few years and to me , a basic well done simple coil vapes as well as any of the fancy stuff, i never tasted any taste advantage with any coil types .

If there was a difference it was so subtle that i could barely tell , thats why i don't waste my time .

 

[Visus]

I think @USMCotaku is making a challenge
Mini Octopus RDA, .8ohm 26ga 1.5mm micro, 3mm airhole, ss mesh, uber tasty and extra vloudy
Basics still produce the fog but nowhere near that, meh i concede...

 

[Visus]

I have tried nearly every coil type out there is the last few years and to me , a basic well done simple coil vapes as well as any of the fancy stuff, i never tasted any taste advantage with any coil types .

If there was a difference it was so subtle that i could barely tell , thats why i don't waste my time .

The wicking action in the fancy builds for high power mods is unmatchable; flavor and vapor is subjective as always, and up to a panel for review..

 

[UCChris]

The density of vapor is much better in a twisted coil than a standard coil, IN MY OPINION. I like a warm, dense, wet vape so they rock for me.

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[jimbodaddy74]

Vape selfie with a caterpillar track at .37 ohms 70 watts in an ipv3li

 

[Mooch]

The Clapton doesn't really fall into the diminishing returns category.... With just a little practice they become pretty easy. I can make a strand at near full speed on my drill.... Enough done for a couple rebuilds in a minute. The Clapton is my favorite flavor build. I agree some coils are more difficult then the benefits they produce are worth though... At that point, you are building because you enjoy it.
Oh, my favorite cloud build is a stovetop... Another that isn't too hard to do...

Stovetop cloud on a panzer mech...

All mine
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How do you wick that stovetop coil?

 

[USMCotaku]

How do you wick that stovetop coil?

Cut a square of cotton, cut a slit for positive leg around the middle of the square, then squeeze it in between the coil and posts

 

[Mooch]

Cut a square of cotton, cut a slit for positive leg around the middle of the square, then squeeze it in between the coil and posts

Ahhh...makes sense, thanks!

 

[USMCotaku]

You are welcome
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[jbok]

Im sure I'm going to get pelted here but I think all of these different coil builds are all psychological. I used to mess with all that crazy stuff and I found no difference between a simple coil and a complicated one.

I mean it's cool if you want to do it for fun/hobby but for me it was a waste of time


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[josdanarm]

Two of the somewhat easier coils that produce (imo) better flavor and vapor are zippers and claptons but when you get into the more advanced stapled and fused coils I just think it's more of what flavor comes out stronger. Everything plays a part device build power and juice. Change just one and the flavor can change dramatically. The only way to know for sure if it's worth it to you is to try them out. Please use caution as some builds run low resistance and keep on chuckin fat clouds ppl...

 

[Traijan]

Lately I've been seeing a lot of posts and videos on various social media and YouTube of people building crazy coils. Like twisting wire then wrapping it with more wire or twisting wire and twisting it again, or braiding all sorts ok wires and then wrapping more wire around them. There are all sorts of crazy names the best one I saw was "Alien wire" lol. So what gives? Are there any actual advantages of people spending crazy amounts of time making these coils or is it just to see who can wrap the prettiest wires together? If there's a noticeable advantage to these coils then maybe I'll take the time to replicate some builds but as of now I just don't know how I feel about them.

Most of the time I barely even want to wrap that single strand of wire around the screwdriver to make a single coil let alone make something like the Clapton, or Dragon's Nest or Alien wire.

Hell, at this point I just leave my subtank sitting on the kitchen counter, with the tank upside down and full and the rba deck sitting all taken apart, knowing good and well when I get home my partner will have put a new coil in it and rewicked it for me as he just can't stand to see the tanks sitting taken apart and on the counter, honestly, way too much trouble to make all those fancy coil builds. They look really pretty but... I doubt if my taste buds are refined enough to notice any difference.

It was fun and all to make the pretty coils in the beginning but now it's just a waste of my time. Just roll up a good utility coil and start huffing, or rather wait until my partner rolls me up a new coil and then start huffing. I guess you could say I've lost interest in vaping as a hobby at this point and now it's only due to habit much like when I used to smoke 1 to 4 pad, it was a habit.

But I personally think it's more for the hobby of it than the actual benefit. But then again there are people that swear they can tell me if I've put 1 tsp of some ingredient in the food or if I've put 1.5 tsp in the meal so I suppose there are those that can tell a difference between coils. Personally I can't even tell any difference what-so-ever between horizontal coils and vertical coils, they both vape the identical same to me with the same liquid and the same wattage supplied to them.

Go figure.