What kind of wire do you use and why?

[dom qp]

What is MSG??

It's what the put in food to make it delicious. Or naturally exists in already delicious food.

Monosodium glutamate - Wikipedia

It's like nic salts but for food.

 

[KurtVD]

Generally it's a yes, an allergy is an allergy. Then again there are variables, jewelry may have other things besides nickel and silver, not to mention the quality as well. I've also seen people's heads give them problems, you know the old placebo effect thing.

Sure, an allergy is an allergy, but I don’t touch the coil while vaping (except when building the coil), so I don’t see how that would be a problem. I can use NI belt buckles too, as long as I make sure that it doesn’t come into direct contact with my skin, otherwise I’ll have a localized rash.

 

[KurtVD]

It's what the put in food to make it delicious. Or naturally exists in already delicious food.

Monosodium glutamate - Wikipedia

It's like nic salts but for food.

Thanks...I was watching sports this weekend (MMA, the UFC event in New York), and all I could think of was Madison Square Garden...lol

 

[Kevin Holmquist]

My goto wire for the past couple years has been a fused clapton with 28g 430 SS cores and 34g Ni80 or SS316 cladding.

I heat the 430 with a micro or propane torch before cladding and wrapping to straighten it out and make it less springy.

 

[Alter]

I've been making 1ohm coils with round kanthal for yonks now. Although, i don't need to !. A coil lasts for what seems like forever. So "building" is something i rarely do !.

I went through a learning curve and found what works best for the kind of vape i was looking for.

For strictly mouth to lung vaping using low power, at 11.5 watts, i'll only ever use 29g kanthal, 5 wraps, with a 2mm inner diameter. For me, there is absolutely no need to use anything else !. 29g, through trial and error, is the correct thickness i need. I've tried various types and thicknesses. 29g is rigid and perfect for re-wicking whilst not becoming deformed. So much so that a coil lasts a very long time.

Anything thicker needs more power so batteries don't last, the vape's too warm for me !.

Less power with thicker wire means a coil takes too long to heat up (ramp up time).

Anything thinner and the coil will deform when i try to re-wick, so i end up having to build a new coil !.

Vaping doesn't work for me with anything other than 29g kanthal.

With several identical tanks in rotation, all with the same build there's no mess, no fuss !. A wick get switched out every day or two and will only take a few minutes.

My vaping style includes one 2 second primer draw immediately followed by a "second" 2 second draw which provides a throat hit. I've been vaping this same way for about 7 years.

I am currently using a Smoant "Charon" TS 218 box mod. I rotate several Svoemesto "Kayfun V4" RTA's.

All this is combined with 24mg D.I.Y e-liquids made 80ml at a time x ten different flavours. The costs are as minimal as they can be.

I simply cannot be bothered with high powered, dual or multi-coil direct lung vaping !. Too much effort goes into the inhale.

My style of mouth to lung vaping is effortless, and practically maintenance free !.

Vaping doesn't get any easier than this, and is no more complicated than using a pod system.

Alright !, but the difference is negligible, and a lot less expensive !.

Evan pretty well laid it down like I would have....
-KISS method.... best vaping.
-Been there and done that with subohming...just a phase that only gulps juice and stresses batts. I reverted back to higher ohm vaping cause I have no need to "schwing".
-Found the greatness in 29 gauge wire. 30 gauge has no integrity and 28 requires massive ID diameters to get 1.2+Ω tootle puffing ranges. 29K/34SS clapton is my only build now, 5 wraps 2.5mmID 1.3Ω....yowza.
I'm only hoping Evan is using rayon cause if he's using cotton then his vape nirvana isn't as good as it should be.

 

[smacuser]

28K, lazy .

 

[WillyZee]

30ga Kanthal... 7 wraps on the little blue screwdriver = 1.7ohms

been wrapping the exact same coils for 4+ years

I like a don't fix what's not broken kinda vape

 

[smacuser]

I never figured, what's the ID of a BS?

 

[homeuser6]

BS measures 2mm

 

[ruet]

2x 28g twisted 2.5mm I.D. Kanthal. Seems to me to provide the perfect ratio of vapor production and flavor. I go back to single strand coils every now and then but the flavor is always superior with twisted coils.

 

[bombastinator]

BS measures 2mm

Really? That’s not all that much BS. I got lots more BS if you want.

 

[homeuser6]

i can see that. but i don't use the BS. i wrap 32g kanthal around 3mm ekowool for 2 ohms. do i even vape bro?

 

[HauntedMyst]

Kanthal 26 or 28 gauge single coil to about 1.25 to 1.5 ohm. I use it because I've always used it and it works.

 

[hurricanegirl100]

24g Kanthal is what I build with. Not as springy as 26g and I've been using it for so long that I know how many wraps on a 2.5mm or 3.0mm coil will work out to in terms of ohms. No guesswork!

As for the stainless steel, nickel, etc that goes to temp control. Never really saw the advantage of temp control - straight wattage has worked for me for 7 years.