What's your favorite flavor build?

[treehead]

Hey guys, I usually couldn't care much about flavor, because in my opinion it's always there, I like to concentrate on big vapor amount, speed of heat up, and density. However today I got a bee up my behind to concentrate on flavor. In my experience wider "macro" coils have been better on flavor, but not so much for "chasing" the clouds. They usually take longer to heat up, produce decent vapor, but their dense flavor is where they really shine.

With this build, I felt like I tasted alot of my juices for the first time, this has been my go to flavor build:

Twisted 24ga dual coil setup, wrapped 4 times on a 1/8th" guide to allow for a big'ol fluffed out wick. I guess I'm different when it comes to most, because in my experience the more juice cotton surrounding and going through the coil has made way denser and stronger flavor for me. Being at .16ohms, this setup still heats up super fast, and gets really warm and dense in the chamber. My theory is that having alot of hot coil mass in the chamber turns in into sort of a kiln, and heats up not only the cotton wick going through it, but also the wicks tails running under and near it. It's definitely super warm, dense, and concentrated in flavor. It's a welcome change to my usual big vapor setups, however I am a believer that with big vapor will come big flavor as well, it doesn't just dissapear . I'm also a fan of mundy's magic ribbon, however it doesn't give me the warm denser vapor that I like, however the flavor is stellar.

What are y'all's favorite flavor machines?

 

[RugerRob]

Parallel single wire 28 Gauge dual coil 2.4mm diameter 6 wraps @ .31 ohm in a small atty like the Trident, Quasar, or Atomic.

Quick heat up, lots of coils for flavor with this build, fairly easy and fast to setup gives me a warm vape with lots of flavor especially in a small chambered/deck RDA.

 

[SLIPPY_EEL]

i keep going back to this one treehead

26g kanthal, 1/8 id, muji cotton pad, probably .3ohms, nothing fancy but blows away most other builds, as you can see im dripping this tobh ontop the reo using a 510-510 adapter, cant wait to get my new PV, only a couple of weeks left to wait for it! cant wait, its going to blow my tastebuds into orbit when i gain back the .50vd from the adapter

 

[vampyrex13]

I'm in love with my dual 1.8 Ohm (2x 3.9 Ohm) 30g 2mm diameter coils at 25w/6.8v. I no longer subohm after I made this build.

 

[juggalofisher88]

I just made one on my TOBH that the flavor is unlike anything I've built to date! (I took the plunge and grinded off the air flow tabs and lowered deck near air holes best decision of my vapelife lol)
Anyways it's a dual coil twisted 24g (had to drill out pos+ post) 5/4 slightly gapped wraps each 3mm ID .24ohms with KGD wick.

I think I'm in love lol

 

[treehead]

i keep going back to this one treehead

26g kanthal, 1/8 id, muji cotton pad, probably .3ohms, nothing fancy but blows away most other builds, as you can see im dripping this tobh ontop the reo using a 510-510 adapter, cant wait to get my new PV, only a couple of weeks left to wait for it! cant wait, its going to blow my tastebuds into orbit when i gain back the .50vd from the adapter

Niiice, yeah that'll be a sweet squonker once you get that in! I haven't done a spaced coil in forever, I should've done that before I ran out of Gplat darnit, I guess our tastebuds agree a big'ol 1/8th" is the flavor king , I haven't heard of muji cotton yet, thanks for the input skippy. All that juice to coil surface area is probably so much better with spaced coils like that, I'm gonna try spacing this twisted 24 and see what happens, it'd make it alot easier to get glowing right that's for sure! All those little corners touching took forever to get glowing perfect lol. I think I did it the hard way .

 

[treehead]

- I'm in love with my dual 1.8 Ohm (2x 3.8 Ohm) 30g 2mm diameter coils at 25w/6.8v. I no longer subohm after I made this build.

Once my Raptor chip gets in I probably won't either! That sounds like a nice big flavorful coil, does it heat up fast at 25 watts?

 

[treehead]

I just made one on my TOBH that the flavor is unlike anything I've built to date! (I took the plunge and grinded off the air flow tabs and lowered deck near air holes best decision of my vapelife lol)
Anyways it's a dual coil twisted 24g (had to drill out pos+ post) 5/4 slightly gapped wraps each 3mm ID .24ohms with KGD wick.

I think I'm in love lol

Welcome to the Tobh Frankenstein club! , Havin' those tabs out of the way just makes like easier whether your center posting or not, I personally didn't like bending my leads every time I installed a lead in the positive post. That sounds like an awesome build man, I haven't built a staggered/uneven dual coil ever, I gotta try that out one day. I always obsess over getting it heating perfectly symmetrical so that's the opposite side of the planet for me , do you ever get burning? Or is it more like a single coil on steroids lol.

 

[juggalofisher88]

Well I just did all this today after work been vaping it for a couple hours it was a pain getting it to glow evenly I got it close as I could. I 've been watching the cotton when I drip and it seems to be drying out evenly.
Id like to redo this with one less wrap but I don't have enough batteries to keep up with my current setups... ordering 2 more vtc5s tomorrow so that should help
Offtopic where's cheapest place online to get a pair of (real) vtc5s I've found them for 22$ a pair plus shipping. But hell i can 2 for 30$ at my b&m

 

[vampyrex13]

Once my Raptor chip gets in I probably won't either! That sounds like a nice big flavorful coil, does it heat up fast at 25 watts?

Yes, my big thing is immediate gratification. I hate slow coils. This heats up pretty quick and produces good vape and flavor.

 

[4redstars]

Yes, my big thing is immediate gratification. I hate slow coils. This heats up pretty quick and produces good vape and flavor.

How many wraps of 30g?

 

[vampyrex13]

15 wraps around a 2mm screwdriver with short legs since I have it setup on a Magma. Nice thing about this setup is I can easily run up to 30 watts with some juices without any issues. 2mm is just thick enough for the cotton to keep up with wicking, so no burning. I like having a build that lets me fully utilize the DNA 30. I'm currently running 7v/27.5w this morning.

 

[redsled]

can you post a pic of the magma build im looking for something new to try on it. dual 26g 6/7 wraps on it now is not to bad but i need a excuse to use the 30g i bought

 

[vampyrex13]

I would have dry burned by coils for pic, but I left my extra cotton at home. It vapes pretty good. I have it at 27.5 watts below. I just can't wait for the rayon I ordered to show up so I can test out the flavor with it.

 

[SLIPPY_EEL]

can you post a pic of the magma build im looking for something new to try on it. dual 26g 6/7 wraps on it now is not to bad but i need a excuse to use the 30g i bought

braid it in my sig is a link on how to

 

[redsled]

I need to get some vtc5 first.

 

[G-weezy]

Dual 24ga wrapped 5/6 on a 1/8th drill bit. Rayon or cotton is good. 1-2 sec pulls on max VG juice.

 

[SLIPPY_EEL]

Niiice, yeah that'll be a sweet squonker once you get that in! I haven't done a spaced coil in forever, I should've done that before I ran out of Gplat darnit, I guess our tastebuds agree a big'ol 1/8th" is the flavor king , I haven't heard of muji cotton yet, thanks for the input skippy. All that juice to coil surface area is probably so much better with spaced coils like that, I'm gonna try spacing this twisted 24 and see what happens, it'd make it alot easier to get glowing right that's for sure! All those little corners touching took forever to get glowing perfect lol. I think I did it the hard way .

bah! to squonking! ive been forced back to dripping 4+ weeks now & i dont plan on squonking again! ever! its way more satisfying grabbing 1off 60+ flavours and mixing up new combo's that i'd never of thought would work.
squeeze bottle for 2-5secs, release, wait for a sec or 2 as juice drains, toot once or twice, wait for cool off & repeat is to long a winded affair for this eel, i want to be vaping not waiting
i can drip 4 drops and vape 4 big toots straight away, makes more sense to me! But i would'nt tell anyone not to try it! cus i've learnt things that i've brought back to dripping so...


I pay more attention to perfecting my coils than anything else, i can whack out 4 identical coils with my pin vise in a couple of min's, you need to try a W6 if you havent already Tree, i havent used anything else in 2 days now the beauty of using the pin vise for coils with the W6 is that the legs are left at a 45deg angle from each other which is perfect.
Another thing i noticed is that when you pull all four coils down to airflow hight the top coils have a slightly longer tail meaning they fire up a fraction behind the lower ones giving you a little boost like a turbo, and stop's them from drying out quicker than the lower two.

 

[juggalofisher88]

When I get my new batteries in Monday, I'm going to turn the case into a primitive squonker and make one of my igoWs bottom fed, wanna try it out found a tut on here by "highpitch" I think that was the name...

But anyways at this VERY moment I am drilling airholes into my TOBHs negative post like the plumveil hopefully it will be awesome! Ill let yall know

 

[treehead]

bah! to squonking! ive been forced back to dripping 4+ weeks now & i dont plan on squonking again! ever! its way more satisfying grabbing 1off 60+ flavours and mixing up new combo's that i'd never of thought would work.
squeeze bottle for 2-5secs, release, wait for a sec or 2 as juice drains, toot once or twice, wait for cool off & repeat is to long a winded affair for this eel, i want to be vaping not waiting
i can drip 4 drops and vape 4 big toots straight away, makes more sense to me! But i would'nt tell anyone not to try it! cus i've learnt things that i've brought back to dripping so...


I pay more attention to perfecting my coils than anything else, i can whack out 4 identical coils with my pin vise in a couple of min's, you need to try a W6 if you havent already Tree, i havent used anything else in 2 days now the beauty of using the pin vise for coils with the W6 is that the legs are left at a 45deg angle from each other which is perfect.
Another thing i noticed is that when you pull all four coils down to airflow hight the top coils have a slightly longer tail meaning they fire up a fraction behind the lower ones giving you a little boost like a turbo, and stop's them from drying out quicker than the lower two.

Right on Slippy! Welcome back brother , yeah I personally haven't tried squonking yet, but like you I do like to change flavors more often than the capacity of the bottle lol. However I guess there is one flavor (Cloud Science Alpha by Telios) that I basically vape all day, and change it up all night. I know it's silly, but I also just don't like the look of squonkers, I really like my tube mods, their looks, and how the feel in the hand. Something about the box, with a plastic bottle in a little window just isn't sexy enough . Vanity...that and I like big RDA's, you can increase your airflow, juice, and especially heat of your coils. But I've had my eye on that W6 for a while now, I'm glad you confirmed it, I know you know what your doing . For such a good price, I'll definitely have to pick one up, I love the design of it too, I can see exactly what you mean by the slightly longer dual set of coils, it's almost like a staggered quad build! It looks so fun to build on too, I've only quad coiled a few times because I haven't had the battery power, but now that I do, I really need to get off my .... and try it. I haven't gone back from single to dual, I have a feeling I'll not be going back from quad's .

DUDE! Speaking of battery power, you may have already seen these, but I found some battery's that are (as far as I can tell) identical to the extinct Sony 26650 VT's! Meaning, for those lower quad-build ohms, if you didn't get your hands on some 50 amp continuous sony batteries, you can get the same power through these Panasonic 26650 CGR's! Sorry if I'm a little over-excited about these, but I only have 1 sony left, so I can't vape the more "extreme" builds all day anymore, and I have a family of four of these bad boys now. They are also 50 amps continuous (theoretically 130amps burst!, for under 5 seconds, even though I probably won't use that many lol), they are the same nominal voltage, and 4.2volts max, but they even have an extra 50mAh for that little extra battery life! I've been using 2 all week and they vape just like my last Sony, I'm currently making a parallel 26650 box, and a series 26650 tubular mechanical. So I'm pretty sure I'll have to get a w6 for the quad coils I'll be doing when they're done!

That's cool that your dripping again though, I can see how squonking would be more flavorful because of the smaller RDA's they usually use, but I really don't mind dripping from the bottle, and I've learned to do it perfectly by now, so I don't think I'd benefit to be honest. Plus bigger vapor is always a plus! Thanks for the recommendation Slip, I'm glad you reminded me of that w6. Youde has been making some impressive things lately, I've also been looking at the Igo-M, it doesn't look revolutionary, but that thing looks pretty prepared!