lol. see, i even said "101". now i'm back to confused, and here's my goofy logic. lower resistance wire, means lower ohm coils. when i dump x amount of current into a 32 gauge i get x amount of vapor. if i dump the same current into a 30 gauge, with more coils to get the same resistance, more liquid touching more coils means more vapor? surface area meaning nothing just doesn't make sense to me, and yes, I know that's because I don't know anything, but I am trying to learn and get past that. more surface area contact means more access to more liquid being vaporized doesn't it? i'm working on the premise that more resistance means it takes more voltage to get the wire hot, not less. told yah I was confused. am I even more whacked than my wife thinks already?
anybody got an easy explanation in less than 1000 posts or less than 1000 words, that won't require learning rocket science? yes, i know i need schooled.
there's got to be a chart....a picture being worth a thousand words...
sorry, but i did say 101. lol
I know it is a lot for sure, am im not an electrical engineer by any means but all I can say is I have been vaping these gennys for a long time and have done hundreds of coils at many different resistances and these are just my experiences, on my particular devices, with my particular juices. thin wire, higher resistances, this is because of the space inside this thin wire, electrons and such are having a hard time within this wire, there banging around hitting each other, also less of them are making it to the end of this wire so more voltage is required to replace them and get the job done, all this adds up to more heat within this wire. this is totally the opposite with a thicker wire. now one thing is for sure, a thicker wire produces a better flavor, imo this is due to a slightly cooler wire, which doesn't burn the juice as much, and more surface area to a specific section of the wick. lower resistances(thicker & shorter wire) requires less voltage but more amps. coverage of the wick is important, and maybe more wraps equals more flavor, so if you compare 6 wraps of 32g, which might be well over 2 ohms, to 3 wraps of 28g, which is under 1-ohm, you might say that the first example has to be better, and produce more vapor. this imo, is possibly a stand-off. remember the 28g is a thicker wire, it is, wrap for wrap covering more space at the wick and is slightly cooler, and doesn't need all that voltage to run it, but the thinner wire has more wraps, so is it producing more vapor? I don't think so, but this is why experimenting is the fun of it. some like thin wire, some like thick wire. also you can obtain low resistances with more wraps by using even a thicker wire. I have down to 26g, so I can get 4 to 5 wraps on a wick and still be under 1-ohm of resistance. basically it boils down to what is your sweet spot? how many watts do you prefer? take me for example, I vape on average in the 16 watt range, to get to 16 watts you can do low res or hi res to get to the same watts, example/ a 2 ohm coil of 32g at 5.7v. or a 0.8 ohm coil of 28g at 3.6v, both will equal about 16 watts but one will have 5 wraps and the other will have 3 wraps, for me I would prefer the 3 wraps of thicker wire to the other. just because the 32g has 5 wraps really doesn't mean it produces more vapor because although it may have more wraps the wire is thinner and is only touching the wick in smaller points, where as a thicker wire is covering a larger part of the wick. now in a similar comparison, lets use 26g instead of 28g, now I can possibly equal the number of wraps, now which has more flavor and vapor? everyone is different and is up to you to decide. and yes, your premise about the more resistance means more voltage is correct, but voltage isn't the deciding factor that makes flavor and vapor, imo wire thickness and wire temperature and overall power (watts) is more of the deciding factor. I know this is true because you can have more vapor and flavor at lower volts. (probably more then 1000 words) sorry, but this is what these threads are all about