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Advice? My first build.

Smiling Ogre

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If you went with a 26 gauge wire and 3.5mm it would drop you down to six wraps and with a comparable wattage applied produce a heat flux just over 300 and you would still be working with simple wire.
 

AndriaD

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Heck yeah, Ogre. I use 29ga, 8 wraps around 3/32 to reach 1.8 ohms, and my own heat flux is around 150 or just slightly lower at 10w, and that's barely warm at all -- which is what I like, but someone wanting CLOUDZ BRO would definitely need more heat than that.

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Smiling Ogre

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Heck yeah, Ogre. I use 29ga, 8 wraps around 3/32 to reach 1.8 ohms, and my own heat flux is around 150 or just slightly lower at 10w, and that's barely warm at all -- which is what I like, but someone wanting CLOUDZ BRO would definitely need more heat than that.

Andria

Lol, I'm in the middle. I like to hit between .4 and .5 ohms for some battery life and somewhere around 300 for a heat flux. Some of these folks chasing clouds are using stacked mechs and banging some high mass coils with a full 8.4 Volts. Asbestos lips I guess.

Me Grog! Me Vape!!!

All good, love to watch them.
 

AndriaD

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Lol, I'm in the middle. I like to hit between .4 and .5 ohms for some battery life and somewhere around 300 for a heat flux. Some of these folks chasing clouds are using stacked mechs and banging some high mass coils with a full 8.4 Volts. Asbestos lips I guess.

Me Grog! Me Vape!!!

All good, love to watch them.

My son has 2 attys that he likes; one, he builds on (an OBS Engine Nano), around .5Ω, and vapes at about 20-25w; the clouds are a good deal thicker than my 2Ω-10w wisps, but nothing like he gets with the other one, the Geekvape Aero Mesh; he uses the .15 coils and vapes it around 60-70 watts, and THAT makes a very substantial cloud -- he noticed right away that if he's using that one while driving, he better crack the window a bit and exhale off to the side. :D

But with an atty like that, the HUGE airflow keeps it from being super-hot on the mouth -- it's a good bit warmer than I like, but not "burning" hot at all.

Andria
 

Smiling Ogre

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My son has 2 attys that he likes; one, he builds on (an OBS Engine Nano), around .5Ω, and vapes at about 20-25w; the clouds are a good deal thicker than my 2Ω-10w wisps, but nothing like he gets with the other one, the Geekvape Aero Mesh; he uses the .15 coils and vapes it around 60-70 watts, and THAT makes a very substantial cloud -- he noticed right away that if he's using that one while driving, he better crack the window a bit and exhale off to the side. :D

But with an atty like that, the HUGE airflow keeps it from being super-hot on the mouth -- it's a good bit warmer than I like, but not "burning" hot at all.

Andria

I've got an old Sherman RDA on a two battery mech that I use at shows while the keyboard player is playing the intro to Locomotive Breath. It's a hoot. Always a few in the crowd that get it. Not something I would vape for pleasure.
 

KingPin!

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Nice first build there

What mod are you firing it on out of interest? And what sort of vape you going for (outside of clouds) warm/cool?
 

KingPin!

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Cool have a go with parralel wires

Take two strands of that 24g and place them side by side then coil them up together ...takes a little bit of sodding about with the coil mounting tool but for a starter build its easier

it’ll reduce your resistance some get it down to about 0.17ohms and you’ll get a better performance from that regulated mod and denser clouds to boot

3mm ID try 7 wraps each coil (maybe 6 for 3.5mm ID)

What I mean by parralel wrap by the way
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If it’s taking to long to ramp up try thinner gauge or if your mod has it wack the preheat up
 
Cool have a go with parralel wires

Take two strands of that 24g and place them side by side then coil them up together ...takes a little bit of sodding about with the coil mounting tool but for a starter build its easier

it’ll reduce your resistance some get it down to about 0.17ohms and you’ll get a better performance from that regulated mod and denser clouds to boot

3mm ID try 7 wraps each coil (maybe 6)

What I mean by parralel wrap by the way
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If it’s taking to long to ramp up try thinner gauge or if your mod has it wack the preheat up
Awesome, definitely going to give it a try tonight, thanks
 

KingPin!

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Awesome, definitely going to give it a try tonight, thanks

No worries it helps to tug on the legs after you wrapped them to tighten things up,

also helps to have one the legs pointing slightly off from the other one so when you pinch them together during mounting it tightens up the wraps a bit (leave the coil tool inside the coil during mounting)

Finally install a bit closer to the post so when you pull them into position again it aligns the wraps nicely

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