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The beautiful thing about regulated mods is that you can adjust the setting to how you want the atomizer to work. Building coils between 1ohm to 2 ohms will give you the widest range of adjustability. With mechs there is no control, only a continuing voltage drop so you have to be accurate with your coils. Regulated mods give you the power to run the coil as you like . So if you build a coil that is not perfect for a mech you can make it work more efficiently with regulation. When I build my coils I'm not thinking so much about how much Vaper I will get because I control the battery but how long will the battery last. But however you decide to build your coils it will be a consistent Vape until the battery dies.
I was thinking like with mech mods we have to build low ohm coils to achieve high wattage which usually means less wraps but with a regulated device capable of higher wattage output we could build higher ohm coils which=more wraps=more surface area=more vapor.
This is why back in the old days, atomizers were manufactured with high gauge wire with higher resistance because they heat up easier with lower voltage but because the wire was thinner , they didn't last very long before burning out. As time progressed and batteries got bigger and better , we could use atomizers with lower resistance and thicker wires. Which increased the longevity of atomizers.
The only reason we buy 30-100 watts regulated devices is to sub-ohm,FOR me it doesn't make sense to you use this kind of devices if ur vaping 1.0 to 2.0 ohms,
I will simplify this for you..
Higher gauge wire are thin wires,and it will give you higher ohms...which will easily melt,if ur puffing on a 50 to 100 watts..
Lower gauge wires are thicker, which will give you lower ohms..
.1-.8ohms, now it makes sense to use this regulated devices,
Plus regulated devices can give options on how you want to vape the kind of juice ur vaping...IMO
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I will simplify this for you..
Higher gauge wire are thin wires,and it will give you higher ohms...which will easily melt,if ur puffing on a 50 to 100 watts..
Lower gauge wires are thicker, which will give you lower ohms..
.1-.8ohms, now it makes sense to use this regulated devices,
Plus regulated devices can give options on how you want to vape the kind of juice ur vaping...IMO
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LUMIA 1520
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I'm one of those oddballs, though I think there are more of us than realized, that has a comfort zone between .7 and 1.5 ohms. Sometimes you feel like a "sub", sometimes you don't.
I don't really have any need or interest in 100w, 50w, probably not even 30w. The attraction for me to these type of devices is the ability to put any atty, in the before mentioned range, I want. I like a consistent vape, to be able to use a .8 and have it stay at the same power is what appeals to me.
I don't really have any need or interest in 100w, 50w, probably not even 30w. The attraction for me to these type of devices is the ability to put any atty, in the before mentioned range, I want. I like a consistent vape, to be able to use a .8 and have it stay at the same power is what appeals to me.
50 watts you could go 0.35 ohms and still get a good vape at 4.2v roughly. thats why i cant wait to get 100w device so i can play with 0.4-0.8 ohm builds and really find the optimal power setting for them. so many combinations of power and ohms with regulated devices esp ones that can handle 100w
It feels really solid and well made. It's aluminum and its kind of textured. Its big but not nearly as big as it looked in the pre release photos. Standing beside my nemesis, the device itself is probably about as big as my neme+rda but it feels VERY good in my hand. Only complaint so far is the battery consumption. I got about 4 hours of time from a fully charged VTC4, but that was also at 50w the whole time and I probably would've swapped the battery in my mech mod by then as well and I would'nt have gotten a constant 50w performance for those 4 hours in my mech either. I don't have an IPV mod but I've seen people say the battery drain is better on those.
That's what regulated devices are all about. Finding your right ohms and wattage setting and enjoying the consistency of the Vape. Don't get me wrong though, I do have a mech but I rarely use it because I notice the battery drain and the Vape quality diminish which frustrates the hell out of me.
I don't know the science exactly but just from experimenting with my iPV2 the best performance out of these high wattage regulated mods comes from pushing more voltage through higher resistance coils than a mech can. If you go super low resistance your going to get fairly bad performance compared to a mech because it starts to act like a mech just dumping what the battery can put out but you've got all kind of circuitry in there causing voltage drop (edit: voltage drop is probably the wrong term since they can control voltage, maybe inefficiency). Regulated I can put up to 50W through a 1.4Ohm coil while a mech would only be able to put like 13W through it. Throw some big old 28 gauge dual coils around 1.4 Ohms on there and it will surprise you.
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I don't really see how the number of coils could effect battery life. I believe I read that regulated its completely dependent on wattage and puff time. I think they even argued that resistance has little effect but even if it does, the same resistance at single or dual coil should use the same amperage. Maybe your single coil is just heating up a lot faster and so you are taking shorter puffs.
Dual coils take more time to heat up compared to a single coil, so they consume more amp/hours than a single.
Well technically the rate is the same your just using it more. The total firing time wouldn't be effected.
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After testing countless combinations with ohm's and wattage settings i found that i get, by far, the best taste with my dripper's running coils from 1- 1.8 ohms with wattage settings under 20 .
Luckily my battery last a long long time as well .
Luckily my battery last a long long time as well .