VapeMe
Member For 4 Years
I'm not really one to post on forums, I only read through them and post when I have questions that I can't/am too lazy to figure out myself. Upon building this coil setup I thought I'd post it just because I was very happy with the results.
Just a little background, skip to the next paragraph if you aren't interested. I am relatively new to rebuildables (a couple of months maybe). I started rebuilding on a tobeco plume veil clone on a dna 30 device. I was relatively unsatisfied with the vape I got off of my dna 30 and moved on to mech mods. I love the vape I get on my mechs. I usually vape between .2 and .3 ohms (I only have purple efest 2500mah "35a" (really 20a continuous discharge) 18650s and the Lg18650he2s (same thing as the efests). I still use the plume veil clone on a daily basis and I love it.
I recently purchased the infinite clt and I keep going back to the plume veil because the flavor is just so much better. Vapor production on the clt is great. Flavor on the other hand left something to be desired (IMO). So, I decided to try a build on the clt with the idea of maximizing flavor output. I tried and was pretty unimpressed with dual, and quad coil setups I had tried with 24, 26, and 28 gauge wire, Dual parallel coils, twisted 28 builds, and so on.
So onto the build:
Upon going into this build my idea was to reduce the chamber size with my build by making the coils and wicking consume a large portion of the chamber.
Coils:
I got a bit crazy with the idea and decided to build 6 coils with 26 gauge wire, centered, and stacked one above the other in a horizontal orientation. So I ended up with 6 coils, single 26 gauge Kanthal A1 round, 6 wraps for each coil around a 3/32 screwdriver. Installed them in the rda guessing leg length to be equal for all coils. I then positioned them so they weren't touching each other anywhere. I put the rda on the ohm meter, It measured .26 ohms. I then put it on a mod and test fired it. To my surprise all 6 coils heated evenly, no adjustment required. I tidied up the coils with tweezers and put it back on the ohm meter, it was now reading .22 ohms.
Wicking:
I then tucked wick (organic cotton) between the positive post and the coils, down from the top all the way down into the drip cup. I then ran wick through one top coil and passed the same wick over the positive post and through the other top coil (to make a Z shape over the positive post) trimmed wick relatively close to the end of both coils. I then wicked the next coils down in the same fashion, the only difference being that I reversed the direction I ran the wick to make a reversed Z shape over the positive post so both wicks together made an X, I trimmed fairly close to the end of the coils again. I then tucked some wicking around the bottom of the positive post under the build, in the drip cup (in a circle around the positive post). Finally, I wicked the bottom set of coils in the same way as the previous 2 sets of coils, reversing direction again back to the Z shape. I trimmed the wick ends a bit longer this time and tucked them between the positive and negative posts.
Results:
I am truly amazed at how much flavor, and vapor for that matter, I am getting out of this atty with this build. Also to my surprise, it doesn't take long to heat up either. It was not a build that was easy by any means, actually it was a pain in the arse. Certainly not gonna do a build like this too often, but I finally got decent flavor out of this rda.
Just a little background, skip to the next paragraph if you aren't interested. I am relatively new to rebuildables (a couple of months maybe). I started rebuilding on a tobeco plume veil clone on a dna 30 device. I was relatively unsatisfied with the vape I got off of my dna 30 and moved on to mech mods. I love the vape I get on my mechs. I usually vape between .2 and .3 ohms (I only have purple efest 2500mah "35a" (really 20a continuous discharge) 18650s and the Lg18650he2s (same thing as the efests). I still use the plume veil clone on a daily basis and I love it.
I recently purchased the infinite clt and I keep going back to the plume veil because the flavor is just so much better. Vapor production on the clt is great. Flavor on the other hand left something to be desired (IMO). So, I decided to try a build on the clt with the idea of maximizing flavor output. I tried and was pretty unimpressed with dual, and quad coil setups I had tried with 24, 26, and 28 gauge wire, Dual parallel coils, twisted 28 builds, and so on.
So onto the build:
Upon going into this build my idea was to reduce the chamber size with my build by making the coils and wicking consume a large portion of the chamber.
Coils:
I got a bit crazy with the idea and decided to build 6 coils with 26 gauge wire, centered, and stacked one above the other in a horizontal orientation. So I ended up with 6 coils, single 26 gauge Kanthal A1 round, 6 wraps for each coil around a 3/32 screwdriver. Installed them in the rda guessing leg length to be equal for all coils. I then positioned them so they weren't touching each other anywhere. I put the rda on the ohm meter, It measured .26 ohms. I then put it on a mod and test fired it. To my surprise all 6 coils heated evenly, no adjustment required. I tidied up the coils with tweezers and put it back on the ohm meter, it was now reading .22 ohms.
Wicking:
I then tucked wick (organic cotton) between the positive post and the coils, down from the top all the way down into the drip cup. I then ran wick through one top coil and passed the same wick over the positive post and through the other top coil (to make a Z shape over the positive post) trimmed wick relatively close to the end of both coils. I then wicked the next coils down in the same fashion, the only difference being that I reversed the direction I ran the wick to make a reversed Z shape over the positive post so both wicks together made an X, I trimmed fairly close to the end of the coils again. I then tucked some wicking around the bottom of the positive post under the build, in the drip cup (in a circle around the positive post). Finally, I wicked the bottom set of coils in the same way as the previous 2 sets of coils, reversing direction again back to the Z shape. I trimmed the wick ends a bit longer this time and tucked them between the positive and negative posts.
Results:
I am truly amazed at how much flavor, and vapor for that matter, I am getting out of this atty with this build. Also to my surprise, it doesn't take long to heat up either. It was not a build that was easy by any means, actually it was a pain in the arse. Certainly not gonna do a build like this too often, but I finally got decent flavor out of this rda.
