Good evening, or morning, VU. Quick couple questions regarding safety and build here that I can't seem to find much info on via the interwebs. You guys have always come through for me, so many thanks for guiding me through all my noobish questions previous to this and thanks in advance for this couple.
So I found my favorite tube mech build thus far! After rebuilding about fifteen or twenty times I hit that sweet spot on my Broadside. Twisted Messes RDA, 24g Kanthal, single coil parallel. Ohms out at .23. It still scares me a bit building this low, but it's the only way I can achieve the vape I'm after. Resultantly, I check my battery and mod obsessively, sometimes every few hits just to be sure and to record data.
What I've noticed is after four or five hits back to back, my battery and tube remain cool, but the inside of the tube is slightly warm. I'm talking newborn bathwater at best. I've read that this is normal and I vape conservatively, but (for safety's sake) I've also read that heat transference is a spot on way to determine if you're stressing your battery too much.
I suppose my initial question is, am I stressing my battery too much (VTC4). Is it possible to determine battery stress through heat transference to your mod? If so, what's the obvious limit so I can cut it in half and call that mine? The Broadside has a firing button that I'm assuming was made from delrin. Hot button issues seem to be a staple in determining what I'm questioning, but I don't have that luxury (or curse, depending on how you look at it), not with this mod at least.
My other question is more for reassurance. After building over and over again I'm currently under the assumption that parallel coils, since they're side by side, heat each other consequently, and also that a single 18650 mech has an easier job heating just one coil. Am I wrong in this? I have virtually no ramp up time, great clouds and can still taste my juice, and this is the only build I've achieved that with.
Feel free to be brutally honest with me. I favor constructive criticism over bullshit.
So I found my favorite tube mech build thus far! After rebuilding about fifteen or twenty times I hit that sweet spot on my Broadside. Twisted Messes RDA, 24g Kanthal, single coil parallel. Ohms out at .23. It still scares me a bit building this low, but it's the only way I can achieve the vape I'm after. Resultantly, I check my battery and mod obsessively, sometimes every few hits just to be sure and to record data.
What I've noticed is after four or five hits back to back, my battery and tube remain cool, but the inside of the tube is slightly warm. I'm talking newborn bathwater at best. I've read that this is normal and I vape conservatively, but (for safety's sake) I've also read that heat transference is a spot on way to determine if you're stressing your battery too much.
I suppose my initial question is, am I stressing my battery too much (VTC4). Is it possible to determine battery stress through heat transference to your mod? If so, what's the obvious limit so I can cut it in half and call that mine? The Broadside has a firing button that I'm assuming was made from delrin. Hot button issues seem to be a staple in determining what I'm questioning, but I don't have that luxury (or curse, depending on how you look at it), not with this mod at least.
My other question is more for reassurance. After building over and over again I'm currently under the assumption that parallel coils, since they're side by side, heat each other consequently, and also that a single 18650 mech has an easier job heating just one coil. Am I wrong in this? I have virtually no ramp up time, great clouds and can still taste my juice, and this is the only build I've achieved that with.
Feel free to be brutally honest with me. I favor constructive criticism over bullshit.
