Which wire ?

[nellie691]

Hi all,

I want to make a coil for the penelope at about 2.4 ohms, which wires do I need to buy and any recommendations as where to purchase ?

Thanks

Neil

[Perpetua]

Wires.co.uk are your best bet Nellie . . .

wires.co.uk/acatalog/E-CIG_IATTY_ATOMIZER_WIRE.html


You'll need two types, a Nickel Chrome for the resistance and either a Silver or Nickel for the non resistance.

[nellie691]

Thank you

[Perpetua]

Welcome Nellie . . .

I'd go for either of these two for your non res:

10 Metres 0.2mm Soft Fine Silver Wire 99.99%
Ref: SI0200-010

10metres 0.236mm Nickel Wire
Ref: NI0236-010

The silver is nicer to work with.

Then for your res wire, either:

10 METRE 0.16mm Nickel Chrome Wire
Ref: NC0160-010

10mt 0.212mm Nickel Chrome Wire
Ref: NC0212-010m


You might find the 0.16mm a bit easier to start off with, I'm not sure. The finished ohms will depend upon the length of wire used and how many winds you put on your wick . . . with either.

[OneDay]

You will see that on the site it tells you the resistance in ohms per metre of each of the nickel chrome wires, so that for instance, the 0.16 is 53.7 ohms per metre, so if I want a 2.4 ohm coil I need (2.4/53.7) X 1000 = 55mm. If I am joining this to no resistance wire I add about 10mm or so to allow for the joins.

[nellie691]

Thank you all - I will order some tomorrow

[blakey]

Personally, I would go for the .20 ni-chrome from that site, it's good wire.
Reason being, you will need a longer length of .212 wire to reach 2.4ohms than you will with .20 wire and penelope doesn't have that large a ceramic channel to fit the resulting coil inside

5cm of .2 wire will give me a 2ohm coil INCLUDING 3mm each end for connections and that makes for plenty of turns/coils on 3mm wick