Microcoils?

[stu1873]

I am going to have a go at recoiling some of my atty's tonight and am thinking of trying to do some microcoils.
I will be recoiling heads for my protanks with silica and genesis type atomizers like my steamboy 2.1 and rsst that I use with s/s mesh.
Can microcoils be done on any of these and if so is a1 kanthal ok to use?


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[Super-Shiny]

Don't go near genesis style atty's myself but for protank heads i use 0.25 Kanthal Clicky with around 8-9 wraps around a 2mm drill bit works great for me.

You could try one of Greigster coiling buddy's to make life easier, plenty of members are loving it: allaboute-cigarettes.proboards.com/thread/31066/greigster-coil-buddy?page=1

[gapy360]

stu1873, Romelee is the man when it comes to the coiling. But for my two pence worth, on my protanks I used. . 30 kanthal A1 with about 8-9 wraps
I do have an rsst but have never put a micro coil in it. Next one for that is kanthal ribbon and ss rope

[stu1873]

I think i only have .2 Kanthal or .2 niochrome. will any of these work for a microcoil?

[Super-Shiny]

Nov 10, 2013 20:03:29 GMT stu1873 said:

I think i only have .2 Kanthal or .2 niochrome. will any of these work for a microcoil?

You could try with the .2 Kanthal but i found it way too springy, best to get 0.25 or .3 kanthal, much better handling wise....plus you will be able to do more wraps for better coverage.

[Greigster]

Nov 10, 2013 20:03:29 GMT stu1873 said:

I think i only have .2 Kanthal or .2 niochrome. will any of these work for a microcoil?

You will end up with very high resistance or with fewer wraps, there will not be enough length of the micro to sufficiently cover enough wick.
It will sort of work and as Rommers said .25 Kanthal would be better. But you would be better going for at least .30 Kanthal which will cover more wick at a lower resistance

[Super-Shiny]

Forgot to add, the only reason i use 0.25 Kanthal is because there is not that much room in the Kanger heads and the last thing you want to be doing is for the coils to be touching the sides of the head, if i use .30 kanthal i need a lot of wraps to get the right resistance for me so .3 kanthal was not for me as you need more wraps to get the right resistance so the more wraps the closer it got to the sides of the head.

But this is based on a 2mm drill bit.

So my setup is:

0.25 Kanthal for small areas with microcoil
.30 Kanthal for large areas with microcoil

If that makes sense...i am confusing myself now

EDIT: Overall i use 0.25 Kanthal as it heats up quicker.

EDIT again: My wife said nothing wrong with touching the sides

[stu1873]

Cheers guys.

Just going to wait until i have some better suited Kanthal to do it as i attempted to do an Evod head and the resistance was 3.9!

[Greigster]

Ah yes Rommers of course, a good point, when you are restricted for space. I was being a bit blinkered there, sorry.

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Nov 10, 2013 20:35:35 GMT Super-Shiny said:

EDIT again: My wife said nothing wrong with touching the sides

[izan]

Nov 10, 2013 21:14:35 GMT stu1873 said:

Cheers guys.

Just going to wait until i have some better suited Kanthal to do it as i attempted to do an Evod head and the resistance was 3.9!

Twist the 32/.20 to double the resistance.
A 7 cm length of .20 is ~2.8?,
Measure 14 cm, fold in half to 7 cm and twist. Now 7 cm meters ~1.3?.

Have fun
Be safe
I

[Greigster]

That is a great tip Izan

Neil

[MarkS]

I have a .3 kanthal microcoils on my RSST & AGA-T2 and they work a treat.