Coil Ohms

[Ripshod]

Feb 18, 2015 16:15:17 GMT mowjo said:

Cheers Droog! I'm not into subing, as long as it taste good I'm happy, and as a few have pointed out the juice consumption rockets, I'll stick with the single 1.25ohms for now, but I will give the duels ago when I get aroung to making my own coils,,

Mow,,,

Good on ya. Yes to starting with single coils and staying out of sub-ohm land, but I don't think it'll be too long before you 'try' just one build - and get hooked 

[Pepperty]

Ironically that's what I've been doing this afternoon, just got a pair of Orchid V4's and I've just coiled them up. I made a pair of 1ohm coils and followed a few video tutorials. I've never really done a build before beyond my ceramic builds and single coil drippers so I was aprehensive...

Good job I did my homework as youtube tutorials showed me a few handy tips, 1st coil isn't a problem getting in place, staggering positive post to negative but the second coil needs to have positive leg in a horseshoe shape and fed in at angle so it doesnt knock out the 1st coil on other side. The other useful hint I picked up is keep positive leg straight and bend negative coil leg out and that way you can line up the coil over airhole easily.

I tightened the negative leg 1st and pushed coil over with a tiny screwdriver pushed inside coil. It was surprisingly straightforward once I'd seen 4 or 5 videos showing different styles.

The hardest part is tweaking until both coils fire from centre out at same time. Another brilliant hint is you need your wick to have a 'mullet hairdo' with a stringy tail into chanel and a fluffy top and this way theres no flooding and no dry hits (so far) I used my thrum scissors to shape the ends so a fine tail of cotton went part way down air slots

I've now got a pair of orchids firing at 0.5 ohms on my clouper mini and my head is spinning from teh nicotine hit and i'm cloudchasing and boring my family It's going to be difficult to set it up to fire on an istick? the deck is a decent size but you will have to make a pair of coils at 2 ohms to get a cambination 1 0hm that will fire on your battery

[mowjo]

Rip! I know I will have a go, I won't be able to resist it, you should have seen me take apart an I clear 30s coil after someone said it can't be done, it can but I wouldn't fancy trying to re-coil it,

Peps! the trouble is at times there's just too much info on stuff, I end up confuzzled! with the V6 having the raised airways they are saying tuck the wick under and add a small bit of wick between the post, and it won't leak, luckily for me there's more stuff being added to Youtube about the Orchid V6, I just need a slow mo button so I can watch it and build at the same time,,

Mow,,,

[Pepperty]

my sons just seen and admired my clouds and remarked 'now that cant be good for you!'

[Greg]

Looks good Pepperty, very tidy coils
I don't put any wick in the channels with the Orchid but build very similar to yours other than that. If it's chugging great it's all good

[Pepperty]

Feb 18, 2015 17:23:07 GMT Greg said:

 yes, thank you, I just open the fasttech bag and shake out a pair of 1.1 ready made coils 

[Greg]

Feb 18, 2015 17:28:05 GMT Pepperty said:

Feb 18, 2015 17:23:07 GMT Greg said:

 yes, thank you, I just open the fasttech bag and shake out a pair of 1.1 ready made coils 

Oh I take that praise back 

[Perpetua]

Feb 18, 2015 17:30:55 GMT Greg said:

Feb 18, 2015 17:28:05 GMT Pepperty said:

 yes, thank you, I just open the fasttech bag and shake out a pair of 1.1 ready made coils 

Oh I take that praise back 

Bravo I say!


Effective management of time . . . whilst achieving a great end result!

[charliehorse]

Feb 18, 2015 15:04:40 GMT Get Off My Cloud said:

You will want two identical resistance coils otherwise one will get hotter than the other.
The minimum a 20w iStick will fire is 1ohm so you will need to make 2x2.0ohm coils to get a final 1ohm resistance.
If you're shooting for a final 1.5ohm resistance then you will need 2x3.0ohm coils.

Its an important point - the total resistance is only half when the resistance of each coil is the same.

[Pepperty]

I can make coils.... I do have a mandrel and kuri coilers and lots of wires - but then I think, 3 pence each and all beautifully formed? I'll just order a load more bags of 50 readymade microcoils at £1.50 a bag!

Its fiddly enough faffing about poking through holes and tightening teeny tiny screws and shoving a pushing and yanking into place so I take teh easy path every time! very tidy though