This sub ohm malarky

[smifee]

I've tried 2 sub ohm tanks. Not because I want to sub ohm but for features of the tank.

Anyvape Sega for top fill but under tank air flow caused too much condensation under the tank. iJoy Acme for top air flow but poor flavour & wispy vapour.

With sub ohm coils the vape is too hot for me.

Q1. Can I use the Vapourshark nickel coils for the Nautilus on an iStick 40W? The blurb says only use on DNA mods.

Q2. Any idea what is the highest ohm nickel coil I could get into an Aspire BVC head.

[igual]

Sorry but I know Nada re temp sensing coils, but have you tried subtank mini?
It has stock 0.5 or 1.2 ohm coils and a cracking rba deck ( modified my original but their is a v2 rba out now )
I run one of my tanks at 0.6 with 30/70 mix at 25w and its a lovely Vape.
Other one before it was ( borrowed ) by family member I used to use the 1.2 heads at 20w with 50/50 and it was a nice cool Vape but still masses of cloud.

Subtank mini might well be worth a look

[gm111]

I can't see why they wouldn't work on the new Istick 40w so I would say yes they will work..
I'd imagine you could get just over .3 ohm into an aspire bvc head too, I would wait for someone to confirm this though

[smifee]

Jul 9, 2015 10:16:25 GMT igual said:

Sorry but I know Nada re temp sensing coils, but have you tried subtank mini?
It has stock 0.5 or 1.2 ohm coils and a cracking rba deck ( modified my original but their is a v2 rba out now )
I run one of my tanks at 0.6 with 30/70 mix at 25w and its a lovely Vape.
Other one before it was ( borrowed ) by family member I used to use the 1.2 heads at 20w with 50/50 and it was a nice cool Vape but still masses of cloud.

Subtank mini might well be worth a look

I'm Kanger phobic because I had problems with their stuff when I used it for my first 6 months vaping. So many people swear by the Kanger subtanks so I may have to give one a trial.

Of all the tanks I've used only one has had flavour as good as the Nautilus Mini and that's a Magma RDA that I use to test flavours.

[phatfil]

fasttech subtank mini clone bases + £1 acrylic bellcaps and both a rba head and official NI200 Occ heads make grand budget TC atty's imho..
work out about £7-8 each delivered if you buy 5 x of each, or 5 x for the price of 1 x branded

[Q]

+1 for the FT Subtank mini clones, I've got 4 of them and had no problems at all, not sure on the bellcap though, cant see any point in it, much prefer glass

[Ripshod]

I personally wouldn't use nickel coils on a non-TC mod smifee, you don't mention a TC mod in the OP.

You've already stated sub-ohms ain't for you, imagine sub-sub-ohms.

Are there any non sub-ohm heads available for your tanks? I know I can get 1.2s for my VCT.

[phatfil]

Ha Ripshod the Op mentions the 40w istick, thats the new TC version afaik;)

[Ripshod]

Jul 9, 2015 12:32:42 GMT phatfil said:

Ha Ripshod the Op mentions the 40w istick, thats the new TC version afaik;)

I stand corrected sir  thumb up

With so many coming out it's too easy to get confuddled

[smifee]

Jul 9, 2015 12:29:00 GMT Ripshod said:

I personally wouldn't use nickel coils on a non-TC mod smifee. You've already stated sub-ohms ain't for you, imagine sub-sub-ohms.

Are there any non sub-ohm heads available for your tanks? I know I can get 1.2s for my VCT.

It's for a TC mod. The iStick 40W. Reviewers of the Acme tank don't seem to know what wire is in the stock heads. I tried the 0.5ohm in TC mode. It read .07ohms and went straight back to wattage mode when vaped.

I've already recoiled the Acme heads with a 1.6ohm coil and it was hopeless. Cool vape but barely any flavour and not much vapour. Same coil as I make for Nautilus Minis where the flavour & vapour are lush.

The TC benefits that appeal to me are longer lasting wicks and vaping the tank dry but I want a cool vape.

[phatfil]

Jul 9, 2015 12:33:34 GMT Ripshod said:

Jul 9, 2015 12:32:42 GMT phatfil said:

Ha Ripshod the Op mentions the 40w istick, thats the new TC version afaik;)

I stand corrected sir  thumb up

With so many coming out it's too easy to get confuddled

I had to jump at the chance to correct you Ripshod another chance wont pop up for a while i imagine

[gm111]

Jul 9, 2015 12:40:06 GMT smifee said:

Jul 9, 2015 12:29:00 GMT Ripshod said:

I personally wouldn't use nickel coils on a non-TC mod smifee. You've already stated sub-ohms ain't for you, imagine sub-sub-ohms.

Are there any non sub-ohm heads available for your tanks? I know I can get 1.2s for my VCT.

It's for a TC mod. The iStick 40W. Reviewers of the Acme tank don't seem to know what wire is in the stock heads. I tried the 0.5ohm in TC mode. It read .07ohms and went straight back to wattage mode when vaped.

I've already recoiled the Acme heads with a 1.6ohm coil and it was hopeless. Cool vape but barely any flavour and not much vapour. Same coil as I make for Nautilus Minis where the flavour & vapour are lush.

The TC benefits that appeal to me are longer lasting wicks and vaping the tank dry but I want a cool vape.

Personally after using tc with the subtank nickel occ coils I don't think tc is better with clearomisers but is good when it comes to wanting to change juice and may come in handy with high vg juice but I've never used higher than 50/50 in a subtank, I always use my higher vg juice in my Rda's, TC is much better suited to Rta's and even more with Rda's where you can easily get a dryhit when the juice runs low.

[smifee]

gm111 I like things to be like me - simple

My rebuildable deck experiences have not been successful. I can't do with having to faff about getting the wicking right. So maybe the subtanks with rebuidable decks aren't for me.

I just recoil heads, for friends & family, for the RG200 & Nautilus. We all wick using cotton tape. No guessing how much just cut & go.

[gm111]

Sorry if I made things sound complicated smifee, personally I find Rda's easier than redoing coils and you also found rebuilding the nautilus coils for a friend a pain compared to the subtanks occ coils due to the size.

[smifee]

Jul 9, 2015 13:15:58 GMT gm111 said:

Sorry if I made things sound complicated smifee, personally I find Rda's easier than redoing coils and you also found rebuilding the nautilus coils for a friend a pain compared to the subtanks occ coils due to the size.

Not complicated at all. I've found a system that suits our clan but I still try anything that I think will be easier or better.

I keep seeing a lot of posts on this & other forums for wicking advice for rebuildables including the subtank. Cut the tails this long, make a figure of eight, do a pancake etc. It's just too much faff for me.

I only managed 1 out of 4 wicking attempts on a RTA.  When it's too faffy it just gets given away. The iJoy Acme will likely go the same way.