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You could try adding a little Bitter Wizard if it's too sweet

It's all greek to me qsplan. Also, it doesn't show the mini usb connection, but it looks more like a charging station. I'm after something that I can put it into in between vaping on the pass-through. I suspect with that device you'd have to pick the whole thing up while you were vaping, which would be a bit of a handful.

If you have a 3d printer there's a spec here (I think), but I don't have one of those.

There's a guy on Reddit who puts a big office clip over the bottom, which might work well if you had an angled mini-usb like VapingBad suggests.

And there's a video here about a stand called Boris, but it's a bit tilted and my goliath is inclined to leak through the air-holes if its at an angle.

All right, so what's your solution?

I think the basic objective is to maximise the coil area without getting any of the coil too far away from the air hole or messing up the air flow in your chimney. Also a long coil may not get the juice to the middle so smoothly.

First question - it's a balance obviously. I think 14.5 wraps is too long - most of it won't be over the air hole. I'd go for the 8 or 9.5 wraps.

Bonus q1 - touching is better - you get more area near the air-hole, more heating area inside your rta. And personally I got more dry burns when I used open coil - possibly because the wick carries some of the heat itself, possibly because I'm better at it these days.

Bonus q2 - it's down to personal preference, and I haven't tried all of those. Cotton will wick better (carry more juice to the coil more quickly) than silica (and I think most people prefer the taste). You can dry-burn a coil with the silica wick still in it - you can't do that with a cotton wick. You can pull the old cotton wick out of a coil and insert a new one, which you can't do with a silica one (or at least you couldn't in builds we used in the old days - long time since I used it).

I don't have temp control, so I'll leave that to someone else.

Noobie question gets a noobie answer - do whatever works best for you. If you can't tell the difference it doesn't matter.

For a given watts setting they are likely to be very similar. Most people probably buy the lowest ohms that their device is happy with.

I don't have a nautilus, and I don't know how nautilus coils are made. For a given wattage: if they use the same size of coil and vary the wire thickness you may find that the lowest ohms burns a little hotter. If they vary the length you may find that the higher ohm produces a little less vapour (more of the heat further from the air holes).

I was a happy vamo/kayfun user. I mostly vape for taste, but once in a while I like more vapour, so I treated myself to a 30 watt istick and a mini clouper (and an orchid and a goliath).

The vamos are now for backup - I find an extra couple of watts improves the taste a little on my ordinary 1.8 ohm build in a kayfun-type atty, and the mini box mods are more comfortable to use.

A lot depends on your juice. My normal one tastes as strong as I like at around 16 watts. I only go sub-ohm when I want the vapour.

If your 18650s are still in good nick the mini clouper is a good buy at around £18 from fasttech. If you aren't chasing vapour then I shouldn't think you'd need more than 30 watts.

Thanks Postmodern Smoking