I prefer contact coils. Easier to build for me and more energy efficient imo. In the end, probably not much of a difference.
How to use TC
- Thread starter Imtiaaz
- Start date
Seeing that I have a coil jig kit, it will be super easy to build some contacts too, I know you OG vapers don't like the short cuts but hey I'm just starting out. Thanks @Andre
That is pretty much spot on for a spaced coil. well done.
any pics of your wicking? that is the main decider of how well your coil will work
I prefer spaced. I notice with contact coils you have a higher chance of burning the centre of the wick as the coil is covering the whole cotton. Spaced allows the cotton to breathe better i rate and absorb liquid faster as well as heat the cotton equally
Thanks @Kalashnikov really appreciate the kind words, I was so frazzled after an hour of struggling that I didn't think to take a pic after wicking. I just wanted to see if it works. I will for sure next time bud, just for you
@Imtiaaz the best way is to try it for yourself. For normal builds I prefer contact, for TC I prefer spaced. I have had better consistency with spaced on TC. The best way is for you to try, I have certainly used contact on TC many times before. I find that building spaced is a lot quicker and easier than contacts and 90% of the time they heat evenly from the get go.
Some issues I've had with spaced outside of TC:
One leg gets hotter than the rest, burns the cotton and everything tastes likes scorched ballsack, trust me, you will know if this happens to you. This is mainly due to my own error in setting the coiil, but still, doesn't happen on contact coils. Not for me at least.
Some flavor loss on high VG juices, probably because there is less surface heating the cotton than with contact coils.
My goto is spaced for TC, contact for mostly everything else.
Love the advise and share of your experiences @Caveman, Thank you for this.
I will take all the info to heart and hopefully become good at this coil building business.
Thinking back to a month ago, I knew absolutely nothing about the new MOD and SUB OHM world, and with the help of the peeps on this forum, I have now got 2 awesome mods, that I'm extremely happy with (Through advise received here), am able to provide basic and some advanced information to people wanting to get into vaping, and even took the next step of rebuilding my own coils successfully.
I can't thank everyone enough for the absolutely brilliant support and advise received here, it's really made the journey so amazing and fun.
BIG UP'S TO ECIGSSA!!!!!!
Thanks. Really nice. Still fiddling with the temp control but so far I like it more than power mode.
I don't even know when I hit the temp I set it at, I don't know what temp to use. I'm struggling to get the TC going well, but will keep playing around I guess and eventually figure it out @SAVaper
doesnt your screen show you as your pulling? And then say temp protect at the temp you reach
Thing is When I pull it says 25 degrees, and doesn't heat up fast enough to reach the minimum 100 degrees, even if I take a few hits in a row. I'm really not sure what I'm doing wrong but I have kinda given up a bit but will try again later and see what happens @Kalashnikov and let you know.
Did you lock in your resistance while the coil is cold? Set it on SS temp mode?
I can't tell you how the H-Priv works but I select the wire (SS or Ni or Ti) temp mode. Then set my desired temp and the KBox automatically selects maximum power for the mod. Then I press the fire button with no atty attached. I then see a error message (or the ohms show 9.99). Then I attach the atty and press fire again. I get the "new atomiser" message and I say yes. This locks in the resistance for that coil setup. Then I lock the settings and fire away.
You can try 150'C and go up or down as you feel. On my 75W 150'C is not bad at all. On my 120W mod, I use between 420'F and 460'F
Good luck.
It auto locks on the H-priv from what I understand, @mcgeerj35 to second that.
I chose SS yes but I think I'm just not vaping at high enough watts, I mean I am at like 60watts at the moment and built a 0.2 ohm coil. So I'm guessing I don't even need TC as it's not hot in any case?
Thanks @SAVaper, I will follow your process above to lock in the resistance and then play around with it. I just want to see it work once and have heard such great things about TC mode.
I read somewhere that the TC on the smok works better on a 0.5 or higher resistance. Maybe try a higher build
That's interesting, OK its decided next build will be a bit higher!!! I'm literally willing to try anything to see how things work. Inquisitive mind problems, lol
hahaha what tank you using? is it single or dual? i think i used to make 0.5 dual coil using 26G ss. about 7 wraps spaced.
Edit - i think 28 in fact. but try least get to 0.4
Tank is tornado Nano, dual coil, using 24G SS with 10 wraps spaced at the moment @Kalashnikov.
The lower your resistance the higher your wattage needs to be in TC mode also. On my current IJoy Tornado RTA I have it at 0.32ohm sitting at 62watts and my Kayfun V3 mini is 0.6ohm at 40watts. Try upping the wattage when its that low then it would probably hit your temp much quicker.
Fair enough. I vape most of my juices at 190 - 220 C. I find that in the Kayfun v3 mini at 0.52ohm at 130 - 140 C mtl is where it's at for me. That's the beauty of it all. You customize it to where you want it exactly.
Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk
Ok, so I ran out of the office quick to test the higher wattage's. I set it to 70watts and got the temp protect screen to pop up fairly quickly. So at least I know how to trigger it now thanks to @Caveman. Now I just need to fine tune it I guess and see whats best.
Wooohooo finally making some progress!!!
Similar threads
