Coil Porn

As the title says: coil porn. Share the builds that you are proud of and tell us how they vape. Although it's a chance to show off don't be shy if yours is a bit of a minger. Lets face it Ryanmacl's will be better than any of the rest of us anyway!

Useful info to include:
Atty
What wire & is it single/twisted/parallel/whatever
Ohms
How does it vape
Any riptrippers type name you want to give it.


(VM - if 'porn' is not a word you want used in the title pls change it. If its cool pls delete this sentence)

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I will start with a real minger. Got carried away trying things. Hardly produced any vapor at all, although it would spit the odd bit of liquid at me.

Nanocoil inside a microcoil inside a big huge coil. I call it the Johnny Cash because 1) the Ring of Fire and 2) its crap.

30 AG wire, 0.6 ohms on a FT Trident clone

I couldn't figure out how to wick it and ended up ripping it out pretty fast.






About a week later riptrippers did a similar-ish build called the inception coil which he wicked well enough

 

Wow, put me on the spot why don't you...mine are really not that pretty, I just go for performance. That coil is impossible to wick effectively, its just designing in your hot spots. If by some miracle juice makes it into the center coil, it'll just burn.

The only thing I've had time to do lately was this one:


Dual parallel 30AWG 5/4 at .51 ohms on a Trident clone from Big By-pass. I got it for 2 reasons; its freaking impossible to get a parallel build to screw down on the Storm-A without the wires popping out (haven't bothered to twist the legs yet), and also because I wanted something that will look nice on the Vapor Shark when it gets here next week. Like all parallel coils, amazing flavor. Vapor production is just okay. I should have gone with my 28AWG, because the resistance is a bit too high for what I wanted. Love me some parallel though.

I do have one other little beauty that unfortunately I haven't had the time to set up yet.


A microcoil sheathed in 3mm Ekowool. I have two plans for these (unfortunately one fell apart in my drawer). One is to put one vertically in a Protank, which should allow for unrestricted airflow and eliminate flooding in the same way the Aspire coils do it, by keeping a barrier right up against the holes instead of allowing the wick to pass through the metal (if that makes any sense). For that, I'll be using the wire welder for NR-R-NR legs, passing the top leg right through the middle of the coil. The second build I have planned is for the Kayfun, using it as a vertical coil and using another length of Ekowool with a slit cut into it (----<>----) to slide over the sheathed coil and run into the juice channels. Again, should allow for unrestricted airflow and dry burning. I'm sure someone has done something like this before, but I haven't seen it yet.

I've had a busy few weeks, so hopefully this weekend or next week I'll have some more time to play around.

 

Yeah I eventually realised that! I'd had the nano-in-micro thing working well in a few builds (as a kinda dragon coil). Had some idea to add the Johnny Cash ring and then wick only between the two bigger coils (i.e. nothing in the center). I do feel that I learn more from the stuff I mess up than I do the stuff that works first time. Which is just as well given the number of coils that end up in the bin.

I think you confirm my point! Took me two goes to even understand what you wrote fully. Look forward to seeing/hearing about the results. Looks a bit like those poi that Phangan kids set on fire on beaches. Maybe call it the Had Douche?

Looking good. I tried parallel for the first time at the weekend. In retrospect too many wraps, but it performs well enough. Helios is pretty forgiving.

Parallel 28AG, 0.6 ohms, Helios clone


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I'm hoping that when the great Kanthal shipment lands there will be a good few people posting in here. PommyB for one needs to show us what can be done with 17km of kanthal

 

OK my first build and im happy with it. 28AWG 9 wraps 1.6ohms, ive also doubled it up to get 0.8 ohms but this takes too long to heat up even with 15w.

The main problem I have is all my liquid has a very strong hit, ive reduced to 12mg from 18mg and it still seams to be harsh, flavors there and so is vapor production in the single coil version. This is a v1 trident with limited airflow and its a very airy vape. Should I be going below 12mg, I have a Kayfun ariving tomorrow and hope with airflow control it will be a better vape than this is so far.

 

Shouldn't be that harsh. Is your coil lined up with your airhole both horizontally and vertically?

 

The air whole is lined up fairly well, I just dug out some 6mg sub zero that I havent been able to use before and the harshness has gone. Still very strong on the menthol, but thats sub zero for you.

Im now quite enjoying it in single coil mode with a low nic liquid.

 

Ok so maybe a standard setup but as this is my second coild build and my first on a Kayfun its really sexy. 28AWG 8 turns on a tooth pick and 1.4ohms.

 

Getting ready for the meetup, recoiled all my Kayfuns to around 2.3 for the Vapor Shark, and made a little something special. Dual Clapton coil with 26AWG core and .4x.1 ribbon, comes out to around .3 ohms. Also made a nice little 26AWG dual coil at around .5.

 

My Latest Built a 0.5 Ohm Lotus RDA

there is a so called Flavor Control Airhole right below one coil


all glows evenly, lets get it wicked


the liquid is fresh, not 100 years old like it might lookalike


the Lotus RDA with custom DripTip on my Turtle Mod

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Build Specs:
Atty: $13.38 Lotus Style RDA Rebuildable Dripping Atomizer - 1.8ohm / flavor control at FastTech - Worldwide Free Shipping
Wire: 0.32 Kanthal A1
Ohms: 0.5

How does it vape: Insane well taste, however with the so called Flavor Control Airhole being at the bottom, you need to put a lot of cotton inside otherwise the juice will flow out of the the additional bottom airhole. Imho not very well thought of in terms of construction.

 

@oil: that looks pretty freaky. first time I've seen a tri-coil

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My current build. Nothing fancy, as I don't have much in the way of tools, equipment, or experience. But I've been really satisfied with this so far. I'm not sure about this, but I'm under the impression that my Spinner battery is no good for lower ohms, so I wanted to stay around the around the 1.5 area. I used 32g kanthal so that I could do dual coils because with the dual coils, I can spend less time dripping than with a single coil. Anyway, this is 32g wrapped about 9 times each and i think it's supposed to come out around 1.4 ohms but I don't really remember now. I just used an online calculator anyway, as I don't have an ohms meter.

 

Nice clear photos there Smithereens.

 

Sounds right to me

Risky. You could miscalculate or more commonly have some kind of short. This will be dangerous battery-wise

At the least you need to be very aware if your battery gets warm. Personally, I wouldn't build coils without a way to check resistance.

 

I think Smithereens Ego twist has short circuit protection so he should be safe but yes very sound advice on getting an ohms tester.

The fire battery on my VV v3 has become sticky for some reason so now it is purely an ohms meter

 

I hear ya on the battery advice. I was planning to get an ohms meter, but then after building a few coils, and having them work fine, I figured I'd hold off on the meter until I get a mech mod. I do know it's risky, but I don't really know how much. What happens if the battery has a short? Is that the scenario where it may explode? Or will it just kill the battery? Or…?

 

Sorting through photos and found these two

1) An unexciting but effective twisted (?)28AG about 1.0 Ohms in a Kayfun



2) (riptrippers bullsh1t alert) A cross-stacked dual nano in a Taifun GT. 30AG. About 0.8 Ohms. Really like this one. Gives denser/more



I may be lying the 2nd one could be 28AG