My first mech

Rude Rudi said:

A quick update;

So, I went to visit Ollie at VK today and got a masterclass in the basics... I now 'get' it and understand all the basics. I got my first wire and will do me own coils now - got Ni80, 24ga.

I now have 3.5mm, 6 wrap Ni80 coil, reading .25. Happy days!

Thanks all for your input!



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Hi 5 man. Well done.
Welcome to the mech world, hope you love it as much as I do.


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JsPLAYn said:

I run 0.09 on a SMPL and Goon combo with samsung 25R. No problems at all

Build is 4wrap geekvape SS claptons 3mm ID

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Yep, pulling 46.6 A and doing 196W off of a single fully charged 18650 - no sweat at all and certainly plenty of safety margin left there.
Even at the nominal 3.7V you are sitting at 41.1A and around 152W.
It makes me wonder why peeps invest in dual battery mods at all when they can do this off single cells...

IMO, you should replace 'No problems at all' with, 'It has not blown up in my face. Yet.'

I've literally been running a .17 ohm build on my mech in my druga atty, its an ni80 22g 3mm 7 wrap build. Using 25r battery or lg hb2 battery. I dont carry my mech around but if i do i always choose to be safe and take the battery out and put in the battery case with the rest. Each of my batteries are marked in order to use them in an order and not 1 more than the other to try even out the load.

If i see a nick in the battery i rewrap and mark straight away in order to be safe.

I clean contacts on the back of a mouse pad and clean the firing button once a week as well to avoid any case of it sticking. I generally only take about 5 hits at a time and then leave it for a good 5mins so im never continuously taking hits.

I havent had one battery get hot and would maybe suggest replacing batteries every 6 months.

Just my 2 cents. I know some guys will say .17 is to low for a 25r battery but safety precautions are taken as stated above and i worked out i can take a good 32 hits before i replace the battery which leaves it at about half.

Oh ya. Never leave a battery in the mod without an atty on. If you fire it by accident it will cause a short. Damaged a battery like that before.

Good luck and enjoy. Awesome way of vaping

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Reading this thread there have been some crazy low builds for 18650s. I don't know how you guys can feel comfortable running like that - I could never vape comfortably below 0.2/0.25ohms. I've got my regulated mods for higher watts.

As the guys have said above, build to your batteries continues amp ratings with some safety margin. Confirm good battery wraps before every install and use atty with a protruding 510. If you stick to that you will LOVE mechs. Fair warning though, you can never only have one mech.

Something I do that helps put my mind at ease , on every new build I pulse it on a VW mod first. This "proves" too me there are no dead shorts in the build that could bite me.

Yikes this thread is scary, 0.19 on a mech for a beginner, that is balls my friend! I'm also fairly new and trying to learn. I don't know if this applies to your mech but with the VGOD they say not to reverse thread the atty onto the mod but no idea why. I check resistance when I change wicks as well. One more thing, if you clip a lead after checking resistance just make sure the tiny piece of wire doesn't fall into the atty.

Any idea where to find a list of hybrid compatible attys? I got a Petri rda and since it's meant to work with a mech I though it would be safe for hybrids and it possibly is but the protrusion of the positive pin doesn't look the way I'm told it's supposed to.

I run a 22g nichrome dual coil 7 wrap on 0.17 ohm off a 25r battery, it cones to about 21 amps draw from tbe battery.havent had the battery get hot. I find the cloud and flavour spectacular, any lower than than that is overkill in my opinion.