All you 28 awg lovers

[Viper_SA]

Been playing with 28 awg paracoils and ended up doing a paracoil with one strand of 28 awg Kanthal A1 and one strand of 28 awg SS 316L. Really loving the vape on it. Between 6 and 8 wraps, 2mm ID, depending on the atomizers airflow.

 

[Petrus]

Been playing with 28 awg paracoils and ended up doing a paracoil with one strand of 28 awg Kanthal A1 and one strand of 28 awg SS 316L. Really loving the vape on it. Between 6 and 8 wraps, 2mm ID, depending on the atomizers airflow.

Pics

 

[zadiac]

Try 3 strands of 28g in parallel. You'll love it.

 

[Stevape;)]

@zadiac what kinda ohms you looking at with 3 strands?

 

[zadiac]

lol.....can't remember. I did this some months ago and I really loved the vape. The only reason I don't do those anymore is because with a compressed coil like that, it burns off my wick in the middle because I vape at high wattage for a warm vape, but while it lasted, it was an excellent vape.

 

[Stevape;)]

Looking at something like this to put in my Derringer for the my Reo. Hoping all that wire fits the centrepostt tho

 

[Viper_SA]

Pics

As soon as I get a chance. @zadiac, the 3 strands might not fit in the Cyclone

I did do a 2 strand paracoil in the Atomic with 28 awg SS 316L, it's plenty hot for me with mtl

 

[Stevape;)]

Tripple twisted not to bad

 

[Choked Blood Flow Fiend]

Can confirm. Parallel ss or kanthal 28g is all I use. @viper did you do that build on a mech or regulated mod?.

 

[Viper_SA]

Can confirm. Parallel ss or kanthal 28g is all I use. @viper did you do that build on a mech or regulated mod?.

Mech. I don't have any regulated mods.

 

[GreenyZA]

Mech. I don't have any regulated mods.

Only mech mods an no pics?? I'm sure you got something to post a pic with.. Nudge nudge..

 

[Choked Blood Flow Fiend]

@zadiac what kinda ohms you looking at with 3 strands?

To answer your question.

The perfect ratio is a coil as wide 1,5 times diameter.

Assuming the dimension, wraps of 28g are between 12-14.

4 wraps is 12 lines of wire.

dual coil you get approx. 0.2 ohms

watts around 75.

3- wraps = Too Hot on a Mech

5+ wraps = Too high ratio Metal/Cotton

 

[Choked Blood Flow Fiend]

Working on a 2mm ~ 3mm diameter.

 

[zadiac]

@zadiac what kinda ohms you looking at with 3 strands?

3 Strands of 28g at 6 wraps round a 3mm ID gets you .2 ohms. I vape it at 80 watts for a nice warm vape.
That's a dual coil. 2 x 6 wraps a side.

 

[Choked Blood Flow Fiend]

3 Strands of 28g at 6 wraps round a 3mm ID gets you .2 ohms. I vape it at 80 watts for a nice warm vape.
That's a dual coil. 2 x 6 wraps a side.

3 strand 28g kanthal x 6 wraps = 5.99 wraps for 0.28 ohms. 3mm diameter.

Assuming total length of legs at 25mm

 

[zadiac]

3 strand 28g kanthal x 6 wraps = 5.99 wraps for 0.28 ohms. 3mm diameter.

Assuming total length of legs at 25mm

Vaping on that right now. On my Rolo DNA200. Shows .2 ohms. You can disagree, but that's what I'm vaping right now.

 

[Choked Blood Flow Fiend]

I don't believe you

 

[zadiac]

Not my best build, but it hits soooo good!

 

[Choked Blood Flow Fiend]

It's a crapshoot with different brands/grades of kanthal only way to decide was use the same wire on each setup.

Disagree will be removed.

 

[Choked Blood Flow Fiend]

Looks juicy

 

[zadiac]

I only did it to test the resistance. My fav is dual coil, 24g SS317L on 3.5mm ID, 9 wraps each. Comes to .27 ohms cold. Running at 80 watts too. Love it.

 

[Choked Blood Flow Fiend]

Lol did you coil that sucker up for the photo just now?.

I need to try 26 or 24 SS.

Spaced or compact?

 

[zadiac]

No, this afternoon. Been vaping on it for a few hours now. Will be going back to my SS317L build now.

 

[Silver]

This is a great thread @Viper_SA

I love my 28g wire for faster ramping and crisper vapes

I have found the 30g is too thin for my type of coils
So I got 29g Kanthal a while back and found it great for paracoils. Double strand, on the RM2
Fast ramp, great crisp flavour for MTL

 

[Viper_SA]