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Angelv942

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Hey just a quick question my mod is telling me im at 0.170 ohm right now pilling 3.200 amps does that sound rigbt or is it off
 

HellbillyRJ

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What are your watts?

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Wait... 3.2 amps? That doesn't sound right at all

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What kind of coil is it and what ohm is it supposed to be?
 

HellbillyRJ

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that is a 0.17 ohm coil pulling 3.2 amps... 1.77 watts... Nearly impossible. http://www.steam-engine.org/ohm.html
The ohms law calculator there should be able to help

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Angelv942

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What are your watts?

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W stay between 40 and 50
 

HellbillyRJ

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W stay between 40 and 50
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0.17ohms at 40 watts should be around 15 amps

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Angelv942

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What kind of coil is it and what ohm is it supposed to be?
It was pre built. Big baby tank x4 quad coil its supposed to be at .15

There is alsso a dual coil that comes with it thats going to clock at .4 ohm. But as i sit and look over the battery laws. I will be bulding my own coils soon. The info on my mod just didnt look right also i know u shouldnt be trying to go below.5ohm at all i dont want to be near that
 

Angelv942

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0.17ohms at 40 watts should be around 15 amps

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That is also what i was comming up with. Maybe its the mod smh
 

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It was pre built. Big baby tank x4 quad coil its supposed to be at .15

There is alsso a dual coil that comes with it thats going to clock at .4 ohm. But as i sit and look over the battery laws. I will be bulding my own coils soon. The info on my mod just didnt look right also i know u shouldnt be trying to go below.5ohm at all i dont want to be near that
0.17 ohms on the Smok 0.15 coil isn't bad. Allow for 0.05 fluctuation in either direction on most mods, they're still safe. And depending on the number of batteries you use and the type of batteries you can build below 0.5 I was vaping a 0.09 ohm coil earlier today. It killed my batteries in a matter of hours though so I went back to my 0.23 coil :)

But 3 amps is really low for any sub ohm coil in my experience.

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Angelv942

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0.17 ohms on the Smok 0.15 coil isn't bad. Allow for 0.05 fluctuation in either direction on most mods, they're still safe. And depending on the number of batteries you use and the type of batteries you can build below 0.5 I was vaping a 0.09 ohm coil earlier today. It killed my batteries in a matter of hours though so I went back to my 0.23 coil :)

But 3 amps is really low for any sub ohm coil in my experience.

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Thank u alot bro
 

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Np :) just hope it helped. Good luck.

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You should be fine with a regulated device. If the build is too low, it won't fire and usually will give you an error message like "atomizer too low". Curious what device you are using with the BBB tank? An Alien I presume?
 

Angelv942

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0.17 ohm and 3.2A doesn't make sense.
Maybe you got confused and you mean 0.17 ohm and 3.2V, that's around 60W
I know it didnt make sense thats why i wantrd to ask it was confusing me lol. I think a poster got it right it does seem to flux. But to be as low as 3 amps worried me. When volts seem to stay at 2.5 running at 37w
 

Angelv942

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You should be fine with a regulated device. If the build is too low, it won't fire and usually will give you an error message like "atomizer too low". Curious what device you are using with the BBB tank? An Alien I presume?
Yes an 220
 

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I know it didnt make sense thats why i wantrd to ask it was confusing me lol. I think a poster got it right it does seem to flux. But to be as low as 3 amps worried me. When volts seem to stay at 2.5 running at 37w

This is why Ohms Law doesn't apply. The chip does the calculations, and the display just shows the output from it's DC/DC converter. Depending on your build, you will see, on the display, readings that make no sense if you're expecting to see Ohms Law in action.
The display shows what comes out of the chip. It can't show what goes in, and that's what you are looking for with Ohms Law. We just have to trust the chip to do it's job.
 
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This is why Ohms Law doesn't apply. The chip does the calculations, and the display just shows the output from it's DC/DC converter. Depending on your build, you will see, on the display, readings that make no sense if you're expecting to see Ohms Law in action.
The display shows what comes out of the chip. It can't show what goes in, and that's what you are looking for with Ohms Law. We just have to trust the chip to do it's job.

that's not quite true. Ohms law does apply to what is displayed. It just doesn't apply to what amps are actually drawn from the batteries.

The amps drawn from the batteries do not depend on the resistance of the coil. It just depends on the watts you have the mod set to and the current voltage your batteries are outputting.

The display, however, shows the apparent voltage and amps based on the wattage setting and the coil resistance. I think nightshard had it right. Makes more sense if the OP mistook the displayed volts for amps.
 

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that's not quite true. Ohms law does apply to what is displayed. It just doesn't apply to what amps are actually drawn from the batteries.

The amps drawn from the batteries do not depend on the resistance of the coil. It just depends on the watts you have the mod set to and the current voltage your batteries are outputting.

The display, however, shows the apparent voltage and amps based on the wattage setting and the coil resistance. I think nightshard had it right. Makes more sense if the OP mistook the displayed volts for amps.
My point was that the numbers displayed on the screen won't correspond to Ohms Law. Lock the resistance and wattage on an Ohms Law calculator, and the voltage won't match what is displayed on the Alien's screen. The resistance and wattage are set on the screen and don't change, unless the user changes them. The voltage and amperage readings will change from puff to puff. Only the chip knows the volts and amps being pulled from the batts. It doesn't share that info via the display.
 

gakudzu

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Ohm's Law says:
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Alien says:
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But if you just tap the fire bar, Alien says:
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So, yeah, either Nightshard is right, or the OP just tapped the firebar and saw the oddness. I too found the display misleading at first. It should show actual batt voltage and amp draw from the batts, but it doesn't. More useful if it did.
 

gakudzu

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I see what you mean, though. It displays according to the Law, but you will rarely see numbers that jibe precisely because of the fluctuations required to regulate output.
 

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I see what you were trying to say now. Just tapped my Alien and it gave me those weird readings also. Never really noticed that before. You're right, that would be misleading. It seems like every time you press the firebar it recalculates the volts and amps and it takes a second for it to settle down.
 

Angelv942

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Ohm's Law says:
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Ahhh thank you. I could have sworn uo and down it was
Alien says:
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But if you just tap the fire bar, Alien says:
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So, yeah, either Nightshard is right, or the OP just tapped the firebar and saw the oddness. I too found the display misleading at first. It should show actual batt voltage and amp draw from the batts, but it doesn't. More useful if it did.
wow ok sorry about that yes it def had me confused for a sec
 

gakudzu

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wow ok sorry about that yes it def had me confused for a sec
I understand. I was the same way when I first got mine. I was like, "That's so cool!". And then, "That doesn't look right...". LOL
Now all I pay attention to is the watt/temp setting, the ohm reading, and the batt meter.
 

Angelv942

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I understand. I was the same way when I first got mine. I was like, "That's so cool!". And then, "That doesn't look right...". LOL
Now all I pay attention to is the watt/temp setting, the ohm reading, and the batt meter.
Can i ask what tank u run with??
 

gakudzu

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Can i ask what tank u run with??
It varies. Baby with factory coils(but moving away from those), Baby rba, Cloud Beast rba, Aromamizer Supreme, and a DOGE3 rda. My wife uses a Kanger Subtank mini on hers. She finally got fed up with the kanger coils, and let me put a clapton in the rba. She tootle-puffs @28-30w.

I'm really getting into using TC and building my own SS coils. The Alien does a fair job on SS with the Cloud Beast, but my Hohmtech mods are way better.
 

Angelv942

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It varies. Baby with factory coils(but moving away from those), Baby rba, Cloud Beast rba, Aromamizer Supreme, and a DOGE3 rda. My wife uses a Kanger Subtank mini on hers. She finally got fed up with the kanger coils, and let me put a clapton in the rba. She tootle-puffs @28-30w.

I'm really getting into using TC and building my own SS coils. The Alien does a fair job on SS with the Cloud Beast, but my Hohmtech mods are way better.
Nice thats dope. I have a royal hunter rda on the way im betting into making coils now. I have the big baby on my alien and i love the tank. Also ran a clieto 120 the big baby kills it
 

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