So you are a new coil builder! Welcome to the club. Great hobby and very distracting if you are trying to quit smoking. LOL.. You can't concentrate on wrapping a coil and think about smoking at the same time.
I have a video sticky on 4 basic coil builds for new builders. Here is what they do.
Simple basic coil. A straight single strand coil.
Easy to build. Gives very good cloud production with some flavor.
Basic single core clapton.
Easy to build *not as easy as the basic coil*. Gives good clouds and greatly improved flavor over single coil.
Simple parallel build. Lower resistance, More surface area for better clouds. Flavor slightly better than single coil.
Dual core fused clapton. This is a parallel core (same as above) wrapped with a much thinner wire (clapton) which traps more ejuice for best flavor of the 4. This is 1 step below coil porn. Fairly easy to build and produces large clouds and big flavor. Basically, this "go to" build will be all most vapers will need. Much cheaper than paying $14.00 for a pair of zippered, fused alien coils and yet.. the flavor is almost as good as even the most coil pornographic coil ever made.
Of course there are fancier coils for those flavor chasing fanatics, but for the average new vaper, these 4 are all you really need.
Next.. what wire do you use to wrap the claptons? Kanthal and Nichrome are easy to use but slower to transfer heat to the ejuice. Stainless steel is slightly stiffer to wrap with, oxidizes a bit faster (you need to change coils a bit more often) but... it transfers heat from the core wires almost instantly, for that burst of flavor right away. Basically, it is your choice. For best flavor, SS is the way to go. For longer coil life.. kanthal or nichrome.
I have a video sticky on 4 basic coil builds for new builders. Here is what they do.
Simple basic coil. A straight single strand coil.
Easy to build. Gives very good cloud production with some flavor.
Basic single core clapton.
Easy to build *not as easy as the basic coil*. Gives good clouds and greatly improved flavor over single coil.
Simple parallel build. Lower resistance, More surface area for better clouds. Flavor slightly better than single coil.
Dual core fused clapton. This is a parallel core (same as above) wrapped with a much thinner wire (clapton) which traps more ejuice for best flavor of the 4. This is 1 step below coil porn. Fairly easy to build and produces large clouds and big flavor. Basically, this "go to" build will be all most vapers will need. Much cheaper than paying $14.00 for a pair of zippered, fused alien coils and yet.. the flavor is almost as good as even the most coil pornographic coil ever made.
Of course there are fancier coils for those flavor chasing fanatics, but for the average new vaper, these 4 are all you really need.
Next.. what wire do you use to wrap the claptons? Kanthal and Nichrome are easy to use but slower to transfer heat to the ejuice. Stainless steel is slightly stiffer to wrap with, oxidizes a bit faster (you need to change coils a bit more often) but... it transfers heat from the core wires almost instantly, for that burst of flavor right away. Basically, it is your choice. For best flavor, SS is the way to go. For longer coil life.. kanthal or nichrome.
