@AndriaD thanks for the recommendations. i am using 8 wrap 28g coils, but dual mode for now (habitually made and installed a pair
). when i re-wick ill pull one out and try it as you suggested. i have it on a mech mod so its going to get from 17-22w throughout the battery cycle. it will eventually end up on my istick 30w where i can dial in the power a bit better, but for now its performing great.
That's not a bad range of power for 8 wraps of 28ga -- for myself, I found that 10w with that amount of coil mass was really unsatisfactory; I do take long hits as a rule, but most mods do have a 10-second timeout.
My own sweet spot, the 8 wraps of 29ga, suits my 5-second hits very well; it's not exactly *instantaneous* ramp-up, but pretty quick, so in 5 seconds I can get a satisfying hit. Since I smoked ultra-light 120s for so long, I tended to take long-ish hits on my cigarettes too, so a 5 second hit with those particular coils is just about perfect; ever so slightly warm, moderate vapor -- my asthma can't handle too much or too thick vapor, but with my 85% PG, it appears quite similar to what I exhaled when I smoked.
And see, my asthma is the "rub" in my whole vaping experience: where most folks are trying to "dial it in" for some crazy amount of vapor... I'm just trying to "dial it in" to be satisfying, yet not make me cough up a lung or need to visit the ER for breathing treatments. It's a razor's edge, so all y'all cloud chasers can just bite me.
Andria