Am I vaping safe?

[luap1085]

Hi all,

Just a quick question as I really really don't want to end up blowing my hand off or anything.

I've just started building my own coils and tried building a .5 ohm dual coil (it ended up 1.1 ohm ... but meh), anyway I just wanted to know what is the maximum safe wattage I can drip with using;

reuleaux rx200s
SONY US18650-VTC5 2600mAh 30A x 3
1.1 ohm coil

I'm currently using vw mode @ 30W, can I push it much higher than this with a coil over 1 ohm??

 

[Abyss]

You won't be able to push much power into the 1.1 ohm build maybe 20 watts. A .45 should be fine at 40-50 watts.

 

[luap1085]

You won't be able to push much power into the 1.1 ohm build maybe 20 watts. A .45 should be fine at 40-50 watts.

That's what I thought, however at 20W the flavour is hardly noticable, I only have 28GA wire, if i used two wires on each coil to maintain the amount of contact between wire and cotton, would this half my ohm?

Sorry for the dumb questions, completely new to rebuildables.

 

[Tubbyengineer]

That's what I thought, however at 20W the flavour is hardly noticable, I only have 28GA wire, if i used two wires on each coil to maintain the amount of contact between wire and cotton, would this half my ohm?

Sorry for the dumb questions, completely new to rebuildables.

Try looking up some build tutorials on youtube - Twisted or parallel wire builds are what you should be looking at if you want to reduce the resistance - You didn't tell us what atty you're using so we need to know that to help further, a picture of your build wouldn't go amiss either...

 

[luap1085]

Try looking up some build tutorials on youtube - Twisted or parallel wire builds are what you should be looking at if you want to reduce the resistance - You didn't tell us what atty you're using so we need to know that to help further, a picture of your build wouldn't go amiss either...

I've got a Phenotype-L in the sale and also a royal hunter mini, the Phenotype is the one I was building on as it came first, however its slightly more advanced/finicky to build on for a beginner like me, I will experiment with the royal hunter first.

With safety in mind, as I'm using a regulated device, if I keep the ohms between .25 to 1.5 between builds and vary the wattage between 10 and 40 depending on flavour, a regulated device won't blow up in my face due to the chipset protecting me, is this correct?

 

[luap1085]

Okay I think I understand regulated now, basically with regulated it separates the input/output, so I don't need to take into account the coils resistance for battery safety as the mod decides what to pass on to the coil?

The only thing I need to be concerned about when it comes to things exploding on a regulated device is the wattage setting (add 10% to this to account for mod error) divided by the combined min discharge of the batteries (3.7 x 3 = 11.1), as long as the result of this doesn't exceed 30amp, then the batteries 'shouldn't' explode, is this correct?

 

[welshyokel]

With any regulated device you do not need to worry about anything other than too high a wattage might result in a dry hit and burnt cotton. The regulated device will not fire if there is anything wrong with the coil build so nothing is going to explode. As Tubby said you should, as a newbie to coil building , read up on ohms law and watch a few tutorials, use steamengines coil wizard to best understand what your build will produce in terms of resistance.
http://www.steam-engine.org/coil.html
Remember as well that if you are building a dual coil build the ohm rating of the coils is halved so if you build 2 coils of 1.0hm resistance and install them that will deliver 0.5ohms. Have fun and safe vaping.

 

[Tubbyengineer]

Okay I think I understand regulated now, basically with regulated it separates the input/output, so I don't need to take into account the coils resistance for battery safety as the mod decides what to pass on to the coil?

The only thing I need to be concerned about when it comes to things exploding on a regulated device is the wattage setting (add 10% to this to account for mod error) divided by the combined min discharge of the batteries (3.7 x 3 = 11.1), as long as the result of this doesn't exceed 30amp, then the batteries 'shouldn't' explode, is this correct?

TBH Theres far too much worry about resistances with Regulated devices - simply choose a battery that will supply the mods max discharge rate (Most of the good quality High amp cells available from places like Fogstar will be sufficent - Just pick one with a 25 Amp rating and everything will be fine - the mod won't let you fire too low a resistance or too high a wattage...