Coil Wrapping

[LordOdin]

I have used Steam Engine for quite a while now for coil wrapping but this a baffled me. I put the Wire Type in (Nickel 200) the Gauge (28 awg) Coil Diametre (2.5) and Legs at 5mm. On Kanthal or SS it usually says 6 or 7 Wraps for a 1.0 ohm Coil. With Nickel 200 i get the following.

 

[zouzounaki]

aye, it has much lower resistance. you can only use it for TC (you prob already know that).

 

[LordOdin]

aye, it has much lower resistance. you can only use it for TC (you prob already know that).

I was expecting more wraps , but not 84 lol. Yeah it is for TC and i knew it was Lower Resistence. So how do you calculate say a 7 Wrap Ni200 Coil ?

 

[Crispycritters]

I think you first need to see how low your mod will allow you to fire at, put that resistance in Steam Engine and go from there. Personally I wouldn't worry about the low resistance, particularly if the chipset you're using allows you to manually set the initial Wattage as well as the Temperature.

 

[Richard Winter]

7 or so wraps would give you a coil resistance of around 0.1 ohms using Nickle

 

[ripe_plantain]

So how do you calculate say a 7 Wrap Ni200 Coil ?

Use the 'wire wizard' tab

 

[Simon G]

I was expecting more wraps , but not 84 lol. Yeah it is for TC and i knew it was Lower Resistence. So how do you calculate say a 7 Wrap Ni200 Coil ?

What are you trying to calculate? You just do 7 wraps... the resistance doesn't really matter because you are using TC not wattage.

 

[Simon G]

You have the target resistance at 1ohm, that's not going to happen. I can't even get a 1ohm coil with SS (mine come out around 0.6-0.7)

 

[P2PLeon]

I don't think you will have enough deck for that number of wraps; there must be some error.

Nickel 200 is supposed to be used in SubΩ devices since it is easier to curve the temp control.

 

[Rickster]

Bin it