halcyon dna 200 build help

[jake silvy]

earlier this week I bought a used halcyon squonker with a tsunami rda. ive been playing around with builds to get decent clouds and flavor, without draining the battery super fast. I want to be around 40 wats but I cant build anything comfortable at that wattage. any suggestions? I have 24g kenthol

 

[trickywoo]

In my Nalu RDA (v.similar to the tsunami) I tend to run 10 wrap coils at around 0.8 each (0.4 ohm total) and get pretty decent results at around the 40 watt mark.

If that's the range you're running, have you tried spacing the coils at all? Even a slight gap between the wraps can have a fairly major impact on the end result.

Edit: meant to add that it's 10 wraps around a 2.5mm jig

 

[jake silvy]

In my Nalu RDA (v.similar to the tsunami) I tend to run 10 wrap coils at around 0.8 each (0.4 ohm total) and get pretty decent results at around the 40 watt mark.

If that's the range you're running, have you tried spacing the coils at all? Even a slight gap between the wraps can have a fairly major impact on the end result.

Edit: meant to add that it's 10 wraps around a 2.5mm jig

thanks! ill have to try that spacing. I did a 10 wrap around a 3mm but closed all the gaps, it was okay I just wasn't getting what I wanted out of it.

 

[paulbee]

thanks! ill have to try that spacing. I did a 10 wrap around a 3mm but closed all the gaps, it was okay I just wasn't getting what I wanted out of it.

Good tip for even spacing is when you wrap the wire to coil it, do them as parallel coils (so next to each other) and then you have to effectively unscrew them from each other and should get 2 perfectly spaced coils!

 

[jake silvy]

Good tip for even spacing is when you wrap the wire to coil it, do them as parallel coils (so next to each other) and then you have to effectively unscrew them from each other and should get 2 perfectly spaced coils!

that's a good point, but running a dual parallel build would lower my resistance and I would have to run at a high wattage..

 

[paulbee]

No I meant you coil as parallel then separate them so you have 2 spaced coils

 

[jake silvy]

No I meant you coil as parallel then separate them so you have 2 spaced coils

 

[jake silvy]

No I meant you coil as parallel then separate them so you have 2 spaced coils

ahh I understand now, ive never thought of that. or heard of that. great piece of information!

 

[paulbee]

Can also use a screw or bolt to wrap the wire around

 

[trickywoo]

I tend to wrap a normal coil and stretch it along the jig before compressing it back. This usually gives decent even spacing and is pretty quick to do