MTL RTA tank

[Eka]

Steam engine is a online calculator for coils

https://www.steam-engine.org/coil

Enter wire type, inner diameter, and target resistance you want and it tells how many wraps you need and recomended wattage.

For example if you enter kanthal a1 wire type, 28awg thickness/guage, inner diameter 2.5mm and resistance 1ohm

It will show you need 5 wraps of wire around a 2.5mm coil rod for a 1ohm coil and recomend 12w power. Wich is what I use for mtl.

Thicker wire or less wraps will make the resistance lower, I always try to get 5 or 6 wraps

4 wraps of 28àwg kanthal or 6 wraps of 26awg kanthal will be around 0.8ohms

Wow! Thank you so much. I will sit and Reed about it. Very helpful.
I am looking at the same time for a tank with 0.8 hole as well . you are brilliant

 

[Astral]

Hi @Eka and welcome to the forum.

I've reviewed both the Arbiter Solo and the Berserker V2 and out of the two I much prefer the OXVA. The Berserker is marginally easier to wick but the Arbiter Solo is much the better tank.

I've got a bit of a love/hate relationship with the Berserker V2 MTL. Despite its ease of wicking, the airflow control ring is on far too tightly, and the size and reverse threading of top-cap means you keep undoing it when trying to adjust your airflow. It's also a little audible on the draw. The airflow inserts are easy to use and handy though.

The OXVA would be the better option of the two. It wicks easily, disassembles easily and has an excellent range of airflow. You could happily learn your craft on that without problems.

Best wishes.

 

[rew]

Wow! Thank you so much. I will sit and Reed about it. Very helpful.
I am looking at the same time for a tank with 0.8 hole as well . you are brilliant

A lot of the RTAs have under coil inserts so you can customise your draw. The Neeko does have that option included. But look around and see which other RTAs have it also.

 

[LordOdin]

Just dug my Pandora out to be ready for when my Bell Cap arrives, it has been a while since i used this RTA but from what i remember it was a cracking vape. Airflow should be set to how i like it so looking forward to it. One of my favourite buys from the Classifieds on here.

 

[Eka]

Hi @Eka and welcome to the forum.

I've reviewed both the Arbiter Solo and the Berserker V2 and out of the two I much prefer the OXVA. The Berserker is marginally easier to wick but the Arbiter Solo is much the better tank.

I've got a bit of a love/hate relationship with the Berserker V2 MTL. Despite its ease of wicking, the airflow control ring is on far too tightly, and the size and reverse threading of top-cap means you keep undoing it when trying to adjust your airflow. It's also a little audible on the draw. The airflow inserts are easy to use and handy though.

The OXVA would be the better option of the two. It wicks easily, disassembles easily and has an excellent range of airflow. You could happily learn your craft on that without problems.

Best wishes.

Thank you

 

[fentribal]

One of the things that people often find a struggle when starting out with building, is getting the wicking right. Too much cotton and you will get dry hits as the cotton is too compact to wick properly, but too little cotton and the deck will flood and leak and you will also probably get a mouthful of e-liquid. The best cotton to look out for is any that comes in 'shoelaces' rather than cotton that just comes in a strip or a sheet. You can buy the 'shoelaces' in whatever size you require, for example, if you wind your coil round a 2.5mm coiling rod you will need to buy 2.5mm 'shoelaces'. This takes a lot of the guesswork out of how much cotton you will need to get the tank to wick properly.

 

[Eka]

Hi @Eka and welcome to the forum.

I've reviewed both the Arbiter Solo and the Berserker V2 and out of the two I much prefer the OXVA. The Berserker is marginally easier to wick but the Arbiter Solo is much the better tank.

I've got a bit of a love/hate relationship with the Berserker V2 MTL. Despite its ease of wicking, the airflow control ring is on far too tightly, and the size and reverse threading of top-cap means you keep undoing it when trying to adjust your airflow. It's also a little audible on the draw. The airflow inserts are easy to use and handy though.

The OXVA would be the better option of the two. It wicks easily, disassembles easily and has an excellent range of airflow. You could happily learn your craft on that without problems.

Best wishes.

Thank you

One of the things that people often find a struggle when starting out with building, is getting the wicking right. Too much cotton and you will get dry hits as the cotton is too compact to wick properly, but too little cotton and the deck will flood and leak and you will also probably get a mouthful of e-liquid. The best cotton to look out for is any that comes in 'shoelaces' rather than cotton that just comes in a strip or a sheet. You can buy the 'shoelaces' in whatever size you require, for example, if you wind your coil round a 2.5mm coiling rod you will need to buy 2.5mm 'shoelaces'. This takes a lot of the guesswork out of how much cotton you will need to get the tank to wick properly.

Thank you very much. I saw them shoelaces cotton.
very helpful information.

 

[Giurra]

Thank you very much for the reply. Very helpful. Where I can learn about wire time and residence? Also what range of wattage to use. Thank you.

Regarding the different wire types just google it like 'different types of vape wire' or similar. There is a bunch of sites with really nice descriptions and pictures. Which one you will like is subjective. I can even suggest trying a few different ones. Stainless steel and kanthal are your safest bet. Also i suggest trying pre made coils first. You dont have to buy building equipment and learn how to build in the beginning. Of course that is something that will come in time if you are interested, but pre made will do more than fine. I use both pre made and ones I made equally.
I can suggest Vandy Vape and Coilology pre made MTL coils.

 

[Eka]

Regarding the different wire types just google it like 'different types of vape wire' or similar. There is a bunch of sites with really nice descriptions and pictures. Which one you will like is subjective. I can even suggest trying a few different ones. Stainless steel and kanthal are your safest bet. Also i suggest trying pre made coils first. You dont have to buy building equipment and learn how to build in the beginning. Of course that is something that will come in time if you are interested, but pre made will do more than fine. I use both pre made and ones I made equally.
I can suggest Vandy Vape and Coilology pre made MTL coils.

Thank you for your reply.
I was looking for a pre made coils and I find on Manabush website Vandy Vape
10 x 0.74Ohm Fused MTL Clapton Coils are they 0.7? And where I can found the range of wats to use, usually It’s on the stock coil packet . 10-15 w?
Also this coils is 2.5 mm and I learn here from some kind person who explained me about the cotton, that I will buy shoelaces pre made cotton for 2.5 mm.
I will start with the pre made coils but I ideally would like to have a master class with someone who knows all about it to learn how to make them my own, as I don’t want to blow up the whole lot . I am really don’t understand them ohm to wattage etc.

 

[Eka]

Just would like to say a big thank you all who write a reply with all this helpful information and suggestions . I am still looking at tanks and as soon I will buy it I will get the all the bits and bobs for it and I will start to build my own coils as how I said I fed up with stock coils as couple of times I got a bad batch and they awful. I am really looking at
Reload MTL RTA 22mm.
Any suggestions?