{"id":4978,"date":"2014-04-24T18:30:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T22:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/?p=4978"},"modified":"2014-04-24T14:17:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T18:17:16","slug":"wire-gauge-and-resistance-for-rebuildable-atomizers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/wire-gauge-and-resistance-for-rebuildable-atomizers\/","title":{"rendered":"Wire Gauge and Resistance for Rebuildable Atomizers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Higher Gauge = Thinner Wire = Higher Resistance<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Anyone interested in rebuildable atomizers or even rebuilding clearomizers will eventually have to make a choice on what wire to use. \u00a0Wire thickness is referred to by gauge, but there is often little information regarding what gauge to use. \u00a0A few tips should help you make the choice.<\/p>\n<p>First, let&#8217;s be clear that there is no &#8220;right&#8221; choice. \u00a0Different wire thicknesses work better for different applications, but a lot is up to personal preference. \u00a0There are really only two things you need to remember:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Higher gauge wire is thinner. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lower gauge (thicker) wire has lower resistance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In practice, this means that more wraps of lower gauge wire are needed to make the same resistance coil as less wraps of a higher gauge wire. \u00a0For example, 5 wraps of 32 gauge will make a coil with around 2.0 ohms of resistance, while it will take around 8 wraps to do the same thing with 28 gauge.<\/p>\n<p>For standard ohm applications in the 2.0 ohm range, nearly any gauge between 28 and 34 will do the trick. \u00a030 or 32 will make a nice warm coil that fits in an EVOD head, for instance. \u00a0Lower gauge becomes very important for those looking to build extremely low resistance or even &#8220;sub-ohm&#8221; coils. \u00a0By the way, I highly recommend getting comfortable with building standard resistance before tackling low resistance &#8211; too many bad things can happen to batteries when the resistance is too low.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Higher Gauge = Thinner Wire = Higher Resistance Anyone interested in rebuildable atomizers or even rebuilding clearomizers will eventually have to make a choice on what wire to use. \u00a0Wire thickness is referred to by gauge, but there is often little information regarding what gauge to use. \u00a0A few tips should help you make the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,34,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4979,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978\/revisions\/4979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}