What exactly is the difference between kanthal and nichrome wire? Does it just get hot faster?
what is nichrome?
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Resistance Wire - Kanthal/Nichrome
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Resistance Wire - Kanthal/Nichrome
This should hopefully be more informative than the answer you were looking for.
nichrome wire has a lower resistance than kanthal, so yes it does get hotter quicker.
so you have to build bigger coils with nichrome to get the same resistance with same gauge kanthal.
If you are asking this question because of the evol dna 40 chips new feature, the reason nickle 200 is required for the temp function, is that nickle wire has a very predicatible reistance behavior at different heat temps, which kanthal does not. Using the nichrome with the dna 40, in essence you are no longer vaping by voltage or wattage... but by temp. Which should mean less burning of wick and juice. Ni200 is pure Nickle wire and not to be confused with Nichrome wire, which is an alloy of nickle and chromium(which is added to improve oxidization and corrosion)
so you have to build bigger coils with nichrome to get the same resistance with same gauge kanthal.
If you are asking this question because of the evol dna 40 chips new feature, the reason nickle 200 is required for the temp function, is that nickle wire has a very predicatible reistance behavior at different heat temps, which kanthal does not. Using the nichrome with the dna 40, in essence you are no longer vaping by voltage or wattage... but by temp. Which should mean less burning of wick and juice. Ni200 is pure Nickle wire and not to be confused with Nichrome wire, which is an alloy of nickle and chromium(which is added to improve oxidization and corrosion)
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Exactly....right on....I watched the Pbusardo video interview with Evolve recently...all based on temperature...so kewl....
You can't use nichrome to build coils for DNA 40. Nichrome wire is commonly used in stock coils. while kanthal seems to be preferred by RBA users.
DNA 40 technology requires Ni 200 wire (nickel)--if you want to take advantage of the temperature control feature.
DNA 40 technology requires Ni 200 wire (nickel)--if you want to take advantage of the temperature control feature.
'doh.. you are so right, Katya... and i actually knew better. I'll edit my post above to correct that.
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