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Morning Tam! I've had my first cup so I'll give it a shot. it's really just just a bit of a numbers game. Kind of like 30mph is too fast for a school zone but 30 on the freeway would be crawling. I thought of a good analogy (I think) which might help illustrate it. If you stood in front of a stereo speaker and turned the volume up to 3, you would think it was pretty loud (too hot). But, the guys in the back of the room would be saying "Crank it up!" It takes more power to deliver that same "volume" to the back of the room. So you think 3 is fine, but the guys in the back of the room need to have it on 7 to get the same perceived volume. Then you're left thinking how is that possible, 7 is way too loud. A high ohm coil (1.8ohm) sees 10 watts and goes, "no way, I'm not letting you through" and pushes back on that power and the result is heat. A low ohm coil (.3 ohm) sees 10 watts and offers very little resistance "go right on through, boys" and without that resistance creates almost no heat. So, more power is needed to heat up that .3 coil. It doesn't start pushing back on that power until the power reaches 40watts. Then it starts going "hold on, boys" and produces heat. The perceived heat could be lower at 40 watts than 10 watts on a high coil.

@Bebop I think that is one of the best analogies I have ever seen to explain the Ohm's Law!

Sweet! I really like it. Thanks for the pictures and the write up.

It must be a clear pic as close as you can, like Smacksy's above if possible.

Posting a pic that is a close up of your base and coil will really help us trouble shoot it.

Welcome to the forum! It's probably a bit slower today than usual (thanksgiving) I'm going to move this into the RDA forum were it'll get a lot more hits than the newbie forum./

Yep, I sure would. Actually, I would probably start at 40-42 watts, but I also know the range where my sweet spot lies at that resistance and I know my equipment. It's all part of understanding the safe limits of the batteries, Ohm's law, etc. High wattage does not necessarily automatically equate to a hot vape. [emoji4] Sent from my heart using the Vapor Talk App. OK...OK...I'm kidding. I have no heart. But I did use the Vapor Talk Mobile App.

Yep, the federal side of things poses interesting questions in state and local law enforcement agencies. Although it sounds like a cop out (no pun intended), it really isn't our job to enforce federal laws. Wouldn't it really put a cramp in the sides of the states who have legalized it if the federal government started putting a freeze on state funds and started seizing the funds that can directly be attributed to the taxes collected from marijuana sales?

Yes, storing your e-liquid in the fridge is a great way to make it stay fresh longer... but only if you don't plan on vaping that bottle for a couple of years. I do keep my mixing supplies in the fridge (and freezer) to prolong their lives, but we're talking GALLONS of supplies, not 30ml bottles. now, if I mix a batch of 1-liter of e-liquid, and find I don't like it after I've vaped it for a couple months... I may store the remaining dozen 60ml bottles in the fridge so they won't go bad until I decide they're worth vaping again... but even when I mix up my ADV (yes, usually in 600-900ml batches), I don't store them in the fridge... they're on a shelf in my office, which is cool and dark... and I'll normally go though those 10-15 60ml bottles in a few months... so they don't go bad while waiting to be vaped. As for batteries... the old-school dry-cells made prior to the 1970's did "last longer" if they were kept cool, like in the fridge, but today's more advanced Alkaline batteries aren't helped in the least (usually harmed as @Bebop stated above) by putting them in the fridge. As long as they are kept cool... like normal room-temps... they'll be just fine in storage for more than 5 years. On a side-note... I bought a box-lot of vintage cameras a few years ago, and the Brownie camera flash had EveryReady batteries in it... from the early '50s... and they STILL WORKED to power the flash bulbs, and hadn't leaked in 60+ years of storage in someone's basement!