Hi everyone, just a quick question about coils. I have been making coils for many years, yesterday I made a SS clapton 26x30, 4.5 wraps with a 2.5mm I’d, this coil i have made so many times for my kangatech subtank mini. I had to change out my cotton 4 times because it kept burning. So i finally removed the coil and reversed it 180° then rewicked it and the burning stopped. So is there a reason or a direction of flow with the clapton. Maybe dumb but its interesting to me. Thanks.
Brian.
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Wire has no polarity.
The most likely case of what happened was that the mod took a resistance sample reading (which was a ways off) and stored it.
It only has to be off enough to burn your cotton. (which it seems was the case).
When you reinstalled the coil, the reading was closer to what it should have been, hence the expected operation result.
Not dumb. But it sounds like you’re definitely over-thinking things. 
As someone who is sometimes guilty of the same, I’ll leave you with this:
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Thanks but the mod is nothing special just an eleaf Pico.
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Np.
A bad reading is a bad reading.
Doesn’t matter if it’s a fancy TC mod, or a basic eleaf power mod. 
Things simply go awry faster, the further the reading is from being correct.
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Ok thanks. Worth asking
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Chances are you had a hot-spot which are a common culprit for burning /breaking cotton. The hot spot probably sorted itself when you repositioned the coil
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