WileE

Back in early Sept. Crazy Wire got in a shipment of bogus NiFe 30 & shipped quite a bit out. Not sure were it all went, maybe Stealth got some from same supplier? Ultimately via testing it was narrowed down to most likely be 304SS instead of NiFe 30. Coincidentally your build 26ga 7 wrap @ a .5? would be dead on if it was 304SS?? Put a magnet on it. NiFe 30 is magnetic & the 304ss is not.

Skineedog - First off Nichrome 80 is not suitable as a temp control wire. neither is Nichrome 60. Wire Wizard does have the TFR values for all the wires in the menu, however that does not mean they will all do temp control. Wire wizard allows you to design hybrid coils mixing a strand of temp control wire with non temp control. Ex. 1 strand of 28ga Nickel twisted with 1 strand of 28ga Nichrome 80. It that example the Nickel core is what makes temp control possible, but the strand of Nichrome 80 about doubles the resistance allowing a more compact coil. The TCR/TFR of the non temp control wire must be known to calculate the correct combined TFR/TCR of the hybrid coil. I'd recommend keeping it simple & just start with Nickel if your not allergic. Once you have some experience with that then try NiFe 52 & you'll be happy