Why does your tattoo machine coils get tired?

Answer 1

It could be a combination of things. In all likelihood, you have bad connections to your contact points or the wires leading from your coils might be kinked or frayed, leading to a bad electrical circuit. The capacitor to your coils might need to be replaced as well. You should look into getting frames made of pure copper as it has the best electrical conductivity of any metal that you could hope to use and therefore the flow of the circuit from your power supply will be nice, smooth and uninterrupted. You should also convert your machine from a standard clip-cord configuration, to receive an RCA jack-cord. When you convert your machine to receive power in this manner as opposed to the old fashioned clip-cord, it makes the receive of the electricity more solid and since it is firmly fixed in place around it's nozzling, the cord does not sway from side to side when you are working so the flow of power is never broken. You might also want to look into getting a digitally powered power supply. They allow you to precisely measure your flow of power within a great amount of accuracy as opposed to just sort of guessing it out with your standard DC power supply.

Answer 2

It's not your coils that would be faulty, but more so the negative and positive wires leading from them and perhaps that your capacitor is a little worn out. Your coils don't have the same fault probability as the wires or the capacitor as they are rather rudimentary in their design and don't "break" ever. The coils of your machine are constructed of two parts; a steel rod at its core and then varying layers of thick gauge copper wrapped around them which when connected to the negative and positive that has the capacitor affixed to it, makes your electromagnetic coils. If your coils were wrapped poorly and there are kinks or imperfections in the copper wire, then the electrical conductivity of your machine may be hindered, so it might be that you just need better coils too. With all things in the tattooing world; you get what you pay for, and if you buy cheap coils then you'll get cheap results. Also, you may want to just buy an all new machine altogether and save yourself the headache. For this, you would want to get a mid-range priced machine at very least and one that has its frame ideally made of pure copper as this give you the smoothest electrical output.