Best place to buy nautilus heads
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Not sure if it's still relevant, but almost every "reputable" store carry a 5 pack for around $15. If you're looking for a cheap place in the US, vaportek have them for $10.
Personally I'm just rebuilding them with single coil and it's doing a great job and takes maybe (maybe!) 5 minutes.
Personally I'm just rebuilding them with single coil and it's doing a great job and takes maybe (maybe!) 5 minutes.
Place I got the heads sold authentic, verified through aspire, but it was the ones that has the bad wicks. The place won't return my emails and were real jerks when I called them. New heads I did just get from kidney puncher seem to be working far better. Paid 5$ more for them but I think it's worth it.
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Thanks for the heads up!
Never heard of Kidney puncher, but just checked their site out, and they look great! Amazing inventory of items!
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Kidney puncher use yo be synomous with the carto crowd, I only thought they did certain items but I've been impressed so far with them. I messed up my order and when I contacted their customer service desk (at 4:55pm mind you) I had a resolution and order fixed within minutes!
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My Nautilus actually came with the defective coil heads (bought it about 2 weeks ago at a B&M). They didn't last long, went through both in two days. The wicking in the coils was very thin. The ones I got from Kidney Puncher had the thicker wicks. I was relieved because I was worried they were still selling the old stock, which is defective since Aspire just recently fixed this. But nope, they got the good ones. 
My local B&M vendor replaced 5 of mine yesterday and I bought 3 new ones at the same time. I had one left of the last 3 I bought and I installed it before I went to the store to exchange the bad ones. Last night, I was watching TV while vaping and noticed that the vapor production had fallen off considerably. I checked the resistance on my Provari and my 1.8 ohm head had risen to 2.8. Over the next few minutes in incremented up to a final reading of 7.4 ohms. That was over several hours use with a new, right out of the pack head.
I installed one of the new ones the vendor gave me and within 30 minutes the resistance had risen to around 3 ohms. I put that one in a bag and installed another new one. It's still working fine this morning, but in addition to the undersized wick problem there's some continuity issues in the way the dual coils are connected. I've recoiled a couple of them into a single coil configuration and noticed that one leg has a silicone sleeve to prevent shorting. I'm thinking maybe that all four leads don't go through to the bottom pin connections and maybe they twisted them together with no compression splice. At any rate, they are losing contact and rotating the bottom center pin doesn't fix it.
I'll have to yank another one apart and look at it through the eye loupe.
I installed one of the new ones the vendor gave me and within 30 minutes the resistance had risen to around 3 ohms. I put that one in a bag and installed another new one. It's still working fine this morning, but in addition to the undersized wick problem there's some continuity issues in the way the dual coils are connected. I've recoiled a couple of them into a single coil configuration and noticed that one leg has a silicone sleeve to prevent shorting. I'm thinking maybe that all four leads don't go through to the bottom pin connections and maybe they twisted them together with no compression splice. At any rate, they are losing contact and rotating the bottom center pin doesn't fix it.
I'll have to yank another one apart and look at it through the eye loupe.
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101vape has/had them for $10. I really love the Nautilus but I've had to give up on it for now because I'm not into rebuilding and I've had 9 out of 10 coils of my last two 5 packs be defective and I just can't keep throwing money at it in hopes of getting 1 or 2 good coils. It sucks though because when it works good, it works great.
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I PM'ed a copy of the Aspire letter about the heads with wicks that were too small and weren't saturating properly to my local B&M vendor. She replied that she would check into it with her supplier and assured me that she would replace any that I found to be bad. Saturday, I stopped by with a bag of 5 that had failed in a day and she replaced them. I bought 3 more for a total of 8 new heads. These are all Aspire marked heads. I don't think they are knockoffs.
Last night, the head I had just installed (from my previous stock) started getting cold vapes with low vapor. I cranked the voltage from 3.3v to 3.7v and there wasn't much improvement. When I checked the resistance on my Provari, it read around 3 ohms(1.8 ohm head). After fiddling for a while, I installed one of the new heads I got at the B&M. All was good for a couple of hours and then the same thing happened. Resistance climbed steadily until a check revealed it to be at 7.2 ohms!
I installed the 3rd head in several hours and all was good again. The 3rd head started the same issue today (almost 24 hrs of use this time). When it read 2.9 phms I popped it off and installed the 4th head in about a day. It's also doing great, just like I expect my Nautilus to perform. I thought the same thing last night.
So, I decided to get out the failed heads and check them with a voltmeter just to make sure I didn't have a poor contact in my Provari. All checked within a half ohm or less from what the Provari reported. The problem is definitely in the head, not my mod.
The strange part is that the problem I'm having isn't a wicking problem as the Aspire bulletin described, it's a connection issue with the coils inside the head. I thought that maybe it was linked to a bad connection at the bottom pin so I twisted the pin back and forth and read the last coil again. It still read high ohms like before.
We definitely have a hardware issue going on with Nautilus heads. It's a shame that such a great tank fails due to poor quality control. This has to be fixed or I'm going looking again for something reliable.
I have to say that the vendor is also concerned about the problem and is standing behind the product by replacing bad heads. That's all she can do until the heads are fixed in manufacturing. Maybe the factory is slammed from production step ups to cover the bad product in the field. That's not good if we are getting thrown together products with new problems ...
Last night, the head I had just installed (from my previous stock) started getting cold vapes with low vapor. I cranked the voltage from 3.3v to 3.7v and there wasn't much improvement. When I checked the resistance on my Provari, it read around 3 ohms(1.8 ohm head). After fiddling for a while, I installed one of the new heads I got at the B&M. All was good for a couple of hours and then the same thing happened. Resistance climbed steadily until a check revealed it to be at 7.2 ohms!
I installed the 3rd head in several hours and all was good again. The 3rd head started the same issue today (almost 24 hrs of use this time). When it read 2.9 phms I popped it off and installed the 4th head in about a day. It's also doing great, just like I expect my Nautilus to perform. I thought the same thing last night.
So, I decided to get out the failed heads and check them with a voltmeter just to make sure I didn't have a poor contact in my Provari. All checked within a half ohm or less from what the Provari reported. The problem is definitely in the head, not my mod.
The strange part is that the problem I'm having isn't a wicking problem as the Aspire bulletin described, it's a connection issue with the coils inside the head. I thought that maybe it was linked to a bad connection at the bottom pin so I twisted the pin back and forth and read the last coil again. It still read high ohms like before.
We definitely have a hardware issue going on with Nautilus heads. It's a shame that such a great tank fails due to poor quality control. This has to be fixed or I'm going looking again for something reliable.
I have to say that the vendor is also concerned about the problem and is standing behind the product by replacing bad heads. That's all she can do until the heads are fixed in manufacturing. Maybe the factory is slammed from production step ups to cover the bad product in the field. That's not good if we are getting thrown together products with new problems ...
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It'd be nice if the vendor had a list of all the auth codes that are known to have defects based on testing and testimonials. A friend of mine has two nautilus tanks and they've been flawless for him where another friend has had .... luck. I wish I could get them into rtas
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