When I used bought atties some would pop as soon as I put them on others would last 1 to 2 weeks maybe a little bit longer. With my Reomizer 2 my first coil, 10 wraps on 5/64" drill bit, is going strong after 3 weeks still measures 1.3 ohms like day it was made, I just dry burn when changing cotton wick and thats it. Want to try some different wraps but the sucker won't die!! May have to hire an Atty Hit Man to kill this bad boy. How long do your micros last? Thanks
Do micro coils last forever!!!
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Over 2 weeks on a 28g 10-wrap for me on the RM2. Like you said, just dry burn when changing out cotton daily, and it's good to go! Don't know if it will ever die. Its hitting a really good place for me with vapor/flavor so I'll keep it rockin until it does die.
Same here. Very impressed with how the RM2 works. Kind of takes the former challenge of keeping an atty alive out of the picture, doesn't it? 
I've never had one die on me. I change them out after a while chasing the rabbit just cause I can.
Mines been in use for a month with no changes.
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I sat down this morning with 11 rba's to check and either rebuild or dry burn and wick. None of them needed a new coil!
I know some have been on for 3 weeks. Now I use all of them so each one is not used as much as if there were only a couple. But still! Amazing length of time for coils.
Three are 2.1 to 2.3 ohm. The rest are from .9 to 1.2 ohm. All wrapped on a 16 gauge. Kanthal 28 and 32 used.
I know some have been on for 3 weeks. Now I use all of them so each one is not used as much as if there were only a couple. But still! Amazing length of time for coils.
Three are 2.1 to 2.3 ohm. The rest are from .9 to 1.2 ohm. All wrapped on a 16 gauge. Kanthal 28 and 32 used.
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your rabbit must have been hopping westerly. i just had to change one for the first time.
actually, i think i really broke it while changing the wick, so i can't really blame the bunny...
They do last a long time.
I use 32 gauge Kanthal A1 and I haven't had to recoil for months now. All I've been doing was changing the cotton wicks every few days and that is just to get a fresh and clean vape. The last coil I made was three months ago on one of my rebuildable and the rest were coiled way more than that. Damn, I can't even seem to remember where I kept my 2 50' spools of Kanthal wires.
Vaping at a conservative 8-12 watts, 1.5-2.0 ohm coils, and 32 gauge seems to be the trick. If you vape more than that, all you may have to do is to go for a thicker gauge (30 or 28 gauge if not lower), and you'd be sure to have your microcoils lasts months on end.
I use 32 gauge Kanthal A1 and I haven't had to recoil for months now. All I've been doing was changing the cotton wicks every few days and that is just to get a fresh and clean vape. The last coil I made was three months ago on one of my rebuildable and the rest were coiled way more than that. Damn, I can't even seem to remember where I kept my 2 50' spools of Kanthal wires.
Vaping at a conservative 8-12 watts, 1.5-2.0 ohm coils, and 32 gauge seems to be the trick. If you vape more than that, all you may have to do is to go for a thicker gauge (30 or 28 gauge if not lower), and you'd be sure to have your microcoils lasts months on end.
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Your thread made me curious, so I wanted to know exactly how long mine has lasted. I had to go back 21 pages to find the thread I started to get the answer. On Tuesday it will be 6 weeks. The wick has been changed and the coil dry burned quite a few times, but so far there has been no need for a new coil.
Three of my kayfuns are rocking microcoils I built a little over 9 weeks ago. I change the wicks when needed (depends on the juice I'm running) and I dry burn them every 10 days or so. As of today, they are showing absolutely no signs of slowing down.
I should also say that this coil has been my sole vape for the full 6 weeks. I only have the one RM2 and haven't used anything else since I got it...but I did order another last night.WOW that is impressive! I like this more and more
I can add that I have never changed a micro because It failed or it wasn't vaping awesome, I do it because it gives me something to do if I'm in the tinkering mood or wanna horse around with an idea.
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What Russ said. I think with standard coils the reason they go bad is the wicking material finally gives out or too much gunk builds up on the coil (other than a popped coil of course). If one could dry burn and rewick a standard coil as easily as a micro they would likely last a long time as well.
Before I moved to micro-coils I would dry burn my standard silica wicked coils on a regular basis to keep them clean. They would last several weeks until the silica finally started to fall apart.
Before I moved to micro-coils I would dry burn my standard silica wicked coils on a regular basis to keep them clean. They would last several weeks until the silica finally started to fall apart.
Yeah, same here. I've never had one fail--I just like to tinker Gonna be playing with Rene 41 soon
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