Eleaf GS Air Fan

[Burn3d]

You were runnin about 13w but the 1.2 at the same voltage would be about 16w. Sounds like you might need to wait a little longer for a good prime. I always drop juice in my coil, too, before filling and take a couple of light hits to ensure it is primed well.

Don't throw away coils! Youmight want to rebuild some day like Bikenstein suggested...

I save all my coils but not sure why. I have no plans on rebuilding but who knows? It seems like too much work for a $2 coil but I'm on a tight budget and every penny counts so maybe I'll look in to the tutorials

I put the liquid directly in to a new coil hols until in couldn't absorb anymore and so far it's vaping ok. I'm afraid to up the watts though

 

[Burn3d]

Dual coil can take twice the wattage of single coils. Your 1.5Ω GS coil actually consists of two 3Ω coils. A single 1.2 coil is just that-- a single 1.2Ω coil.

Your coil is toast--cotton burns. You can rebuild it...

Grab a new coil, saturate the filler, and dial your wattage down--way down.

Start at 6 or 7 watts and take it from there...

Thank you, thank you , thank you

I wanted the original 1.5ohm coils because I've had good luck with them but they were sold out so i got these. I'll lower the watts and go from there. I saturated the new coil and it's vaping pretty good.

THANK YOU

 

[LynnNC]

Up the watts slowly...I usually go up 3 at a time. 8, 8.3, 8.6 and so on until I get to where I want to be. On a new single coil go to around 6W in the beginning.

 

[Cloudmann]

Yep. I did notice when I did my review that the newer coils are a bit more stubborn to prime. Here's what I do:

Put 4 drops directly in the chimney, holding the coil sideways and rotating 90 degrees between drops. That way all sides of the wick are wet from the inside. A needle tip bottle is great for this.

Next, install the coil into a filled tank, close the afc ring off, and take 5-10 DEEP, short primer pulls.

Let it sit for 5 minutes.

Good to go. The first 3-5 hits should be short and should be at about half of the wattage you normally use, then let loose.

 

[Cirus]

Do we know that for a fact?

That it's steel? I don't have mine yet but Cloudmann thinks it is and websites, including eleafus are saying it.

 

[MsLoud]

Snagged 4 boxes of 1.5 coils and 4 more GS Airs to use them all in...couldn't resist the SUMMER15 any longer...

 

[GranFumador]

What are the threads like on the GS Tank, Gran? Still just 3 little threads?

Have not counted them...yet...but first I need to correct an error I made in reviewing the Defender II 50 w.
Both you and I reported that the GS Air, or the M, or both didn't sit flush on top of the Defender. We may have assumed ---at least I did--- that this was a design issue with the mod.

I was wrong...it's a function of the length of the threaded base of the GS Air and /or M.
I have a GS-Tank sitting on the Defender now, absolutely flush with the top of the mod.

Sorry for the previous misinformation.


Back to your question, Linda..There are four threads.

Another review amendment- three times today it has switched from watts to volts. I'm not sure why. I didn't have it locked. My bad. I did have it in my jeans pocket. My dumb.
I'll lock it tomorrow and see if it is the culprit, or if I am.

 

[Burn3d]

Yep. I did notice when I did my review that the newer coils are a bit more stubborn to prime. Here's what I do:

Put 4 drops directly in the chimney, holding the coil sideways and rotating 90 degrees between drops. That way all sides of the wick are wet from the inside. A needle tip bottle is great for this.

Next, install the coil into a filled tank, close the afc ring off, and take 5-10 DEEP, short primer pulls.

Let it sit for 5 minutes.

Good to go. The first 3-5 hits should be short and should be at about half of the wattage you normally use, then let loose.

My next coil I'll do that too. I think this one primed okay. I'm back up to my normal watts which is less than my normal voltage but working up to that.

Vaping pretty good. A little hit and miss

 

[tiburonfirst]

My next coil I'll do that too. I think this one primed okay. I'm back up to my normal watts which is less than my normal voltage but working up to that.

Vaping pretty good. A little hit and miss

for this coil your normal voltage might not be the best choice

 

[Bikenstein]

That it's steel? I don't have mine yet but Cloudmann thinks it is and websites, including eleafus are saying it.

eleaf.us is just a distributor...not the manufacturer. iSmoka is the manufacturer of the eLeaf brand...

 

[LynnNC]

So ya'll made me go count...I had 6 of the original Airs, one was broken, my son has one, so I have 4, I have 4 GS16S's, 6 GS M's, 6 GS MS's and 1 new tank. I think I need a few more.

 

[Burn3d]

Thanks everyone. I guess that first coil is toast. Literally. The second one, after priming well, is hitting very nicely now @ 14.1w(it reads 1.3ohm in my istcick 30w which seems to be the usual for their coils-- +0.1ohm)

So far I don't mind the new 1.2ohm coils. I never gave much thought to priming coils other than 5 or six good dry hits until no air bubbles came up but I'll make sure i prime these with all suggestions

 

[Cloudmann]

for this coil your normal voltage might not be the best choice

I've had no issues vaping the new coils up to 25 watts with 100% VG and up to about 35 watts with 50/50... just too warm for my taste. I use mine at 20 watts all day on my iStick Mini. The coils can certainly handle tons more wattage than the 1.5ohm coils, but the cotton wicks are done for if you ever burn them. These coils in particular are susceptible to burning during the priming phase since the wicks are so crazily, tightly packed. Once they're wicked, you're golden.

 

[tiburonfirst]

I've had no issues vaping the new coils up to 25 watts with 100% VG... just too warm for my taste. I use mine at 20 watts all day on my iStick Mini. The coils can certainly handle tons more wattage than the 1.5ohm coils, butthe cotton wicks are done for if you ever burn them. These coils in particular are susceptible to burning during the priming phase since the wicks are so crazily, tightly packed. Once they're wicked, you're golden.

i was talking about his vaping preferences if he likes a certain voltage for his dual coils he might not be happy with that same voltage with the cotton coils - best to start low as usual and stop when it hits you just right

 

[Cloudmann]

i was talking about his vaping preferences if he likes a certain voltage for his dual coils he might not be happy with that same voltage with the cotton coils - best to start low as usual and stop when it hits you just right

I actually found the opposite to be true with the newer coils... at any given wattage, they actually vape a bit cooler than the 1.5 ohm coils.

 

[Cirus]

What are the threads like on the GS Tank, Gran? Still just 3 little threads?

Back to your question, Linda..There are four threads.

I have 4 on my M

 

[Cirus]

eleaf.us is just a distributor...not the manufacturer. iSmoka is the manufacturer of the eLeaf brand...

yep

 

[Bikenstein]

yep

What gets me is they come off like they are the manufacturer or the U.S. regional representative. Joyetech has the eleaf name registered as a trademark here but they don't manufacture them. I don't know what their affiliation is with iSmoka but they are connected somehow.

 

[David Wolf]

I read a lot of posts about priming stock pre-made coils. Here's my method:
I don't. And I've never burnt a coil or had a dry hit in either my Nautilus Mini, or GS Airs.
When I first started vaping, I read a lot to make sure I did the right things, a lot of sites, and people, said prime the coil by putting juice in the wick holes. I did this at first, but one day the engineer in me realized that doing that is no better, in fact if you use only a few drops in each hole not even as good, as just putting the coil in the filled tank, taking a few hits with power off, shaking it around a bit to get the air out, and letting it sit 5 or 1o minutes and then drawing a couple times unpowered and then start at low power, around 8 Watts, and take gentle short puffs the first few hits, then I''m good to go at whatever power I want.

Think about it. If you are putting drops in the coil head, a few drops on one side slot or hole, a few on the other, I guess if you are patient enough, you will saturate the wick in maybe 5 or 10 minutes or so, lol. instead I get a lot more juice up in the wick taking a draws unpowered with ALL the wick holes sucking in juice due to the vacuum being pulled when I draw. A lot faster and more efficient than letting only the wicking action of the cotton against ambient air pressure slowly saturate the coil as you try to pry drops into those little holes.

If I were going to going to prime a coil, I would use Cheechako's method, that way at least you get the inside of the wick around the coil saturated first, and i would probably put 5 or 6 drops or so. But i don't prime because I don't have to and you can't make me.
Well actually I do prime, but i do it by taking unpowered draws with the coil in the tank. A superior method. *Ducks* lol

 

[Callipleura]

That it's steel? I don't have mine yet but Cloudmann thinks it is and websites, including eleafus are saying it.

I speculated that the new tank might be stainless before the tank was officially announced with some others in this thread and in the iStick thread, but when I emailed Eleaf world and asked them they told me: "The new GS Air TC atomizer is made from copper alloy."

I'll email Eleaf.us and ask them if they are sure it is really stainless and report back if I hear from them. In some of the review video's before the tank was officially announced the tanks did have a stainless steel look to them, but in recent pictures of the tank they look like a chromed brass.