How often do you change coils?
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No one can give you an exact answer. Might last a day, might last a month. All depends on your eliquid, what it contains, how you draw, how long you fire the coil, the amount of power to the coil, etc..etc... ect..
For me, a SSOCC lasts about 3 weeks. I'm a heavy vaper, yet I have multiple devices, only 1 is SSOCC right now, it has a lightly colored eliquid, with sweetener, .3 ohms fired at 35 watts with about 4ml going through it a day.
For the wife, her SSOCC's (3 devices) last about 6 weeks, .3 ohms fired at 20 watts, same type of eliquids as mine, maybe 3ml a day in each.
YMMV
For me, a SSOCC lasts about 3 weeks. I'm a heavy vaper, yet I have multiple devices, only 1 is SSOCC right now, it has a lightly colored eliquid, with sweetener, .3 ohms fired at 35 watts with about 4ml going through it a day.
For the wife, her SSOCC's (3 devices) last about 6 weeks, .3 ohms fired at 20 watts, same type of eliquids as mine, maybe 3ml a day in each.
YMMV
Though I'll add, probably not soon enough.
It helps if you know the juice you're vaping. As soon as the taste goes off or the draw tightens up, change the coil.
That's where having rebuildable coils works Best. Have a Bunch of them on hand and you'll change them sooner. Especially since they really aren't costing you more than just your time.
Now that I have 20+ rebuilts ready to go at any time, I don't worry whether it's been 4 days or 8 days since I changed the coil.
Just do it.
Bruce in Ocala, Fl
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I switched from a Nautilus mini to a reguildable Sub Tank after about 5 months vaping because I was replacing pricey rebuildable coil heads too often. In the beginning of rebuilding I found I wanted to rewick almost every day and rebuild once or twice a week because of so much gunk on the coil. DIY fixed that problem. I use 1% flavoring with no sweetners. Now I rewick twice a week and rebuild every two weeks. Even though my DIY leaves almost no gunk that rewick and rebuild schedual seems to improve vape quality enough to be worth the effort. Rewicking takes me 10 minutes max and rebuilding 20 minutes and most of that time is checking, and testing the stainless coil to be sure it's working right for temp control. Some people get months out of a build even though they rewick more often.
When I was using prebuilt coils, I quickly found they are not all made equally.
Some would last longer and work very well for their lifetime and some would need to be swapped comparatively quickly.
So I would change out a coil whenever I felt as though they were underperforming (or starting to),
or simply weren`t working as well as I expected them to.
No rules, no times....just when it felt right.
Some would last longer and work very well for their lifetime and some would need to be swapped comparatively quickly.
So I would change out a coil whenever I felt as though they were underperforming (or starting to),
or simply weren`t working as well as I expected them to.
No rules, no times....just when it felt right.
I have a tendency to vape high gunk juice (juice that gunks up the coil) a factory coil would last me on average of 5 - 7 days..
When I build my own coils I rewick and clean off the gunk daily to every other day, and recoil about every two weeks.
But, that has a lot to do with what I'm vaping. When your juice starts tasting off then change your coil. Some people can get two or three weeks out of a coil.
I go about every two weeks with my TritonII using 1.5ohm coils (fired at ~40w) and 70/30 sweet juice
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