Kayfun LITE

[crss]

My wicks look identical to this if not spot on. After reading where to place the ends I've had zero issues with the amount of cotton used. I only roll the very end to be able to start it through the micro, and trim that rolled part off. I really don't roll any other part of the cotton; add a little form for easy pulling and trim and soak.

I pull very little piece of a cotton ball. I don't roll the wick tight or dense. The ends sit in the juice channel, at the floor. The cotton wicks fine, no dry hits. The coil is sitting almost level with the screws that hold the coil down. So there is an air gap under the coil. I had flooding before, with silica wick to close to intake & dripping out. Now i have no flooding, leaking or issue. Three lites in rotation, and they will work upside down.
Have a great vape!

 

[qorax]

I place my wicks exactly as the User Manual suggests, 'sitting' on the deck right across till the bridge end.

The coil is positioned 'heads-up' with wire tails at bottom, which connects to the +/- terminals. There is just a 1mm gap between the coil and the air-hole of the deck. And it works perfectly!

 

[Dusty_D]

Qorax, did I ask you what kind of wick/wire combo you're using yet? Mind sharing?

 

[Bryan lord]

Love my kfl so much! Also I've been following this thread, you guys are great. Do you guys own multiple kayfuns?


-Lord

 

[Mozzer]

Love my kfl so much! Also I've been following this thread, you guys are great. Do you guys own multiple kayfuns?


-Lord

I just have a Mini and a Lite. Love them both. I also have a Squape, which is a similar vacuum feeder. It's also excellent.

 

[Dusty_D]

Love my kfl so much! Also I've been following this thread, you guys are great. Do you guys own multiple kayfuns?


-Lord

I have just the one K-Lite for now. I do have a 91% coming, after which I'll decide which one I want to get more off.

 

[Rule62]

Love my kfl so much! Also I've been following this thread, you guys are great. Do you guys own multiple kayfuns?


-Lord

I have 5 Kayfun Lites, 2 Taifun GTs, and just received a Squape this morning. I'm pretty impressed with these vacuum feeders.

 

[JuRuKi]

good luck separating them... I tried the freezer, rubber gloves and nothing worked. had to use pliers
Try some wd-40. I forgot to try that method

 

[jjkanto]

Just got my Kayfun Lite in the mail yesterday. Haven't had time to set it up yet, but can't wait to try it out!

 

[turbocad6]

if you are ever going to resort to pliers, at least wrap each side of the seem with electrical tape or similar first and squeeze the pliers gently, it's a lot easier to remove glue residue than gouges

 

[SheerLuckHolmes]

This Kayfun Lite is beginning to piss me off. Filling exactly as I have always filled it and it is beginning to leak down out of the mouth piece as a fill. Why would that be happening!!!!!!!!!!!

Also just after I filled it, maybe five minutes after filling and allowing it to sit I pick it up and there is a significant amount of liquid that has flowed out of the air hole and down the mod. After cleaning it up, no further leaking. Seems like while filling the KL (upside down) the liguid is moving up the channels and out the drip tip then when set upright it flows out of the airhole. Can't see why this is happening.

 

[Paul.K]

Sounds like one of your o rings. Check the top small one right below the drip tip. It's not holding vacuum if it's leaking from airhole.

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[Dusty_D]

This Kayfun Lite is beginning to piss me off. Filling exactly as I have always filled it and it is beginning to leak down out of the mouth piece as a fill. Why would that be happening!!!!!!!!!!!

Also just after I filled it, maybe five minutes after filling and allowing it to sit I pick it up and there is a significant amount of liquid that has flowed out of the air hole and down the mod. After cleaning it up, no further leaking. Seems like while filling the KL (upside down) the liguid is moving up the channels and out the drip tip then when set upright it flows out of the airhole. Can't see why this is happening.

Check to see if the little O-ring near the drip tip adapter has moved? The one against which the top of the chimney locks.

It could be the cause of both your issues. One it would allow juice to leak when filling and two, it would lose the vacuum effect and cause juice to flood/overflow from the bottom.


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[qorax]

Qorax, did I ask you what kind of wick/wire combo you're using yet? Mind sharing?

Oh Dusty, I've build them all Gave multiple setups to my Kayfuns and the Russian... tried everything and ALL WORK PERFECTLY. Which is why I repeatedly post here that the Kayfuns are fail-proof, fool-proof and non malignable!

Build-1: The standard Silica setup. Here at >Post# 617<.
Build-2: Hemp Twine: Here at >Post#1510<.
Build-3: Double Microcoil with Cotton: Here at >Post# 2055<.
Build-4: Microcoil with Cotton Yarn: Here at >Post# 2924<.

Currently all my Kayfuns (and the likes) are running Vapdvrr's Microcoil with Cotton (Build-4 above)! Ether the regular Cotton Ball types or with S&C Cotton Yarn. Each has 28AWG Kanthal with 10-11 wraps on a toothpick, reading 1.1-1.3Ω. And I'm overtly happy with the device's performance.

Surprisingly, none of the builds were any better than the other. All gave out similar, if not the same vape quality, which is, "a perfect and most satisfying vaping experience"! I chose to stick with Microcoils & Cotton purely b'coz:
1. It is easier to build,
2. Easier to maintain (just replace the wick!),
3. The coil remains put for months (just dry burn it during every wick change),
4. No more running around searching for Silica, EkoW, Bastos, whatever. Cotton is omnipresent,
5. Saves on time, effort and money√

BOTTOMLINE: Kayfuns are a design marvel. A 'game changer' like you stated once. Gone are the days of messing with builds, tilting to wick, keeping the mods upright, thinking of whether or not to keep the fill-hole open, what ratio the PG/VG should be and such vagaries... it just kicks / clicks everytime. There are certain tips, for the Kayfuns, to give it's best though. I've posted them many a times earlier. Shall repeat them once more in a subsequent post.

 

[shortpballer]

Thanks everyone for your help getting my Kayfun unstuck (is this a word?) Didn't get home till tonight to see all your answers, so I just left my kayfun as it was all day. Got home, took off the Ba Gua tube. Grabbed the top cap with a t-shirt and twisted with all my might and it somehow came off! I will take all your ideas into consideration if this happens again, which I'm sure it will

In all cases, this is my first mod, and loving the design of the KFL, I hear all the stories about genny atties, and I'm very glad I went with a KFL Did my first coil last week, it sucked. 2 days ago, did my first micro coil using 30g ribbon wire with 6/7 coils, came in at 1.6 ohms! Glad I made some good decisions on my first e-cig. After everyone telling me to not purchase an RBA in the beginning, I would disagree with the KFL, it makes your life easy! Only problems so far are the filling screw leaking. Fixed this quickly with a little teflon tape on the screw.

 

[jjkanto]

Thanks for your very detailed and thorough instructions Q! I am sure I will be referencing them many times in the days and weeks ahead!

 

[digitals]

Oh Dusty, I've build them all Gave multiple setups to my Kayfuns and the Russian... tried everything and ALL WORK PERFECTLY. Which is why I repeatedly post here that the Kayfuns are fail-proof, fool-proof and non malignable!

Build-1: The standard Silica setup. Here at >Post# 617<.
Build-2: Hemp Twine: Here at >Post#1510<.
Build-3: Double Microcoil with Cotton: Here at >Post# 2055<.
Build-4: Microcoil with Cotton Yarn: Here at >Post# 2924<.

Currently all my Kayfuns (and the likes) are running Vapdvrr's Microcoil with Cotton (Build-4 above)! Ether the regular Cotton Ball types or with S&C Cotton Yarn. Each has 28AWG Kanthal with 10-11 wraps on a toothpick, reading 1.1-1.3Ω. And I'm overtly happy with the device's performance.

Surprisingly, none of the builds were any better than the other. All gave out similar, if not the same vape quality, which is, "a perfect and most satisfying vaping experience"! I chose to stick with Microcoils & Cotton purely b'coz:
1. It is easier to build,
2. Easier to maintain (just replace the wick!),
3. The coil remains put for months (just dry burn it during every wick change),
4. No more running around searching for Silica, EkoW, Bastos, whatever. Cotton is omnipresent,
5. Saves on time, effort and money√

BOTTOMLINE: Kayfuns are a design marvel. A 'game changer' like you stated once. Gone are the days of messing with builds, tilting to wick, keeping the mods upright, thinking of whether or not to keep the fill-hole open, what ratio the PG/VG should be and such vagaries... it just kicks / clicks everytime. There are certain tips, for the Kayfuns, to give it's best though. I've posted them many a times earlier. Shall repeat them once more in a subsequent post.

I mean, does anyone NOT like reading Q's posts? Tons of information, and style to kick. Cracks me up.

 

[donnah]

This Kayfun Lite is beginning to piss me off. Filling exactly as I have always filled it and it is beginning to leak down out of the mouth piece as a fill. Why would that be happening!!!!!!!!!!!

Also just after I filled it, maybe five minutes after filling and allowing it to sit I pick it up and there is a significant amount of liquid that has flowed out of the air hole and down the mod. After cleaning it up, no further leaking. Seems like while filling the KL (upside down) the liguid is moving up the channels and out the drip tip then when set upright it flows out of the airhole. Can't see why this is happening.

Someone posted something like this a month or so ago.. said it started leaking all of a sudden. He looked closely at the coil and noticed that it had dropped very close to the air hole and the juice was siphoning from the coil down into the hole and out the air hole. He raised the coil back up a bit and that solved the leaking. It makes sense.. the only way for juice to get out the air hole is through the hole under the coil. If your o-rings look good (as suggested above) take a look at your coil. Let us know how it turns out.

 

[nttdemented]

VAPE MAIL!! Finally got a home for my KFL!! Yes it's the clone, but IGAF, its built perfectly, its hitting hard and it looks bloody sexy!!

 

[vapdivrr]

Say Vapdivrr, I watched your micro-coil rebuild on your AC9 and was a bit inspired. So I pulled my AGA-T+ out of the bottom of my junk box and decided to try it the way you did it. It fires up fine except when I put the cover back on. No idea why. There is plenty of space on that AGA cover. No wires sticking out funny. Coil is comfortably inside the wall of the cover. No apparent interference with anything, etc.. Pull the cover off...no problems. Put the cover on...nothing. Has this ever happened to you?

As you have probably figured out by now, I'm not a big fan of Genesis. Too finicky. And this is why I say the Kayfun blows Genesis out of the water. At least in my world. I've done nothing but fuss with that Genny. I have better things to do with my time than to wrestle with attys. And yes, I've rebuilt many attys in my time and didn't fall off a turnip truck. I'd think there was something wrong with me if I didn't hear the "finicky" accusation used by many toward their AGA's.

although I do own an aga-t I have never tried this coil in it. it sounds like an air issue because its working great without the top cap. there is another design that may work better for you if you try again. make a vertical micro coil for the aga. install it low, maybe about a mm above the deck, connect both leads. now rip a piece of cotton off maybe about an inch in length but not to much, especially the bottom of the cotton wick. the bottom 2/3 of the wick is thin, about the diameter of a 1/16 drill bit when twisted kind of tight. the top 1/3 of the wick is fluffy and big enough to not slip through the coil. before inserting this wick into the wick hole it kind of looks like one of those snaps (those things you throw at people and they pop) now just slid it into the wick hole and let it rest on the coil. you just want to push the fluffy part down into the coil just slightly, but also above the coil is about a 1/4 inch of fluffy wick.