Just an observation here. I got a second kfl about a week ago in a trade. The owner listed and showed a pic of a scratch on the deck, said it came that way. OK.. no problem. When it came I looked at both of them and the one I've had for 2 months has the exact same scratch in the exact same place! Mine came from the factory like that also.
I put a coil and wick in it and it was perfect. I rewicked it a couple days ago and perfect. I've yet to get a dry hit off of the new one. Remember that with my original one, it's taken me quite a while to get the density and placement of the wick right. Ok... so maybe I've just got better, the last wick I put in my original one has been perfect also.
Now here's the weird part. Remember Bronze getting yeti's kfl and saying that it seemed to run hotter? Well this new kfl seems to run hotter. Not exactly hotter...it's working perfectly.. it's just um..peppyer.
The setup in my original one is a 1Ω coil running on a provari at 3.4v... that's 11.5watts and right up at the 3.5amp ceiling. The new kfl has a 1.1Ω coil in it and it's running at 3.3v on a provari.. that's right at 10watts. You'd think that the original kfl that is running 11.5watts would be more "powerful" but it isn't... running them side by side it's obvious that the new kfl, running at 10watts has much more "get up and go" than my original kfl running at 10watts. They both have identical micro coils and cotton in them.
my original...1Ω 3.4v 11.5watts
my "new" one 1.1Ω 3.3v 9.9watts and has way more "pep" or "snap crackle pop" than the one that is running higher watts.
I just thought it was weird/interesting that they're identical in looks.. right down to identical scratches on the decks. But one is performing vastly different than the other.
Next time I have them both apart, I'll take a pic of the matching scratches. But I'll bet if some of you look at your decks...you just might see a small scratch on yours too.