Kayfun - Show us your Setup

[cmangoboogie]

Holy ....! Thats a quick start. Where abouts in PA ? Its probably coming this way. Actually I took a shuttle this mornimg and the driver was just coming back from Erie and said it was pretty bad driving .
Not for nothing but You guys can keep it down there *
Where good!
Buffalo winters for 33 long years.

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[erieboyz]

Holy ....! Thats a quick start. Where abouts in PA ? Its probably coming this way. Actually I took a shuttle this mornimg and the driver was just coming back from Erie and said it was pretty bad driving .
Not for nothing but You guys can keep it down there *
Where good!
Buffalo winters for 33 long years.

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Actually I live in Erie. Snowstorm baking the past few days lol. It's usually between us and Buffalo for the most snow.

 

[cmangoboogie]

No doubt!
Hopefully you guys can take it this year lol

As of now tho its clear out here. Little coating start to stick on grass

Little cloud sneaking up under the pic

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[cmangoboogie]

Sorry crooked pictures .
Gotta edit settings on either tapatalk or the camera. Another thing to tinker with today ....

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[erieboyz]

Lucky. Lol

 

[KTMRider]

Sorry crooked pictures .
Gotta edit settings on either tapatalk or the camera. Another thing to tinker with today ....

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Turn your camera sideways.

 

[cmangoboogie]

Turn your camera sideways.

Gotcha. Different camera apps on phone then I have on tablet.

 

[KTMRider]

Gotcha. Different camera apps on phone then I have on tablet.

Looks like you're using a Galaxy S3?

Most people that take pics with their phone shoot in portrait. No real camera shoots in portrait. Most software will flip phone camera pics to landscape. Less of an issue with most apps on android phones. Apple phones/software does this constantly and Apple is aware of their issue but won't fix it.

 

[cmangoboogie]

Yup mines a sg3 but it almost seems like the one camera app I usually use (camera 360) no matter what when I pair it with tapatalk it puts the picture in opposite of how it was taken. If I use stock camera it works fine. But the stock cam doesn't focus well on macro shots.....ah no biggie
Ty

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[Hawaiian Nate]

Let's see a pic of the coil/wick. I'm thinking that's where the issue is. I presume you used the same juice/power in the ego twist comparison.

Hope that helps you to help me.

Same juice in the ego twist. But the kayfun got more horse power @.65ohms on a mech compared to 4.2 volts with a 2.5ohm ego tank lol... Discouraging I tell you lol. I'm beginning to think that a lot of these YouTube videos are a bunch of "smoke and mirrors" when it comes to modifying these kayfuns. Maybe the next generation of kayfuns will have better or at least adjustable air flow

 

[Jerry J]

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Hope that helps you to help me.

Same juice in the ego twist. But the kayfun got more horse power @.65ohms on a mech compared to 4.2 volts with a 2.5ohm ego tank lol... Discouraging I tell you lol. I'm beginning to think that a lot of these YouTube videos are a bunch of "smoke and mirrors" when it comes to modifying these kayfuns. Maybe the next generation of kayfuns will have better or at least adjustable air flow

Build and wick look perfect. Nice job!

I have found that my Kayfuns work best closer to 1.0 ohms. In fact I am currently running mine at 1.2 ohms and it works fine. You will never get clouds like you would get from a dripper. There is just no comparison.

I carry my Kayfun every day at work so I don't have to fiddle with juice and such. But once I am back in my car for the commute and at home it's an Origen on my GP Paps Lux for me.

 

[Flt Simulation]

Speaking of coils and wicks in the Kayfun.

I have stopped using cotton balls, and now use either cotton yarn or 2mm silica (mostly Ekowool).

Using a piece of wire, I pull a double piece of the 2mm Ekowool though a coil which was wound around a 7/64" (2.8mm) drill rod ... You need a 2.8mm inside diameter of the coil in order to be able to pull 2 pieces of the 2mm silica through it.

I use Kanthal 28 AWG wire at 8 wraps which will make a 1.6 ohm coil ... I usually feed this 1.6 ohm coil 10.5 watts (4.1v) for use in my Kayfun Lite.

The photos below show a wick made from cotton yarn, but using silica is the same deal:

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Silica never burns up, and can by 'dry burned' !

 

[JimmyDB]

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Nate, I wouldn't consider that enough wicking material. I do my builds very very close to Flights build above, just with Rayon instead of silica; right down to the angled coil placement... however, I would still have about double the material in there and I make sure it goes all around the coil and deck... I just leave a little space around the air hole.

 

[JimmyDB]

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Hope that helps you to help me.

Here is a pic of mine...

Any juice you see, was put there when I put the top chimney back on and took a short draw directly on it... I didn't drip any juice on the Rayon... as you can see, the coil already has juice between the wires. I'm completely 'blocking' the juice channels within this chamber with the Rayon wick which has been pushed down into the well (not pushed inside the juice channels themselves). That 1.6 ohm coil has ran at least 30mL already, and I have been running it at 16W. I have dry burned the coil once so far when I rewicked it. The coil is 1-2mm above the air hole (forgot to measure).

As usual though, your style of vaping etc,. may call for a different set up, but this one works great for me.

 

[Hawaiian Nate]

Here is a pic of mine...

Any juice you see, was put there when I put the top chimney back on and took a short draw directly on it... I didn't drip any juice on the Rayon... as you can see, the coil already has juice between the wires. I'm completely 'blocking' the juice channels within this chamber with the Rayon wick which has been pushed down into the well (not pushed inside the juice channels themselves). That 1.6 ohm coil has ran at least 30mL already, and I have been running it at 16W. I have dry burned the coil once so far when I rewicked it. The coil is 1-2mm above the air hole (forgot to measure).

As usual though, your style of vaping etc,. may call for a different set up, but this one works great for me.

Are we still discussing the whistling problem I'm having? I get no dry burnt hits with my wick and coil setup just crazy whistles. I also been running a 24g kanthal, 0.65ohms mech mod. I don't have a VV/VW mod yet and I like a warmer vape so this setup seems to be working pretty good for now with the exception of that darn whistling.

 

[Kevin littell]

ive run simular yarn/ecowool setups including the "Navy Nest."


Wicking was hit or miss.

Chimny coil solved airflow troubles...

I'm playing with a .8 ohm open coil chimney right now....at 1.2 ohms closed it ran 14 days without need of a re-wick....I'm hoping an open coil will stretch that a few more days.

 

[JimmyDB]

Are we still discussing the whistling problem I'm having? I get no dry burnt hits with my wick and coil setup just crazy whistles. I also been running a 24g kanthal, 0.65ohms mech mod. I don't have a VV/VW mod yet and I like a warmer vape so this setup seems to be working pretty good for now with the exception of that darn whistling.

My bad... I was addressing the vapor production, or lack thereof... and mainly in response to someone talking about making sure your juice channels weren't blocked.

As far as the whistle... look for sharp edges and smooth them out... mainly at air-intake locations. i.e., if there is a whole drilled, it should have some chamfer instead of a 90 degree edge. That has solved my whistle issues in the past.

 

[Hawaiian Nate]

My bad... I was addressing the vapor production, or lack thereof... and mainly in response to someone talking about making sure your juice channels weren't blocked.

As far as the whistle... look for sharp edges and smooth them out... mainly at air-intake locations. i.e., if there is a whole drilled, it should have some chamfer instead of a 90 degree edge. That has solved my whistle issues in the past.

Thanks for the tips on the whistling. I beveled all the edges and still no luck. I'm thinking of just slotting the air intake to just get rid of the whistling entirely. I just hope that I don't ruin the structural integrity of it. There's this shop in Hawaii called cloud50 that's doing slotted air holes on kayfuns (not for consumers just on their own kayfuns) and it really looks nice and different too. Anyways I'm also gonna give that nest looking wick from your previous pics a try. Looks like you'll never get a burnt dry hit from that wick.

 

[JimmyDB]

Thanks for the tips on the whistling. I beveled all the edges and still no luck. I'm thinking of just slotting the air intake to just get rid of the whistling entirely. I just hope that I don't ruin the structural integrity of it. There's this shop in Hawaii called cloud50 that's doing slotted air holes on kayfuns (not for consumers just on their own kayfuns) and it really looks nice and different too. Anyways I'm also gonna give that nest looking wick from your previous pics a try. Looks like you'll never get a burnt dry hit from that wick.

I'm guessing the whistle is coming from inside the air flow tunnel then... that's just about the only place left. I'm interested to see the slotted air holes, but I think it all ends up boiling down to the entire air flow path being larger, I'll have to check them out if I can find something online. So many tanks out there... and new ones around corner!

Well... you will eventually get a dry hit, that's why I had to change the wick It vapes great right up until you run the Rayon dry and keep tugging on it... I was running at 30W when I did it. My bad, I just wanted to crank it up to see where I wanted to run it at... didn't pay attention to how little juice was left. As far as the setup, it's very simple and I think it's fairly common for KFs.

I pulled that coil today (saved it though, looks fine still) so i could put one in with lower resistance and of a larger diameter... everything else is the same really... but now I'm at half the resistance... now at 0.8 ohms... running like a champ at 25W.

 

[1mouse3]

9 rap 1.2-1.35 ohm 1.6mm 28g chimney coil, cotton was all i had laying around

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