What are you using for wicks and how are you coiling your Kayfuns? I tried using 2mm silica, folded twice giving me 3 strings coiled with 32g kanthal from 1.5-2.2Ω and it's ok. Today I'm trying 3.5mm Silica to see if that makes it better. I think that silica will last a lot longer than cotton but might try it at a later date.
Kayfun Wicks?
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Take an organic cotton ball and unroll it. Divide it in half length-wise. Take that half and divide it in half length-wise again (it will be 1/4 of a strip of cotton). Take about 3" of that and roll one end tightly enough to fit through your coil. Pull lightly until you have about an inch and a half on either side of the coil. Fold your end up and put the large part of the chimney in place. Cut the wicks right at the top of the chimney. Tuck in cotton. Wet with juice and use a small screwdriver to get as much of the cotton against the wall of the deck as possible. Make sure your cotton is nice and wet with juice and fire to make sure it vaporizes. Put your kayfun back together and fill as normal. Vape away.
i use cotton as well. and i use 32 gauge kanthal but i take 2 strands and twist it together with a drill before wrapping my coil. i can get the same size coil but half the ohms. i aim for 1.5-2.5 ohm on my coils with twisted kanthal. i get a nice cloud and good flavor. i also use this same method on protank coils. getting the cotton good and wet with juice is the key. burnt cotton is not a nice taste.
I use cotton myself, but how much to use is dependent on the inner diameter of your coil. I use enough to pull it through with just a little resistance when it's not compressed together. Trim it to the same width as the base, then tuck it down to the shelf below the build deck, like the picture below. It takes some practice to get it just right, but it is worth the trouble, IMHO.
Cotton here too, and believe me when I say "less is more". Too much, and you'll gunk up quick, and choke the coil, resulting in burnt flavour. The cotton should slide in nice and easy when dry, so that it fills up the inside of the coil once juiced.
How long it lasts depends entirely on the juice. I've had one wick go 2 weeks with a relatively clean juice, and have had to change out another in a day because it was a gunky juice. I only use Extracted tobaccos though, so YMMV.
Experiment and see what works for you, but for me, Cotton was the solution in the Kayfun. I have a couple hundred feet of different size silica that I gave up on making work.
How long it lasts depends entirely on the juice. I've had one wick go 2 weeks with a relatively clean juice, and have had to change out another in a day because it was a gunky juice. I only use Extracted tobaccos though, so YMMV.
Experiment and see what works for you, but for me, Cotton was the solution in the Kayfun. I have a couple hundred feet of different size silica that I gave up on making work.
There are lots of factors and preferences. It's dependent on what juice you use (viscous and dark juices will gunk up a wick faster than a thinner juice or a lighter one), how hot the coils get (if you're sub ohming you'll need to change it more often than if you run it at 1.8Ω), etc. Some change it every tank, some every day, others every week, and some others only when they start to get a funky taste.
I average about every week or so, but that's also because I cycle juices a lot in different Kayfuns and don't use most of them heavily on a daily basis.
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