I think I am going to get an ehpro kayfun. It seems easy enough. Wrap coil, position slide wick through postion check ohms and go. Is there something easier to start with or is the kayfun fine? Another question is where do I put the wick like do I just stick it to the side after I thread it through and wet it thats one thing I didnt pick up on in the videos. Another thing is do I change the coil or just wick? I didnt want something crazy complex but after watching all the videos it seems easy enough. I got the reader and I just wanna run like 1.5 ohm on my apvs.
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My first RBA the EhPro KFL+ and I really like it. So much that I have 3 now! Building and mounting the coil is easy...getting the wicking right is a bit more difficult. I would recommend you watch A LOT of you tube videos. There are a lot of different ways to wick it and you're just gonna have to see what works for you. For wick material, I would recommend the Japanese cotton pads...they are by far the easiest to work with and I think the flavor (or lack of it in this case) is the best. Good luck!
I have watched a ton of videos I will watch some more but can you kindly explain what I do? I slide it through trim it then where do I stick the ends? Also, do I just re wick it every now and again or coil as well. Also what size drill bit do you use. I see lots of diffrent answers so wondering what you or anyone else personally does. I would like to run around 1.5-1.7 and I think I will be using 28g kanthal.
I use a 5/64" drill bit to wrap my coil on a Kayfun style. Once you build a good coil it'll last a long time. I rewick mine every day or two, depending on how it's tasting. It'll taste off or burnt. Sometimes, depending upon the juice you're vaping the coil can get pretty gunked up, when rewicking I do a few dry burns (firing the coil with no wick, and the tank off) and clear away any gunk left.
To build the wick make sure your hands are clean. Tear off a piece of your cotton and work it together, do not twist it. Just tamp it in your fingers. Next, twist one end to a tip fine enough to slide through the coil. Pull the wick through the coil. It should be loose enough to pull through the coil, but tight enough to give a bit of resistance. Pull through enough to trim the twisted tip off, or untwist the twisted end. Next, trim your wick. Cut it even with the outside threads (the threads the tank screws onto). Now you will position the wick. Wet the wick with your juice. Not a lot, just enough to see that the wick is no longer dry. Then tuck the wick up on the deck, gluing it to the vertical side of the deck (directly beneath the coil). Tuck the remaining fibers up on the horizontal part of deck. Don't leave any fibers in the juice channel but place them over it. Repeat on the other side, put everything together, fill with juice using a syringe or needle tip bottle and vape away!
To build the wick make sure your hands are clean. Tear off a piece of your cotton and work it together, do not twist it. Just tamp it in your fingers. Next, twist one end to a tip fine enough to slide through the coil. Pull the wick through the coil. It should be loose enough to pull through the coil, but tight enough to give a bit of resistance. Pull through enough to trim the twisted tip off, or untwist the twisted end. Next, trim your wick. Cut it even with the outside threads (the threads the tank screws onto). Now you will position the wick. Wet the wick with your juice. Not a lot, just enough to see that the wick is no longer dry. Then tuck the wick up on the deck, gluing it to the vertical side of the deck (directly beneath the coil). Tuck the remaining fibers up on the horizontal part of deck. Don't leave any fibers in the juice channel but place them over it. Repeat on the other side, put everything together, fill with juice using a syringe or needle tip bottle and vape away!
I'm kindof a newbie myself. I have a DNA 30 device and I have been wrapping micro coils in 28 gauge to about 1.5 ohms on a 5/64 drill bit. I ALWAYS use Steam Engine to calculate the number of wraps. The coils themselves last a long time (months?) and you just need to dry burn the coils every time you re-wick which would be about every 2-5 tank-fulls. Dry burning burns off the gunk that accumulates on your coil. The flavor and/or vapor will start to change or decrease after a few tank-fulls and you'll know its time to re-wick and dry burn. I set mine up pretty much exactly like this:
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/tutorials/503153-kayfun-3-1-microcoil-cotton-guide.html
I've been vaping my 1.5ohm builds at about 12-15 watts depending on the juice. Hope that helps.
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/tutorials/503153-kayfun-3-1-microcoil-cotton-guide.html
I've been vaping my 1.5ohm builds at about 12-15 watts depending on the juice. Hope that helps.
Haha thats the thread that made me want to buy a kayfun lol. I still dont really get where to put the wicks. Probally maybe when I see it I will understand.
Also. Do I wrap the wire like fully around the screw meaning all the way around it in a circle or do I just tuck it on one side and screw it
Go with the kayfun. Some may be easier to set up but kayfuns are the best all around, pretty easy build, very good vape and very reliable and headache free once you learn to set them up right.
You can do either but it's easier to just wrap it all the way around the screw.
The easiest (not necessarily the best) way to set up your coils is to do "bunny ears". Thread your cotton thru your coil as noted in earlier post, then slide your chimney chamber over the two ends of your wick, and screw the chamber into place. The two ends of wick will now be sticking out the top like bunny ears. Trim both parts to just slightly above the chamber and the gently tuck the remainder back down into the chamber one one each side of the coil. Wet your wicks, test fire. Complete the chimney assembly and screw on your tank and top cap. Fill tank. good to go.
I learned from this video and have never had a wicking issue with a kayfun or Lemo.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8OSPnBDGQJc
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8OSPnBDGQJc
So wrap the wire 100% around the screw in a circle motion and trim off the rest? I couldnt really tell from the videos if thats what they were doing
Recently got a kayfun and some modded parts for it, performs as good as an rda and i dont have to constantly drip, dont know the ohms im running but its a 6 wrap on a small screwdriver, dual coil, this thing eats up my juice! but im loving it!
I don't, I think I would need 3 hands
. Find some PBusardo vids where he coils a kayfun, russian or lemo.
Wrap around the screw, the excess on either end are referred to as the "legs" these are attached to the positive and negative posts in your RBA. You then trim the excess off the legs.
Yup, this the way just like a Fogger with NP.
Kurt
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