What is going on with Kanger single coil heads ?

[laloin]

I've always had issues with the replacements heads. buy a 5 pak for $10 and I would have 3 heads that didn't work. I finally got tired of the whole thing and bought a Igo-L rda and have started building my own coils, and using cotton wick. When the taste is off I just replace the wick, dry burn the coil and I'm good to go.
Taste is soo much better on a rda

 

[bayclown510]

I had this issue also but to save yourself money just pick up a few feet of 30 gauge kanthal instead of buying atomizers there's a few videos on YouTube that can show you how to rebuild them it's gets easier the more you build them I've rebuilt mine like 3 or 4 time

 

[erazzz]

you know I'm getting this issue too.

Haven't had time to get into rebuilding them lately (i always keep them for when I start rebuilding). I've been getting some weird stuff though.

One pack of coils had an extra rubber piece on the bottom disk looking part, all of them had it. Not sure why they added that, it was pointless and I removed it.

More flooding lately.

Coils that are not at the ohm they should be (this has been happening A LOT lately).

I understand if they aren't -exact- ohm wise. Most of them I find are a bit off. But I pulled out one yesterday, hooked it up, read 3 ohm. Should have been a 2.2ohm.

I guess I'll just have to start rebuilding them sooner than I thought. These stock coils are just poor quality.

 

[1ne2woBe]

Agree with building your own. Purchase 2 5packs, and just reuse the heads building your own. I used to have so much fun building my own heads for my PT2's. If I had 30 minutes to kill at home, I'd sit down and knock out 5-8 heads... just for fun. LOL

 

[Taowulf]

+1 for rebuilding. Trying for a chimney coil right now.

 

[BigCatDaddy]

+1 for rebuilding. Trying for a chimney coil right now.

I just built one of those a couple of days ago. I used a single strand (of the four) of Peaches and Cream yarn to wick it with. I had to remove a lot of it, too dense. Next one I'll just use plain cotton. It was a fun and challenging build.

 

[djsvapour]

I notice nobody else has commented about using premade wicks/coils. Overall, I have more of these in action than homemade micro/cotton wool. They're really impressive.

 

[Zamazam]

Hello everybody,

I'm into vaping since 1 year and a half.
I've tried a lot different combos, and recently I was quite happy with kangeretch products, especially since the aerotank came out.
However it's been a month or two that I'm having problems with the coils.
In the past a single coil used to last at least 2 weeks, with a dry burn from time to time.
Now? I've trashed at least 15 coils, they tasted burn, or rubber, they flooded even with the aerotank... in short a lot of different problems.
A friend of mine is experiencing the same problems, and a vendor told us that a lot of people are complaining about this.
I've ordered different stocks from at least 4 or 5 different vendors here in Europe.

Have you experiencing the same problems ? Why this all of a sudden? Is kanger only caring about their new dual coil heads ?
Honestly I didn't find huge benefits on kanger dual coils to justify the price ... Now I'm moving to rebuildables ... but at least I'd like to keep my aerotanks as backups...

There has been a lot of people having problems with the Kanger coil heads. There is a quality control issue, Kanger is pumping them out quite fast, to meet the market needs and in the process quality has suffered. My solution was to buy the Aspire replacement base for the Anyvape Davide tank and install it on my Kanger 1's an 2's, it fits perfectly. It uses the Aspire coil heads which seem to have much better quality. Hope this helps.

 

[Sublimefly]

I noticed every aftermarket head I buy has issues. One in every 5 or 6 heads will be good, but all the others give me nothing but headaches. I've since stopped using them right out of the box and just immediately rebuild them myself. I get much better flavor and consistency in ohms this way. I've actually been using the same 10 heads for my wife and I for the last 14 months and still have around a dozen waiting to move into the rotation. Building my own coils and wicking them myself with cotton nets me heads that last around 2 weeks with moderate use. My wife can get as much as 3 or 4 weeks out of a head this way, both using clear max VG juices.

 

[DaveP]

Old thread, but right up my alley. I've seen coil life go down on Kanger single and dual coil heads and Aspire Nautilus dual coil heads. The problem I'm detecting is that they vape great for a couple of hours and then the coil resistance begins to rise. A 2 ohm head slowly becomes a 2.5 ohm head, then a 3 ohm head. If you continue to raise the voltage to match the resistance and keep the vapor level up the coil will fail open when it approaches the 4 ohm point.

I've taken a number of these failed heads apart only to find that one of the non-resistive legs has broken off. The solder joint will still be attached to the end of the leg, but the coil heat has fatigued the solder so much that the joint develops resistance higher and higher until the leg disconnects from the end of the coil.

I rebuild these using 32ga Kanthal with a cotton wick and they work fine, just like everyone else in the thread has stated. I might see a half an ohm rise over days, but that's about it and I can clean and lightly dry burn to restore flavor and vapor. I agree that non-resistive wire keeps the heat off the post insulator grommet, but those come in bags of 10 and 50 these days and we can replace the grommet when we rebuild the head, so that's not really an issue for me.

I'm just wondering why Kanger and Aspire don't use a wire weld on those instead of a silver solder joint. I guess it's faster to solder than attach the legs with a capacitive wire welder. I've seen one of those that fits in a plastic project box. Vapers are even making them out of cheap flash cameras. It's the way to a lasting NR-R-NR coil wire.

Here's one of the videos using a wire welder made from a cheap camera. It's pretty ingenious for doing the job cheaply. It you use NR-R-NR coils to save your grommets, this looks like the trick. I may just build one myself. If you click "Watch on YouTube" there are many more like this in the sidebar.