Stock Coil Life - Flip the lid (aka crack the tank)

Vapaneezer Scrooge · Feb 23, 2019

Ever since I stumbled across this tip on youtube I have gotten into the habit of doing this on all my stock coils, mesh or standard and I firmly believe it adds longevity to coil life.

Every 5-10 draws I open the top cap and let air in, the next draw is 'juicier' as it aids wicking, my first successes were with the Smok Prince Q4 coils which were so unreliable and could last a day sometimes before they dry hit, ever since I tried this method that went away and coils were lasting up to a month without a single dry hit, only changing coils when flavour dropped off.

I then tried it on the Prince Stick M4 coils, 1 coil of moderate daily use lasted me 3 months!

I have since adopted this method on the Valryian, Falcon, Freemax Mesh Pro and the TFV8 V2 and I'm getting really long coil life, for example I reset the puff counter on the TFV8 V2 and got to 1,200 hits of regular daily use and chain vaping, not one dry hit, flavour dropped off so changed it then, it could have gone on.

I know some are sceptical but I'm a firm believer in this method.

Try it, you've got nothing to loose.

When I have chance I am going to do a side by side test with the freemax mesh (as I have 2 of them) one I will flip the lid, the other I will only open when I top up the tank.

Anyone else tried it?

eyeball kid · Feb 23, 2019

Vapaneezer Scrooge said:
Ever since I stumbled across this tip on youtube I have gotten into the habit of doing this on all my stock coils, mesh or standard and I firmly believe it adds longevity to coil life.

Every 5-10 draws I open the top cap and let air in, the next draw is 'juicier' as it aids wicking, my first successes were with the Smok Prince Q4 coils which were so unreliable and could last a day sometimes before they dry hit, ever since I tried this method that went away and coils were lasting up to a month without a single dry hit, only changing coils when flavour dropped off.

I then tried it on the Prince Stick M4 coils, 1 coil of moderate daily use lasted me 3 months!

I have since adopted this method on the Valryian, Falcon, Freemax Mesh Pro and the TFV8 V2 and I'm getting really long coil life, for example I reset the puff counter on the TFV8 V2 and got to 1,200 hits of regular daily use and chain vaping, not one dry hit, flavour dropped off so changed it then, it could have gone on.

I know some are sceptical but I'm a firm believer in this method.

Try it, you've got nothing to loose.

When I have chance I am going to do a side by side test with the freemax mesh (as I have 2 of them) one I will flip the lid, the other I will only open when I top up the tank.

Anyone else tried it?

Yeah your opening the valve basically and letting juice free flow into the coil.
The main issue is. You'd shouldn't have to. A properly designed tank should feed the coil automatically but sadly as you say it often doesn't.
Tank flow design seems secondary to the visual design these days.

oldhippydude · Feb 23, 2019

i can see that what you are would work but I would take the fact that you have to do it a sign that your juice is to thick for your tank and style of vaping.

I do not use stock coils but if when using my kayfun lite, i find the wicking not keeping up, I cover the air intake hole with a finger and give a hard draw. This has the same effect of drawing more juice into the wick chamber. I do not see why this would not work for any tank and might be less hassle than unscrewing the top.

Vapaneezer Scrooge · Feb 23, 2019

Agreed you shouldn't have to but it's really no hassle takes a couple of seconds once it become habit, works for me so I thought I would share.

Juice I use is a mixed bag, some coil killer desert juices but mostly vaping thinner 70/30 or 60/40 thinner fruit juices.

Like I said it's worth a shot, I would be interested in others findings using this method.

I might even try it on pods as I'm finding coil life short compared to others.

Tazz · Feb 23, 2019

Im not going to doubt you, but doing that every 5 or so would drive me mad just to get a coil to last a bit longer. As it is my coils cost about $1.50 a week to run. To get down to 75c to $1 opening and closing the tank all the time to save that little amount over a week to me is a waste of time. None of my coils give me dry hits as it is.

Mr Ripple · Feb 23, 2019

When i used stock coils i used to set the mods screen time out to 30 seconds.
I would wait till the screen had gone out before tooting which used to give the coils enough time to soak again.

Vapaneezer Scrooge · Feb 23, 2019

Cost is no doubt a benefit but I'm mainly doing it for coil reliability / predictability, I've been caught out to many times with a coil dry hitting at random times.
For example I now now I should expect around 1,000+ long draws on the TFV8 V2 double mesh coil.

I really don't see it as any hassle at all, I'm out vaping and a second or so in between a few draws or so is nothing.

Anyway, lets see over the coming weeks if this tip helps others, I have a good tip that works well for me so what's wrong with sharing it?

oldhippydude · Feb 23, 2019

Sharing tips like yours and the others above are always good. Whether folk want to live with them long term or not is up to them.
Most folk at some time will come across a wicking problem at some time and it can be useful to know these things even if it is just to get the tank of juice finished or till you find a permanent solution.

Phat Barstood · Feb 23, 2019

Vapaneezer Scrooge said:
Ever since I stumbled across this tip on youtube I have gotten into the habit of doing this on all my stock coils, mesh or standard and I firmly believe it adds longevity to coil life.

Every 5-10 draws I open the top cap and let air in, the next draw is 'juicier' as it aids wicking, my first successes were with the Smok Prince Q4 coils which were so unreliable and could last a day sometimes before they dry hit, ever since I tried this method that went away and coils were lasting up to a month without a single dry hit, only changing coils when flavour dropped off.

I then tried it on the Prince Stick M4 coils, 1 coil of moderate daily use lasted me 3 months!

I have since adopted this method on the Valryian, Falcon, Freemax Mesh Pro and the TFV8 V2 and I'm getting really long coil life, for example I reset the puff counter on the TFV8 V2 and got to 1,200 hits of regular daily use and chain vaping, not one dry hit, flavour dropped off so changed it then, it could have gone on.

I know some are sceptical but I'm a firm believer in this method.

Try it, you've got nothing to loose.

When I have chance I am going to do a side by side test with the freemax mesh (as I have 2 of them) one I will flip the lid, the other I will only open when I top up the tank.

Anyone else tried it?

What magic would this be...

Bjorn Borg · Feb 23, 2019

I think it's a very good idea if you're having wicking issues. I however have not. It could be that I make my own liquid but I'm not sure. I just do 70/30, 3mg about every time. I use Q2, and M2 coils a lot and they've always kept up and have been consistent. I'm not trying to defend Smok coils, just sharing my experience.

I know that wicking troubles happen a lot with stock coils, so I consider myself lucky. I've never had to poke holes with a pin or any of the other tricks.

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