I bought a 5 pack of replacement coils, .5 ohms for my kangartech mini of Amazon.com. They only lasted like 3-4 days before they tasted bad, anyone else have an experience like this with kangertech "authentic" coils?
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Especially with kanger and aspire I've noticed those clones are EVERYWHERE for just about every tank they make. Unfortunately so many vendors sell clones as authentic. I've began to stick with reputable stores for coil heads anymore, I intentionally bought some aspire clones on fast tech once to save a buck or two, tasted burnt ass first hit for all 5 of them and it never went away. I've used discountvapers and vaporbeast for coils and no issues. Unfortunately those clones are just not made well. Hell fast tech sells brass subtank coils, and most people feel that brass is a bad idea for vaping. Sorry I went off on a tangent there. That does seem like a short life span, but I haven't used a subtank (yet) so I honestly don't know what most peoples mileage is.
Yeah I only use a subtank, the thing with these coils is they look exactly like real ones, same markings and everything, my buddy has the same subtank and vapes more than I do he has a lifespan of 10-14 days whereas I have less than 5
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So you're saying every pack will have good and bad coils, and it hit or miss?
The other thing is most of the reviews on Amazon had the same complaint as me, probly should've checked them before I ordered
Joe is right, I've had bad authentics too but not as often. Although I dont agree that all the clones are made the same as authentics. Those aspire that I bought were in a very different packaging than the originals, very different markings and inferior materials. Not saying that the clones don't come from the same factory, but in the case of the ones I bought the materials and design were different and just crap.
At least the old ones were/are retarded simple to re-wick or even rebuild. I see the new heads are not user serviceable. I use the RBA 99% of the time but it's nice to have some pre-built heads ready to use in a pinch. Heads have always been spotty like this as long as I can remember but Kanger really knocked it out of the park with the subtank mini giving you the RBA deck and easy as pie to rebuild heads. Too bad they jacked up their latest revision of the heads.
Anyway, if you've got the first version heads, do yourself a favor and youtube up some rip tripper or somebody else's videos showing how to rebuild those. You don't have to rebuild every time, just swap in a new wick. It is drop dead simple.
Anyway, if you've got the first version heads, do yourself a favor and youtube up some rip tripper or somebody else's videos showing how to rebuild those. You don't have to rebuild every time, just swap in a new wick. It is drop dead simple.