HCigar Taifun GT... Other Owners Thoughts?

[Lockett]

Managed to snag one of these the other day from the Safer Vapers Facebook page. Paid £22 and its mint.. I only have one thing to say.. AWESOME! This is fast becoming my favourite atty. Wicked and wired a 1.3ohm Micro Coil with cotton. What a stunning vape. I'd even go as far as saying it outdoes my Kayfun 3.1 ES!

Whats do other owners in general think about this?

Just curious as I have seen a few threads around the interwebs of people just not getting along with it.

If I was to recommend one atty at the moment to anyone, I would HIGHLY recommend this!

 

[cheersm8]

I love the Taifun GT. Very easy to set up and use, and being able to re coil without having to empty the tank is a user friendly feature. They work well with cotton, silica,eko/voodoo and mesh, and setting the coil at different heights, using alternative sized air tubes (or removing the tube altogether) makes them very custumiseable for individual preferences.
Quite easy to 'build wrong' (ie forgetting to slide the slidey bit up etc) adds to the fun.

 

[Lockett]

I have so far made one mistake with mine. My thumb somehow found its way over the air hole, took a nice long draw and got covered in a hell of a lot of juice lol. Other then that I agree with you. Easy to build and very adaptable.

 

[Dr_Puff]

The Taifun is a good tank to use - esp with holding a lot of juice.

There are some good tips using the GT on this forum, main ones being make sure you've got the slide section around the coils in the right place/height and that there is enough wick through the coil and out into the tank - Both or either of these wrong can cause gurgling and leaking issues through the airhole.

Otherwise it's an easy build nice looking device for sure

 

[martyge2010]

I'm gutted mine is broken at the minute coz I love it.

I mixed up some juice using some cupcake world pear flavouring and EM. The plastic tank lasted precisely 3 minutes before it cracked from top to bottom and also came away from the metal top part when I unscrewed the tank to empty it.

Just awaiting my stainless tank section to come and I'll be back in business.

 

[Unclebilbo]

had my taifun gt (hcigar) clone just over a week now and really struggling to get a good vape from it, tried copying allsorts of builds ive seen from youtube and the threads ive seen on here. so far ive had 0.25mm 0.30mm 0.20mm 0.23mm wire in it but had pretty poor performance so far. yesterday came across rip trippers twisted wire vid and a thread on here about it so...... with a 1mm drill bit 3 lengths of 0.20mm twisted and 6 wraps gave me 1.2ohms on my smok
fury-s with a cotton wick and got the best vape so far but still not quite what i was expecting the coils take a good 5-8 seconds to glow hot and im getting more taste and vapour from an aerotank with 1.6ohm coil and the same juice (grizwalds gourmet arctic cherry).
what builds are you guys using in yours as i was expecting a big jump in flavour and vapour, ive had some high vg juice from vapeology in it 30/70 pg/vg even that didnt improve vapour production. also get alot of spitting in the chamber dont know if this is normal ?
gonna try 5 wraps tomorrow with ss mesh and the twisted kanthal.
any advice much appreciated

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[Danny K]

Generally I keep it simple 0.28 kanthal round a 2mm screwdriver 5 wraps will be near 1.2ohm.

Thread with cotton and vape

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[5miley]

Lockett keep an eye on the oring on the chimney. If your Taifun is working fine and all of a sudden starts pissing juice out of the airhole
chances are that the oring is not sealing with the deck top thingyabob. Happened to both my clones and genuine Taifun.

Unclebilbo your making things harder for yourself. Stick to one size of wire and dont bother with anything fancy twisted wire YET
Make a microcoil (whatever size) dry fire, make sure there are no hot legs and heats from the middle outwards.
The important bit .... this is a balancing act, you need to use enough wicking material to supply the coil correctly AND enough wicking material to stop the deck from flooding.
Too much wick and the vape will be flavourless. Too little and your deck will flood + burnt taste.
Once you have mastered rebuilding the Taifun with one size of wire you can try different sizes, numbers of coils, different wire etc to fine tune according to your preferences.

 

[tvrgreg]

Think i have mine for about a month now, tried a couple of different builds. 1st thing bin the airpipe and its plastic tube, i used 28awg kanthal wrapped around 2.5mm drill, think about 5-6 wraps but rather than micro coil i left gaps in the coil, think it came in about 1.0 ohms sorry thats a bit vague but i built this setup a month ago and its still going strong. tried cotton 1st but that would need swapping out every 3 days. Now i have rayon wick in there and its much better cleaner taste, faster wicking and lasts 5-6 days before swapping out wick. I just pull the base and chimmey apart rinse under tap, pull old wick out, dry bits with tissue, dry burn coil to clean, chuck some more rayon in, bung it back together 5mins job done for another 5-6 days

 

[Unclebilbo]

Thank for the pointers folks, I had ditched the air pipe and tube. Not getting leaking although the juice spitting in the chamber does create a bit of juice on the deck. I'll keep at it.
Cheers.

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