How Long Do Vape Coils Last? A Vaporesso Coil Lifespan Guide

There is no fixed answer to how long a Vaporesso coil lasts. Vaporesso themselves do not give a lifespan in days for their current pods or coils, and the few figures they have published are lab results for older pods.

In our experience, most vape coils and pods last one to two weeks with everyday vaping, more on clear, less sweet e-liquid and much less on very sweet liquids. Change your coil and/or pod as soon as it tastes burnt.

For an estimate based on how you vape, our coil and pod life calculator gives you a rough number of days.

Jump to a section:

• How long a vape coil lasts
• How many puffs a coil lasts
• Signs your coil needs changing
• What burns a coil out early
• How to make coils last longer
• How long Vaporesso pods last
• Vaporesso GTX and GTi coils
• How long to prime a Vaporesso coil
• Which coils last the longest
• E-liquid and coil life
• How long a Vaporesso vape lasts

How Long Does a Vape Coil Last?

Usually one to two weeks, in our experience. This is what we see from our own vaping and from customers, not a manufacturer figure, and it is based on everyday use. The e-liquid makes the biggest difference:

E-liquid	Typical life (ours)
Clear, lightly sweetened	About 2 to 3 weeks
Most fruit and dessert flavours	About 1 to 2 weeks
Very sweet, including many bar salts	Often under a week

How much you vape, the wattage, whether the coil was primed and whether it was ever left dry all move that number up or down. The same coil can last a month for one person and four days for another.

How Many Puffs Does a Coil Last?

There is no reliable puff count for a refillable coil, because a short puff and a long draw wear it very differently. Vaporesso do not give a puff count for GTX or GTi coils, or for current XROS pods.

Where Vaporesso do give a figure, it is for a particular pod in their lab, and some are older models:

• The original XROS Pro 0.4 ohm pod: about 20ml of e-liquid per pod.
• The XROS 3 and XROS 3 Nano pods: 20 days.
• The 10ml ECO Nano Plus pod: at least 4 refills and up to 35,000 puffs.

Counting refills is a more useful guide than counting puffs. If a pod or coil is still tasting clean after several refills, it is doing well.

Signs Your Vaporesso Coil Needs Changing

Vaporesso's sign is a burnt taste. The others below are what we see in the shop.

• A burnt or harsh taste. Vaporesso's advice is to replace the pod or coil and not to carry on using it.
• Weaker flavour or less vapour than the same liquid gave on a fresh coil.
• E-liquid going darker in the pod or tank than when you filled it.
• Gurgling, spitting or leaking on a pod that is filled and fitted correctly. Our guide on why a Vaporesso pod leaks covers the other causes first.

If the taste is burnt, our guide to why a vape tastes burnt helps you work out whether it is the coil or something else.

What Makes a Coil Burn Out Early?

Vaporesso list four causes of a burnt coil: the coil reaching the end of its life, letting it go dry, using a thicker, high VG e-liquid, and not priming it before use. In our experience there are three more: sweet e-liquid, too much wattage and chain vaping.

1. Sweet e-liquid

This is the one we see most. In our experience, sweetener builds up on the coil, which dulls the flavour and leads to a burnt taste sooner. Very sweet liquids, including many bar salts, can wear a coil out in days. A clearer, less sweet liquid often lasts noticeably longer.

2. Letting it go dry

Vaporesso warn that carrying on once the liquid has been used up is prone to burning. Keep the pod or tank topped up so the wicking holes stay covered.

3. The wrong wattage

Vaporesso publish a wattage range and a best wattage for each GTX and GTi coil, listed below, and a best wattage for each XROS pod. We would stay inside the range. Our guide to the right wattage to vape at explains how to find your setting.

4. Not priming

Vaporesso say a coil that is not primed is prone to burning. In our experience, once the cotton has scorched, the burnt taste does not go away. Vaporesso's waiting times are in the priming section below.

5. Chain vaping

Puff after puff with no break gives the wick no time to soak back up. In our experience, a short pause between puffs helps, especially at higher wattage.

How to Make Your Vape Coils Last Longer

1. Prime every new coil and pod, and wait the time the manual gives before your first puff.
2. Keep it topped up so the coil never goes dry.
3. Stay within the wattage range for the coil.
4. Choose a clearer, less sweet e-liquid if your coils die quickly.
5. Match the e-liquid to the coil: thinner liquids for pods, thicker ones for sub-ohm coils.
6. Take short breaks between puffs.

Our guide on how to prime a vape coil walks through priming step by step.

How Long Do Vaporesso Pods Last?

Vaporesso do not publish a lifespan in days for their current pods. In our experience, a Vaporesso pod lasts about one to two weeks with everyday vaping, and less on very sweet liquids. That is shorter than the 20 days Vaporesso gave in their lab for XROS 3 pods, because everyday vaping, and sweet e-liquid in particular, is harder on a pod than a lab test. What Vaporesso do say on their pod lifespan, pod by pod, is below:

XROS pods

Vaporesso say the new high temperature resistant material in COREX 3.0 greatly improves the pod's lifespan, but give no figure. For COREX 2.0 they claim 30% longer pod life in their lab, without saying compared with what. The current pods are the Vaporesso XROS COREX 3.0 pods.

Vaporesso give a best wattage for each XROS pod: 25W for the 0.4 ohm, 21W for the 0.6 ohm, 16W for the 0.8 ohm, 12W for the 1.0 ohm and 10W for the 1.2 ohm. On XROS kits with a screen, such as the XROS 5, XROS Pro 2 and XROS 6, only the 0.4 ohm pod takes a wattage setting. The other pods use the kit's power modes, as our XROS 5 guide explains.

Luxe X and Luxe XR pods

The Vaporesso Luxe X pods have the coil built in, so the whole pod is replaced when it wears out.

The Vaporesso Luxe XR pods take GTX coils, so you change the coil and keep the pod. Vaporesso give no lifespan in days for either.

ECO Nano and Vibe pods

Vaporesso say the ECO Nano pod lasts 13,000 puffs, without saying how that was measured. The Vaporesso ECO Nano pods should be refilled before the liquid drops below the silicone at the bottom of the pod.

For the Vaporesso Vibe dual mesh pods, Vaporesso's lab figure for ECO mode is "Pod Lifespan 200%", again without saying compared with what.

How often to change a Vaporesso pod

Change your Vaporesso pod when it tastes burnt, when the flavour fades and does not come back after a refill, or when liquid has sat in it for a long time. Vaporesso say old liquid left in a pod can taste bad, and suggest replacing both the liquid and the pod.

How Long Do Vaporesso Coils Last? GTX and GTi

Vaporesso do not give a lifespan in days for GTX or GTi coils. They do claim that the dual mesh versions last longer, without saying compared with what. For GTi dual mesh the figure is 30%. For GTX dual mesh it is 30% on the GTX coils page and 50% on the Armour G2 page. In our experience, both last about one to two weeks, like a pod.

GTX coils

GTX coils fit the Luxe XR Max 2, the Luxe XR pods, the Armour G and GS pods and the XTank T on the GTX One Pro. Vaporesso's ranges:

GTX coil	Vaporesso's range
0.15 ohm, mesh or dual mesh	60 to 75W, best 70W
0.2 ohm, mesh or dual mesh	45 to 60W, best 55W
0.3 ohm, mesh or dual mesh	32 to 45W, best 40W
0.4 ohm mesh	26 to 32W, best 30W
0.6 ohm mesh	20 to 26W, best 24W
0.8 ohm mesh	12 to 16W, best 16W
1.2 ohm mesh	8 to 12W, best 11W

On their GTX coils page, Vaporesso list the 0.15 to 0.4 ohm coils for direct lung and the 0.6 to 1.2 ohm coils for mouth to lung. Replacement Vaporesso GTX coils come in packs of 5.

GTi coils

Vaporesso made GTi for direct lung vaping. GTi coils fit the iTank, iTank 2 and iTank T. The iTank T comes with kits such as the Armour Ultra and Armour OCTA. Vaporesso's ranges:

GTi coil	Vaporesso's range
0.15 ohm, mesh or dual mesh	75 to 90W, best 85W
0.2 ohm, mesh or dual mesh	60 to 75W, best 65W
0.4 ohm, mesh or dual mesh	50 to 60W, best 55W
0.5 ohm mesh	30 to 40W, best 35W

Replacement Vaporesso GTi coils come in packs of 5.

How Long to Prime a Vaporesso Coil

Most Vaporesso manuals say to wait 5 minutes after filling before the first puff to ensure the coil is primed. The XROS 6 and XROS 6 Mini need only 1 minute:

Kit	Wait after filling
XROS 6, XROS 6 Mini	1 minute on a first fill, at 5°C or above. The XROS 6 manual also lists a 60 second PRIME COIL setting
XROS 5, 5 Mini, 5 Nano, XROS Pro 2, Luxe X3, ECO Nano, Vibe SE 2	5 minutes on a first fill
Luxe XR Max 2, Armour G and GS, Armour Ultra, iTank T, GTX One Pro	5 minutes, listed as a step each time you fill

Which Vape Coils Last the Longest?

We know of no coil maker that compares its coils with other brands in days, so there is no fair league table. What does help, in our experience:

• Mesh and dual mesh coils. They heat more evenly, and Vaporesso claim their dual mesh GTX and GTi coils last longer, by 30% or more depending on the page.
• Higher resistance at lower wattage. A mouth to lung coil at 12 to 16W is working far less hard than a sub-ohm coil at 70W.
• The right e-liquid for the coil, and one that is not heavily sweetened.

For the difference between coil types, see our guide to vape coils explained.

How the E-Liquid can Effect Coil Life

Vaporesso say a thicker, high VG e-liquid can burn a coil, and that in a tank, e-liquid below 60% VG can leak with some coils.

Their GTX coil guide suggests freebase at 60 to 70% VG for the 0.15 to 0.3 ohm coils, and 50/50 to 60% VG for the 0.4 ohm coils and up. 

Their Luxe X pod guide suggests 50/50 to 60% VG for the mouth to lung pods.

They give no ratio for XROS, ECO Nano or Vibe pods, or for GTi coils.

In the table, the rows marked as Vaporesso's come from them and the rest is our advice:

Kit or coil	E-liquid
XROS, ECO Nano and Vibe pods	50/50, often as a nic salt
Mouth to lung Luxe X pods	50/50 to 60% VG, as Vaporesso suggest
GTX 0.4 to 1.2 ohm coils	50/50 to 60% VG, as Vaporesso suggest
GTX 0.15 to 0.3 ohm coils	60 to 70% VG freebase, as Vaporesso suggest
GTi coils	60 to 70% VG freebase

Most nic salt e-liquids are made for pod kits.

Browse our 50/50 e-liquids for pods and mouth to lung coils.

How Long Does a Vaporesso Vape Last?

This is a different question from coil life. Vaporesso do not publish a lifespan for their kits. In our experience, the battery is usually what wears first, and Vaporesso give two tips to protect it: do not leave the kit flat for a long time, because over-discharging can damage the battery, and charge it at least once a month if you are not using it.

Some Vaporesso kits have a built-in battery, such as the Armour G and Armour Ultra. Others take separate cells that you can replace, such as the Armour GS, which takes one 18650, and the Armour OCTA, which takes two.

Our battery safety guide covers looking after a vape battery.

Pods, coils and kits from the brand are all in our Vaporesso range.