New RDA’s for Flavor Testing 2017
Vaping companies are coming out strong this year. Rolling out with a slew of new RDA’s hitting the market in the past few months. I thought it’d be nice to get a feel for the top RDA’s everyone is using this year for flavor and recipe testing.
I’m currently using my Peerless RDA & Apocalypse Gen 2 clone, however he Asmodus GalaTek RDA caught my attention for sure.
Current reviews are from VapnFagan & Mike Vapes.
Asmodus GalaTek RDA - INSANE FLAVOR!!!
I have a few RDAs but they are not the nicest to me I’m a habitual tank user lol. I do like my velocity V2 clone and my goon is pretty sweet too but I don’t use them that often… I am still thinking of picking up a couple more I am also pretty interested in learning how to make wick-less coils for flavor testing… I’m pretty good at making my own standard Clapton coils I just need to do some more research I suppose 
Very cool. Clones are definitely a good investment. I have 2 RDA clones (Apocalypse G2 & Coppervape Odis) & 1 RTA (Reload) Do you use RDTAs also? I’ve never heard of wick-less coils for flavor testing. What is this?! Educated me.
I have one RDTA and have had marginal success. I have not played with it too much but i should probably get it back out and try to perfect it. people rave about it I have the Avocado. wickless coils are coils that people install and drip right onto the coil with no wick to vape their liquid. I know some on here use them i forget who though… please chime in if someone can give us more info on it im sure if we do a youtube search we can find a bunch out
There’s a couple YouTube videos of people making their own wickless coils. Seems like everyone is using some kind of twisted wire…with spacing / with ridges and so forth. I’m going to ask around. This is something out of my wheelhouse but I’m interested.
Thank you. LOL, I was just watching some videos on Youtube. Have you used them for flavor testing? I’m reading mixed reviews on VapingUnderground & Reddit.
No, I’m one of those people that are still fighting to get a rda to work right and taste good. Until then I can’t try anything “fancy” lol
LOL. I hear you. Well it’s not as fancy as you may think it is. @CallMeTut & @Jayrell - I spoke with some veteran vapers about wickless coils last night in the G Spot Zoom room on MyVaporium.net. A well respected and very knowledgeable vaper, Greg Paschak told me that I only needed to use some sort of fused clapton, alien coils, or any thick & absorbent SS coil. After you do your build, drip a few drops of your E-Liquid, and fire at a very low wattage (between 15-25 watts). Repeat to taste.
Ohhh, I understand the concept… my delimia stems with the fact I can’t get a rda to stop tasting burnt or running up to 300 watts (or so it seems). I have a couple rda’s and no matter what build (clapton or single strand) they always just seem to be running hot. I think it is probably just me and being use to tanks and using lower wattage ( under 30).
Oh I see. Tasting burnt…are you using enough cotton in your builds? Sometimes if your running a high wattage and you use too little cotton you can actually burn out the cotton laying inside the coil. The legs of the cotton look good and you think, “well my cotton is good - why does it taste burnt / why am I getting dry hits” - but in fact you may be dripping on straight coil at an extremely high wattage. Do you vape in TC mode at all?
nods… wicking doesn’t seem to be an issue and I don’t use TC
That was my best educated guess besides just lowering your wattage. Do you usually run up to 300 watts. I only know of a few box mods that offer it.
For myself I’ve found that the closer the coil is to my mouth, the less power I like. On tanks I usually run between .2-.5ohms at around 60w. I only have one rda worth using (a hadaly) and I like that to be in the same ohm range but only around 30w. On my rdta (a theorem) I like it around 40w. If you’re used to 30w on a tank I’d try a higher ohm build and super low watts with an rda. I know you weren’t actually asking for advice, just thought I’d throw that out there in case you hadn’t tried that route yet (you probably have though…lol).
no no no no… it just seems as if the mod is running at 300 watts, I hit the fire button on any rda I’m using and start getting the rice crispies commercial… everything starts snap crackling and popping, I’ll try everything from 15 watts to 30 watts and it always seems the same. Every few months I’ll pull out one of the rda’s and re-try them shrugs not too worried about it
nods… I was thinking of doing a 1.0 or 1.2 build with the same thoughts your stating later today.
Yea Tut I hear you on the RDAs I’ve had off and on success with them myself… more off than on. I’m like @VapeyMama where I typically like my tanks around .4 ohm and vape between 50 and 60 watts. I usually do a single strand Clapton coil26/32 dual coil build on my serpent mini and griffin 25 tanks. I’ve had the best success with that kind of build. When I take that same concept to any of my RDAs it’s like I’m getting too much air flow or have to crank it up higher and it still doesn’t taste as good as my tanks. Maybe I’m still doing something wrong but those super low ohm builds I don’t get any flavor and have to crank it up to the 100s and then it just seems hot and still no good flavor… now with my troll RDA I have had a 1 time good build and wick expierence with it but still not awesome I have a dripbox with a velocity V2 clone and that’s worked out pretty good at times but again it’s hit or miss and I’m not always that patient to rebuild re wick re juice several times in one sitting to get it right lol. As far as single strand builds I have been doing flavor testing on my magma RDA. It’s an old model of RDA you have to screw the top off and on which is a pain but a single coil .9 ohm build using 28g kanthal works out pretty decent but I still get a fuller better tasting expireence in my tanks the serpent mini is boss for flavor for me ok I’m done rambling ATM 
I still use my Veritas’s 
Some of the older stuff is good!
Same here… the “best” I’ve been able to work with is also the Magma, I have a single wrapped strand (I think it’s kanthal (might be SS though it’s been a year since I wrapped it) at .7ohm in it… even at 17 watts the thing talks back at me when I hit the fire button lol.
I just checked and it’s SS in the Magma…
For those that like tips and tricks:
If your unsure if you have kanthal or SS in your rda … or like me and can’t recall what you placed into it (read that as I’m getting old…)
Grab a strong magnet and touch the coil… kanthal is magnetic and will try and stick while SS is not magnetic and won’t try and stick… my coil ignored the magnet so I knew I had used SS in that coil build.