I’ve been raving about this thing in other threads and I just thought I’d make a new one since I didn’t find one in a search. Note that I am talking about the small sized “S” model. The “S” is important. With all the great tanks lately, I have been really hesitant to buy an RDA. I mean dripping tastes better, but tanks like the Bellus are so close to the Plume Veil RDA that I’ve been off dripping for awhile. Enter the noisy cricket and the fact that I want a stealth nic hit at work every now and then. . .most know I never smoked and very rarely use nic, but sometimes I get sleepy. Anyway, I need something stealthy that I can take a 1 second hit from and hide again.
Anyway, I picked up the Mutation X S in black for $30 and put it on my $30 Noisy Cricket with a couple of 25R5s. Great batteries for high pulsed current as they have a very low series resistance. Anyway, I haven’t built kanthal in awhile and was too excited to go to steam engine so I ended up winding a 1.5ohm single coil, 28/32 spaced kanthal Clapton on a 3mm ID. On the NC these things DRINK juice, so hemp wick is a must! Honestly, I recommend hemp for everything non-TC and especially on the cricket because hemp wicks so freaking quickly. I’ve never gotten a dry hit and I have been vaping this setup like a MADMAN. . .I bought two other DNA200 mods at the same time and I haven’t even opened one yet. I have several new attys including a Griffin that I haven’t touched because this thing is rad!
Remember this is single coil, which I generally HATE. I gave away a Crown w/ RBA because it just did NOT do it for me. BUT, this single coil is literally vaping as well as the very best dual coil I have ever vaped on any setup, including a Plume Veil on temp control on a DNA200. I have been carrying it in my shirt pocket, although you do this at your own risk with a cricket. I recommend unscrewing the button and testing so that it cannot fire. . .as a minimum precaution. If you aren’t careful when you juice, you can get leakage out of the bottom airholes. . .but I’m an unkempt looking engineer so the PG spot in my shirt pocket is acceptable. I try to wipe it down before I put it in my shirt though.
Guys, my wife does not vape, but she sits here while I do. SHE commented on the retarded clouds that I am blowing with this. . .and they are !SO! flavorful. This build is vaping at a very cool temp, I normally like a bit warmer, but the taste is so awesome I only want to take the cap off long enough to add more juice! I’m not changing a thing until I have to.
I WILL be buying another one of these to build dual with Ti and put on one of my DNAs. Probably the Efusion. This is the most excited that I have been about an atomizer since I took my first real lung hit from an RDA years ago having only used cartomizers before. This combo is easily the best $60 I have spent vaping. It’s easy to build. . .it would be great for a beginner except of the inherent dangers of the cricket itself. Beginners really need to be careful with this thing! But hot damn am I in love. I can’t get over it. Think of when the Plume Veil first came out, then imagine the evolution of the industry to now. . .THIS is the RDA that the PV has evolved into. Even the drip tip is great!
Oh yeah, as for hitting at work. The airflow is adjustable from open to closed both from the bottom and side of the coils. The side flow is made so that it creates a vortex. Even with a hot build, if you take a 1 second hit with the cricket with the air wide open the cloud tends to be pretty thin. A couple of those with 4mg juice wakes me up for a bit. I am not completely intolerant of nic as I smoke cigars and pipes, but its infrequent enough that lung hits of 4mg juice are plenty for me. Anyway, I just blow the thin cloud under my desk and rock on. On the way home I close the top airflow 2/3rds of the way and get huge, thick, delicious clouds.
It does have some cons. The leakage if you aren’t very careful when you juice. The juice well is pretty shallow. . .but it gives a sort air path to the bottom of the coil. I think that trade is worth it. The orings are on the loose side, so without modification you do need to be a little careful that it doesn’t come apart on you. . .but if you put it on a cricket you handle everything carefully anyway, right? I think it might taste even better if they got rid of the center post and made it velocity style, but I still have a 10ish wrap SPACED Clapton that fits just fine. The shape, if not the depth, of the juice well is perfect IMO. Great little places to put your wick.
If you have $30, but this RDA. . .if you have $60, buy a cricket to go with it. NO ONE loves TC more than me, but this setup is so small, and so incredibly awesome I wont be putting it down any time soon.
Ships in 20 days though 
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