Bad News - Aurora BFT

GoodNews!;11265980 said:

Guess what, bad review.

So here I'm reviewing the Aurora BFT. I've been really excited to try this product because of the notion that you could squeeze juice onto your coil until your heart is content, as dry hits are something that give me a ton of problems in the vaping world. I've long theorized that a lot of devices just don't wick well, and when I saw the Aurora, I knew it was something I wanted to try.

Well, first things first, I fill and prepare the device like anyone would do, and instead of fooling with the stock atomizers, I try my new Cisco 3.5 ohm, because I want to reduce the chance of my chocolate Halo juice tasting like crap. Well, even in the Cisco, at 3.3V's and 3.5ohms (crazy combination, but hey, it produces vapor), the chocolate juice I've been having horrible luck with still tastes like crap. I finally cough this up to a bad juice and I contacted Halo to see what they can do. However, the technical problems were that the Cisco fit very loose inside the Aurora, and no matter what tightening I apply, it simply wiggles around like crazy. The second issue is that, strangely enough, was that on some hits, I'd get vapor, on some, I wouldn't.

So, I do a little vodka soaking with the Cisco, and while that's going on, I go to try the stock heads with Velvet Cloud Vapor's Candy Bar (in a separate review, I'll be praising the amazing customer service of VCV, and how they sent me about 25ml of free juice after the free 10ml sample they previously sent me had some taste issues - utterly amazing customer service, great people, can't praise them enough.)

Well, right away, the problems start. I first notice that one of the stock heads, the dual coil head, doesn't even screw in. It simply won't do it. The stock atomizer screws in perfectly, and the 2nd head (the single coil) screws in about halfway before it completely stops.

So, with the stock atomizer being the best fit, I test that. I first squonk my device (without the drip tip on, so I can see whats going on) to make sure the wick is well saturated, but immediately, I run into an issue. Instead of the wick receiving any sort of juice, all of the juice seems to just overflow up into the air holes and around the atomizer tube. Now, you may say "Oh, you're squeezing too hard." but that was my intention. I wanted this wick to be soaked and I didn't care how much the thing would flood at first - the juice is supposed to suck back down into the bottle anyway, and PBuesardo's review, he says that in all reality, it doesn't matter if this thing makes crazy gurgling noises as long as it produces vapor.

I repeatedly squonk the thing, and even take the atomizer "beauty ring" of sorts off to witness the action. Juice simply pours out of the holes, and internally fills up in the base's inner chamber, but never seems to actually go into the atomizer itself. The wick is still bone dry, and I can't get it to wick.

With the whole aspect of how the screw chamber in the base seems to be made poorly, fitting different heads and atomizers so randomly, I feel like there's an issue where there's not enough security and grip between the atomizer base and the Aurora base, causing liquid to overflow into a much more open air space rather than the Aurora bottle pushing juice into the atomizer. Again, there's really no reason for there to be any user error to this device whatsoever. The liquid should be going up into the atomizer, flooding that thing at the very most, and pulling itself back into the bottle. My Aurora is doing the opposite, it's just acting crazy. It just pours out of the air holes, and never, ever touches the wick. I can't get the liquid to ever reach it.

At this point, the Aurora gets a bold Bad News, but I'm placing a call into the vendor tomorrow, and if the issue gets resolved, then I hope to post a great review.

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