What made you leave your Subtank Mini?
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I stopped using my STM due to it spitting juice. i replaced it with the lemo 2 and love it. no spitting juice, decent flavor, easy to build on, and easy to fill.
i like them and have four so i can swap around four different juices at a time. only leaked once or twice because of me forgetting to put the top on the RBA. it may spit on occasion but not enough to be a concern. i run max vg in them and have no problem. i am not a heavy chain vaper and usually vape 15-20 watts. no problem with burnt hits. 
I left it due to muted flavor, leaking and periodic spitting.....mostly due to the incessant leaking. The Crown and Starre Pro give much better flavor. I may revisit it with the new coils to see if that has alleviated the leaking as reported by some.
3 reasons for leaving subtank mini:
- Muted flavor
- Not airflow of my liking
- No top fill
Well, the one thing good about the majority of the RTAs on the market today is that most of them all have an adjustable airflow.
You can adjust it from something like sucking air through a giant fart-pipe exhaust that some kid installed on his used and abused Honda .. to a needle sized hole you might find pushed into some drug addicts arm ... and everything inbetween.
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You can adjust it from something like sucking air through a giant fart-pipe exhaust that some kid installed on his used and abused Honda .. to a needle sized hole you might find pushed into some drug addicts arm ... and everything inbetween.
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Used a subtank for a couple weeks. Went back to old school with my old Provari 2 and a Kayfun V2. Don't want my body getting used to a ton of vapor and need it to be satisfied. I am now 30 mods & tanks richer but right back to where I was a year ago. Sometimes simple is better. CHEERS!
So I borrowed a v1 Mini from my brother-in-law, in my opinion it is not too bad with the rba . My v2 setup is still in China for a few weeks so I was a little impatient. Built a 3mm 6 wrap with 28ga kanthal and wicked with rayon. Haven't tried more than 20 watts yet and I vape unflavored so that is not an issue. It doesn't leak or spit, but the only con I can see is that he must have lost the spring and ball bearing under the air flow ring. A little electrical tape fixed that.
still have 3 of them and use them some time, but the tfv4 definitely made me leave my subtank. And the crown.
I liked the Subtank Nano.
Stupid simple to rebuild the OCC heads and install new coil and organic cotton wick.
I gave my Nano to my sister because I needed more airflow.
Kayfun V4 made my decision to leave my subtank mini. But now the contact screw of my K4 was gone to the sink. 
Just got my STM.. Stupid-easy to build and that was only my 3rd coil ever (did 2 for the Aqua V2 clone). Got a bit of a leak that I'll see if I can fix with a new o-ring. A lot of airflow without sacrificing the flavour compared to the Aqua V2. The only major beef is the crackling on draw even at low wattages.
Like my St Mini just fine, flavor muted, no leaks, but it was the rebuild deck that made think "WOW I bet a KF 4 would be the stuff!" And it was. Even temp coils I have mastered now for the KF4. Thanks Kanger!
The crackling is more because of the coil than the tank.
Ok, got the o-rings replaced, we'll see if that will help even though my juice of choice is pretty thin (80%PG).. @Ou2mame any advice on how to do the coil to prevent the crackling? Larger diameter? More wraps with thinner gauge? I'm pretty new at this, so I'm open to suggestions. If the leaks stop, I honestly don't see a reason to leave this tank.
My ST Mini never leaves my rotation, it's my morning tootlepuff. Once I wake up it's onto the drippers.
The N mini is great but coils and wicks only give their best taste for some days and the replacable coil heads are too expensive to replace that often. So I got a Sub mini and rebuilt that for a couple of months. Then I got a Tugboat RDA to try and never looked back. Re dripping an RDA is not so inconvenient (especially if you're using temp control). The tugboat is faster to rebuild, fewer parts to lose, no glass to break. Play with your tanks, learn to rebuild, then try a dripper and see what happens. And may be the flavor is better with rda's but may be it's mostly about vaping on clean wicks and coils.
I find that too little cotton leads to a lot of popping and crackling, along with having any hot parts of the coil.
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