I just received my new Aeolus RDA from bevapehappy. The first time I saw this atty in a photo on InstaG. I wanted it. I waited excitedly for a short two day period after placing my order. Bevapehappy ships quickly with 2 day priority for free when making purchases of $75 or more. When I got my vape mail I hastily opened the package and went straight for the small cylindrical box from Syntheticloud that contained the Aeolus. When I opened it and took out the RDA I was disappointed to find nicks and scratches along with nasty machine oil and burs along the edges of the juice well. I debated on placing a call to the vendor but thought that this wasn't their fault since they didn't make it. I then thought about contacting the manufacturer but after waiting for the extra cash to buy it and then the shipping after making my order, all I wanted to do was vape it. Fortunately I like working with tools and my hands so I decided to get out my small file set and go to it. After an hour of filing I was able to remove the burs and aside from the nicks and a small scratch that it came with, it now looks pretty good. I took it apart and placed it into my wife's ultrasonic jewelry cleaner with some hot water and mild detergent. The O-rings were hard and sticky from machine oil but after cleaning them off real good they are again soft and viscous. I used 24 gage kanthal to make two 6 wrap micro coils on a 2 mm coil jig. Once tightened down in the posts they ohm'd out at 0.25 ohms. I wicked the coils with Koh Gen Do Japanese organic cotton and juice them up with some 2mg nic, 20PG 80VG Strawberry Lemonade that I mixed a few days ago. The RDA sat on top of an EHPRO copper Overdose clone with a fully charged VTC5 at 4.2 volts. My first puff was nice, just a mild one to get the feel for the air flow and how it draws. The cloud was nice and the flavor was surprising. I took a second puff with more intent on making this thing put out and boy did it! I was shocked at how dense and chewy the cloud was and the flavor was more intense that I had expected for the build.
I am honestly please with how this device preforms. If it wasn't for the poor presentation and first impression due to the machining and oil I would be praising Syntheticloud as a top notch manufacturer. But since I had to work on the cleanup of the Aeolus myself, it is taking time but I am now slowly loving it more and more instead of being wowed from the start. I am hoping that this is a one off and not how all of the Aeolus RDA's ship. If one was able to view the device in a shop to make sure they were buying a nice clean well machined piece of hardware, then I would recommend doing so. If you have had your eye on this RDA and plan on ordering online I am here to let you know how that turned out for me. If I didn't own small files and had the confidence to fix this myself I would have tried to return it for a refund or another one if I was assured that it was going to be clean and bur free like the one that RipTrippers reviewed in his youtube video.
This is by no means a review and nor am I a credible hardware reviewer, but if I was asked to rate this product then I would do so in three categories on a scale of 1-10.
Machining/Finish Product 5
Performance 7.5
Flavor Production 9
For what it's worth, that's my
Please excuse the photo quality. I just started using the forum and have yet to figure out how to upload good images.
I am honestly please with how this device preforms. If it wasn't for the poor presentation and first impression due to the machining and oil I would be praising Syntheticloud as a top notch manufacturer. But since I had to work on the cleanup of the Aeolus myself, it is taking time but I am now slowly loving it more and more instead of being wowed from the start. I am hoping that this is a one off and not how all of the Aeolus RDA's ship. If one was able to view the device in a shop to make sure they were buying a nice clean well machined piece of hardware, then I would recommend doing so. If you have had your eye on this RDA and plan on ordering online I am here to let you know how that turned out for me. If I didn't own small files and had the confidence to fix this myself I would have tried to return it for a refund or another one if I was assured that it was going to be clean and bur free like the one that RipTrippers reviewed in his youtube video.
This is by no means a review and nor am I a credible hardware reviewer, but if I was asked to rate this product then I would do so in three categories on a scale of 1-10.
Machining/Finish Product 5
Performance 7.5
Flavor Production 9
For what it's worth, that's my
Please excuse the photo quality. I just started using the forum and have yet to figure out how to upload good images.
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