Anyvape rba (anyvape gamma) review

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bob1

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Feb 19, 2014
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Can't post this in reviews so I'll post it here and hopefully someone will move it to the right place :)

Hi. I'm a complete beginner on rebuildables but I couldn't find a review of this anywhere so I'll do my best to tell what is like.

I bought it for £24.99 from UKecigstore. Looks like it's $24.99 in the U.S. as well. In the box you get the tank, some spare o rings and a flathead screwdriver. No wire, mesh or wick. It doesn't come prebuilt. It seems to be made of stainless steel and you get a nice little drip tip as well.

It's a dual coil, adjustable airflow genesis style tank with 6 airholes and 3 posts. There's 2 wick holes and a filler hole with a plastic plug. That seemed a good idea as a screw would be a lot of hassle to fill the tank in my opinion. The tank isn't glass, it's plastic of some kind (it does say theres a stainless steel tank available on the site I purchased it from).

I got this and a smok scar at the same time last week and they are my first attempts at rebuilding. I won't win any awards but I got usable coils fairly easily on both. This was actually easier to build than the scar. The holes in the posts are small but I got 2 wires through the centre post easy enough. The posts have small grub screws in them which can be fiddly to tighten but they don't break the quote when they're tightened down reasonably hard. I started with mesh and it was ok but the juice I was using didn't like the power I was vaping at with this or the scar (80vg 20pg mix, has been fine at 10 watts in an iclear 30s although the coil doesn't last ages at that level but burns in both this and the scar) so then I tried a cotton build with another juice (80pg 20vg) and it was far easier than I expected. I built a working dual coil on my third attempt and it's been great. Flavour has been amazing (better than the scar but I am a beginner and have no other rebuildables to compare it with) I use 12mg juice and don't like a lot of throat hit. This gave more than I've been used to from aspire coils but less than the scar. Suits me fine as I don't like too much throat hit. I only used it a little with the mesh and vg juice but it seemed to wick fine. No issues at all. With cotton I've had no wicking issues either, I've kept the plug in for the fill hole and it doesn't affect it at all. I've had no leaks at all so far but I haven't had it in a pocket or left it lying on its side.

Drawbacks: plastic tank, can't close off airholes on one side for single coil, nothing else that I can see tbh.

Conclusion: An adjustable airflow genesis tank that doesn't appear to be a clone for 25 quid? Can't complain at that. I'm loving it and have hardly used the scar at all. I'd certainly recommend it and it's easy (compared to my expectation) for beginners too.

If anyone has questions I'll answer them as best I can. Please tell me if I've missed anything you want to know. Thanks :)

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bob1

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Update: maybe it is a clone. The airflow control ring is totally different but the rest seems identical. The control ring changes the whole look which is why I thought it wasn't.

Having watched reviews of the original I see most people tipping it with their builds. I've just ran the cotton down into the tank at both sides and it's been wicking fine until the juice gets really low. Even using the high vg juice there were no problems. The other thing I forgot to mention is that the top cap is quite loose. Maybe could do with another o ring or something.
 
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