Confused as to why anyone would use an RDA >

[Flt Simulation]

Disclaimer: I will start off saying that I am no expert when it comes to vaping. Only been at it for about 6 months. And I am not trying to start an argument here.

Here is what I don't understand ... Other than sitting at home with a bottle of juice in one hand and your mod with it's RDA attached in the other hand, what other times would you want to be using an RDA?

With an RBA, you fill the tank ... and that's it until the time comes when it finally needs a re-fill.

With an RDA, you are constantly dripping juice into the drip tip. Can't really do that when your driving, and it would be a pain in the .... to have to bring a bottle of juice along with the eye dropper when going out of the house anywhere. Again, one hand holding the mod and the other hand holding the bottle of juice. Seems like a lot of extra 'busy work' to me ... If you were out drinking beer someplace, I guess you would need 3 hands! ... 1 for the mod, 2 for the bottle of juice and 3 for the beer glass!

However, I can think of one time in particular that an RDA would be really nice to have, and that is when you are making DIY juice and want to test vape it as your making adjustments to the amount of flavorings your adding ... This is really impossible to do when your using an RBA.
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So, there you have my take on these RDAs ... To me, it just seems like a lot of extra work using them when your not setting at a desk at home and have all the time in the world to be dripping juice from an eye dropper while vaping.
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Maybe I just don't get the big picture

 

[super_X_drifter]

I hear ya, dripping would be a pain. But I think tanks are too. That's why I run bottom feeders like a REO grand. Fresh squozen juice on demand

 

[jstjoehere]

Usually with an rda you can get several hits off of it before you have to re soak the wicks. Also they give off amazing taste and vapor. Its like most other devices people use to vape with. Its all about personal preference. Yes you have to keep a bottle of juice with ya but remember when you used analogs you had to get the pack out take the cig out of the pack find your lighter and light up. Not much difference in that and dripping. Personally I dont care for them either but again its all about personal preference. I use a simple aerotank and have a fogger v4 for those stressful days. To each their own lol.

 

[Shootist]

I agree with most of what you posted. For me other than maybe trying out new juices I don't see the point. I don't own any RDA's and every time I think I'll buy one either the price stops me or I just say "Why am I going to buy this" and can't come up with a good reason "FOR ME" to spend the money.

I don't want to be tied to a bottle. I don't want to chase clouds. The flavor and vapor I get from any of the devices I use is just fine for me.

But I must say eventually I plan to quit vaping. I started vaping to get off cigarettes. So far I have done that, nearly 3 months free of analogs. So once I get my nicotine intake level down to zero I will start to ween myself off vaping.

 

[Shootist]

I hear ya, dripping would be a pain. But I think tanks are too. That's why I run bottom feeders like a REO grand. Fresh squozen juice on demand

That doesn't make a lot of sense.

A REO is a TANK system. Just like any other. Sure the tank is not attached to the coil section of the atomizer but you still have to take it out and fill it.

 

[Flt Simulation]

But I must say eventually I plan to quit vaping. I started vaping to get off cigarettes. So far I have done that, nearly 3 months free of analogs. So once I get my nicotine intake level down to zero I will start to ween myself off vaping.

I hear ya ... I haven't had a cigarette in a little over 5 months now ... Used to smoke 2 packs of 'full flavored' Reds every day.

And now I don't cough my lungs out every morning either.

 

[super_X_drifter]

That doesn't make a lot of sense.

A REO is a TANK system. Just like any other. Sure the tank is not attached to the coil section of the atomizer but you still have to take it out and fill it.

For sake of discussion, it's a "tank" that is very easy to access, unscrew and fill with 6 ml of juice that's concealed INSIDE the mod that you press to dispense fresh juice to the coil when it needs it. It's all the freshness of dripping without the hassle / mess.

Definitely unlike a tank system and the vape cannot be compared on any level.

 

[brianc11111]

rba's are getting better all the time with dual coil tanks coming out monthly.
but for the most part, you cant get the clouds or the flavor that you can with a dripper.
the only "tank" system that you truly can is an reo... its really a non dripping dripper.
i push it with the tanks for low ohms and all....but when i really want to get down with it, i hit the drippers

oh....end of the line purchase coming soon.....reo grand

 

[st0nedpenguin]

Because the performance from a good dripper blows away any tank on the planet.

 

[WattWick]

I get all the performance I want, and a comparable or better flavor from my gennies. I'm not into major league cloud chasing, tho. If I was, things would look differently from my perspective. I prefer my gennies set up at 0.7-0.9 ohms, so "performance" is sort of a moot point for me. Or... something I define differently than others. Press a button, have a great vape. That's "performance" for me. Something that perform what I want, when I want with the least amount of extra effort.

I did mess around with some of these "new style" drippers a while back. Origen, Magma and the 3D. It just made me re-realize that I don't care much for cotton or silica wicks, so I stuck mesh in them. While they did give an excellent vape, they were more like higher maintenance gennies than "something entirely better". I still keep them around for sampling new flavors and checking for sufficient steeping. While being good at what they do, I just can't be bothered dripping every time I want a vape.

For me, drippers are just accessories. Not at all something I need in my arsenal of vape stuff.

 

[snow blind]

Because the performance from a good dripper blows away any tank on the planet.

Pretty much this. I find myself constantly going back to my RDA's. My KFL now just mostly sits and my Tobh get's much more attention (at home).

 

[rc3po]

I have a RDA that I only use when testing a new flavor or mix that I've whipped up. The rest of the time it sit's quietly in it's box.

 

[Randall.K]

RDA's have ruined tanks for me tbh lol. All the tanks I've tried so far don't come close to the flavour of any of my RDA's, especially the Magma.

The search for a RBA with close or better flavour to a RDA is still in progress haha

 

[Bunnykiller]

hmmm I suppose people do drippers, some do gennys, and others do tanks, and the vehicles they drive may consists of a car or a van or a pickup truck...

 

[Rossum]

Here is what I don't understand ... Other than sitting at home with a bottle of juice in one hand and your mod with it's RDA attached in the other hand, what other times would you want to be using an RDA?

All the time, once you start feeding it from a squonk bottle underneath.

A REO is a TANK system. Just like any other. Sure the tank is not attached to the coil section of the atomizer but you still have to take it out and fill it.

There's a big difference. A REO (and other bottom feeding mods) have the 'tank' in the mod, while traditional tanks have the 'tank' as part of the atomizer. A bottom feeding mod puts you in total control of the juice supply to your wick(s). This gives you all the benefits of an RDA, without the hassle of actually dripping (unless of course you want to).

 

[Verb]

oh....end of the line purchase coming soon.....reo grand

When? A reo is definitely on my future must buy list.

 

[the_vape_nerd]

I hear ya, dripping would be a pain. But I think tanks are too. That's why I run bottom feeders like a REO grand. Fresh squozen juice on demand

I don't understand the rda thing either. i feel it is mostly for the look of the shiny mod and nothing to do with actual vape quality. I bought my first REO last year and with super x's fantastic videos, I've never looked back. I have about 8 other mods, rbas, rdas, etc. I use none of them. Two REOs for flavor change purposes.

Get one, all of you, you owe it to yourself.

 

[Tbev]

The fact of the matter is that rebuildable tank attys haven't caught up to quality of vapor in flavor density etc. That a sub ohm dripper can offer, but they are getting close, if I had to drip I'd still smoke.
That being said I have just about every genny and rebuildable tank available and I cab say with confidence that I can get a better vape in every aspect out of my fogger v4's than you can out of any dripper that is above 1 ohm.

I'd venture to go beyond that but I'm not familiar with drippers over 0.5 0hm tbh.

There is a solution however that the vaping elite have discovered :
Bottom feeders!

The key to button feeder being that it can handle sub ohm builds.
I built my own bottom feeder, I can run it as hard as I can push a vtc and. I am going on record saying it's the best device to vape with period.

Bottom feeders are the answer, pdib makes the best available for sale right now, and reo is getting better, the best you could buy today, and they are readily available.
Dripping was never an opinion for me, I hear ya, but RBA's are getting closer and feeders are the way to go now.

Vape on, if you haven't tried a fogger v4 check it out, if you haven't tried a feeder yule missing out, just my opinion, hope it helps.

Vapor!

 

[B2L]

I know everyone enjoys something different, to each his own and all that but in my opinion nothing beats a well built RDA bottom feeder. Everything that super_X, Rossum and vape_nerd said is so true. Once you have a REO you understand what vaping can, and should, be.

 

[sawtoothscream]

I have tried a few RBA device, kayfun, russian, kraken, Rsst and im back to my trident rda and not going back. I dont have issues carrying a small bottle and dripping every so often. I get drip at home and make it to work before i have to redrip and if i really have to go a distance I usually and with someone who can drip for me or ill throw on a protank I set up for my mech.