Maelstrom 1.5ohm LR 510 Atty Review.

[adam.phillips]

Ok just so you know this is my first review ever so don't flame me. Constructive criticism will be very appreciated to help me improve. Please don't comment till I finish. Thank you.

Intro: First off My name is Adam and I am a REO junkie. I quit analog cigarettes and Copenhagen snuff 4 months ago thanks to vaping. I started with an Ego-T and that lasted a week till I bought a Reo Grand in the classifieds on another forum. Then came the Provari, and finally 2 more Reo Grands. I've only used Cisco LR attys and IKV LR 510s and 306s. I vape IKV RY4 and AVE Bobas.

I purchased these on a whim to try one day because someone at work asked about them and I decided to give em a try. So I ordered 3 from Jerseyvapes. Shipping was fast and they had a discount so all in all good transaction.

So I got one out loaded it with IKV RY4 and a carto condom and let it soak for about 10 min. 2 more drops, and fired it up on my REO w/18650 AW IMR batt fresh of the charger at 4.2v. Result, burning taste. IKV RY4 is smooth and slightly sweet with a nice TH. This was acrid and horrible.
Thought to myself this isn't right, squeeze the bottle go again. It's like the atty is dry. It was still sizzling after the vacuum from the puff is gone. Try on the Provari. Same deal, burning, acrid taste. So I prep atty #2 and let it sit for 24 hrs in the RY4. Again on the REO and again burning, acrid taste. So onto my first atty dissassembly. Sorry for the crappy cell phone pics.

This is the package they came in.

This is one of the 3 attys.

This is with the cap removed.

This is with the case/tube removed.

This is with the wick removed from the bridge.

 

[adam.phillips]

This is with the bridge removed.

This is where I discovered it has 2 different wicks. One attached to the bridge and one shorter one running through the coil.

This is a picture of the adhesive? holding the connector to the atty/coil piece.

This is looking up into the coil from the bottom.

This is looking into the connector.

 

[adam.phillips]

Finally the reassembled atty on my MAC silver REO.

Final assessment: If you dewick and debridge, the atty vapes reasonably well id say an 7 out of 10.
Flavor is on par with most common 510s. Id give it a 6 out of 10. (being that I love 306s and base all my flavor rating off of that)
TH is good for a 510, id give it a 8 out of 10.
So there you have it. So tell me what you think.

 

[Rockproof]

I'd be interested in more opinions but sounds like a real PIA for what you could get out of a standard LR 510 or 306 out of the box with no disassembly.

 

[mwa102464]

Adam,

I also got a few of these and my thoughts are right on par with what you said about the horrible taste, the 1.4 ohm rating in my opinion is to low, all of mine where the same 1.4ohm. I also got that same rusty hash back of the throat hit from these Atty's and they just have that horrid taste. I spoke to Bill from Jerseyvapes about this and he is working on that part of it I think ( I hope ) they seem to have a quality internal but that taste is just something I cant take with my Atty's. I get this same taste with another Atty seller too, I however don't get that taste with the Iken's and find they are the smoothest of all Atty's. I don't think anyone should have to pull apart there Atty and fuss with it and reassemble it to make it work properly though, it should work right out of the PKG. Good review and like I said right on par with my findings, hopefully they improve

 

[Mudflap]

I'm impressed with how well you cleanly disassembled that sucker!

 

[Stownz]

Good review, same experience I had with them. Albeit shipping was over a week for me, and 3 weeks later I still havn't recieved the drip tip I ordered. Ciscos and Ikens will continue to be the norm for me, won't buy anything from jerseyvapes again.