RDA Troll, how do i love thee

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jhhollier

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I've tried, it won't budge. I've used the handle of screwdrivers to push from underneath, I've left the screwdriver in from underneath and tapped with a mallet, I've tried a number of things and it has not budged a mm. That's the one thing I hate about the Troll. The o-rings are ridiculous. Oh well, guess I'll get it one day.
 

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Saw Todd's review on the Troll by WoToFo, yeah .... He was blown away by it's volume of vape/flavor, so I thought I'd give it a try. $28, not bad. Clouds?, blows my head off, flavor?, best so far. Using a green apple/strawberry equal portions, 50/50 pg/vg.

Now for the unbelievable part, this is a single coil build, 28g nickel, 7 turns on a +3mm screwdriver, 0.12 ohms, throttled way down (see pic 2, comfortable lung drawl), cotton wicked, 390 deg F and 23 watts on a dna 40 from protovapor. I LUV IT. Had been using a magma 22mm, single and dual coil builds for a couple weeks. WAS my favorite, BEFORE the troll came into my hands.

Just wanted to pass the word on this little beast (got dual positive post and 2 separate neg ones)

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See my troll is like yours with the horizontal airflow slots, but I've also seen many with diagonal slots, yet I haven't heard of a troll v2..,what's up with that??
 

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i love my troll rda. here goes my newest build. zipper coil @ 0.2 ohms / 28g twisted kanthal.
 

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sahsah

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Saw Todd's review on the Troll by WoToFo, yeah .... He was blown away by it's volume of vape/flavor, so I thought I'd give it a try. $28, not bad. Clouds?, blows my head off, flavor?, best so far. Using a green apple/strawberry equal portions, 50/50 pg/vg.

Now for the unbelievable part, this is a single coil build, 28g nickel, 7 turns on a +3mm screwdriver, 0.12 ohms, throttled way down (see pic 2, comfortable lung drawl), cotton wicked, 390 deg F and 23 watts on a DNA 40 from protovapor. I LUV IT. Had been using a magma 22mm, single and dual coil builds for a couple weeks. WAS my favorite, BEFORE the troll came into my hands.

Just wanted to pass the word on this little beast (got dual positive post and 2 separate neg ones)

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Holy shiitake mushrooms, you weren't kidding when you said you had the airflow way "throttled down" lol, how in the world can you lung inhale on that little sliver of airflow? Ya, I've had my troll for a while now and it's been my daily driver ever since. I've bought many rta's and other rda's since, in an attempt to dethrone her, but as of yet I've been unsuccessful in finding anything to rival her performance. I've got a few new goodies en route that I'm hoping will do the trick lol
Also, I've just found out the Aeolus will be coming out with a greatly improved (not that it needed it) v2 which I'm just dying to get my greedy lil mitts on lol that and the velocity and I promise I won't get anything else...at least for a little while...
*help me, I've got a problem*
 

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i love my troll rda. here goes my newest build. zipper coil @ 0.2 ohms / 28g twisted kanthal.
Wow, is that really your coil and not some twisted messes/squid dude coil you copy pasted?
I'm jk, but seriously that's impressive, to say the least, how did you get so good at coiling? I don't have a drill, so anything past a dual parallel build exceeds my capabilities, despite having vaped for going on four years. I always wonder if these crazy fused Clapton, zipper, fusion core reactor, hell's gate, satan's pitchfork, quantum leap coils are really producing better flavor than your standard dual center post builds or if they are more for aesthetic purposes, like to show people how good of a coil artist/aficionado you are. Could you enlighten me please? Are they really performing better or more for the Instagram kudos they'll inevitably garner?
 

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Just got the troll yesterday. My first RDA. Now to learn coil building. I think guy at the shop had an app to calculate the wire size and wraps to ohms. Is there such a thing?
Yep, steam-engine.org (Coil wrapping | Steam Engine | free vaping calculators they also have an app on the Play store, not sure about iOS, don't use it.

Hope you enjoy the new RDA, it worked pretty well in my experience. What mod are you going to use with it?
 
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IStick50 I've had it for a couple months. Started with a Nautilus , stepped up to the subtank plus now the Troll. I think I'm addicted to the vape. Can't drive past a shop without stopping. Its consuming me. May need a 12 step soon......
Haha, yeah, I can relate. My wife just told me yesterday I should give her a $20 bill everytime I order something new.

I'd probably go with a dual 26g macro (3mm ID) build for the iSTick50w for an easy no nonsense type build, probably like 8 wraps. Just a suggestion if you didn't have something in mind.
 
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