My impressions from the new simba ud
Assembling:
Simba has many parts, I found it a bit more complicated than necessary. The AFC ring is detachable, must be pressed to lock and rotates in a rather mysterious way. Sometimes I cannot rotate it without a kerchief, sometimes I open accidentally both the liquid flow and the airflow. Some other times I detach accidentally the afc ring. While Griffin, Vixen and other tanks have the afc ring as part of the base, with embossed surface to help rotation, Simba has it as a separate part without any grips to help rotation. Yes, one can certainly not detach the atty from the mod, to adjust the airflow, but without a kerchief it seems way difficult. Anyway, UD separated the afc to put inside two compensation rings.
But when the liquid escapes the tank and reaches the airflow, there is a leakage anyway. Compensation or no compensation ring.
However, the control of the airflow works smoothly.
The chimney locks to the base with threads. The top cap also uses threads to lock to the chimney and secure the pyrex tank. The top cap is divided to two parts. The upper one is responsible for the top filling.
The chimney rotates also mysteriously to open the liquid flow. It needs practice.
The mouthpiece isn’t as wide as expected for a lung inhale tank. Half of it is open at the bottom part. Rotating it the airflow can be minimized further. Not a bad thing if you don’t intend to put one cubic meter of vape and air inside your lungs.
COIL HEADS
Simba’s great advantage is the variety of well performing coil heads and the non cotton ceramic SS316L coil 0.5Ohm
This head (for endurance and taste according to UD) is closed at the top and is fed with liquid by small side holes. It works perfect, especially at TC.
The dual coil kanthal (Ceramic Cotton Coil) is open at the top and worths a try to rebuild it. It’s metal jacket can easily be removed, sometimes involuntarily (remains inside the chimney, but can be easily removed)
And of course the RBA dual coil head with only 2 screws for the wires. Also includes an adaptor for single coil. Well, with this head I had an issue, being unable to wire with a dual Clapton coil. The screws are at the top. With two thick Clapton coils in each hole, the screws wouldn’t screw till the end. As a result, the chimney couldn’t lock at its place. I pushed and succeeded but the screws touched the chimney and voila short circuit. 0.07ohm. The tank is tall. The chimney could be a bit taller! Anyway, with a single Clapton I got a right read at almost 0.5ohm. But to test the dual coil I made a rather sloppy 0.4 kanthal 0.35ohm coil. The result was better than the looks of the coil. Taste, clouds, throat hit, many watts.
Generally speaking, Simba performs very good with any coil I tested, single or double, RBA or ready to use.
I expect leakage from a lung inhale tank. Simba’s was a bit more than I expected. From the airflow and the bottom of the tank. I changed orings, locked its parts more tightly, but the leakage remained. Not a lot, not something to ignore. Add the difficulty to close and reopen air and liquid any time you fill… not an ideal situation. And this happened with all the coils of the package. This is only a personal observation, hope it works better to other vapers.
Well.. well.. simba’s coil heads are very good, wiring without Clapton easy, the deck is big. AFC and LFC allow taste, clouds and many watts for the lung inhalers. The mouthpiece can be replaced is one needs for vape. Not for MTL inhale, even with the airholes closed.
My simba is a sample from heavengifts.com
Assembling:
Simba has many parts, I found it a bit more complicated than necessary. The AFC ring is detachable, must be pressed to lock and rotates in a rather mysterious way. Sometimes I cannot rotate it without a kerchief, sometimes I open accidentally both the liquid flow and the airflow. Some other times I detach accidentally the afc ring. While Griffin, Vixen and other tanks have the afc ring as part of the base, with embossed surface to help rotation, Simba has it as a separate part without any grips to help rotation. Yes, one can certainly not detach the atty from the mod, to adjust the airflow, but without a kerchief it seems way difficult. Anyway, UD separated the afc to put inside two compensation rings.
But when the liquid escapes the tank and reaches the airflow, there is a leakage anyway. Compensation or no compensation ring.
However, the control of the airflow works smoothly.
The chimney locks to the base with threads. The top cap also uses threads to lock to the chimney and secure the pyrex tank. The top cap is divided to two parts. The upper one is responsible for the top filling.
The chimney rotates also mysteriously to open the liquid flow. It needs practice.
The mouthpiece isn’t as wide as expected for a lung inhale tank. Half of it is open at the bottom part. Rotating it the airflow can be minimized further. Not a bad thing if you don’t intend to put one cubic meter of vape and air inside your lungs.
COIL HEADS
Simba’s great advantage is the variety of well performing coil heads and the non cotton ceramic SS316L coil 0.5Ohm
This head (for endurance and taste according to UD) is closed at the top and is fed with liquid by small side holes. It works perfect, especially at TC.
The dual coil kanthal (Ceramic Cotton Coil) is open at the top and worths a try to rebuild it. It’s metal jacket can easily be removed, sometimes involuntarily (remains inside the chimney, but can be easily removed)
And of course the RBA dual coil head with only 2 screws for the wires. Also includes an adaptor for single coil. Well, with this head I had an issue, being unable to wire with a dual Clapton coil. The screws are at the top. With two thick Clapton coils in each hole, the screws wouldn’t screw till the end. As a result, the chimney couldn’t lock at its place. I pushed and succeeded but the screws touched the chimney and voila short circuit. 0.07ohm. The tank is tall. The chimney could be a bit taller! Anyway, with a single Clapton I got a right read at almost 0.5ohm. But to test the dual coil I made a rather sloppy 0.4 kanthal 0.35ohm coil. The result was better than the looks of the coil. Taste, clouds, throat hit, many watts.
Generally speaking, Simba performs very good with any coil I tested, single or double, RBA or ready to use.
I expect leakage from a lung inhale tank. Simba’s was a bit more than I expected. From the airflow and the bottom of the tank. I changed orings, locked its parts more tightly, but the leakage remained. Not a lot, not something to ignore. Add the difficulty to close and reopen air and liquid any time you fill… not an ideal situation. And this happened with all the coils of the package. This is only a personal observation, hope it works better to other vapers.
Well.. well.. simba’s coil heads are very good, wiring without Clapton easy, the deck is big. AFC and LFC allow taste, clouds and many watts for the lung inhalers. The mouthpiece can be replaced is one needs for vape. Not for MTL inhale, even with the airholes closed.
My simba is a sample from heavengifts.com
