DPRO RDA Review! A Dual Coil Flavor Cannon - Darksun Vapes
Good day fellow vapers, today I’m going to be reviewing the DPRO RDA by CoilART. Disclaimer: I was provided this product for the purpose of this review by CoilART.
INTRO
The DPRO RDA is one of CoilART’s newest RDAs to hit the shelf in 2017. My last CoilART RDA was the Azeroth RDA, and while I thoroughly enjoy building on its triple pseudo-postless deck, the DPRO hits home with a truly postless design and can cater very well to dual and single coil builds.
The DPRO is a 24mm rebuild drip atomizer with a postless design that is also squonk (bottom fill) friendly.
SPECIFICATIONS
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Size: 31mm x 24mm (including drip tip)
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Material: stainless steel, ultem
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Colors: Stainless Steel, Black, Ultem
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DPRO RDA
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Spare parts – o-rings, grub screws
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L-shaped hex tool
OVERVIEW
The first thing that immediately stands out is the 24k gold-pated build deck. Additionally it has a nice protruding, and gold plated, 510 pin with both squonk and regular options for hybrid mechanical mods. The juice well is a tad bit on the small side so it may be an over-dripper’s or an over-squonker’s nightmare. Thankfully, the side airflow is designed at a downward angle to help prevent leaking from too much juice in the well. Additionally, the downward angle will help get improved bottom airflow for better flavor. Finally, the conical top is a nice step to improve overall flavor with an 810 drip tip on top (also compatible with other 810 drip tips).
Coil Install
The only challenge to building on the DPRO is the initial measuring and cutting of the coil’s legs so that it fits well in the deck. CoilART includes a couple precut Ni80 fused claptons to make the first build easy. When I measured the leg length (from the bottom of the coil) it came out around 7mm. The reason you want it this length is so that the coils line up slightly above the side airflow. This will allow the coils to get air more underneath than on the sides for better flavor production. Once the coils are tight in the deck, make sure to check that they are not touching before wicking. When using dual coils the maximum inner diameter is 3.5mm with some of the smaller exotic and 24g builds, but I would recommend sticking with 3mm ID overall.
The deck is also great for single coil builds. Between the two airflow openings there is about 12mm to work with and the only limitation is the amount of airflow if you build too big. I had no issues getting great flavor off of a 4mm ID triple fused clapton and I could see it shining with many beefy exotic builds. The only trick to using a single coil in the DPRO that I noticed was to make sure the coil was a little bit more elevated than you would do with dual coils. Due to the increased distance between the coil and airflow, the airflow will be more likely to just hit the side/top of the single coil. By raising it 1-2mm will allow it to get better bottom/side airflow and increase flavor.
Wicking
Wicking is fairly straightforward. Make sure the wick is snug in the coil (not too tight, not too loose) and just make sure to not stuff it under the coil too much (if any). If the wicks get too far under the coils, juice will not be evenly distributed from dripping/squonking and result in dry hits. I strongly encourage, especially with RDAs, the Scottish roll technique for the wicks. This style will not only give the user more hits per drip/squonk session but will also help alleviate over-dripping/squonking issues.
CONCLUSION
Simply put this is another amazing flavor RDA from CoilART. From my tests, I felt that the dual coil performed better due to the correctly angled airflow. Not knocking the single coil builds, as they still performed well, but there was too much open space in the chamber (even with a 4mm ID exotic build) to best the dual coil 3mm ID exotic build. Other additional factors that really crank up the flavor are the downward angled airflow, the conical dome top, and the postless deck.
The fact that it also comes with a squonk pin is a huge plus in my book. This allows me to easily take the DPRO when I go out for the night and not have to worry about juice and constantly stopping to drip. As a slight bonus, the squonk pin uses a hex tool to be inserted with so it does not have any openings along the sides for juice to escape from.
CoilART was generous enough to include a separate black top cap and one thing that I noticed was that there was a noticeable different in weight between the stainless steel and black. It appears that the inside of the black cap is stainless steel but the outside is a different material (most likely heat resistant plastic). It does helps with the heat but, even with the stainless steel top on, the DPRO doesn’t get overly hot in general.
PROS
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Fantastic flavor cannon with dual coils
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Spare parts plus squonk pin
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810 drip tip compatible
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Quality construction
CONS
- Subjective - The airflow is perfect for me, as I like to vape between 60-80w most days, but some may complain that there is not enough for those who like to vape with 100+ watt builds
WOULD I RECOMMEND?
CoilART did a great job designing the DPRO and it shows. Amazing flavor plus being a squonk friendly RDA earns it two thumbs way up from me. As it stands now CoilART has a solid triple coil and dual coil RDAs, will we see a single coil RDA in the future? I, for one, hope so.
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Posted Jul 27, 2017, 3:33 PM UTC · edited