Youde Goliath RTA Clone - FT - £11.29

[Get Off My Cloud]

www.fasttech.com/products/3099/10013575/2353400-goliath-styled-rta-rebuildable-tank-atomizer

[decoy]

is it just me or is that a step backwards
i find 4 post holes soooo much easier to work with

[giles]

Mine arrived today. The atty at the top is an orchid - similar sort of device, and I guess a leading alternative to the goblin/goliath type atty.



It came in a rather odd sort of box. I guess Fasttech has some spare. I suppose it might be useful for something. No drip tip, no instructions whatever.(No juice either of course - I forgot to take a pic before I filled it.)




The goliath clone seems pretty well built. The tank is plastic of course.

I don't know if it's a one-for-one clone. I don't have an original. They aren't expensive, and if anyone had them in stock I'd have bought one instead of the clone.

The coils came in at 0.7 ohm each, so 0.35 together, too low for my 30 watt istick (no, I'm not a serious cloud chaser). I couldn't see a res/no res join so I tried increasing the number of turns on the coils, but it didn't make any difference so I guess there's no res in there. So I wrapped 8 turns of my 0.3 kanthal round the screwdriver it came with, which gave me 1.4 ohm each, 0.7 together, which is more my speed. It took me a couple of tries to get them in without shorting on the chimney - it is easy enough to stop them sticking out too much, but they can't be too high either.

The wick that it came with looks like silica - I didn't use it, I like cotton.

I built it as suggested here

In my view a lot better than the orchid - similar vape, doesn't leak, much easier to fill. I think it probably holds about the same amount of juice - nearly 4ml - but you can't see the last half ml going in and I didn't try filling it to the brim.

Downsides compared to the orchid - fitting the coils in without shorting on the chimney, and after filling you could cross-thread it very easily if you were careless. It is quite stiff to turn to adjust air flow or juice control, but I guess it might ease up over time.

I should maybe say I mostly use an erlkonigin clone (it's a kayfun-type atty with easier filling, holds more juice), but occasionally I like to vape clouds of vapour with a heavy VG chocolate gingerbread juice I make, and for that you need something with 4 juice channels and masses of air flow.