Aspire skystar revvo mod!?

[DreamRJ]

I did not find a thread about this mod so I thought I would create one.

So after now having my revvo mod for around 5 days, I can say that I have now lowered my rating even further.

I now rate this mod at 6/10. Details below........

1: > The flavour is not great, due to the mouth piece being far to wide and open.
2: > 2ml tank size TPD2 laws stinks, still waiting for my order from fasttech for the 3.6ml tank.
3: > Arc coil has a major flaw, because the coil is round and flat it has some cotton but mesh on top where the elements are. What this means is it leaks when you hold the mod upside down for 30seconds, I found this out by accident as I was watching a movie and I was holding it in my hands and without even realising it I was holding it upside down while watching the movie. Hence then my hands got covered in juice and I had to clean the whole tank.

So yeah this arc coil is a nice new type of coil but it is badly designed in the fact there is nothing that stops the juice from leaking through the top of it, if you overfill it or if you as I did tipped it upside down for around 30 seconds, what it needs is some type of extra protection above the top of it. That would not completely seal it but will stop the juice from leaking out from the top. It would need to have some sort of material that still can allow air in and out from the top but still stops juice. That would fix the design flaw in the coil. So all that talk about this mod basically being built to not leak is nonesense as it does leak if you overfill the tank or tip it upside down.

4: > Touchscreen is great, but could be bad if the touchscreen broke if dropped. Would basically make the mod unusable.

So I do have to say I do no longer recommend this mod for the coil leaking issue alone.

 

[My Batt Hurts]

Sounds like the tank accounts for most of your disappointment.
Will you just ditch it and cancel your FT order?

I'd have thought the fill port (within the mouthpiece ?) should have stopped any leakage, but I guess not. :-(
Is it leaking from the AFC?

I shouldn't really ask - I haven't used one (…and probably never will).

 

[Anise]

Strange, mine doesn't leak. I've never held it upside down for any real length of time tho. I'd think any tank with top airflow would leak if I held it upside down for a while. Sorry you don't like yours. My only complaint with mine is that it's not a squonk.

 

[DreamRJ]

Sounds like the tank accounts for most of your disappointment.
Will you just ditch it and cancel your FT order?

I'd have thought the fill port (within the mouthpiece ?) should have stopped any leakage, but I guess not. :-(
Is it leaking from the AFC?

I shouldn't really ask - I haven't used one (…and probably never will).

Sorry for late reply, just had to go shopping.

It leaks from the coil itself. As the coil is at the top above the actual liquid chamber when you tip it upside down for around 30seconds it will basically empty the chamber of liquid fully and into the mouthpiece and onto your hands and all over the sides etc etc. Very messy.

And no I will not be ditching it because even though it has this design flaw in the coil I will still use it, I will just have to not put it upside down.

6/10 rating I give it doesn't justify me to ditch it fully, if the rating was 3/10 or lower then yes 100% I would ditch it and get a different mod. I mean this is a new coil system. So I suspect it will get better overtime, and the coils might actually be altered by Aspire to address this leaking flaw when you tip it upside down. Not sure if there is a way I can actually contact Aspire to let them know about this design flaw and if they will be going to try and fix or change the coils or add some extra material to the top of the coil to stop the leaking when upside down.

 

[DreamRJ]

Strange, mine doesn't leak. I've never held it upside down for any real length of time tho. I'd think any tank with top airflow would leak if I held it upside down for a while. Sorry you don't like yours. My only complaint with mine is that it's not a squonk.

Try it and you will see I am correct or try and overfill the tank and then tip it and you will also see the juice leak out of the top of the coil as you tip it

 

[sdennislee]

I vape 70% VG juice in the Revvo, no leaks yet. I do get condensation in the top section. I find it has good flavor in a range from 50 to 70 watts depending on juice being vaped. My only issue with the Revvo is the 3.6ml capacity, just way too small for a sub ohm tank. I now mainly use my Revvo tanks for trying out new juices as I can rely on the Revvo for consistent accurate flavor.

 

[Vapedog]

I got a Revvo upon release and highly rate it. Your simply not supposed to hold it upside down for that length of time. That is not a fault of the coil or design flaw, that's user error.
Hardly the tank or coils fault for you forgetting! Thats like saying the engine in your cars no good because it blew up when you kept your foot flat on the accelerator sitting at the traffic lights forgetting to lift your foot off of it.
Yes you can get condensation in the top. I take mine off after a days use, give it a simple wipe and all's ok.
Your point number 1 about the mouthpiece being too wide and open is easily rectified by simply closing down the air vent till it suits your draw.
I do that, close it down about halfway, set wattage to 85 and its a nice vape.
Try closing the vent down till you like it and play with the wattage.

 

[DreamRJ]

I got a Revvo upon release and highly rate it. Your simply not supposed to hold it upside down for that length of time. That is not a fault of the coil or design flaw, that's user error.
Hardly the tank or coils fault for you forgetting! Thats like saying the engine in your cars no good because it blew up when you kept your foot flat on the accelerator sitting at the traffic lights forgetting to lift your foot off of it.
Yes you can get condensation in the top. I take mine off after a days use, give it a simple wipe and all's ok.
Your point number 1 about the mouthpiece being too wide and open is easily rectified by simply closing down the air vent till it suits your draw.
I do that, close it down about halfway, set wattage to 85 and its a nice vape.
Try closing the vent down till you like it and play with the wattage.

But to me it is a design flaw, just my opinion, as you had your opinion as well. With other mods I can put it upside down and it doesn't leak like this aspire arc coil does. Because the coils are basically sealed so they can not leak when you tip them upside down. Well most of them anyway, and yes I know they might not have been designed to put them upside down but still the point I made was just a point and issue I found and yes I still call it a design flaw. But that is just my opinion as I said.

I do change the wattage and change the amount of air in the airholes by closing them sometimes.

 

[My Batt Hurts]

Not sure if there is a way I can actually contact Aspire to let them know about this design flaw and if they will be going to try and fix or change the coils or add some extra material to the top of the coil to stop the leaking when upside down.

If you post in Brands > Aspire, someone from Aspire may well see it.

IIRC, Aspire's advice upon launching the Revvo was that it benefitted from periodic 'tilting' (?) to saturate the coil. Some people found that a bit weird.

Tanks with more 'traditional' coil setups can (or did) benefit from upside-down storage because it helped avoid flooding. I guess it's just not universally applicable.

 

[Vapedog]

But to me it is a design flaw, just my opinion, as you had your opinion as well. With other mods I can put it upside down and it doesn't leak like this aspire arc coil does. Because the coils are basically sealed so they can not leak when you tip them upside down. Well most of them anyway, and yes I know they might not have been designed to put them upside down but still the point I made was just a point and issue I found and yes I still call it a design flaw. But that is just my opinion as I said.

I do change the wattage and change the amount of air in the airholes by closing them sometimes.

Hi again. Your post got me curious so a did a bit of experimenting. I inverted the tank for a full 10 minutes. Twice. So 20 minutes upsidedown. Not a drop coming out anywhere, the tip nor the vents. I vaped a bit and repeated it, turning it up for another 10 minutes. Still nothing and the coil looked fine with no over saturation. Id be looking for seal damage, coil seal issue and if the nut that holds the coil in place is done up enough. To leak like that from just 30 seconds isn't right.

 

[sdennislee]

I don't see it as a design flaw. Basically you have, going bottom to top, packing, cotton, coil. The juice must penetrate the packing to reach the cotton, then saturate the cotton so the juice is in contact with the coil, this of course allows the coil to vaporize the juice. The coil is basically a stove top coil design, meaning it has slits/slots. These opening are necessary to allow the vapor to get bast the coil to the top section so you can vape/inhale it.

If you choose to use a hammer as a wrench to remove a bolt you can't claim design flaw anymore than you can claim design flaw here for holding the tank upside down. Operator choice or error but not design flaw.

When I install a new coil I turn the tank upside down to help saturate the new coil, I don't recall any leaking but I use 70 to sometimes 80% VG. If I used thinner juice maybe I would see a leak.

The Revvo is a good but not great tank. Good because it has great flavor, super easy fill method and with top airflow doesn't leak, not great because it is way too small for sub ohm at 3.6ml, produces more condensation than most other good to great tanks, I think this is a result of the convergent shape of the drip tip, proprietary drip tip. I could tolerate any of these other than 3.6ml.

Same with the Alpha tank I've been trying for the past week, super easy fill, great flavor, nice hit, but only 4ml. Because of the 4ml it will end up in the back up box with the Revvos. Damn shame too because there is a lot to like about both of these tanks.

 

[Vapedog]

I don't see it as a design flaw. Basically you have, going bottom, packing, cotton, coil. The juice must penetrate the packing to reach the cotton, then saturate the cotton so the juice is in contact with the coil, this of course allows the coil to vaporize the juice. The coil is basically a stove top coil design, meaning it has slits/slots. These opening are necessary to allow the vapor to get bast the coil to the top section so you can vape/inhale it.

If you choose to use a hammer as a wrench to remove a bolt you can't claim design flaw anymore than you can claim design flaw here for holding the tank upside down. Operator choice or error but not design flaw.

When I install a new coil I turn the tank upside down to help saturate the new coil, I don't recall any leaking but I use 70 to sometimes 80% VG. If I used thinner juice maybe I would see a leak.

The Revvo is a good but not great tank. Good because it has great flavor, super easy fill method and with top airflow doesn't leak, not great because it is way too small for sub ohm at 3.6ml, produces more condensation than most other good to great tanks, I think this is a result of the convergent shape of the drip tip, proprietary drip tip. I could tolerate any of these other than 3.6ml.

Same with the Alpha tank I've been trying for the past week, super easy fill, great flavor, nice hit, but only 4ml. Because of the 4ml it will end up in the back up box with the Revvos. Damn shame too because there is a lot to like about both of these tanks.

I used a 60/40 vg/pg to try that.

 

[DreamRJ]

Hi again. Your post got me curious so a did a bit of experimenting. I inverted the tank for a full 10 minutes. Twice. So 20 minutes upsidedown. Not a drop coming out anywhere, the tip nor the vents. I vaped a bit and repeated it, turning it up for another 10 minutes. Still nothing and the coil looked fine with no over saturation. Id be looking for seal damage, coil seal issue and if the nut that holds the coil in place is done up enough. To leak like that from just 30 seconds isn't right.

But this has happened now 5 times. It happened again just now as I tested it again. I first opened it all up and checked all the o rings etc etc and they are all fully sealed and the coil is firm in place and also the screw part, that holds the coil in place is tight and I can not tighten it anymore.

So are you saying my tank may be faulty? I only had it for a week now? should I add more o rings to it? was I meant to add more o rings to the tank before I used it when I got it? I did not get any instructions that told me I had to add more o rings? so why does it come with spare o rings anyway if that is not the case?

But it can not be a coincidence that my revvo tank keeps leaking when I hold it upside down or even hold it sideways. I do not even need to hold it upside down. If I hold it sideways it also leaks as well. I use 75%VG/25%pg base. So it can not be my liquid.

 

[Vapedog]

But this has happened now 5 times. It happened again just now as I tested it again. I first opened it all up and checked all the o rings etc etc and they are all fully sealed and the coil is firm in place and also the screw part, that holds the coil in place is tight and I can not tighten it anymore.

So are you saying my tank may be faulty? I only had it for a week now? should I add more o rings to it? was I meant to add more o rings to the tank before I used it when I got it? I did not get any instructions that told me I had to add more o rings? so why does it come with spare o rings anyway if that is not the case?

But it can not be a coincidence that my revvo tank keeps leaking when I hold it upside down or even hold it sideways. I do not even need to hold it upside down. If I hold it sideways it also leaks as well. I use 75%VG/25%pg base. So it can not be my liquid.

No, you don't need to do anything to a new tank unless there is visible damage to a seal. Got me beat. There is either a problem with the batch of coils you got or a defect with the tank somehow not allowing a 100% seal somewhere. That's a bummer leaking out just tipping it. The tank and coils all from a good verified source? There is no way it should leak like yours. As above in another persons post, try to contact Aspire here and see if you can do the code check for the tank and coils to verify their origin. That's about my limit, good luck sorting it out.

 

[DreamRJ]

No, you don't need to do anything to a new tank unless there is visible damage to a seal. Got me beat. There is either a problem with the batch of coils you got or a defect with the tank somehow not allowing a 100% seal somewhere. That's a bummer leaking out just tipping it. The tank and coils all from a good verified source? There is no way it should leak like yours. As above in another persons post, try to contact Aspire here and see if you can do the code check for the tank and coils to verify their origin. That's about my limit, good luck sorting it out.

The tank and mod is genuine as I bought it from ubervapes website it is a e cig shop and online shop based in the UK. So it is a trustworthy company.

And yes the mod is genuine I just scratched it and checked the code on the official aspire uk team website.

Congratulations! The Aspire product you bought with this security code ( 74****************62) is original. Thank you for your purchase!

I also just rang up ubervapes and he said that it might be a faulty coil. he said I should try a different coil and see if it still leaks with a new coil. I will wait until I get the 3.6ml tank because I can then just use the new coil that comes with it rather than use a new coil.

 

[Vapedog]

Good luck with it. Fingers crossed it was just a dodgy coil. You can get them with the best of gear. I have found my Arc coils super consistent and never an issue. Be interested to hear how you go with a newie in it. Cheers.

 

[DreamRJ]

If you actually do a google search for aspire skystar revvo tank leaking. You will see countless posts on forums and also on reddit of people having very very similar issues as to me. Some of the comments on reddit even say when you tilt it sideways etc etc it will leak. So that again backs up my claim in the design of the tank and coil.

So I will as I said wait for this 3.6ml tank to arrive and see if it leaks from this new bigger tank as well. And will update the thread once I have tested it for a day or 2 to let you all know. The tracker says it is now in the UK and has left customs. That was on the 20th, so I suspect I should have it either today or tomorrow if not Monday.

 

[DreamRJ]

One more question to ask you all. Can I use other aspire tanks with this aspire skystar mod? or can I only use the revvo tank?

I was thinking of buying a different aspire tank that is not the revvo tank and that has different type of coils to test it out? like maybe the Nautilus tanks?

 

[My Batt Hurts]

You can use pretty much any tank you like. As long as it has a 510 connector (most do), it should just work.

Nautilus - low power, MTL - about as unlike the Revvo as you could get. Very nice though & new version due soon.
Cleito - cloudy, high(ish) power. New versions just released.
Atlantis Evo - Somewhere between the Nauiltus and Cleito.

The SkyStar will handle them easily.

 

[Vapedog]

Did a search like you said and found some but not countless, many were linked to the same threads or posts. Looked more than they were. There were some but not countless. No more than usual for complaints about other gear really. When you fill this thing you have to make sure your not squeezing still, even just a little bit, when you lift the bottle tip off from the fill valve. If your still squeezing a bit you can flood the coil top as the juice keeps coming out. That'll leave pooled juice that could be mistaken for a leak issue. Some bottles are not ideal, or have ideal tips suited to filling it. I found that out myself with liquid pooled on the coil top. Squeeze it in nice and slowly and before you lift it off release pressure and its good to hear a little suction noise as air sucks back into the bottle as you do it. That'll ensure anything that didn't quite go into the valve gets sucked back up. Dont worry if at first you suck a little back out of the tank, you'll get the hang of it. I personally believe some complaints I read were filling issues being mistaken for leaks.