Velocity Mini RDA Clone
Manufacturer: Tobeco
Model: Velocity Mini (1:1 clone)
Country of origin: China
Price: £9.99 + £1.80 postage
Vendor: private eBay seller
Construction: Stainless Steel + Black anodised coating?
Configuration: Twin post deck - single or dual coil
Type: low profile dripper
Status: currently on sale
Cloud Chucker?: Yes
TPD Compliant?: Yes
What's in the box?:
- Build deck with 510 pin connection
- Outer top cap with airflow holes
- Wide bore Chuff drip tip
- Universal 510 drip tip adapter
- Spare O-Rings, grub screws and Allen key
Top cap with fully adjustable multi airflow
First Impressions
It didn't take long after I get into vaping to want a dripper head for my mod device. I had seen all the serious guys in the vape shops dripping their drips and blowing huge clouds and thought I wanted some of that.
Not only did a dripper offer more flavour but it meant it was much easier to replace the coils with my own this saving money.
Not really knowing what I was looking for I took a stab at the Velocity mini doing the rounds on eBay. Compared to the other drippers I had seen the Velocity was much cheaper and seemed basic and simple to use. Flicking around YouTube it seems that the Velocity mini has been getting some good reviews so I felt I had to get one.
The build quality of the Velocity mini is very good. It's a solid little piece of steel with a tough black coating. The actual coil deck is robust, the screw fixings smooth and the airflow adjustment generous.
At £9.99 I would say it was good value for money.
Testing
Flavour, flavour, flavour and more flavour! and I'm not joking.
I was overwhelmed by the taste that this dripper gives off. Driven at a modest 45W I was able to pick out extra flavours in my gourmet e juice collection, flavours I thought never existed.
Wether all this is down to the shorter distance between the coils and your mouth or the pretty decent adjustable air flow is anyone's guess.
Dripping your coils (filling the tank) is an easy straightforward process. You can either remove the top cap fully to expose the coils and drop your drips or you can leave the top cap on full time and just drop your drips through the center of the mouth piece. (The wide bore Chuff mouth piece!) I'm a lazy beggar so the 'drop it through the hole' technique works best for me. 👍
Without the Chuff drip tip....
And here is the Chuff... bit of a wide bugger!
DIY coiling on the Velocity mini
Although the deck is a little small it is quite easy to coil it up.
Putting the coils in
Dual coil 0.4 ohm build
The Velocity mini is exactly the same as the original full size Velocity. It's a twin post, four ported system which allows for a dual coil set up without the need for any holes.
Each side of the deck is coiled by mounting on the diagonal. One leg of the wire is fitted to the lower hole of one side while the right leg is fitted to the upper hole of the other and vise versa on the opposite side. It's really easy and simple to do.
Wicking
Two white bow ties is the way
Wicking on the Velocity is also a simple operation. You don't have to be too fussy here as long as you don't ram too much down the juice well.
A 2" piece cut for each side should be enough.
Feed through and trim down a little to make two bow tie shaped pieces.
Then it's just a case of carefully poking the ends down into the juice well.
The end product
Nice and neat and ready for action!
There is plenty of room under the cap to get some pretty large coils in without them touching the cap and shorting out.
Anytime new to coil building will find this deck ideal for practicing on.
When is a clone not a clone?
When the original thing being cloned or copied never existed!
Yes, apparently there never was a Velocity mini., it never was a thing, No vaper has ever clapped eyes on one? I'm not altogether sure what's going on here.
How can they make a 1:1 clone of nothing?
It's all a little strange but rest assured I will eat my words if an 'original' mini shows up somewhere! 😉
Rating:👍👍👍👍👍 5 out of 5
Despite its low price point the Velocity mini punches way above its weight in terms of flavour and cloud chucking. It easily out performs other drippers at twice the price.
In much the same way as it's bigger brother the original Velocity, this mini manages to satisfy each and every time you hit the fire button and for something so small I'm quite surprised. This has to be the little dripper deck that every vaper should own, I have no hesitation in recommending it!
