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Hi All, Anthony Vapes back here with my review of the Augvape BTFC RDA, please see the bottom for disclaimers and links. Note: This is the retail version.
Introduction:
The BTFC RDA is the latest RDAs from longtime manufacturer augvape. They don’t get a lot of hype around forums but quietly make some really nice products. They were pretty popular a few years back then fell out of relevance with a lack of product and the stuff they put out not being very good, but so far in 2018 they are doing quite well with the templar RDA and the intake RTA. The BTFC is designed with popular vape reviewer vapnfagan. The BTFC RDA is named for Bottom, Top, Flavor, Clouds, so essentially has bottom and top airflow and you can use bottom only for flavor or both for clouds and is a dual coil DTL RDA with an included squonk pin. It’s available in 4 colors SS, Black, Gunmetal and Rainbow. They sell on the official site off of aliexpress for around 30USD so good price point and i see it on a few US sites at that price point as well.
Manufacturer's Specs
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Initial Impressions and features
When I first got to try this RDA it was actually at ECC where the rep let me try his out that was already built so i got to try it before actually having one and i was pretty impressed with it. Not just flavor wise but also that a rep had a well build RDA with good flavor which was pretty rare there. I think only augvape and geekvape had that off the top of my head. He gave me the review sample there the same ones being sold there so retail version and asked for my color choice. I picked rainbow and he wa slike are you sure? I was like yeah lol. I guess people don’t like rainbow? IDK i do and it looks nice in review pics. Either way i was pretty impressed from the start
Build Deck and Wicking (pics above)
Let’s talk about the build deck now. It’s a semi unique deck that functions halfway between a velocity style and a postless deck. You don’t need to precut your leads it kind of feels like a better version of the drop RDA deck. It’s made for dual coils and each lead has its own terminal so they all get their own post hole and you can install your coils 1 at a time. Just as it should be. The coils slide into the holes which are a good size and the leads come out the other side so they are easy to clip. You just line up the coils over the bottom air holes and you are good to go. Really easy to build on. The post screws come top down so it won’t bend your leads with flat wires like fused claptons but also work great with round wire as well. The post screws themselves are great quality hex screws my personal favorite. The negative posts are milled into the deck as well. Overall an excellent build deck that is really easy to build on even for beginners.
Wicking on it is quite easy. It’s an RDA so nothing fancy just drop your leads to the bottom.
Performance
Performance wise, I used it as a Dual Coil RDA only, you could run a big single coil if you wanted to but for me i’d rather use a dedicated single coil RDA for that so yeah dual only. I ran 4 builds in this a fancy 3mm ID build, a fancy 3.5 mm ID build, a fancy 4mm ID build and 1 simple round 4mm ID build. For size I found it best with a 3-3.5mm ID and as many wraps as you can fit comfortably in it. The flavor is great one of the better dual coil RDAs for sure and even worked great with the simple round wire. It does tend to get hot when chain vaping larger builds however so you can get some hot lips with this RDA. Basically as it says in the name if you want flavor close off the top air and use bottom only. If you want more clouds open up the top air as well. That’s what they intended to do and it works so hard to complain. Overall a very good dual coil RDA flavorwise if you keep the top air closed off.
Introduction:
The BTFC RDA is the latest RDAs from longtime manufacturer augvape. They don’t get a lot of hype around forums but quietly make some really nice products. They were pretty popular a few years back then fell out of relevance with a lack of product and the stuff they put out not being very good, but so far in 2018 they are doing quite well with the templar RDA and the intake RTA. The BTFC is designed with popular vape reviewer vapnfagan. The BTFC RDA is named for Bottom, Top, Flavor, Clouds, so essentially has bottom and top airflow and you can use bottom only for flavor or both for clouds and is a dual coil DTL RDA with an included squonk pin. It’s available in 4 colors SS, Black, Gunmetal and Rainbow. They sell on the official site off of aliexpress for around 30USD so good price point and i see it on a few US sites at that price point as well.
Manufacturer's Specs
- 25mm Diameter
- 304 Stainless Steel Construction
- Quad Terminal Postless Deck
- Designed For Dual Coil Configurations
- 2.5mm Post Holes
- 3mm Internal Airflow Holes
- PEEK Insulator
- 10mm Deep Juice Well
- Centrally Located Bottom Feeding E-Liquid Splitter
- Dual Adjustable Top & Bottom Airflow Control
- 3mm by 1mm Top Airflow Slots
- 10mm by 1.5mm Bottom Airflow Slots
- Squonk Mod Compatible
- 810 Drip Tip Compatible
- Gold Plated 510 & Squonking Pin
- 1x Augvape BTFC RDA
- 1x Delrin 810 Drip Tip
- 1x Frosted 810 Drip Tip
- 1x Gold Plated 510 Pin
- 1x Gold Plated Squonk Pin
- 1x Bag Of Spare Parts
album
Initial Impressions and features
When I first got to try this RDA it was actually at ECC where the rep let me try his out that was already built so i got to try it before actually having one and i was pretty impressed with it. Not just flavor wise but also that a rep had a well build RDA with good flavor which was pretty rare there. I think only augvape and geekvape had that off the top of my head. He gave me the review sample there the same ones being sold there so retail version and asked for my color choice. I picked rainbow and he wa slike are you sure? I was like yeah lol. I guess people don’t like rainbow? IDK i do and it looks nice in review pics. Either way i was pretty impressed from the start
Build Deck and Wicking (pics above)
Let’s talk about the build deck now. It’s a semi unique deck that functions halfway between a velocity style and a postless deck. You don’t need to precut your leads it kind of feels like a better version of the drop RDA deck. It’s made for dual coils and each lead has its own terminal so they all get their own post hole and you can install your coils 1 at a time. Just as it should be. The coils slide into the holes which are a good size and the leads come out the other side so they are easy to clip. You just line up the coils over the bottom air holes and you are good to go. Really easy to build on. The post screws come top down so it won’t bend your leads with flat wires like fused claptons but also work great with round wire as well. The post screws themselves are great quality hex screws my personal favorite. The negative posts are milled into the deck as well. Overall an excellent build deck that is really easy to build on even for beginners.
Wicking on it is quite easy. It’s an RDA so nothing fancy just drop your leads to the bottom.
Performance
Performance wise, I used it as a Dual Coil RDA only, you could run a big single coil if you wanted to but for me i’d rather use a dedicated single coil RDA for that so yeah dual only. I ran 4 builds in this a fancy 3mm ID build, a fancy 3.5 mm ID build, a fancy 4mm ID build and 1 simple round 4mm ID build. For size I found it best with a 3-3.5mm ID and as many wraps as you can fit comfortably in it. The flavor is great one of the better dual coil RDAs for sure and even worked great with the simple round wire. It does tend to get hot when chain vaping larger builds however so you can get some hot lips with this RDA. Basically as it says in the name if you want flavor close off the top air and use bottom only. If you want more clouds open up the top air as well. That’s what they intended to do and it works so hard to complain. Overall a very good dual coil RDA flavorwise if you keep the top air closed off.