It's the Smoktech T-Dux 2.0! We're wanting to test and see if the added construction features such as the ceramic cup inside the atomizer head help create a clean taste
Read on for a full review!
A little about the Smoktech T-Dux 2.0, it is designed almost exactly alike to the Aro Tank, but with Pyrex glass - it is safe for those tank-cracker juices! It does not have a drip tip that can be removed, which is a quite outdated feature at this point in time, but overall, it can store quite a bit of juice!
To tackle a common issue voiced with the T-Dux - so far, we haven't really had any flooding issues, which can be a problem with the atomizer heads are designed alike to the Aspire heads; atomizer heads that are housed in a metal cup, with holes in the walls of that cup to allow juice to flow to the coil. With these types of heads, sometimes gravity just doesn't stop the juice from flowing!
However, with the T-Dux, we only have had one problem so far, and that was really with primer-puffing it over and over - it did flood the tank, but simply blowing it out, using a paper-towel to soak up any liquid from the head's bottom hole and surroundings, and giving it a good puff at around 4.2 Volts or a little higher cleared that right up. No problems since!
And this is with the single-coil configuration, which has two huge, gaping slots for liquid to flow into, and we're using an E-Liquid that is slightly thick, not the thinnest in the world, but not full-blown VG either. So far, it's holding up.
With that, we want to get into the head a little more: right now, we're using the 1.8ohm, single-coil head. And we're finding that it tastes super clean! We're even pushing it to around 4.0 Volts and higher (really unheard of, for us!), and it's keeping a taste that really has no wicky, metallic, or mechanical taste whatsoever. There's no way we could do this with a Protank coil, or even the Fluxomizers for example.
However, above 4.2 Volts at most, it's not a bad taste that we're really sensing, it's more that the vapor simply seems to have some sort of dry nature to it that signalizes "this may be as far as you want to go." You can just tell what seems to push it, and where the direction is going.
The negative so far, truly, is that the T-Dux seems to cut out really all flavor from the juices we're trying. We taste nothing more than vapor, really, on some juices that are quite heavy in flavor. It could simply be the juices (we haven't found a Good News! Award winner just yet!) but the T-Dux really seems to give a bland, vapor flavor that just isn't conductive to vaping. The second negative is that the vapor is truly airy, and there isn't all that much of it. On a single-coil head, the T-Dux really gives the same vapor, if not less, than an Evod, which in our opinion isn't good.
We do have many heads for the T-Dux to try out, we have a couple of dual-coils and single-coils to test further, so for right now, you'll have to check back a little later to get the full conclusion!
Update: We tried one of the dual-coil heads, and there was absolutely no improvement in flavor. In fact, the flavor may have been even more muted with our juices - so much so, that the favor is almost non-existent. The dual-coil also really didn't produce that much vapor.
One weird issue is that we loaded up a tank with a quite thin juice, and let it sit for a few minutes. We then took it back apart and inspected the coil to see if either wick in the dual-coil had problems wicking. Surprisingly, the top wick was good and moist, yet the bottom wick, which was still quite visible, was absolutely bone dry. Pure, white, dry silica from one end to the other. We had to drip a ton of drops into the head just to get that wick moist, and once we started vaping, we could taste that wick going dry a little bit.
The bottom wick, for whatever strange reason, was resistant to wicking. It just wouldn't do it, no matter how long it sat there. The top wick had no problem, which is bizarre!
Overall, this tank doesn't really have any positives other than the taste is quite clean (and severely, severely muted), and that it has Pyrex glass. This tank and its heads absolutely fail next to the tremendously thick and flavorful vapor of the Fluxomizers by GotVapes. Two completely different worlds, and we don't see how anyone vapes such thin-vapor type tanks as the Aro's or Evod's.
We just wish the Fluxomizers were Pyrex!