Review Goblin Mini

[neil williams]

I bought one of these at Vapefest and I have to say I'm blown away by it, I've put a 28 gauge build in this morning, 8 wraps at 2.5mm and it's coming in at 0.8 ohms, vaping 13 Sins Trixi 2 and the clouds and flavour are awesome. I would definitely recommend this little fella [emoji3]

 

[hazard93]

I have one coming from FT! Can't wait to receive it, maybe my mind set will finally change on RTA's.

 

[scrumpox]

PITA to refill ... need a screwdriver, a syringe and the ability to hold onto the small screw ... tiny spots of condensate underneath ... otherwise it's excellent. The Goblin Mini and the Aromamizer RDTA have got me back into RTAs again.
2.4mm coils, 8 wraps of .25 twisted producing 0.72ohms. Using Fiber Freaks type 1 and getting lots of flavour and vapour.

 

[cloudcuckoo]

The mini was the tits, i enjoyed the goblin v2 or v1.2 or whatever it was - only niggle was the fill screw, awkward, a little leaky and not a great thread.

Was in greyhaze the other day and a chap was looking at the mini and i said 'looks a good bit of kit that, might end up grabbing one'

Clearly he was uninformed insisting it was no good to him (shit was the word he used) as he needs big clouds and big flavour - the lads in there spent ages trying to convince him thats what he'll get. Not to buy one but to try and educate him a little. Ignorant bugger just kept tooting his random tank on his random box. He'd got them getting stuff out, stripping down with no intention of even considering it or to listening to any elses opinion. Its got awkward at least lol.

I think it looks the bees bollocks and will end up snatching one.

 

[hazard93]

That's the only downside that I can think of is the bottom refill, and seems to be the only negative thing that's been said about it. I look forward to giving it a go!

 

[Josh Atkinson]

I bought one at vapefest and my first build was alittle disappointing (24guage) but then changed it to a twisted 28 and its blown me away! Flavour is immense! Only thing is the refill screw it truly is tiny and im definatly going to lose it at some point! Luckily they give u a spare [emoji2]

 

[scrumpox]

That's the only downside that I can think of is the bottom refill, and seems to be the only negative thing that's been said about it. I look forward to giving it a go!

Seriously, yes it is the one and only con with an otherwise excellent RTA. The tiny spots of condensate are nothing really, it doesn't leak and the size is just brilliant.

The top cap has a step the function of which is to accept the 510 drip tip adapter ... if they remove the step to flatten it, no change to the overall height, there is room for a top fill port. One fill hole, a second hole to allow air out. Instead of an adapter they could supply two top caps, one for the Goblin's glass DT and another for a standard 510 DT.

If they change nothing else they would make the Goblin Mini a stellar product ... selling the new caps on their own would make the current version upgradable. Steam Crave have done that with the Aromamizer RDA-H.

 

[johnnycab]

I have one on the way from GB. I was undecided on the bottom-fill but weighed the options and realised that I will not be filling this thing on the go and more likely use it for an outing - just hope it doesn't leak too much!

I saw the vid below where the dude was filling the tank from the top @17' mark - which is more of a hack as you do have to hold the bottom section tightly in place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71_9ceJYZFk

 

[hazard93]

Seriously, yes it is the one and only con with an otherwise excellent RTA. The tiny spots of condensate are nothing really, it doesn't leak and the size is just brilliant.

The top cap has a step the function of which is to accept the 510 drip tip adapter ... if they remove the step to flatten it, no change to the overall height, there is room for a top fill port. One fill hole, a second hole to allow air out. Instead of an adapter they could supply two top caps, one for the Goblin's glass DT and another for a standard 510 DT.

If they change nothing else they would make the Goblin Mini a stellar product ... selling the new caps on their own would make the current version upgradable. Steam Crave have done that with the Aromamizer RDA-H.

Spot on that mate. Seems strange why they didn't think of doing that, and going for the bottom refill tbh. Surely they must have realized that bottom fill is dislike by the majority of the vaping community. I can't really speak for that as I've always been a dripping guy, but I can see exactly where the issues lie, weather it leaks or not there's still that possibility, so surprised why they went for it. Not hard to figure water and gravity huh..

 

[scrumpox]

Spot on that mate. Seems strange why they didn't think of doing that, and going for the bottom refill tbh. Surely they must have realized that bottom fill is dislike by the majority of the vaping community. I can't really speak for that as I've always been a dripping guy, but I can see exactly where the issues lie, weather it leaks or not there's still that possibility, so surprised why they went for it. Not hard to figure water and gravity huh..

You should stop worrying about it leaking through the bottom airholes ... it just doesn't. OK, I suppose it might if you get the wicking wrong but that would be user error and not design error.
Bottom fill? I guess they were going for minimalism - drill a hole and put a screw in it is minimalist.

You know how the air control is on a pendulum? I think it would be consistent with the design and rather smart to mirror that with pendulum controlled fill holes in the cap. Two holes with an o-ring, much like the Orchid top fill cap, opened and closed with the same sliding mechanism as the air. I think that would work nicely, and perhaps wouldn't require o-rings if well engineered. At worst, to obviate leaking, you might have to close off the air whilst refilling.