In this review, I will talk about the second version of the “knightly” vaper’s weapon, consisting of a mechanical mod and a dripper of the same name called CAVALRY from the Chinese company SERISVAPE.
Founded in 2015, Shenzhen Serisvape Technology Co., Ltd. started out as a trading and manufacturing company and, naturally, was engaged in the production and sale of electronic vaporizers. At an early stage, it mainly dealt with OEM orders, and after two years of producing devices “for others” and in response to growing demand in the market, its own brand SERISVAPE was created in 2017. The Serisvape company is engaged in the production of drippers, mechanical mods, has a squonk box and a couple of accessories in its portfolio. vapes canada Particularly interesting is the spacer between the mechanical mod and the evaporator, which, in addition to heat dissipation, shows the current battery charge with built-in LEDs – MIRACLE-ATOMIZER LED, but the review is not about it, but about the second revision of the bundle of the mechanical mod and the CAVALRY dripper.
Packaging and equipment
The CAVALRY V2 MOD KIT is sold in a strict cardboard box of an even color. The front side is decorated with an image of a golden knight and the name of the kit, and the color of the device inside can be recognized by a small sticker. On the back side, the delivery set is described, standard warnings about the inadmissibility of use by minors and children, the manufacturer’s address and a scattering of certificates, and a little to the side – a photo of the device itself in black. The ends of the package are unremarkable, except that one of them has a sticker with an authenticity verification code.
Serisvape CAVALRY V2 MOD KIT – instructions
The main information about the device is on an insert made of thick cardboard: on one side, the main features of the assembly and its characteristics are briefly listed, and on the other – a detailed description of the components, a brief diagram of replacing the fixing screws in the RDA, a diagram of the RDA, installing the button in the mod and locking / unlocking it.
Serisvape CAVALRY V2 MOD KIT – delivery set
In the box, the mod and drip tip are in separate niches of foam plastic, also in the kit there is a second 810 drip tip and a bag with additional and spare parts.
A classic slotted “Chinese” screwdriver, three O-rings of different sizes, two spare springs for RDA posts, a squonk pin and two screws with an increased head diameter. The set of “additions” is strictly for the dripper, but nothing was included for the mod, although it also has an O-ring, and a spare spring and contact group would not be superfluous at all.
The appearance of the CAVALRY V2 RDA is quite unusual, due to the bold move of the designer’s thought and the shift from a simple cylindrical shape to a barrel-shaped one. The curvature is very small, but it is clearly visible, together with the beveled drip tip and the paint “under the tree”, or rather under the “old paint”, it makes this device at least original. The decorations on the RDA include a logo and a frame for the air intake holes in the form of small droplets. I can’t even guess why they made an additional recess above each air intake: either this is a whim of the designer, or the engineers had plans to drill another hole in this place for air supply, but then they changed their minds. Otherwise, this is a familiar device with a landing diameter of 24 millimeters at the bottom and a hole for an 810 drip tip at the top. As I wrote above, there are two drip tips in the kit, one rough black (the knurling on it just instantly gets clogged with dust and other dirt, after which it becomes quite unpleasant to put it to your lips) and the second smooth, shiny and beautiful (probably made of some kind of resin), quite low-profile and convenient. Any of the drip tips sits securely in the body on a single o-ring, I have nothing more to say about them.
At the bottom of the RDA there is a 510 connector, around which there are inscriptions with the name of the device, its serial number and the manufacturer. The positive pin is silver-plated (in the squonk version too) and is not adjustable, but protrudes enough for use on devices with hybrid connectors.
The dome of the evaporation chamber is made entirely of brass and painted only on the outside. From the inside, in the upper part, a hemispherical treatment is made, and closer to the edge of the skirt there is a rim that prevents the base from being pressed inward. The airflow is adjusted by turning the entire body relative to the base from the maximum open state to completely blocking the air supply.
The CAVALRY V2 RDA base is made of alloy, is not painted and is connected to the dome by two o-rings, which are correctly selected and tenaciously perform their function even when wet in liquid. The base is made double-post, but is designed to install only one coil. The posts are almost symmetrical to each other and are quite massive. The minus is made as one element with the base, and the positive is inserted through an insulator and fixed with a positive pin. As can be seen from the design, the squonk pin, when installed, will feed liquid into the bath and draw it back considerably when the bubble is released, and the winding installed between the posts will protect against splashes through the drip tip.
CAVALRY V2 RDA. Personal impressions
What I liked:
Thoughtful and very convenient posts
Elementary installation of the coil
Minus post is monolithic with the base
Good capacity
Interesting design
You can put any 810 drip tip
Good flavor transfer (for this coil)
Side airflow
What is simply good:
Spare screws with large heads and spare springs
Silver-plated pins
Presence of a squonk pin
Small volume of the evaporation chamber and hemispherical processing
Two drip tips included
Interesting appearance
What could have been better:
One of the drip tips quickly gets “dirty”
When the airflow is fully open, the drip tip whistles
You need to consider which way you wind the coils
Insufficiently free airflow
Result:
The drip tip is tasty, massive posts, hemispherical processing, correct airflow and a small evaporation chamber all together lead only to positive results. But the airflow, in my opinion, lets down, it is not that tight, it is just average. I can recommend this device either to connoisseurs of leisurely vaping with a small amount of steam, or to people for whom MTL is too tight, and top drippers, on the contrary, are too heavy. If you compare it with the same reference PETRI V2, then CAVALRY V2 will lose, but confidently step on the heels, and due to its appearance and convenience, in some places it will even win.