RTA Review: Zeus X

I've been a huge fan of the Zeus series since I started investigating RTAs, and there are several slightly different knockoff available with seemingly only slight cosmetic variations.

• As is usual with the rainbow-coloured clones, there is a fair amount of rainbow paint on the 510 connector which will ideally need polishing off to work properly in TC mode (I no longer us TC on any of my atomisers), although fine in Power mode.

• On the underside it says "designed by Geokvape" (sic) haha. Is this a deliberate mis-spelling of Geekvape to pay lip service to the copyright laws? Both of my Aliexpress Zeus X models have no writing on the base at all, they're totally blank.

• Overall, highly recommended if you're looking to try out RTA vaping and are OK with the considerable juice holding capacity (see pics)

Pros

• High quality, bulletproof, delivers a top-class experience.  A dual coil setup used in single-coil mode gives 2 sets of terminals that can be used if the originals wear out.

• Unusually, spare O ring sets widely and cheaply available for this and its Xmesh cousin 

• Spare build decks available for this RTA and it's cousin the "Zeus X Mesh" (now called the Zeus ZX2, or ZX ll), which are, or at least should be compatible with each other (i.e. if you have a "Zeus X", the "Zeus X Mesh" deck will fit it)

• Nice simple conventional design, with (unlike the Kylin Mini V2 and Dead Rabbit V1) a non-rotating build deck, which I personally prefer

Cons

• A higher capacity than I'd ideally prefer for dimitri juice, can easily hold 5ml (inc coil-resident juice) even with the straight glass fitted

• This particular clone Included only 2 spare O-rings (a complete set has 7), which is truly lacklustre. However, as mentioned, unlike many other atomisers spare sets are cheaply available on Aliexpress (see pic below)

• Large juice wells not ideally suited to single coil operation, but not troubles if wicked correctly

• The design of the cap can make if difficult to get a good grip, so can be tricky to remove.(it's common to the earlier Zeus X mesh but the later ZX2 mesh RTA has a re-designed cap which is much easier to grip)

Conclusion

The simplicity of the design, profuse availability of spares, and the general effectiveness of operation make this a solid long term RTA idea. The juice capacity is more than I'd ideally prefer and I'll just have to live with that awkward-to-grip top cap!