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The Merlin nano was kindly supplied by the lovely Ella from @Sourcemore for review. The following review represents my own thoughts and not necessarily those of potv.
What we have here is the 16mm Merlin nano rta which comes as standard with the 2ml glass tank, also included is a very smart 3.5ml frosted bubble tank (although it's more angular than bubble), 22mm beauty ring, three airflow inserts 1mm, 1.2mm and 2mm and a bag of spares including a 0.6 and 1 ohm coil plus spare deck screws, o rings and a screwdriver tool.
As you can see from the exploded diagram the design is not hugely different to the little dvarw 16mm. You place the airflow restrictor directly under the coil with a push fit and then fit the coil and wick within the small push on chamber (again like the dvarw).
The airflow is cleverly hidden within the small gap that runs around the base of the Merlin nano.
At first I wasn't enamoured with the push fit nature of the airflow inserts and deck cover but when fitted together the whole system actually locks itself together very securely.
I've run 70%vg liquid (frisco vapes, presidio) with the 0.6 ohm coil and 50% vg juice (manabush, nanabhozo) with the 1ohm coil and both wicked fine even when chain vaping at 3.7v. Both coils gave excellent flavour but things really stepped up when I put my own 2.5mm 1.1 ohm kanthal coil inside (supplied coils are 3mm).
The 0.6ohm supplied coil did leave the tank quite warm after a while but nothing terrible.
With my own build the flavour was outstanding, perhaps too strong for some, you may need to play with the coil a little to strike the right balance for your juice.
Nothing negative to add except to remind that this is a bottom fill tank for those who prefer top fill. It looks beautiful, compact and vapes perfectly. Perhaps a little more fussy to 're wick than say the kayfuns but a bargain price for an original rta. Bargain and available in some lovely finishes.
Huge thanks again to Ella from sourcemore.
You can grab yours here.
https://www.sourcemore.com/augvape-merlin-nano-rta.html
What we have here is the 16mm Merlin nano rta which comes as standard with the 2ml glass tank, also included is a very smart 3.5ml frosted bubble tank (although it's more angular than bubble), 22mm beauty ring, three airflow inserts 1mm, 1.2mm and 2mm and a bag of spares including a 0.6 and 1 ohm coil plus spare deck screws, o rings and a screwdriver tool.
As you can see from the exploded diagram the design is not hugely different to the little dvarw 16mm. You place the airflow restrictor directly under the coil with a push fit and then fit the coil and wick within the small push on chamber (again like the dvarw).
The airflow is cleverly hidden within the small gap that runs around the base of the Merlin nano.
At first I wasn't enamoured with the push fit nature of the airflow inserts and deck cover but when fitted together the whole system actually locks itself together very securely.
I've run 70%vg liquid (frisco vapes, presidio) with the 0.6 ohm coil and 50% vg juice (manabush, nanabhozo) with the 1ohm coil and both wicked fine even when chain vaping at 3.7v. Both coils gave excellent flavour but things really stepped up when I put my own 2.5mm 1.1 ohm kanthal coil inside (supplied coils are 3mm).
The 0.6ohm supplied coil did leave the tank quite warm after a while but nothing terrible.
With my own build the flavour was outstanding, perhaps too strong for some, you may need to play with the coil a little to strike the right balance for your juice.
Nothing negative to add except to remind that this is a bottom fill tank for those who prefer top fill. It looks beautiful, compact and vapes perfectly. Perhaps a little more fussy to 're wick than say the kayfuns but a bargain price for an original rta. Bargain and available in some lovely finishes.
Huge thanks again to Ella from sourcemore.
You can grab yours here.
https://www.sourcemore.com/augvape-merlin-nano-rta.html
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How would you rate this against the 16mm Dvawr? Reason I ask is that as you may have seen, I have an 18650 IllusiaS that can only accommodate up to 18mm RTAs etc. I have the little Dvarw already, but this had been on my radar as well. 
