Nov 06, 2015 The Definitive Arctic Turbo Tank Review. The most remarkable thing about the new Arctic Turbo from Horizon is that the tank has a fan inside. I’m not kidding. Does it make a difference? We’ll get to that, and more, in today’s full on review on this monster subohm tank. Horizon Arctic Sub-Ohm Clearomizer Tank by Horizon Tech is a new sub ohm tank by a company that wants to put the sub-ohm tank game to rest. Horizon Arctic comes with two Bottom Turbine Dual Coils BTDC: first 0.2Ω that can work with 30W-80W mods and second 0.5Ω that can work with 30W-100W mods, so you have option to replaced what ever you prefer and think is the best. The Aspire Nepho Sub-Ohm Tank was originally introduced with the Dynamo 220W, featuring a large 27mm chassis with 4mL max capacity, sliding top-fill method, and the press-fitted functionality of the Nepho Coil System with flavor mesh option.
Horizontech Arctic Turbo
The original Horizontech Arctic Sub Ohm tank was a great tank on paper than unfortunately was massively let down by very poor build quality of the tank itself, leaking issues and extremely questionable quality control on the coil heads, that was widely reported across the vaping fraternity by reviewers and consumers alike. It seems like Horizontech listened to the feedback, and have come up with the Horizontech Arctic Turbo, which has been redesigned from the ground up, the only resemblance to its predecessor being the name.
Most interestingly the Arctic Turbo also sports a coil configuration never seen before in any other sub ohm tank I am aware of, with three dual vertical coils placed independently of each other in the base of the tank, and the Arctic Turbo can be run with either one, two or all three of these coil heads in place, and Horizontech claim the coils can handle up to 120 watts. The coil placement is a really interesting feature and something I was really keen to test out! The whole tank itself sports a completely different look to the original Arctic tank, with top and bottom airflow included, a whole new appearance and a bump in capacity to 3.5ml.
Does the radical redesign from Horizontech make for a killer sub ohm tank? Let’s find out…
Specs
- Dimensions: 3-1/4'L x 7/8'D (Including threads)
- 22mm Diameter
- Can be configured to use 1,2 or 3 Dual coil atomizers with the included spacers (coil stoppers)
- 3.5ml Juice Capacity
- Convenient top filling
- 510 Threaded
- 304 Stainless Steel Construction
- Glass Tank
- Intuitive Sextuplet Coil Design (0.2 ohm when using all three atomizer heads)
- Top and Bottom Adjustable Airflow Control
- Top Turbine Cooling System
- Stainless Steel Wide Bore Drip Tip
- RBA Head Option (Sold Separately)
What's in the box?
There’s a fair amount included in the retail box here, inside the packaging you get:
- 1x Horizontech Arctic Turbo tank with three pre installed 0.6ohm BTDC coils for a final resistance of 0.2ohm
- 3x replacement 0.6ohm BTDC coils
- 2x replacement ‘coil stoppers’ (described as ‘coil models’ by Horizontech)
- 1x Replacement pyrex glass tank section
- 4x replacement o-rings
- 1x User Manual
It’s worth taking time out to read through the user manual to get a grasp of how the coil system works, and if you are new to sub ohm tanks this does contain important safety information.
Horizontech Arctic Turbo Looks and Capacity
Looks wise, the Arctic Turbo bears no resemblance to it’s predecessor, the Horizontech Arctic Sub Ohm tank. If you took the logos away and stood these tanks side by side, chances are you wouldn’t even know they came from the same manufacturer. The capacity has received an increase to 3.5ml and the Arctic Turbo is a taller tank than the previous version, there’s an even wider bore drip tip as well as top and bottom airflow.
It’s constructed of stainless steel with a pyrex glass tank section, and in hand it feels solidly made. It’s a little on the tall side, one of the tallest tanks I have come across for sure, but I can’t have complaints about the build quality. It’s top filling, so the top cap screws off to reveal the top fill port, which is a nice wide slot able to accept pretty much any bottle nozzle you can think of. Inside here is also a small removable fan, known as the Top Turbine Cooling System, which helps even more to cool down your vape as well as provide a level of spitback protection too. I will say one thing, and that is the Top Turbine Cooling System definitely creates a loud whistling noise, which some users may be uncomfortable with, if it does bother you then you can remove the fan without affecting the vape too much I have found.
Horizontech Arctic Turbo Airflow
With a top and bottom adjustable cyclops airflow slot the airflow is absolutely gargantuan with the Arctic Turbo, the huge bottom airflow maximises airflow intake for huge vapour production, the top airflow will cool your vape down at high wattage when wide open, or keep it warm when closed off. I’d highly recommend keeping it open when going above 70+ watts, as with it closed things can get uncomfortably hot. The airflow control ring itself is smooth and easily adjusted, and when you have set it to your desired airflow setting it stays in place until you change it. Airflow is also influenced by the Top Turbine Cooling System, which spins to cool the vapour down and also, Horizontech claim, increase vapour production too.
Horizontech Arctic Turbo Coils and Performance
As we have covered above, the Arctic Turbo sports a new coil system that has three individual dual vertical coils each inserted separately from each other into the deck. Each of these new BTDC coils has a resistance of 0.6ohms and with three of these together, you have a final resistance of 0.2ohm. You can use one or two of these coils rather than all three, simply by swapping out the BTDC coil for one of the coil stoppers, however I didn’t get terribly good flavour or vapour production by using any less than three of the BTDC coils.
The new BTDC coils are a big improvement on the old problematic Arctic coils, with a much more solid build quality and there’s no need to boil them before use this time around! Each coil is a dual vertical coil set up and is 0.6ohm each, and the lifespan of these is far better than it was the first time around too, with the coils lasting me two weeks before needing a change. You can replace individual coils, so if one burns out it can be swapped out for another.
I have found that you need an absolute minimum of 60w to get going with this tank, anything less just results in a very weak experience. At 80w, this tank really starts kicking out some quite incredible clouds and when you go over 100w and start approaching the 120w mark, it’s really quite something else. Just ensure you have the top airflow wide open when over 100w as otherwise it really does have a tendency to get scorching hot! Flavour with this tank isn’t particularly impressive, it’s an improvement on the original but it is still average at best, but that’s not what this tank is about- this tank is all about throwing down the biggest clouds humanly possible. I’ve been running it at 100-110w and just having some great fun with it chucking some huge clouds of vapour around with high VG juice and generally annoying my missus by clouding out not just rooms but entire areas in seconds!
With a cloud chasing sub ohm tank, chances are you will be using high VG juice to maximise your cloud performance, and the Arctic Turbo is great at wicking high VG juice. I used juices at up to 90VG and the Arctic Turbo wicked them with ease, it didn’t seem to struggle with the wicking aspect at all and I have only experienced two dry hits with this tank. That being said, it’s an extremely thirsty tank, even though the capacity is 3.5ml you will be going through tanks of juice in no time.
Conclusion
If you are looking for a high power tank with huge airflow that can really chuck the clouds, then look no further than the Horizontech Arctic Turbo, as this is quite arguably the very best of the bunch when it comes to flinging out the vapour! There’s not many tanks around that can match the Arctic Turbo on sheer vapour production, coupled with high VG juice and 80+ watts of power you’ll have in your hands a portable fog machine that can cloud a room out in seconds.
It’s good to see Horizontech have righted the issues raised with the original Arctic tank, with the Arctic Turbo providing coils of a much better quality this time, and a tank with a far better build quality that hasn’t leaked on me as yet. Plus, it can handle the high power, though it does get a little warm! If cloud chasing is your thing and you are looking for a tank that throws the biggest, and densest clouds, then the Horizontech Arctic Turbo is the one I would recommend!
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The Definitive Arctic Turbo Tank Review
The most remarkable thing about the new Arctic Turbo from Horizon is that the tank has a fan inside. I’m not kidding. Does it make a difference? We’ll get to that, and more, in today’s full on review on this monster subohm tank.
Horizon Arctic Turbo Tank
The Arctic Turbo Tank by Horizon Tech is said to be the improved version of the terrific ‘original’ Arctic Tank we reviewed some months ago. But it is much more than an improved Arctic tank really, in fact the only thing the Turbo shares with the original is the word “Arctic”.
Big Sub Ohm Tanks
When the staff received their stock of Ma tank I was alarmed by the size of the prebuilt coil heads that fit into that monster sub-ohm tank. But the Arctic Turbo coil heads make the TFV4 look like the old Aspire Nautilus coil heads.
Truly innovative, the Arctic Turbo sports Sextuplet atomizers, and dual adjustable airflow at top and bottom, plus that integrated Top Turbine Cooling System for heat dissipation, i.e., the fan. The atomizers, or coil heads in plain English are huge, and they have to be to fire up 6 coils. Thankfully, you’re not forced to use the 6-coil setup, it can be configured with 1,2 or 3 Dual coil atomizers with the included coil stoppers, or “spacers”. Sound complicated? In many ways it is, but not so much that it will scare you away.
The Coil Heads
The Sextuplet Coil Head was designed and implemented by Horizon and it features triple independent chambers in which we place dual vertical coils in each one. These sextuplet coilheads can handle up to 120 wattage of power, enough to create extraordinary heat insulation, airflow distribution, and raging clouds of vapor. To achieve maximum vapor and flavor the Horizon Arctic Turbo has four adjustable airflow slots distributed around the base of the tank, and additional dual “Cyclops” at the top of the tank.
The Fan
The Horizon Arctic Turbo Tank comes with a Top Turbine Cooling System (TTCS) to augment an unremitting vaping experience that will have you thinking you’re beyond the natural as you step into supernatural vaping. As you draw on the dip the blades spin, whipping up even more vapor and cooling the vapor down at the higher wattage levels. Does it work? Yes, it does, in cooling the vapor down anyway. Tom removed the fan from his and said the vapor production was affected, though the vapor was warmer without it.
The Arctic Turbo also offers a wide bore stainless steel drip tip to aid in staggering lung hits the likes of which you won’t below.
The Horizon Arctic Turbo is constructed with 304 Stainless Steel and Glass, with a 3.5mL juice capacity. Now, 3.5mL isn’t bad, but when I get to my real world usage section below, you’ll get a better understanding of why the 3.5mL is a tad lower than we need for a tank like this.
Top Fill
Like many of the newer subohm tanks the Arctic Turbo has adopted the Top Fill method for refilling e-liquid. That never means that you don’t need to drop several drops of e-liquid directly into the coil/cotton but it does mean that after your first fill and cotton saturation the tank doesn’t need to be removed from the battery, unscrew the base and fill. Removing the upper most top cap reveals a half-moon slot that handily acts as a fast refill slot. I like many of the various methods created by tank designers and this one is no exception. I don’t have a single issue with the way you go about refilling the tank, no matter the consistency of the e-liquid.
Horizon Arctic Turbo Tank Features:
Arctic Sub Ohm Tank
- Dimensions: 3-1/4″L x 7/8″D (Including threads)
- Available in SS and Black Finishes
- 22mm Diameter
- Can be configured to use 1,2 or 3 Dual coil atomizers with the included spacers (coil stoppers)
- 5mL Juice Capacity
- Conveniently fill from the top
- 510 Threaded
- 304 Stainless Steel Construction
- Glass Tank
- Intuitive Sextuplet Coil Design (0.2 ohm when using all three atomizer heads)
- Top and Bottom Adjustable Airflow Control
- Top Turbine Cooling System
- Stainless Steel Wide Bore Drip Tip
- RBA Head Option (Sold Separately)
Replacement Coils for the Arctic Turbo are here:
Real World
The 3 Dual Coil set up looks unlike anything we’ve seen before. Horizon did an amazing job building this monster tank, but even better, they designed a coil system that allows you to replace the individual dual coils, or as mentioned above, remove one or two and replace them with a spacer, a coil-looking piece that screws into the base to maintain proper current. With this remarkable idea you can add, remove, or null the coil ‘space’ to adjust the performance or ohms of the tank.
When you purchase the Arctic Turbo you’ll find 2x of the abovementioned spacers, along with a 3x set of coils preinstalled in the tank (all .6-ohms, which equals .2-ohms when using all 3 coils), and a backup of 3 replacement dual coil heads. Although I have been using the Arctic Turbo for more than 3 weeks I have yet had the need to replace a single coil.
So, how does it work? Glad you asked…
When using all 3 coils the combined ohms equates to running a 0.2-ohm coil head, and with any other tank that sports a normal 0.2-ohm coil head I can get a decent vape going at 40 watts or so and max out at about 55-60 watts with a thick high VG e-liquid. With the Arctic Turbo it requires more than 50 watts to get a light vape going. My best setting using my Sigelei 150w TC is 91.5 watts!! Any higher than that is just too much for me. When Tom uses his Arctic Turbo and his Vaporshark DNA200 he can go as high as 110-watts using Vaporfi Grand Reserve Catcha Latte e-liquid.
Please note that when doing these tests, or demos, both of us were using the tank with the airflow slots fully open. This allowed for cooler vapor all around, and is certainly the reason why some people can max out at 120-watts with it. Closing up the airflow holes not only tightens the draw, but warms the vapor up fairly quickly.
To find out how well this innovative approach in coil head design works I vaped various e-liquids in various combinations of coils in the Arctic Turbo. It’s one thing to use the tank as it comes, with 3x 0.6-ohm coils installed, it’s another to vape with one coil missing, and then two coils missing, replaced with the spacers instead.
When you remove one dual coil 0.6-ohm coil from the three and replace it with a spacer you wind up with a 0.4-ohm coil head. Surprisingly I could vape at the same wattages as before but the vapor was noticeably warmer even with all the slots fully open. I wouldn’t say the sweet spot with two coils was the same 91.5 watts, that’s for sure. The best wattage in this configuration was way down to about 60-watts at most.
Removing two coils and replacing them with spacers you’ll wind up vaping a single dual coil 0.6-ohm setup. This requires even less wattage, and although the Arctic Turbo handled higher wattages the 0.6-ohm sweet spot for me barely touched 34-watts. As you can see, going from 0.6-ohms to 0.2-ohms shouldn’t see such a drastic change in wattage requirements in a normal subohm tank, but by building, or subtracting ohms by removing or adding actual dual coils is a completely different thing. Clearly, 0.2-ohms when created by three 0.6-ohm dual coils requires a lot more power than a simple 0.2-ohm coil head from normal tank setups.
Flavor and Vapor
There comes a point when vaping with subohm tanks where being able to “see” the difference in vapor production isn’t easy. So, let’s just say that the vapor production from the Horizon Arctic Turbo is massive at any configuration, and the degree of warmth is a better determining factor between the different configurations. Although using all three dual coils, a thick Max VG e-liquid, and airflow slots fully open, the amount of vapor production is downright scary. Granted, I can vape at higher wattages than ever before possible, but without the four airflow slots it wouldn’t have been possible.
Unfortunately, I didn’t get many extra coils, just the extra 3 that came with the tank, and another pack that consisted of 5 individual 0.6-ohm coils. You have to wonder why replacement packs are not sold in packs of 6, you know?
Anyway, each of the dual coils are 0.6-ohms, have optimal wattage rangers of 40-watts, 100% organic cotton and they are fully stainless steel in order to resist ridiculous temperatures of 3 dual coils firing from 120-watts or power.
Using the various configurations did not affect the flavor from the e-liquids at all. All three delivered exceptional flavor notes, though at higher wattages more of the nuances made themselves known. The tests were run with a few e-liquids, but most of the time I used my current favorite, a new mysterious e-liquid from Sarcastic Fringehead Vapery (look for a review very soon).
Arctic Sub Ohm Tank User Manual Diagram
This new as-yet-released e-liquid is definitely an all-day-vape. The kind of all-day-vape that you can get lost in, but because the nature of an all-day-vape is deliver just enough flavor to make you weak in the knees, it will not overwhelm you after an hour or so. This was the perfect e-liquid to vape using all three dual coils at 90-watts.
The secret eliquid from Sarcastic Fringehead has a light creamcicle flavor ‘tone’, with a distinct flavor I wont’ describe just now, and at 90 watts the flavor became so rich, so creamy, that it felt sexual, if that makes any sense. It felt as though my dopamine levels were spiking higher than ever, delivering a rush of pleasure to my brain, yet still not to the point where I would resist the pleasure. So, yea, sexual.
Vaping this same e-liquid flavor at different resistances and wattages delivered the same flavor, but with just a little less intensity.
The Wrap Up
The Horizon Arctic Turbo does not need the fan that is installed, though it did help Tom reach that 120-watts. While some on the team preferred the SMOK TFV4 as their “XtremeTank”, I preferred the Arctic Turbo. Both the TFV4 and the Turbo as extreme tanks, not many people will be able to use either one as a full time tank. Some will, but not me, not Tom, not Kiera, and not Jason. But when you get an e-liquid flavor that you simply can’t get into your system fast enough, the Arctic Turbo is just the right tool for the job.
Massive clouds of vapor, huge amounts of pure flavor, the Arctic Turbo is so worth the $29.98 that MyVaporStore sells it for.
Grade: A+
Julia Hartley-Barnes