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RDA Carnage by Purge
RDA Carnage by Purge

RDA Carnage by Purge

Commercial characteristics

  • Sponsor having loaned the product for the magazine: The Little Vapoteur
  • Price of the tested product: 89.90 €
  • Product category according to its selling price: High end (from 71 to 100 €)
  • Atomizer Type: Classic Dripper
  • Number of resistances allowed: 2
  • Resistance Type: Classic Reconstructible, Rebuildable Micro Coil, Reconstructible Classic Temperature Controlled, Rebuildable Micro Coil with Temperature Control
  • Type of wicks supported: Cotton
  • Quantity in milliliters announced by the manufacturer: 1

Reviewer comments on business characteristics

Purge is The American High End moderator who is on the rise among fans of tubular mechanical mods. Finally, those who are ready to put several hundred euros in this passion that can be the vape. Indeed, to consider a purchase at this price, you must be both addicted to vape and beautiful objects.

But, to style its mods, Purge offers us drippers tailored for power-vaping. The latest released is none other than Carnage. This is a 25mm diameter all-brass dripper, designed to accommodate one or two coils.

Madness costs 89,90 € and it may be your future Christmas present if you are well behaved. So let's check together if this madness makes sense.

Physical characteristics and felt quality

  • Width or Diameter of the product in mm: 25
  • Length or Height of the product in mm as sold, but without its drip tip if it is present, and regardless of the length of the connection: 28
  • Weight in grams of the product as sold, with its drip tip if it is present: 65
  • Material composing the product: Copper, Brass, ultem
  • Form Factor Type: Igo L / W
  • Number of component parts without screws and washers: 4
  • Number of threads: 4
  • Quality of the threads: Excellent
  • Number of O-rings, Dript-Tip excluded: 3
  • Quality of O-rings present: Good
  • O-ring positions: Drip-Tip Connection, Top Cap - Tank, Bottom Cap - Tank
  • Capacity in milliliters actually usable: 1
  • Overall, do you appreciate the quality of manufacture of this product with regard to its price? Yes

Rating of the vapelier as to feelings quality: 5 / 5 5 5 out of stars

Reviewer's comments on physical characteristics and perceived quality

As soon as you extract it from its ridiculous packaging (we'll come back to this), you discover a very beautiful piece. Our Carnage is massive, its 25mm in diameter and this 464 naval brass give it a rewarding aspect of marine antiquity. Its design is simple: a body pierced with two beautiful slits, topped with a slightly domed top-cap with knurled edges. At its top sits a drip-tip of good diameter in ... Ultem, the essential material of the moment.


When we take his barrel engraved with his aggressive patronymic in a vintage typo and his top-cap, we find two beautiful pieces perfectly machined and we discover the dome that is hidden under the top-cap.


But we also discover this particular plateau with asymmetrical studs. Indeed, the negative pole is a simple “u” equipped with a clamp screw as one finds on the Skywalker from UD. The positive pole is more atypical. A rather thick brass bar is held in place on the long terminal by two flathead screws. This plate seems ready to welcome very exotic assemblies.

To make contact with the mod, we notice a solid copper 510 pin. It comes with a spare silver BF screw, sorry ...


The joints in place hold well, even very well ... you will have to play a little muscles during the first disassembly. Then, by lubricating the joints, everything returns to order while still remaining rather firm.

The 810 drip-tip has a large diameter, it is short to offer a more beautiful visual harmony.

In the end, I have a dripper that exudes solidity, which seems made to survive the ages and, who knows, maybe in a hundred years or more, it will be found in the windows of a few antique dealers.

Functional features

  • Connection type: 510
  • Adjustable positive stud? Yes, through an adjustment by thread, the assembly will be flush in all cases
  • Presence of air flow regulation? Yes, but fixed only
  • Diameter in mms maximum of the air regulation possible: 10
  • Minimum diameter in mm of the air regulation possible: 0.2
  • Air regulation positioning: Lateral positioning and benefiting resistors
  • Atomization chamber type: Bell type
  • Heat dissipation of the product: Normal

Reviewer's comments on functional features

Drippers are generally quite easy to approach and Carnage is no exception. The tray is easy to learn and the installation of the coils is very simple, even with complex cables. The only small complaint I will allow myself is that the positive pole retaining plate is not spring loaded.

The airflow is adjustable by rotating the top-cap in the barrel. You can change the opening of the two diametrically opposed slots.

But you will also see a single coil position consisting of two circular holes and a longer central hole. This airflow system offers a lot of adjustment possibilities and suggests that our Carnage will be able to express itself without having to soar in watts.


The copper pin protrudes sharply to offer a safe connection when used on a hybrid connector, a logical choice given the type of connections our American friends use for their mods.

The Purge is not a technological revelation, it is well designed but it does not offer anything new. Only its positive pole really stands out. But on the other hand, we are on a product that seems very well designed.

Drip-Tip Features

  • Type of drip-tip attachment: Owner but passage to 510 through an adapter not supplied
  • Presence of a Drip-Tip? Yes, the vaper can immediately use the product
  • Length and type of drip-tip present: Short
  • Quality of the present drip-tip: Good

Reviewer's comments on the Drip-Tip

A rather short 810 drip-tip in ultem, that's what we have. When we look at it, we realize that the material is thick and that it is hollowed out in a flared manner. Without being exceptional, the mouthpiece does the job well, it protects rather well from the heat, it is perfectly suited to the making of large clouds.

Evaluation of the packaging

  • Presence of a box accompanying the product: Yes
  • Would you say that the packaging is up to the price of the product? No
  • Presence of a user manual? No
  • Is the manual understandable for a non-English speaker? No
  • Does the manual explain ALL features? No

Vapelier's note on packaging: 1 / 5 1 5 out of stars

Reviewer's comments on conditioning

Ouch, that's the sore point of this little gem.

I'm not even going to comment on that dastardly plastic box that vaguely resembles a box of silver film. This box is unworthy of a product of this rank. Inside, the dripper is rolled in bubble, ditto for the silver BF pin (only positive point of the pack). No instructions, at the same time, we are more than ready ... So, it may be a stroke of genius because this packaging is really Carnage.

It is totally unworthy of the product and not very respectful of the customer who, for 90 € the dripper, has the right to have a more valuable box and a minimum of information on the product, a precise description of the design, the materials used… finally all the rewarding spiel of a product which is pleasant to read and which makes it possible to give a rational meaning to this insane compulsive purchase.

Appreciations in use

  • Transport facilities with mod of test configuration: Ok for an inner jacket pocket (no deformation)
  • Disassembly and cleaning facilities: Easy, even standing in the street, with a simple tissue paper
  • Filling facilities: Easy, even standing in the street
  • Easy to change resistors: Easy but requires a workspace to lose nothing
  • Is it possible to use this product throughout the day with several vials of EJuice? Yes perfectly
  • Was there leak after one day of use? No
  • In the event of leaks during the tests, descriptions of the situations in which they occurred:

Vapelier's note on ease of use: 4.4 / 5 4.4 5 out of stars

Reviewer's comments on the use of the product

Let's move on to the first rough moments. Indeed, the seals are a little hard as long as they are not lubricated. Once dismantled, we find ourselves facing a simple reading plate, no need to search, the diagram is clear. The coils are easily put in place, too bad the positive pin plate is not spring loaded, it would have simplified the maneuver even further.


The filling is easy, even by the drip-tip.

The airflow adjustment could not be more traditional, it is completely in line with the predispositions of our plate adapted to exotic coils.

In terms of flavors, our Carnage is doing well, it does not have surgical precision but the flavors are very well restored thanks to the internal shape of its top-cap among others. I am sure that the fans will be delighted to have a BF pin to be able, for example, to marry this pretty dripper with a beautiful box bottom feeder of the #BDB type for example.

Recommendations for use

  • With which type of mod is it advisable to use this product? Electronics AND Mechanics
  • What mod model is it recommended to use this product with? a rather powerful mod is class capable of accommodating 25mm
  • With which type of EJuice is it advisable to use this product? All liquids without problem
  • Description of the test configuration used: mono coil of 0.5 € in Alien wire
  • Description of the ideal configuration with this product: Treat yourself, at the same time, you do not have to vape like a brute to enjoy this Carnage

was the product liked by the reviewer: Yes

Overall average of the Vapelier for this product: 4.8 / 5 4.8 5 out of stars

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The mood ticket of the reviewer

I'm not a dripper-addict and I have always had a hard time accepting prices flirting with 100 € for atomizers that are basically basic in design.

The box in which the Carnage is presented immediately put me at ease: “What is this thing? Aren't they making fun of me here? 90 € the joke! ” The good man who has just spent this sum has the right, at this precise moment, to regret his purchase.

But we are quickly calmed by its content, once rid of this bubble pack of m ...

An atomizer of raw appearance, massive, very beautifully made, intended to cross the years without taking a wrinkle.

I still haven't become a maniacal dripper, but I do admit that if I were to fall and my wife or my friends had to get me one for my birthday or for Christmas, I would like it to be a product of this level. quality.

It's a Top Ato for this timeless High End dripper that will, I'm sure, cross a few generations.

Good Vape

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About the Author

Present since the beginning of the adventure I do in the juice and stuff always keeping in mind that we all started a day. I always put myself in the skin of the consumer by carefully avoiding not falling into the geek attitude.