Titan 510

Titan 510 Automatic Battery Electronic Cigarette Review

If you have read my previous review of the Titan 510 compact kit you’ll know that I wasn’t all that impressed with the manual battery that can with the kit, so I decided to order a white Titan 510 automatic battery and a new atomiser to go with it to see how that compared to the manual version.

The battery life of the Titan 510 electronic cigarette isn’t all that good either so I decided to order the Titan PCC at the same time as the Titan 510 automatic battery and atomiser. As usual with TECC / Totally Wicked, the items arrived the day after they were dispatched from their warehouse.

If you like your electronic cigarettes to look and imitate real tobacco cigarettes then the all white Titan 510 with automatic battery may well be just the ticket, whilst being larger than a normal tobacco cigarette, from a distance it can easily be mistaken for the real thing. In fact a couple of people who had gotten used to seeing me with the gold Titan 510 thought I had reverted back to tobacco cigarettes.

The draw on the automatic Titan 510 electronic cigarette is just right in my opinion and is nice and smooth with a slight bit of resistance, but you don’t have to suck so hard that it makes your jaw ache. The battery is activated and the atomiser starts to produce vapour as soon as you begin to inhale, without the need to remember to press a button, just the way a tobacco cigarette would react.

On the manual Titan 510 I found that the atomiser would start to generate a burnt taste after taking 10 – 15 drags, and you’d need to top up the cartridge with 2 or three drops of fluid. With the automatic battery this problem seems to disappear and I can get 50-60 drags before having to top up the cartridge with 10-12 drops of fluid.

Why the cartridges should last longer before needing topping up I’m not sure. At first I thought it must be the atomiser so I used the automatic battery with my gold atomiser and got the same result. If I then used the white atomiser with my gold manual battery I’m back to topping up the cartridges every 10-15 drags. The only thing I can think of is that the way I use the manual battery means it’s active longer, but no matter how I try I can’t get the manual battery and cartridge to last longer than 15 drags between top ups.

Now I really like the Titan 510 electronic cigarette with the automatic battery, but it still has a few problems. One of the main ones is that the portable battery is too sensitive and can be activated by vibrations and wind, and I’ve also heard people say loud noises will activate it, but I can’t say I’ve noticed that problem.

Putting it down on a hard surface such as a table will often start the battery for a second or two. Blowing on the LED at the end of the battery will also activate it, so if you are outside on a windy day or in a car with the windows open you may find that it smokes itself.

For me these aren’t serious problems but they may be to you. If I’m out on a windy day or a passenger in a car, holding the Titan by the battery with my fingers curled around the LED solves the wind problem, but probably not so easy if your driving. As to the vibration problem, simply separating the battery from the atomiser when not in use will prevent any damage from occurring due to accidental activation. You definitely won’t want to drop it fully assembled into your pocket, unless your looking for something to keep you warm in the winter.

Another problem, if you can call it that, is that the automatic battery seems to have a 2 second cut off, in that the battery won’t remain active in one go for more than 2 seconds at a time, but there is no delay before it can be activated again. You can for example take two consecutive 2 second inhales, but can’t have one 4 second inhale.

Again I don’t find this a problem and tend to take two quick primer puffs to get the atomiser working and then a full 2 second inhale. Having smoked hand rolled cigarettes, that don’t contain chemicals to keep them burning like factory made cigarettes, this is something I’d often find myself doing anyway as the rolly started to go out. The vapour production isn’t as good as on the manual battery but it is certainly enough for me and is more than my Super produces.

It also still produces a good throat hit, or at least I find it does but most of the time I use 0mg liquids, so heavy smokers may not find it produces as much of a hit as I do. The nicotine strength of the liquid you use will also have an effect on this.

The battery life on both the automatic and manual batteries is on the low side lasting around an hour and a half of heavy use. Even if you are a fairly light user you are going to run into problems with dead batteries especially if you are away from a power source for any length of time or only have one battery. That is of course unless you have the Titan PCC (Portable charging Case).

All in all I’m really pleased with the Titan 510 electronic cigarette and Automatic battery, so much so that my poor little Super hasn’t been out in about a week. If it wasn’t for the battery being so sensitive I’d probably say this was the best starter device for anyone making the switch from tobacco to electronic cigarettes. But I can see the sensitive battery causing real problems for some people.

I was going to include the Titan PCC in this review but thought I’d give it it’s own post.

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