Tornado Mega Atomiser – Review
Following on with my investigation of the Mega Tornado accessories I purchased a couple of Mega Tornado Atomisers and a box of unfilled cartridges from Totally Wicked e-Liquid. After my good experiences of the Mega Automatic Battery I was looking forward to trying the Mega Atomiser, however my experience wasn’t so good with these.
On arrival as you would expect I was eager to try them out so I immediately unpacked an atomiser tucked a tissue into it and blew out any primer fluid. I then unpacked a blank cartridge and filled it with 40 drops of liquid. They are listed as being able to hold 2.5ml of liquid and as on average 20 drops equates to about 1ml I thought it would be under filled.
I then added a couple of drops to the bridge of the atomiser and eagerly pushed the cartridge into the atomiser, screwed it onto a standard tornado battery and took a drag. After a few drags I was rewarded with a good flavour, nice throat hit and clouds of vapour.
Whilst in use the atomiser makes quite a bit of noise sizzling and crackling away, and you get a hissing noise as air is drawn through the cartridge. It’s not to bad to start with but after a while the noise began to get on my nerves.
Eventually I put the tornado down as I normally do by standing upright on the end of the battery and went and made a coffee. Came back and picked up the tornado to find a stream of liquid running down the side of the battery.
Tornado Mega Atomiser Detail
Thinking that maybe it was a faulty atomiser I tried again with the second one, this time standing it on a tissue and watched the liquid pour out the bottom after a few minutes. Not sure if I had a faulty pair of atomisers or if it was a problem with the cartridge filler I thought I’d try replacing the filler with fluval and got the same result.
At this point I decided to do a little investigation on the forums where I found it was recommended not to fill with more than 1.5ml of liquid, and not to disturb the cartridge filler and even fill with a syringe so that liquid is inserted at the base of the cartridge, then top off with a few drops so that the wool is wet when it comes into contact with the bridge of the atomiser. This helped a little but if left stood on a tissue liquid would still eventually leak out.
Other advice recommended that you hold the Tornado horizontally while in use and the cartridge be removed from the battery when not in use and stored cartridge down, which indicated to me that leaking was a common problem.
Add the leaking issue to the noise they make and they are way too much trouble for me. I like an electronic cigarette that I can just pick up and use, without having to hold in a certain way, and that I can put down to answer the door or phone or simply make a coffee without coming back to pool of liquid on my desk or table. I definitely wouldn’t use them as my main device or carry them around with me.
Mega Atomiser Comparison
I may have just been unlucky and received 2 defective atomisers but judging by some of the forum posts I don’t believe I was. Having said that though many people think they are excellent and say they haven’t had any leaking problems.
One theory I’ve thought of is that maybe heavy smokers don’t notice the problem as they are constantly using their Mega Tornados so liquid doesn’t get the chance to leak out, while I quite often put mine down. They do produce good flavour and vapour so if you like to direct drip they could be good for that. I’ve seen people asking for drip tips for them so people obviously use them in this way.
If after this write up you still want to try them all I’d say is make sure you use a manual battery, as the chances of ruining an automatic battery by leaking liquid managing to find its way inside the battery is a fairly high risk with the Mega Tornado Atomiser.
Product results as of Wednesday 22nd of February 2012
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Mega Tornado Atomiser Each Mega Tornado Atomiser and Cartridges can hold over 2.5ml of e-liquid. This should be sufficient to last the average user the whole day w... |
 £10.99 
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Low Resistance Tornado Mega Atomiser The Low Resistance (LR) Atomiser are the same size as the reglar Tornado Mega Atomisers but allow the user to experience of higher voltage vaping on a... |
£6.99
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Tornado Mega Atomiser Cartridges These Tornado Mega Atomiser Cartridges are supplied unfilled, allowing you to fill them with your favorite e-liquid. Each cartridge can hold ... |
£4.99
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