Hellvape Helheim RDTA Review

We all love Hellvape, they put out some fantastic atomizers, and have pushed a few winners out over the last year or two for sure. Always with quality builds and flawless finishes, Hellvape’s gear stands the test of time, and are usually something you can use for years to come. That’s the reputation they’ve built, and so is it any wonder, I always get a little excited whenever I’m asked to review something of theirs?

Well, today I’ve got something here to get a little bit excited about. This is for those of you who prefer dual coils, and don’t mind chugging a huge amount of juice during the day. This time around Hellvape have released an RDTA!

Let’s check out Hellvape’s Helheim RDTA!

Big thanks goes to Vaporstate, who sent this out for the purposes of review!

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General Info

The Helheim RDTA from Hellvape is quite a small tank for what it is, standing at only 51mm tall, and 25mm in diameter, it’s wider base allows more room for builds, while it’s shorter stature keeps the size down for a better look on most devices.

In essence, it’s your standard orientated RDTA, of Genesis design. The top cap and deck up top with your tank below, allowing you to drop your cotton wicks down into the chamber to soak up e-liquid for the coils.

While the basic premise is carried over from past RDTA designs, Hellvape have modernised the Helheim with a few modern features that won’t go unnoticed. Dual airflow controls for instance, allow quite a lot of fine tuning of your airflow. You also have a postless deck that allows two coils, and a locking feature on the top cap, to ensure that your airflow is always pointed directly at your coils.

The Base/Deck

As you can see, the deck is of postless design, allowing your coils to sit up top proud of the deck, slotting the legs down into the post holes, and tighten up from the sides by the flathead screws provided.
Your wicks will fall over the edge and down into two large kidney shaped wicking ports, allowing a massive amount of e-liquid to wick up. (Yes this tank is a juice hog for sure!)

Airflow comes in from the sides, with the lower airflow control inlet, pushing air into the small chamber under the deck and then up through the 10 holes provided for under coil airflow.

The deck is securely held together with the tank glass by orings and a central post that tightens down to ensure everything is sealed and secured.
Something else of note, is the two placement holes on either side of the deck, the cap has two matching posts that slot into these holes to ensure the cap sits in the correct position, but the deck holes also double as filling ports for the tank chamber.

Of particular note, see the edge of the block, and how it slopes off toward the wicking ports? What a clever little addition, to ensure even better wicking, with there being no sharp corners that might choke the wicking!

Top Cap

The top cap is a really nice, thought out design, it comes apart into two separate pieces, with the top section locking down onto the bottom section via a sliding lock system, making sure it doesn’t come off by accident, and ensuring your airflow sits right at all times.

From top to bottom, you’ve got an 810 drip tip with orings on the internal side of the actual top cap, the top conical top airflow section with it’s 5 slots for adjustment, and the bottom section that contains a 10 hole honeycomb style underlying airflow for the top airflow, and a small cyclops style airflow ring below it for airflow under the coils.
The entire cap, simply pushes down onto the deck (as long as the locating pins are lined up) and sits in place.

Airflow

The airflow is cleverly done on the Helheim. With two different airflow systems, one for across the coils coming in from the side (top airflow), and another feeding in from the side, and coming up from under the coils (bottom airflow) and plenty of incremental adjustments that can be made, will have you find your sweet spot in no time.

The top airflow has 10 underlying airflow holes, that are regulated by the rotation of the top cap, which has 5 slots in it, creating a smooth cross airflow across the coils.

The bottom airflow is only a small cyclops style airflow with adjustment ring, but that feeds through the deck block and under the coils coming out of 10 small airflow holes under the coils for an even flow coming up from that direction.

Hellvape have paid a lot of attention to the design of this dual airflow and it shows, being both highly adjustable, and smooth on all settings.

Filling

Remember I mentioned the two positioning holes either side of the deck earlier? Well, that’s where you fill. Simply whip the entire top cap off, and fill via one of these holes. The other is to allow air to get out while filling. A simple system, that simply works.

Building

Now to the build. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but this has to be the easiest deck I’ve ever built on.
Line your coils up, drop them in the slots, tighten the side screws, pulse and wick.
That is it! And it takes all of about 5 minutes to do, even when you’re trying to get your coils perfectly lined up.

Any Leaks?

None, unless you hold it upside down, but we don’t do that with RDTA’s do we? 🙂

Pros:

• Lots of build space on the deck
• Dual airflow for under coil and across coil
• Great build quality
• Clever little additions like the top cap lock and locating pins doubling as fill ports
• Dual coil capable
• Excellent airflow options
• Really easy to build on
• Comes with Squonk pin
• Conical top cap for better flavour
  

Cons:

• Chews through juice
• Small tank size
• Not pocket friendly (but you wouldn’t really expect it to be)
  

Where to Buy:

As always with Hellvape’s stuff, you can pick the Helheim RDTA up through their Australian partner, Vaporstate.
Vaporstate have the Helheim for $59 AU, which is a pretty good price for what you get. Go check them out now.

Conclusion

What a top notch little RDTA! Hellvape, you’ve outdone yourselves this time around. The Helheim is not only easy to use, but it’s plain to see that Hellvape have gone above and beyond with the small improvements to it’s function.
It’s a flavour banger for sure, easy to build on, and super quick to fill.

I particularly love the dual airflow control, the slide lock conical top cap, and position pins that are used to fit the top cap into place. Very clever additions.

Be warned, this tank is a big of a juice hog however, so if you’re expecting to not have to refill every hour or so, you’ll be in for a bit of a surprise! Hellvape have put a squonk pin in the box though, so if you’re wanting less filling, give that a shot.

All in all, this is one fantastic RDTA, a quality build, with a lot of thoughtful little fine tuning to make the experience even better than expected. Good work guys!

Shane Presser

Shane Presser has been vaping since 2013, and has extensive experience with advanced equipment, coil builds and DIY mixing. He is the man behind VapersGarage, and also more recently Aussie Vape Stores, a resource to help vapers find their nearest Vape Shops, and eLiquid Vendors.