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Sense Cyclone Sub Ohm Tank Review

Chris Kendell
September 8, 2015

Sense Cyclone Intro

Today we review the Sense Cyclone a high wattage sub ohm tank by Sense the makers of the Herakles and Hydra.

The Sense Cyclone uses completely different coils to the Herakles so these cannot be interchanged. The Cyclone comes with a 0.6ohm Kanthal (installed) and a spare 0.2ohm stainless steel coil. You can also purchase 0.15ohm Ni200 coils separately, for temperature control vaping. The 0.6ohm Kanthal coils are capable of 150W and this time are supposedly actually vapeable at that wattage.

According to Sense, the Cyclone is a mythical creation created by the Mayan gods and is extremely powerful. So powerful and “charming” in fact, that it “may” have been the reason the Dinosaurs became extinct! No one can stop it! (Adapted from the Cyclone packaging).

We take a look below to see if the Cyclone is really as “powerful and charming” as Sense say it is!

Sense Cyclone Specs and Features

Kit Content

  • 1x Sense Cyclone
  • 1x Spare Pyrex Glass
  • 1x 0.6 ohm  (Kanthal) Coil
  • 1x 0.2 316L (Stainless Steel) Coil

Specifications

  • Price: $39.99
  • Wattage Range: 50-150W
  • Tank Capacity: 5ml
  • Coils Available: 0.6ohm Kanthal (50-150W)
  • 0.2ohm Stainless Steel (50-100W) & 0.2ohm Ni200 Coil
  • Wicking material: 100% Japanese Organic Cotton
  • RBA: No RBA
  • Diameter: 22mm

Notable Remarks

Vaping the 0.6ohm Kanthal Coil (50-150W)

Sense Cyclone Ni200 Coil, 0.6 Ohm, 316L Coil next to a 0.6 Herakles Coil
Sense Cyclone Ni200 Coil, 0.6 Ohm, 316L Coil next to a 0.6 Herakles Coil

We vaped the 0.6ohm coil on our SMOK X-Cube II and used our Funky Monkey e-juice by Fa-Q (75% VG).

​50W – Good vapor, but little flavor.

70W – Massive vapor, but flavor is muted.

90W – The vapor is a bit warmer now at 90W, but again not getting much on the flavor front. The tank is also getting really warm when chain vaping it.

100W – Flavor is a bit better now, but again still not great. The vapor is still very much vapeable, unlike a lot of the previous sub ohm tanks at this wattage.

We could not go any higher than 110W due to the Voltage limit on the xCube II.

Vaping the 0.2ohm Stainless Steel 316L Coil

50W – Decent vapor little flavor.

60W – Good vapor, and the flavor is starting to come through a bit.

70W – This coil isn’t chucking out as much vapor as the 0.6ohm coil head. The tank itself is getting rather hot, but the vapor is still vapeable. The flavor is ok, but not great.

80W – The tank is again getting very hot and the flavor is decent, maybe marginally better than on the Kanthal coil, althought it was difficult to tell on the Kanthal because of the spitback. However, I still feel the flavor is somewhat subdued on not quite like like those Herakles coils.

90W – The vapor is still not hot and only luke warm. The clouds are huge and the flavor is again not bad, but not crazy good.

100W – These coils can really vape at 100W with no issues. The vapor production is as big as you would expect. The vapor production is warm and gets hotter on longer inhales, but isn’t unvapeable by any means. However, the bottom of the tank does get exceedingly hot, so be careful when touching it! The flavor seems to be peaking on this coil at 100W and it was considerably better at his wattage.

The 0.2ohm stainless steel coil head does what it says on the tin and can vape well at 100W. Again why would you need to vape at 100W? I don’t know, but if you want to then this is a good coil to do so on.

Vaping the 0.2ohm Ni200 Coil

Please note to those not familiar with Ni200 coils, that they need to be vaped on a temperature control box mod like the Cloupor GT, DNA 200s or the SMOK X-Cube II.

The 0.2ohm vaped best for us around 260 degrees Celsius (500 Fahrenheit). The temperature control vape was solid on the Ni200 coils. However, I didn’t think the flavor was quite as good as the SMOK TCT Ni200 coils or the Freemax Starre Pro Ni200 for instance.

Likes

Top Fill

Sense Cyclone Top Fill and Anti Spitback Blades
Sense Cyclone Top Fill and Anti Spitback Blades

The top fill system on the Sense Cyclone works a bit like the system on the Aspire Triton. You have to twist the tank into a filling position and then once finished with filling you then turn it back to vaping mode. It is extremely important that you follow the instructions and do this properly, otherwise you will have some massive leaking!

How to re-fill the Sense Cyclone without leaking:

  • Turn the tank upside down before refilling
  • Then turn the tank into re-fill mode
  • Then turn back upright and remove the lid
  • Re-fill the tank
  • Screw on the top lid firmly
  • Set the tank back into vaping mode and you are good to go

I think it’s crucial to follow these steps otherwise you will get some leakage. We didn’t follow these steps precisely the first few times and were subjected to huge leaks through the air flow holes. Hopefully you won’t get any leaking by following those steps.

5ml Tank Capacity

The Sense Cyclone comes with a decent 5ml capacity. This thing at high wattages does chuck a lot of clouds, so you will get through that 5ml pretty quickly. Fortunately the Cyclonehas top fill.

Air Flow

Sense Cyclone
Sense Cyclone

The Sense Cyclone has both a bottom air flow and additional air flow in the drip tip. This means you can adjust both to the setting you enjoy. I recommend having the top air flow partly open when vaping at higher wattages to help keep the drip tip cool.

This Tank really can Vape at 150W!

The 0.6ohm coil heads can vape at 150W with no issues. The vapor isn’t too scorching hot that you can’t vape it. In this respect the Cyclone really does what it says it can do. The tank does however get really hot when chain vaping at this wattage, so be careful with that. A lot of sub ohm tanks have claimed to be able to vape at really high wattages, but haven’t really been able to deliver. The Sense Cyclone really can and you can also vape the 0.2ohm stainless steel coils well at 100W.

Please be careful to use the right box mods and batteries if you are going to be vaping this tank at 150W!

Dislikes

Coils Not as Good as the Herakles Coils in Terms of Flavor

Sense Cyclone next to a Herakles
Sense Cyclone next to a Herakles

I didn’t think any of the Cyclone coils we tried quite lived up to the Herakles coils in terms of flavor. It was sometimes hard to tell how good the flavor was due to some spit back, but that was our underlying feeling with the coils when it came to flavor. They aren’t bad for flavor, but I would say slightly muted when compared to the original Herakles coils which in my opinion were superb.

Overcomplicated

​I am not sure what Sense have done with the Cyclone quite makes sense! To me the Cyclone feels overly complicated, which results in it not quite working as well as it should. The top re-filling system should be something which makes life easier, but instead it is quite a complicated procedure to do without getting leaks. I think this ruins the whole point of having a top fill.

Leaking and Gurgling

Like I said above, make sure to follow the instructions carefully on how to re-fill the Sense Cyclone. We did and even so, we still had some little leaking issues. For instance, we got some minor leaking out the top of the drip tip air flow. We also got some leakages through the bottom of the coil into the bottom well.

There was also a sense of gurgling when vaping and it felt like there was e-juice where it shouldn’t be. This was confirmed when exhaling on the tank when the e-liquid shot out of the air flow slots!

Spit Back

Sense Cyclone Anti Spitback Blades
Sense Cyclone Anti Spitback Blades

​We got a lot of spit back from the 0.6ohm Kanthal coils in particular and there was considerable gurgling. We tried two tanks and re-filling the tanks many times following the instructions and it came to the same result. There are little metal leaves in the chimney to prevent spit back and there is little room for any e-liquid to get through. I can’t understand how it was even possible for spit back to happen, but it did.

Loud

The gurgling and the tiny metal leaves in the chimney to stop spit back, made for a quite a loud vape.

Is 150W Necessary?

​This isn’t a criticism of the Cyclone itself, but more the thinking behind high wattage vaping. Do we really need to be vaping at 150W?! I am quite happy to vape at 30W and don’t see the whole appeal of this 100W + vaping. This is just my personal opinion and if you disagree, be sure to let me know why, in the comments below.

Verdict

Who is this tank for? Probably not for me, but if you want to vape at over 100W on a sub ohm tank, then the Cyclone is worth trying. However, if you are not interested in those sort of wattage levels, then I would recommend sticking with the Herakles or other sub ohm tanks. This is also no sub ohm tank for anyone new to sub ohm vaping.

I felt the tank itself was slightly overcomplicated and the flavor was slightly muted. However, the Cyclone does do what it says it can do and vapes well at 100-150W (once the leaking subsides). Because of the constant gurgling and leaking, I can’t really recommend this sub ohm tank and it seems as though it wasn’t just my Cyclone that had these issues (from reading other reviews it seems to be a recurring theme).

If you have tried the Sense Cyclone I would be really interested to hear your thoughts below!

Chris Kendell is the co-founder of Vaping360 & Arktan.com. He started the website with his brother and co-founder Alex in 2014, after Alex introduced him to vaping. Chris was immediately won over by the revolutionary and potentially lifesaving impacts that vaping can have on our society. In his minuscule spare time, you can find Chris travelling and exploring new places from his base in Germany, eating delicious food and enjoying a range of different sports.
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Scott Payne
Scott Payne
8 years ago

How did you go all the way to 150W on the smok box since it only goes to 8v. That will not allow you to go all the way to 150w at that voltage on a .6 coil.

Darthvoice
Darthvoice
8 years ago
Reply to  Scott Payne

Funny, I’m running at 7.5 volts, 150 watts on a sigelei 150. Xcube II does 160w.

Brent Bc Richert
Brent Bc Richert
8 years ago
Reply to  Scott Payne

I’d be interested in this to. 150w at .6 is almost 9.5 volts, the xcube will only push 8……so by 110w they were maxxed out and shouldn’t have seen a change to 150w? Only thing i can find to run it at that voltage is the tesla 200. I will say this is a very leaky tank, at least with the .6 coils.

Jeremiah White
Jeremiah White
8 years ago

I have to say that the sense cyclone is hard to use with a few major drawbacks. Mine just came in today and I got some sever leakage which landed on my finger burning it badly. So what is the solution for a topfill tank? Hopefully my newly purchased sense hydra will work, however it doesn’t hold that much fluid. Any suggestions on how to use the sense cyclone without burning myself? Which way do you turn it to open for vaping and which way to close to turn? I still can’t figure this out. Thanks!

Kevin Flood Luberger
Kevin Flood Luberger
7 years ago
Reply to  Jeremiah White

There’s pictures right on it for fill / vape. The droplet pic is for filling and the vaping picture is what you turn it to in order to vape.

Sergio Ramirez
Sergio Ramirez
8 years ago
Reply to  Jeremiah White

The hydra is rather disappointing, unless you want a small tank for either low wattage vaping with muted flavor or a gurgling, spitting good flavor while vaping with the NI200 coils

Alex Kendell
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Alex Kendell
8 years ago
Reply to  Sergio Ramirez

Oh okay, we really liked the Hydra and we did not have any issues so far. Thanks for the info!

Jeremiah White
Jeremiah White
8 years ago
Reply to  Chris Kendell

Thanks!!! So far so good.

shaun wilkerson
shaun wilkerson
8 years ago

I just got mine a few days ago and it’s a spitter! I don’t know how it got through all those fan blades but I sure managed to get enough scalding hot juice to burn my mouth and tongue. I will try to empty and refill using the method described because I didn’t turn it upside down while switching from vape to fill mode. So far I am not that impressed with this tank. It can vape at 150w but it sure is easy to get leakage and at those temps it can be dangerous. I own a crown and… Read more »

Kyle Stockman
Kyle Stockman
8 years ago

Thank you for your review and guide I got this tank yesterday under false pretenses of it being the best thing since sliced bread…upon following the rather vague instructions I was introduced to massive leaks and gurgling over long periods. After following your instructions. I finally was able to fill it and not lose half of the tank and get juice everywhere. It still leaks a bit but so far I’m not impressed even vaping at higher watts I can’t tell much of a difference in flavor. I probably am going to return it for a heracles. Thanks for the… Read more »

Alex Kendell
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Alex Kendell
8 years ago
Reply to  Kyle Stockman

So sorry to hear that Kyle, we had the issues even after following the instructions. Good luck!

Tre' Kent
Tre' Kent
8 years ago

This tank is a failure IMHO…. Pops and spits like an animal. The fill chamber just does NOT work… I don’t…get…it…