TECC D20 Kit
TECC treat us to a bit of old school tube style with a fresh new pod twist with their D20 kit
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by Antony Lord
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Today I’m looking at the second budget starter kit sent over by The Electronic Cigarette Company, and this time it’s the TECC D20 kit (aka the Eleaf iJust 20), a modern take on the classic pen style kit. This is just £22.99 and at the time of writing you'll even get two 10ml bottles of e-liquid thrown in as well.
Specifications
- 131 x 20mm
- 67.3 grams
- 1500mAh battery / 2 amp charging
- 3 adjustable power levels (max 30 watts)
- resistance range 0.4~3.0ohms
- 2ml tank
- GTL coils (2 x 1.2ohm coils provided)
The contents of the box are fairly basic with the D20 itself, a USB-C charge cable, and two 1.2ohm GTL coils. I was sent the black version for testing but it’s also available in pink and silver.
One of the things I was most impressed with is the user manual, the first ten pages cover the basic setup and operation of the D20 kit in a clear pictorial style which is perfect for the first time user, top marks to TECC for that one.
The D20 is your classic cylindrical “pen” style device with a battery at the base and a tank at the top. You have a large power button surrounded by an LED ring on one side and a USB-C charge port on the opposite side, the base has a nice rubber finish so it won’t scratch any surfaces if you have it stood upright.
The large LED ring around the power button indicates the current charge level when you take a vape (green over 60%, red below 20%, and blue in between). You also have three adjustable power levels by pressing the power button three times (red is low, blue is medium, and green is high) which is something we don’t always see on these more budget minded kits.
The D20 features 2 amp USB-C charging and in my tests this actually hit a peak charge of 1.89 amps with a 1498mAh recorded capacity. This means that the D20 battery charged in a rather impressive 59 minutes, with the supplied 1.2ohm coils this will run for quite a while between charges as well and I got a rather impressive two days out of it.
Just below the tank you have an adjustable airflow ring with seven holes so you can take this all the way from an eye watering single (0.8mm?) hole up to a fairly airy direct lung draw (not with the included coils though). Of course as this is a modern take on a pen style kit the tank is actually a “pod tank” which sits in the propriety recess at the top and is held in by magnets, this means that you’re locked into the GTL coils and D20 pod/tank. There’s a small autodraw sensor hidden in this top area as well.
The D20 pod/tank has a removable 510 drip tip and a push to fill top, this is held firmly in place by a small ball bearing on the underside so I’ve not experienced it coming open in pockets etc. The fill port is also a decent enough size so it’s been a pleasure to use. This has a 2ml capacity and I’m assuming it’s probably PCTG but I can’t find any mention of that, should the worst happen a replacement pod is available separately for just £3.49 in any case.
This uses the GTL coils which use a kanthal mesh coil which are simply press fit into the base of the pod. Both of the coils supplied in the D20 kit are the 1.2 ohm mouth to lung (MTL) variety so this has obviously been aimed at first time vapers. It is compatible with the Eleaf GTL coils as well though which are available in 0.8 and 0.4ohm kanthal mesh if you want to experiment with a more cloudy vape.
With everything set up, I set off with the lowest power setting and dialed the airflow into my preference as I prefer a looser MTL vape, the autodraw feature worked well enough here but I found myself preferring to use the power button instead most of the time. At this lower setting I did find there was a tendency for the coil to flood periodically and there was quite a bit of leaking underneath, bumping the power up to the medium or high settings seemed to solve this though. The flavour from the coils has been great and I might even experiment at some stage and try this out with some of the 0.4ohm Eleaf GTL coils.
Pros
- Fast charging
- Inexpensive
- Kanthal mesh coils
Cons
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Coil did tend to flood at lowest power setting
Conclusion
A great budget entry point into the world of vaping, The Electronic Cigarette Company D20 kit is a good place to look if you’re a new vaper. Although you only get the 1.2ohm mouth to lung coils included, this is also compatible with the Eleaf GTL coils if you want to experiment with a more airy direct lung vape down the line, it also means it should be easy to find coils as well.
Many thanks to The Electronic Cigarette Company for sending the TECC D20 kit over for review.
Antony Lord
Reviewer at POTVI was a twenty a day smoker for 25 years and like most smokers I was always going to quit "next week". Having hit my mid forties and having the usual smokers cough and difficulty with anything more than moderate exercise it was obviously time to give up the cancer sticks. I bought my first e-cigarette in 2013 when they were expensive, difficult to find and quite frankly... crap. I used it for about a week then went back to the roll ups, mark up another failed quit attempt. The fact that I had just changed jobs and was under quite a lot of stress probably didn't help. Move on to 2016 and whilst I was browsing eBay I noticed that one of the suggested items that would occasionally pop up was for a cheap e-cigarette. It looked similar to the one I'd bought 3 years earlier but it was only £5 (about 8 times cheaper than before) so I decided to give it another go on a whim. Once the kit arrived I managed to gradually replace the cigarettes with my new kit over a two month period and got into watching YouTube reviews for newer kit. My cheap and cheerful kit was replaced by a more upmarket affair, and being a noob I made a mistake once it arrived... I put in the supplied direct lung coil, this was of course a complete revelation and I haven't touched a cigarette since. Oh and I no longer spend the first five minutes of every day having a coughing fit either.
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