I am scoring the new Resa Prince Sub-Ohm Tanka solid A+. I thought I should get that out of the way now. So if you like the look of the tank, just know that it is wider and bigger than it appears to be. It is, after all, a 7.5mL capacity sub-ohm tank. Knowing this, if you want to buy one, do it, you won’t regret it. Now, let’s get the review…

The Resa Prince is truly one magnificent Sub-Ohm Tank. Having said that, there is a mystery that I cannot unravel. Even after using mine for 10 days, I’m baffled as to why my preinstalled 0.4ohm V12 Prince-Q4 Quadruple Coil is still delivering superb performance. This is NOT the coil that drives the TFV12 Baby Prince, it’s the same coil that drives the full-size Prince. In fact, the preinstalled Q4 in the Resa Prince is identical to the preinstalled Q4 of the TFV12 Prince. I’ve never gotten more than 7 days from a full-size Prince Q4 or X6, yet when it sits in the Resa Prince, I’m 10 days out and running strong. Why?

I’ve decided it is either my imagination, or that the Coils that come with the Resa Prince are somehow different than their official Replacement Coils, which are the same Replacement Coils for the TFV12 Prince. Or, the design of the airflow slots delivers the air over the coils in a way that extends the life and performance of the Prince Coils. That said, I do have a theory, one I will share with you at the end of this long review.

What I do know as a cold hard fact, the Resa Prince is a far better performer than the TFV12 BABY Prince, which use the older V8 Baby Coils.

Using the same e-liquid I always use, KILO Black Series Birthday Cake I purchase through Element Vape or Breazy (depending on their stock levels), I have been using the same preinstalled Coil for 10 solid days with less than a 1% drop in performance. After all this time, I’m getting the same awesome flavor fidelity, the same huge clouds of vapor, every time I use it. It’s as though I’m (almost) using a fresh Coil every day. But, that’s impossible, right?

There will be 2 in-depth Reviews for the SMOK TFV12 Resa Prince Sub-Ohm Tank, plus our previous Preview. This is the first Review. The reason for another full review of the Resa Prince is so that whatever evaluations we make about this tank is either backed up by another reviewer, or another reviewer has a different experience than I do. I have no idea what will be said in the other review, but I trust myself enough to say that in my 6 years of experience of writing for Spinfuel VAPE, the Resa Prince worthy of the high praise I’m giving it.

The Resa Prince Tanks I’m using came directly from SMOKTech to Vapor Authority to Spinfuel VAPE. This first review is based on the two tanks we received ahead of our full shipments from Vapor Authority and Element Vape.

Our second review, due in about a week, will cover the Resa Prince tanks we received from Element Vape, which also came directly from SMOKTech to Element Vape, and then directly to Spinfuel VAPE. Every Resa Prince, like every other Tank we’ve reviewed, is 100% genuine, along with the replacement Coils, of which we already have dozens of packs in our stockroom.

I sincerely suggest that should you decide to purchase this awesome new tank, do so from the vendors we trust just to be sure you’re not buying a counterfeit.

The SMOK Resa Prince Sub-Ohm Tank is a Sub-Ohm tank that is similar to the full-size TFV12 Prince, and yet different at the same time. While both Sub-Ohm Tanks use the same TFV12 Coils; the Prince Q4, X6 and T10, though the newly designed T10 is called the V12 Prince-T10 Red Light Coil because it emits a fairly powerful red light while you vape.

Note*As of now, we cannot find replacement coils for the V12 Prince-T10 that include the Red-Light functionality. Until information about the T10 become clearer, purchasing replacement T10 Coils means purchasing Coils without the Red-Light function. Strange, right?

Confusion

In a couple of ways I find the TFV12 Resa Prince confusing. I can’t quite decide why SMOK executives believed the Resa Prince needed to come into existence, other than the fact that SMOK could do it.

There seems to be two game plans at work here. In one SMOK uses the same playbook it has used since the TFV8 Cloud Beast, meaning that there was the Cloud Beast, then the Baby Beast, then the Big Baby Beast.

After the V8 Big Baby Beast, SMOK seemed to do a one-off with the TFV12 Cloud Beast King, a monster of the tank that was so powerful many people believed it to be so high-performance that it couldn’t be used as an every-day-all-day Sub-Ohm Tank. And they were right, for the majority anyway. So, the next move for SMOK was to take the same TFV12 moniker and build a NEW tank that required less than half the power to deliver exquisite flavor and humungous clouds of vapor, yet with a totally new design, and that could be used as an all-day-ever-day tank… the TFV12 Prince.

The TFV12 Prince seemed to reset the first Playbook. After wide acceptance and positive reviews from us and many others, SMOK followed the V8 playbook using the Prince as the new TFV12 Flagship, basically leaving the Cloud Beast King hanging out to dry.

The playbook called for SMOK to release a Baby version, and they did… the TFV12 Baby Prince, but they cheated. The TFV12 Coils, even the Prince Coils that required so little power to produce incredible performance, were just too large to fit into a “baby sized” tank. So the TFV12 Baby Prince was born, but instead of TFV12 Coils, SMOK reverted to the V8 Coil line. If you own a TFV8 Big Baby Beast, or any other V8 Tank, feel free to use those coils in the TFV12 Baby Prince.

Now, beginning last week, and according to the playbook, the Big Baby Prince was born. The TFV12 Big Baby Prince looks a lot like the Prince, and the Baby Prince, but holds more e-liquid, and yet uses the same V8-Baby Coils.

With the birth of the Big Baby Prince, which, as of now, is only available on a couple of SMOK Starter Kits (the newly released SMOK H-PRIV 2 Kit for example), comes the simultaneous release of another brand-new Tank… The Resa Prince.

This will undoubtedly reset the playbook again.

The Resa Prince looks nothing like the Prince, the Baby Prince, or the Big Baby Prince. It uses the full-size Prince Coils, holds 7.5mL of e-liquid, just .5mL less than the full-size Prince’s 8mL.  Despite using the same Coils as the full-sized Prince, it is designated at a brand-new tank design.

Can there be any doubt that a Baby Resa and a Big Baby Resa is on the drawing board already? What do you think? End of May? Mid-June?

Briefly; the Resa Prince uses a new top-fill system, gone is swing away hinge cap. The 810 Cobra Resin Drip Tip is shorter, the concave-convex glass tube is wider and shorter than the Prince, and the body is all magnificent Cobra Resin Design.

The Resa Prince uses a simple twist off top cap that reveals two semi-large fill slots for e-liquid. The top cap threading is smooth, but I wouldn’t describe it as silky smooth. It’s shorter drip tip is threaded, and fits snugly into the top cap. The Resa Prince also handle heat dissipation better than the Prince, and certainly better than the Baby Prince.

Vaping at the highest wattages (120W) possible for the coil I noticed the heat dissipation of the glass, drip tip, and chassis are extraordinarily cool to the touch, more so than the original Prince.

The Resa Prince has an all Stainless-Steel body that is covered in a beautiful resin-dyed material that forms the look of an “all Cobra Resin” Sub-Ohm Tank. Each “finish” is said to be unique, though the two “black” Resa Prince tanks we have on hand are at least 99.99% identical (I couldn’t find a difference). Our second review will cover the other colors and talk about any special markings found in the supposedly unique finishes. Particularly the new 7-color model, which is dark, and incredibly beautiful.

The defaultglass tube is a bulb-shaped tube that provides the 7.5mL juice capacity, while the spareglass tube is straight and has a maximum capacity of 5mL. Seeing both glass tubes I can’t imagine anyone wantingto remove the bulb-shaped tube for the straight glass tube. I would have rather SMOK inserted a second bulb-shaped 7.5mL glass tube.

The Resa Prince is also the only Prince to offer the LED light-up coil with the above-mentioned new 0.12ohm V12 Prince-T10 Red Light Coil. It has a range of 60 to 120W. I found the optimal range for this Coil to be between 70-78W, but I only used it for a a few hours.

The 0.4ohm V12 Prince-Q4 Quadruple Coil (preinstalled) is rated for 40 to 100W and a 0.15ohm V12 Prince X-6 Sextuple Coil rated for 50-120W. The Resa Prince also offers an optional RBA Head. So far, I give the flavor and vapor to the Q4, with the X6 a close second. The V10 is a cloud chucker, with good, but not the best flavor Coil of the bunch.

Finding just the right Vape Mod to use with the Resa Prince was a task I was not ready for when it arrived. Honestly, I thought the Resa Stick would release first. The Resa Stick is the Resa version of the Stick Prince, and from what I understood, this would be our first exposure to the Resa Tank. The Stick battery is identical to the Resa Prince, so the tank and battery match. Since the Resa Prince came first, choosing a mod that would complement the Resa Prince took some trial and error.

I wound up splitting the past 10 days of vaping the Resa Prince with the upcoming Pioneer4You Trantor Mod (equipped with the YiHi SX520 chipset), and the brand new SMOK H-PRIV 2. The Kit version ships with the TFV12 Big Baby Prince, which uses the V87-Baby Coils.

That said, the H-PRIV 2 has the same Resa “Cobra Resin” “honeycomb” design throughout its exterior and matches the Resa Prince nearly perfectly. In fact, I believe it would have been a better move to ship the H-PRIV 2 with a Resa Prince instead of the Big Baby Prince.

If you’ve been vaping with a full-size Prince, you know what a great job these full-size Prince Coils can do. The Resa Prince produces a fuller, somewhat thicker mouthful of vapor, and about equally awesome flavor as the Prince. I won’t choose between the full-size Prince and the Resa Prince in performance, though I admit the Resa Prince is ever so slightly more attractive than the Prince… it’s like deciding which actress, Odette Anabelle or Evangeline Lily, is the more attractive. For me, it depends on the day, the weather, how busy I am, and my general mood… it changes from day to day, moment to moment…

Once More about the TFV12 Coils – A Theory

If the coils in the Resa Prince kit are indeed just the same V12 coils that are in the Prince Kit, and replacement packs, then I have no idea why these coils are lasting as long as they are. But perhaps, just perhaps, SMOK has improved the standard TFV12 Prince Coils and are using them in the Resa Prince … and will be rolling them out as the old TFV12 Coil inventory dwindles down. Now wouldn’t that be fantastic?

Score: A+

SMOK TFV12 Prince Replacement Coils