In this review, I will be taking a good look at the new Horizon Falcon Legend tank.
So will this new Falcon spread its wings and become a Legend, as the name implies or only in the minds of its creators?
Have Horizon put flavour back into sub-ohm vaping with this tank?
Let’s find out!
HorizonTech (or simply “Horizon“) manufacturing and design plant is based in Shenzhen China. They have many years of experience in not only producing excellent flavour atomisers, but they also produce regulated and disposable devices!
The Horizon Falcon range includes – the Falcon, Falcon Mini, Falcon 2 and Falcon King.
I loved my original Falcon tank and still use it occasionally!
What to Expect From the Horizon Falcon Legend Tank?
Horizon has released this tank in 5 attractive colours, Stainless Steel (under review), Black, Gun Metal, Blue, and Rainbow.
The Falcon Legend is available in two sizes – 5ml (standard) is 28×54.8mm and 2ml (TPD) is 25.5×54.8mm.
Basically, the Legend is an industry-standard sub-ohm tank, albeit it’s got a bit of oomph to it!
It comes with a ¼ turn fill cap and bottom-to-top adjustable airflow.
Horizon has included their newest 2 new coils with the kit, the M6 and M8. Both these coils are 0.15Ω Mesh coils. They use Bamboo Fibre as a wicking material.
This TPD sample of the Falcon Legend was sent in for review by Horizon!
As always my thoughts and views are my own, after a considerable testing period.
Kit Contents
- Horizon Falcon Legend tank
- M8 0.15ohm coil (installed)
- M6 0.15ohm coil
- Spare O-rings
- Spare gasket
- Spare Glass
- User manual
Specifications
- Size : 28×54.8mm (standard) and 25.5×54.8mm (TPD)
- Capacity: standard 5ml, 3.5ml, (TPD PC tank) 2ml
- Coils: compatible with all Falcon M and F coils
- Top fill
- ¼ turn cap
- Triple-slotted bottom adjustable airflow
Horizon Falcon Legend Tank – Design and Build Quality
For me, the 2ml version of the Legend was a little disappointing. It came with a Polycarbonate dummy tank installed, which must be replaced before use! According to the literature, a replacement glass tube is sent with your purchase in a separate box!
No replacement was sent with mine and being a cheapskate, I refused to purchase one lol.
However, I did find a bubble glass in my collection that was the right fit for the tank!
Construction
The materials for the Falcon Legend include – Stainless Steel, Polycarbonate and Delrin. For the standard version 5ml and 3.5ml Pyrex tubes are supplied.
The kit includes a spare coil, a few O-rings and a user booklet.
I would say that the overall construction quality and design are good and have been executed well!
This tank will dismantle into 6 parts including the coil.
Starting At The Top
The Falcon Legend has a removable wide-bore 810 Delrin mouthpiece.
Top cap
This tank has a removable Stainless Steel top cap which has a ¼ turn design, making it simple to fill the tank with liquid.
The cap is embedded with an O-ring which stabilises the mouthpiece and has 3 knurled patterns around the edge to help with its removal.
Fill Ports
With the cap removed, you will see a black silicon gasket along with 2 kidney-shaped fill ports and the central chimney.
Looking at the rim of this part, you will notice a continuation of the knurled pattern and the chimney section.
Base Cup /Airflow
The base airflow consists of triple slots that are adjustable!
Above the airflow ring are the same 3 knurling patterns, which assist in the removal of the base/cup.
When unscrewed from the main tank section, you will see that the coil screws into the cup. The top of the coil acts as part of the chimney, it screws into the underside of the fill port section.
Looking into the connection cup you will see the reverse side of the 510 connection pin that touches the bottom of the coil.
All the standard, design and safety info has been printed on the bottom of the base cup and it has a threaded 510 post with a Gold-Plated connection pin.
The Falcon Legend has solid seals and all the threading has been well-turned!
Tank Tube
By unscrewing the base, you can easily remove the Polycarbonate dummy tank, which is installed on the 2ml version.
I swapped this dummy tank for a bubble Pyrex tube from my collection.
FYI, the width of the top, bottom and length of the glass tube all measure 20mm!
Stock Coils
The Falcon Legend is compatible with the complete F and M coil range!
This kit included 2 Bamboo Fibre wicked coils, which BTW taste great!
- M8 0.15Ω mesh, 65 to 70W (pre-installed)
- M6 0.15Ω mesh, 65 to 70W
The mesh in the M6 looks to be only slightly more coarse than that in the M8!
Both these new coils can be purchased in blister packs of 3.
Horizon Falcon Legend Tank – Quick Start Guide
Horizon Falcon Legend Preparation
Decide on which of the coils you want to use!
- Prime your coil with a few drops of e-liquid on all visible cotton
- Unscrew the base cup from the tank.
- Screw the coil into the base cup and then screw the cup back into the tank, at this point, I like to close the bottom airflow
- Remove the ¼ turn top cap and fill the Falcon Legend with e-liquid
- Replace the cap and screw the tank onto a suitable device. Before your 1st firing please allow around 5-10 minutes for the cotton to soak up more liquid
- Open the bottom airflow and enjoy a great vape.
How Does the Horizon Falcon Legend Perform?
Today, I’ll pop the Falcon Legend on the Smok Mag-18 device. The tank has been pre-installed with the M8 0.15Ω mesh coil which I will be using.
I will also be using “Strawberry Yog” from E-Juice Warehouse for this example!
The Falcon Legend produces an abundance of vapour and flavour.
However, I’m not going to blow vapour at you and say everything is perfect with this atomiser – the main annoyance for me is the noise from airflow!
Flavour/Vapour
Starting with a conservative 35W for a few toots to help bed the coil in. I had the airflow almost closed, to prove to myself that the Legend can handle a somewhat loose cool RDL draw. The flavour by the way was excellent!
The Legend comes into its own as a DTL atomiser.
With the airflow open to its fullest, I was very impressed with this version of the Falcon! It produced a lot of vapour at 65W, much more than I was expecting! With a flavour for me, that was quite outstanding.
There wasn’t much in the way of a quality change at 70W, but the warmth of the vapour was very pleasant!
I don’t like to overwhelm any coil, but I felt I had to press on to 75, 80 then 85W.
The change was quite remarkable! While the flavour was still excellent, the heat of the vapour at 85W was much too much for me and my micro-lungs rebelled lol.
But saying that I did manage to fill my small office with vapour!
Coil longevity
With this particular coil (M8 0.15Ω), I am approaching 10 days of vape time at 60W and the coil is still going strong.
Airflow
As I said above the airflow is noisy – no, make that bloody noisy – especially with a fully open airflow.
This is the noisiest atomiser I’ve experienced for a very long time!
While I have not experienced any leaks from any part of the tank, the airflow does express a minor amount of condensation at times.
Dummy Tank
I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the 2ml Polycarbonate dummy tank – this tank comes installed with!
Where vaping is concerned I am very safety conscious!
So to make it clear, this is for those users with little or no experience with tanks/atomisers and also for those who don’t always read documentation!
Warning
The 2ml Polycarbonate tank must be removed and replaced before this atomizer is used for vaping!
Should the atomiser be used with the Polycarbonate tank in place, the plastic could quite well melt due to the heat of the coil at higher wattages!
As a side note for you all – I was encouraged to find that the Pyrex bubble glass which came with my Hellvape R Tank was a perfect fit!
Pros
- Good quality and design
- Very tasty flavour
- Excellent vapour production
- New range of coils
Cons
- Polycarbonate 2ml dummy tank
- Noisy airflow
Final Review Verdict
As I’ve said in the past, I’m not one for stock coil tanks – however, this is a good-looking, solid old-school style tank that lives up to the range name of Falcon, in its production of excellent flavour and vapour!
Truth be told, the only thing that puts me off replacing the tank should the need arise, is the 2ml Polycarbonate dummy tank! But having now replaced it for a Pyrex bubble tank, I have no big complaints with this atomiser!
Well maybe the noise from the airflow, but really that’s just a misdemeanour, as all sub-ohm tanks make some noise and I can live with it because the tank produces excellent vapour and great flavour.
I would say this tank was created for intermediate to experienced vapers.
Have you purchased the Horizon Falcon Legend?
Do you have any questions about it? Let us know in the comments below!
