Refilla Vape Kit Review – A Longer Lasting Disposable!

We’ve got something innovative and exciting to look at in today’s review, as we take a look at the Refilla vape kit!

Refilla are a London-based company made up of a passionate team of designers, engineers and software specialists that have a shared mission to make vaping better. They have core values of revolution, reinvention and responsibility!

They are committed to a sustainable future for vaping by manufacturing products that are refillable (hence Refilla, geddit?) and rechargeable. Using reusable components to reduce waste. They also look to offer the same convenience as disposable vapes but be cost-effective too, offering up to 50% savings over using disposable vapes and 16x less waste.

What Can We Expect From The Refilla Kit?

You’ve got three parts that make up the Refilla Kit. They are the Refilla device, the Refilla Dock and a 10ml bottle of Bar Works e-liquid with a specially designed filling cap to use in the Refilla Dock.

The Refilla Dock is the ‘hub’ if you so wish. You pop your 10ml bottle of Bar Works e-liquid into it as well as your Refilla device. The dock automatically refills your Refilla device with e-liquid in less than two minutes and is capable of fully recharging the device in just 35 minutes.

For each full refill, the Refilla device will deliver around 540 puffs. It is capable of lasting up to 10,000 clean and reliable puffs before it needs to be disposed of and replaced.

Refilla have committed to making vaping safer for the user by using a precise temperature control system to heat up the e-liquid. They have named this ProFlow, which has been tested both in-house and in partnership with InterScientific, who are the UK’s top independent laboratory.

Independent analysis showed that the ProFlow system had no detectable metals or carbonyls in the vapour, with testing completed at 300 and 600 puff seconds! So, if you are after a cleaner vape, then Refilla will offer you this.

ProFlow is used within the Refilla device. It limits the vaping temperature to prevent the production of harmful compounds such as Formaldehyde and Acrolein and produces the cleanest vaping experience possible.

One Refilla device lasts for the same amount of time as 16 disposable vapes. So that is 16 times less batteries, plastic and silicone waste produced, making the Refilla device a more sustainable vaping choice.

Many thanks to Refilla for sending in the Refilla Kit for review.

Let’s have a deeper look at this! As always, all views are my own…

Specs

• Refilla device dimensions: 63mm x 39mm x 18mm, 31.2g (empty), 33.2g (full) weight
• Refilla Dock dimensions: 65mm x 62mm x 55mm, 102g weight
• Red, Green, Blue and Yellow colours available at launch
• Innovative refilling and recharging system
• Peristaltic pump refills the Refilla device in 2 minutes
• Dock fully recharges the device in 35 minutes
• USB-C port
• 1-1.2ohm 316L stainless steel coil
• Advanced ProFlow temperature control technology for a cleaner vape
• Approximately 540 puff refill capacity
• Built in 500mAh battery
• Visual light performance indicator
• Refilla device lasts approximately 10,000 puffs
• 10ml refill bottle provides the equivalent of around 3300 puffs

Kit Contents

After having a look online at a few vendors that are stocking the Refilla kit already, you need to purchase the Refilla device, Refilla dock and the e-liquid separately. I’d love to see an offer where you can buy all three together for a slight discount!

In the box for the Refilla dock, you get the docking station and a user manual.

The Refilla device box contains the device and a user manual.

The e-liquid box contains a 10ml bottle fitted with a refilling cap and user manual.

You will need to purchase or use an existing USB-C cable that you already own in order to use the docking station.

Design & Build Quality

Let’s start off with the biggest part of the kit, the Refilla Dock! This is a docking station measuring 65mm x 62mm x 55mm. I’ve had this set up on my desk just next to my computer and it takes up absolutely no space at all.

On the back of it is a USB-C port, you’ll need to plug this in so that the dock will actually work. There’s a large cut out which the Refilla device sits in and a smaller one for the 10ml refill bottle. The front of the dock features LED lights to give you a visual indicator of the current status.

The Refilla device is a tiny little thing and this is what you will be vaping away on. It has quite a familiar shape to it. It measures 63mm x 39mm x 18mm, making it easy to slip into my pocket. It’s very lightweight too, only weighing 33.2g when fully filled up!

How To Use The Refilla Kit

There’s three parts to this and you’ll need all three parts to use the Refilla Kit.

Important: I cannot stress enough that the Refilla device needs to be filled before you use it for the first time, as it is shipped with no e-liquid inside!

• Firstly, you’ll want to grab the Refilla Dock and plug a USB cable into it. When power is being delivered to the dock the LED lights on the front will illuminate.
• Wait ten seconds after powering it on and for the Green light to come on before popping your Refilla device in, otherwise nothing will happen.
• To fill the Refilla device, invert the bottle of Bar Works e-liquid and pop it into the dock. Wait for the Green light, then pop your Refilla device into the dock. This takes around two minutes depending on how empty your device is and it smartly cuts off when full to prevent overfilling and leaking.
• Whilst in the dock, the Refilla device will be smartly charged up as well, so you have a fully refilled and fully charged device in minutes. From flat to full, the Refilla device will be charged in 35 minutes.

The bottles of Bar Works nicotine salt e-liquid have a special refilling cap attached to them, which only fits these bottles which are specially designed for use with the Refilla. However, you can unscrew the refilling cap, clean out the bottle once finished and refill it with your e-liquid of choice if you so wish.

There aren’t any buttons present on the Refilla device, this has an auto draw system so just take a puff on the device to fire it.

Indicator Lights

An LED light indicator on the top of the Refilla device gives you an indication of how the device is performing. It displays the following…

• Green light = good and ready. This will also turn Green when inserted into the dock and is fully refilled.
• Flashing green = 100 puffs left
• Flashing red and green = put in dock
• Red = last 500 puffs
• Flashing red = last 100 puffs left
• Solid red = end of life

The Refilla dock has a set of indicators which show the following…

• Bottom Blue Light + second White Light = dock outside of temperature limits. Wait until the dock has warmed up / cooled down. If necessary move it to a different location.
• Bottom Blue Light + fourth White Light = refill bottle is empty, replace. If there is still liquid in the bottle, remove and replace it.
• Bottom Blue Light + 3 White Lights = the device was inserted into the dock when the Red light was lit. Remove the device, wait for the Green light and re-insert the device into the dock.
• Green Light = Ready to charge.
• Bottom Light Red = Wait until this turns Green before inserting the device into the dock.
• Bottom Light turns Green = fully charged
• Charging progress = 1 White LED lit: 25% charged, 2 White LED’s: 50% charged, 3 White LED’s: 75% charged and 4 White LED’s: 100% charged.

Refilla have also produced a handy video which shows you how to use the Refilla Kit, you can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2VMfOcZYO0.

E-Liquids

Bar Works Nicotine Salts are specially designed for use with the Refilla Kit. These come in 10ml bottles and use nicotine salt to provide fast acting nicotine craving satisfaction with a smooth throat hit. The e-liquid is blended to a 50/50 VG/PG ratio.

Nicotine strengths available are 10 and 20mg.

You can choose from Blue Razz Lemonade, Blue Sour Raspberry, Menthol Ice, Red Grape Ice, Spearmint Ice, Strawberry Banana, Sweet Strawberry and Watermelon Ice flavours at present.

How Does The Refilla Perform?

Well, this vapes…really damn nicely I must say!

One of the first things I picked up on here was just how smooth and clean-tasting the vape was. Refilla sent me the Spearmint Ice flavour to try out and this had a very minty, fresh and crisp taste to it that was quite unlike most other disposable spearmint flavours that I have tried.

I get a mouth to lung vape when having a puff on this and a surprisingly reasonable amount of vapour is produced. There is a bit of an audible crackling noise when I take a puff on it. The airflow is fixed to provide a mouth to lung vape, it cannot be adjusted.

There’s a 500mAh battery built into the Refilla device, which lasted me a good portion of the day and it was easy to just pop it into the dock whilst sat at my desk to top it up.

I have actually timed how long it takes to recharge the Refilla device whilst docked and not once did it ever creep over 35 minutes. So I never had to wait that long to have a puff on it again.

How Many Puffs Can I Expect To Get?

On the marketing blurb, you can expect to get around 540/550 puffs per 2ml fill (depending on whether you look in the user manual or on the website), based on one second puffs. I tend to take longer, 3-4 second puffs and I was getting a puff count in the region of 200-210 each time.

Each 10ml bottle of Bar Works e-liquid is designed to give up to 3000 puffs (again based on one second puffs). I didn’t tally exactly how many puffs I got in total from the bottle but if I took an average of 205 puffs for a 2ml fill and times that by five, I get 1,025 in total.

Considering as a refill bottle is retailing for under £3 online, that’s a lot of puffs for your money and certainly better value than purchasing a disposable vape.

Now, Refilla say that the Refilla device is capable of lasting for up to 10,000 puffs before it needs to be disposed of and replaced as you can’t replace the coil. I’ve vaped my whole 10ml bottle of Bar Works Spearmint Ice (and lost count of the puffs by this point) and it is still going strong at the time of writing!

Refilla subjected the device to independent laboratory testing which showed that it was the only vape capable of producing 10,000 puffs, with other leading vapes that it was being tested against failing at 500 puffs or less.

Pros

• Innovative kit
• Provides lots of puffs
• Refillable, rechargeable product with reusable components
• Docking system has worked flawlessly
• Small form factor for the Refilla device
• Nice, smooth vape
• Easy to use
• Safer vaping option that protects user from overheated vapour

Cons

• Need to purchase the docking station, device and liquid separately
• Only able to use Bar Works e-liquids specifically designed for the Refilla
• Restricted to a mouth to lung airflow only
• Refilla device is a fully sealed system meaning you can’t replace the coil. So it still needs to be disposed of and replaced when it reaches the end of its life.

Final Verdict

I’m always excited to get my hands on a kit that is looking to shake up the status quo and deliver something innovative. Refilla have certainly got an innovative bit of kit here!

All of that innovation counts for nothing however if the product itself doesn’t perform! But thankfully the Refilla does, both in the functionality of the dock and the vape that you get from the Refilla device.

During my time spent with it, the docking system has worked flawlessly. It has done exactly what it has advertised to do. Each time I dock my Refilla device I have got a fully recharged and refilled vape ready to go.

I can applaud Refilla’s commitment to providing a cleaner and more sustainable solution to vaping. Plus backing that up with a kit that performs well and provides a satisfying, flavourful and clean vape.

So, if you are after an easy to use kit that has sustainability and safety at its core, then look no further than the Refilla!

Many thanks to Refilla for sending the Refilla Kit over for review, this is available to purchase in the UK now!

What are your thoughts on the Refilla Kit? Let us know in the comments below!