510 connections: is there an engineering standard?

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WideO

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I ask because as you start vaping and collect gear, you find out that a 510 connection is not the same as the next 510 connection, both on the battery side as well as on the atty side.

I'm not talking about self adjusting or airflow, I'm talking about the length of the atty 510 (how far does it protrude into the mod), the placement of the positive (center) pin of the atty, and the size of the center pin on the mod.

Some attys, like my TridentV2 clone, have a very deep 510, so much so that on some mods you start to have problems with gaps. On the other hand, some 510's don't protrude deep enough into, say, a hybrid adapter.

Then there's the pin: with some it is flush with the negative, with some it sticks out a bit, with some it even sits recessed, all this often non-adjustable.

On the mod side sometimes the 510 positive is so wide that it will short circuit atomizers that don't have an extended center pin (think of some of the problems with the Cana mod as an example).

So my question is: has there ever been a sort of industry standard agreed upon,and, if not, could we describe/design the ideal 510 connection? Because right now it is confusing, and sometimes a recipe for disaster.
 

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Thanks! So I suppose there was an original spec, but that was one company only, and from there on everyone did as they saw fit.

I can work around it, it's something we learn, but I do think it's a bit of a problem for people new to vaping, who (reasonably) expect that a 510 connection is a 510 connection, but who soon have to delve in obscure practices like "post pulling" and such (this actually happened to me a week into vaping with an iClear30B)
 
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