A General (tech) Question

[cmalcheski]

Fog machines and sonic humidifiers use piezoelectric crystals fed at the proper frequency to vaporize water into a cold mist. This is an exceedingly simple setup that uses dramatically less power than the brute force wire heating used by normal e-cigs and batteries. The problem, of course, would be the expense of creating such a setup for a normal e-cig, although I contend you'd get ten or more times the batterly life and could make the battery the same exact size from this kind of setup. Anyway the question is, do APV units use this resonating approach, or are they still using crude, brute force to heat a wire? I would imagine the frequency required would be different than what it is for water, and would require tuning depending on the mix of liquid, but it would still be doable.

 

[mccawley]

You are talking about breaking up liquid into smaller molecules via sound as opposed to actually converting liquid into a vapor.
Not to mention the juice would be wet (Still a liquid) and very cold.

This would be equivalent of tossing juice into a spinning desk fan whilst you stand there with your mouth open.

Heating the juice to it's boiling point and converting it to a warmed Vapor is not a crude approach, though I do think there is room for improvement on how it is heated.