Hello everyone! I have been reading threads here for about a month now and have found much helpful information. I thank you all for that.
I dropped the cigarette monkey on the 10th of September, roughly 2 1/2 months ago when my first ecig kit arrived at my doorstep. I had smoked for about 30 years, the last 10 about 2 packs a day, had tried to quit before (obviously unsucessfuly, but made 4 months once in 2000), and a friend turned me on to ecigs. I thank him dearly for that.
I started with a 510 kit, the Magma from Volcano, and still use it. I branched off into a Rive 3Go, then the Inferno, and a few genuine Joye eGos. I use all of these at various times depending on my "preference" at any given moment. I recently started getting SLB 510 stuff from Value Vapor, because of the low prices and excellent service, and found that I like their stuff. Then I tried a 901 from them and love that thing too!
Needless to say, I have a ton of vaping gear, and tons of juice from various suppliers, and started mixing some of my own as well. I have been amazed (really!) at how easy it has been to give up my love affair with tobacco. I feel better, taste has increased, sense of smell increased, and breathe a whole lot better! Although I'm spending money to vape, it's a LOT less than what I would spend to smoke cigarettes.
I like all of the above mentioned devices for their individual qualities, but the largest discovery I made was recently purchasing a couple of Joye eGo batts from MyFreedomSmokes, along with a bunch of other stuff because of their current 40% off hardware special. He only has Titanium 650 and 900 mah batts, but at 40% off their cheap as can be. I also decided to add on some of the Mega Atomizers (type B).
OMG! This is not a hardware review but, DANG! I thought I just sucked on the smokestack of a locomotive!
It is almost TOO much! But not quite...
And that's all I have to say about that. (Gee, where have I heard THAT before???)
I was prompted to finally post here because of a thread I just read regarding batt voltage and atty resistance, and the ensuing confusion due to this mystical combination. I've had an easier time than most understanding this quandry because I have an electrical background. I was going to post in that thread but quickly discovered I cannot. I must serve my internship here before proceeding into the larger portion of this community. So....
I will give here my "quickie", as lightly technical as possible, description of the relationship of these two players so that the layman might have something to understand the concept a little clearer.
I have posted this in another forum a while back and it was well received as wholly understandable.
Electrical theory and Ohm's law aside, your atomizer is much like a light bulb. It has filament just like a light bulb. The filament in a light bulb heats up and glows white hot when power is applied to it. Your atomizer filament, known as the coil, is a filament. It's just a thick and beefy one like you would see in an electrical space heater. It's job is not to produce light, but the produce heat. Heat that is hot enough to vaporize liquid.
Both produce heat, and both produce light, but at different levels based on their construction. To understand the difference between a "regular" atomizer and a "low resistance" (LR) atomizer, think of your light bulbs. It is much the same as the difference between a 60 watt light bulb and a 100 watt light bulb. A 100 watt burns brighter because the filament has a lower resistance (resistance to the flow of electrical current), or Ohm rating, and allows more current (amperage) to flow through the filament. It also produces more heat than a 60 watt bulb. A 60 watt burns a little dimmer because it's filament has a higher resistance. But....100 watt light bulbs will burn out faster than 60 watt bulbs. That is the trade-off between light production and lifetime. Atomizers work the same way. A low resistance atomizer (typically around 1.7 ohms) will burn hotter than a standard (2.5 to 3 ohms or so usually), more efficiently atomizing the liquid into vapor but will have a shorter lifespan. It metal used to create the filament (in both examples) and only heat and cool so many times - based on its construction - before the metal fatigues enough to break apart.
Basically, to produce more vapor by burning hotter its "filament" must be of a "thinner" construction. The thinner it is, the quicker it's going to break under stress.
There's more to "the full story", involving batteries and voltages and capacities, but that is the basic rundown on regular and LR atomizers and how and why they do what they do, using light bulbs as an already understood parallel. I hope you may find it informative. And thanks for letting me blather on about it!
And thanks for the great Forum!
Steve
(Disclaimer: this document has not been checked really hard for spelling and/or grammatical errors. If any are found, just mentally substitute what you reasonably figure I meant!)
I dropped the cigarette monkey on the 10th of September, roughly 2 1/2 months ago when my first ecig kit arrived at my doorstep. I had smoked for about 30 years, the last 10 about 2 packs a day, had tried to quit before (obviously unsucessfuly, but made 4 months once in 2000), and a friend turned me on to ecigs. I thank him dearly for that.
I started with a 510 kit, the Magma from Volcano, and still use it. I branched off into a Rive 3Go, then the Inferno, and a few genuine Joye eGos. I use all of these at various times depending on my "preference" at any given moment. I recently started getting SLB 510 stuff from Value Vapor, because of the low prices and excellent service, and found that I like their stuff. Then I tried a 901 from them and love that thing too!
Needless to say, I have a ton of vaping gear, and tons of juice from various suppliers, and started mixing some of my own as well. I have been amazed (really!) at how easy it has been to give up my love affair with tobacco. I feel better, taste has increased, sense of smell increased, and breathe a whole lot better! Although I'm spending money to vape, it's a LOT less than what I would spend to smoke cigarettes.
I like all of the above mentioned devices for their individual qualities, but the largest discovery I made was recently purchasing a couple of Joye eGo batts from MyFreedomSmokes, along with a bunch of other stuff because of their current 40% off hardware special. He only has Titanium 650 and 900 mah batts, but at 40% off their cheap as can be. I also decided to add on some of the Mega Atomizers (type B).
OMG! This is not a hardware review but, DANG! I thought I just sucked on the smokestack of a locomotive!
It is almost TOO much! But not quite...
And that's all I have to say about that. (Gee, where have I heard THAT before???)
I was prompted to finally post here because of a thread I just read regarding batt voltage and atty resistance, and the ensuing confusion due to this mystical combination. I've had an easier time than most understanding this quandry because I have an electrical background. I was going to post in that thread but quickly discovered I cannot. I must serve my internship here before proceeding into the larger portion of this community. So....
I will give here my "quickie", as lightly technical as possible, description of the relationship of these two players so that the layman might have something to understand the concept a little clearer.
I have posted this in another forum a while back and it was well received as wholly understandable.
Electrical theory and Ohm's law aside, your atomizer is much like a light bulb. It has filament just like a light bulb. The filament in a light bulb heats up and glows white hot when power is applied to it. Your atomizer filament, known as the coil, is a filament. It's just a thick and beefy one like you would see in an electrical space heater. It's job is not to produce light, but the produce heat. Heat that is hot enough to vaporize liquid.
Both produce heat, and both produce light, but at different levels based on their construction. To understand the difference between a "regular" atomizer and a "low resistance" (LR) atomizer, think of your light bulbs. It is much the same as the difference between a 60 watt light bulb and a 100 watt light bulb. A 100 watt burns brighter because the filament has a lower resistance (resistance to the flow of electrical current), or Ohm rating, and allows more current (amperage) to flow through the filament. It also produces more heat than a 60 watt bulb. A 60 watt burns a little dimmer because it's filament has a higher resistance. But....100 watt light bulbs will burn out faster than 60 watt bulbs. That is the trade-off between light production and lifetime. Atomizers work the same way. A low resistance atomizer (typically around 1.7 ohms) will burn hotter than a standard (2.5 to 3 ohms or so usually), more efficiently atomizing the liquid into vapor but will have a shorter lifespan. It metal used to create the filament (in both examples) and only heat and cool so many times - based on its construction - before the metal fatigues enough to break apart.
Basically, to produce more vapor by burning hotter its "filament" must be of a "thinner" construction. The thinner it is, the quicker it's going to break under stress.
There's more to "the full story", involving batteries and voltages and capacities, but that is the basic rundown on regular and LR atomizers and how and why they do what they do, using light bulbs as an already understood parallel. I hope you may find it informative. And thanks for letting me blather on about it!
And thanks for the great Forum!
Steve
(Disclaimer: this document has not been checked really hard for spelling and/or grammatical errors. If any are found, just mentally substitute what you reasonably figure I meant!)
