Ambiguous terms in vaping glossary

[ilporcupine]

Mesh coils are not coils but arches.

Mesh is not a coil. A coil is a coil. Mesh is mesh. It's a 'resistive heating element' if it gets hot due to current flowing.
EDIT: This means I agree with you, not that I am arguing.

 

[ilporcupine]

BTW, don't get me started on how mis-use the term "sub-ohm" when they actually mean a "direct-to-lung" vaping style, or how they talk about a "chip" when they actually mean a regulator board.

Vendors are the guilty parties, usually. Read the descriptions on websites, and you can see where the confusion arises. It is actually common to see "sub-ohm" tanks as a category separate from "rebuildables". They use 'sub-ohm' as the term for tanks with manufactured replaceable coil assemblies.
This sure complicates comprehensive site searches, and probably loses them some business. If I was a vape vendor, I would use 'feature search' to narrow searches, rather than rather ambiguous categories.
Just my 2 cents.

 

[Rangertrix]

The term "mod" originally came from modifying the common flashlight to become a battery holder to create a larger e-cigarette.

Actually, I believe it was first used when 15mm copper water pipe and end caps were used with 14500 batteries.........

 

[Rangertrix]

Who remembers "bonuts" from when we dripped on bridged 510 atomizers?

 

[sonicbomb]

"unflavored", yeah because it was flavored and they un'd it
How 'bout "non-flavored". Thank you

The politically correct term is flavouring challenged

 

[ilporcupine]

Actually, I believe it was first used when 15mm copper water pipe and end caps were used with 14500 batteries.........

15mm copper pipe!! Whatta you, Canadian?

 

[Rangertrix]

15mm copper pipe!! Whatta you, Canadian?

No, or it would have been 15mm cooper pip,

 

[chellie]

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This is a tank. Is atomizer something inside the tank, or the whole thing is an "atomizer tank"?

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Now is this an atomizer or a coil head? Why is it called coil "head"?

For me, I like to keep it easy (KISS) ....

Here's how I thought of it when I first started

A tank is the big thing that holds e-liquid.
In addition to e-juice - The tank needs something in order to vape - that something is a coil (or coil head, or rba head....)

Then I vape...

 

[Letitia]

I'm lazy, they are all attys.

 

[Rangertrix]

A tank is the big thing that holds e-liquid

So, my e liquid bottle is considered a tank?