Are 510 E2 clearomizers really better than normal E2 cartomizers?

[THE]

All of the 510 CE2 I've tried always have a terrible burned taste fairly quickly... They just don't seem to work for me, at all. I even tried taking the little gasket out and filling them directly. Then I tried filling them with the syringe and priming the coil/wick and letting it sit. I tried less and more vg/pg. Nothing I tried got them to not be all burned..... 3.7 or 5v doesn't seem to matter... Yet so many people seem to just love them, to death. The last ones I tried were "v4" or whatever they are

Here's grimmgreen with the same problem I'm talking about YouTube - GrimmGreen's Channel I thought it was just me, since so many people love them - but this guy knows his ****, right? So it's not just me, then!!

Then here he is talking about the fluxomizer / clearomizer and saying that they work a-lot better YouTube - GrimmGreen's Channel

But I'm confused by this.. because I though that a clearomizer was simply an E2 in a clear shell.... ???

Then I see that they have the new ones that actually use a tank.. and have a little lancet to puncture it, or something? Are those also E2s?

 

[hairball]

Your gear may be your problem. I vape at 4.5-5v and use 3.0-3.2ohm clearo's. With a little modding, they work awesome.

 

[Cat_in_the_Playground]

I watched the video you posted. My experience with CE2s (V5) was exactly the same - icky burning plastic. I tried two different cartos (thinking the first might have been a dud or something), and both just tasted GROSS. I decided to put them in my baggie of things to sell/PIF. After reading another thread about CE2s, I decided to pull them out and revisit them. Even after sitting more than a week, same yucky flavor. I consider it $15 down the drain. Like you, I don't get it either. So many people seemed to love them. If they tasted good, they would be awesome. Thus far, I haven't been able to use mine and get a good flavor from them. I tried to do all the different suggestions, but mine will not come apart. The tube will come off at the bottom, but the filling ring will not budge, no matter how hard I try. I tried everything and ultimately ended up destroying one in the process.

 

[Nomoreash]

I had the same experience with the Revision 4 and previous versions. Nasty burned and/or off taste and other issues no matter what I tried.

IMO they've came a long way since then. Whatever the shipment was just before the fat wick and the current fat wick shipment may still need some simple modding to get them to preform optimally but the nasty flavor issue seems to have been taken care of.

I said after I tried R4 I was done with them but I'm glad I gave them another shot.

 

[ropetrick]

I've only tried the XL steel CE2s, but the clearomizers were clearly better, though I can't imagine why.

So, yes, you'll possibly have a better experience with the clearos.

Because of the fragility of the clearomizers, I moved almost exclusively to XL CE2s, which work fine for me as long as I clean and dry burn them thoroughly before use, and assist the wicking by holding them mouth-side-down now and then.

Honestly, both taste far superior to any other vaping experience I've had, including dripping. They simply taste like vaporized nic liquid. Even Boge cartos have some other weird flavors going on (filler?) that I don't love.

 

[Guhru]

I've only had 10 clearomizers so far, but yes, my experience has been the same. For a test, I opened a new one, put it on a battery and fired it for about 5 seconds....a black tar-looking crust immediately started to form on the coil. I found that if I strip one apart before doing anything else to it, run it under hot water for 30 seconds or so, blow the water out and pat the wick dry, all is good. My guess is some kind of primer/wax/mystery goo is on the wick from the factory and has to be removed. After a rinse and dry, they're as near to perfect as I've used so far.

I've had the same number of metal CE2 cartos that I didn't rinse, and they worked fine as well....but I really like to see the juice in the tube, so I deal with the cleaning before first use.

Now if they'd just find a plastic that won't crack and leak in my pocket (without a syringe mod, tape, heat-shrink tubing, etc), I'd stock up on 'em.

As a side note, the one I dry-burned and made the crust on cleaned up and tasted fine. After a hot water rinse, I dry-burned (not really dry, I'm sure there was a fair amount of water still in the wick, which I think helps) until the black crust turned white and fell off, leaving a clean coil. I do the same process on all of them every 5 or 6 fills, and the coil comes out looking like new, function and taste are like new as well.