Atomizers

[gaijinman]

What's the difference between high resistance, low resistance, high voltage, and low voltage atomizers? Anyone know?

I'm clueless when it comes to electrical terms, and I'm wondering how various atomizers affect vaping. And what do amps have to do with anything?

While we're on the subject, what's the difference between an amp and a volt?

I know with stun guns the volts make a person shake and the amps are what kills the person. But how does it all affect a good vape?

 

[pedromj]

As far as I know, the important thing is the current inteisty going through the atomizer. Higher intensity means more hot, more vape, and more liquid consumption. Lower intensity means less hot, less vape, less liquid consumption, and less flavour burning. Higher intensity provides better throat hit while lower intensity provides better flavouring.

To calculate the intensity of the atomizer you should divide the voltage by the resistance. Both higher voltage (HV) and lower resistance (LR) means higher intensity in the atomizer.

 

[nubee]

HR attys are nice to run with PV mods that use 2, 3.7v batts for a total of 7.4v vaping whereas you use LR attys to get an HR like result using just a single, 3.7v batt.

Ultimately, like pedromj said, it boils down to the amount of current going thru the heating coil and giving you the strong vapor you want.

Now, an LR atty on a 2 batt mod would be very short lived as that would pump way too much current for the coil to handle and you'd kill that atty in a few hits.

 

[jmaul99]

Basic rule is the higher voltage the device the higher resistance you should use for your atomizer. The lower voltage device you use the lower resistance atomizer you can use. For example you will get the best vapor, and flavor using an LR atty on a standard 510. If your using a high voltage device, like a Chuck, then you want to use a higher resistance atty because the low resistance ones will get to hot and burn out quickly.

 

[gaijinman]

I've tried low resistance cartomizers on a 3.7V device, but I'm finding it heats up too much (enough to burn my lips off if I take a long drag) and gives me a burnt taste. Perhaps I'm better with higher or mid resistance cartomizer. Or perhaps the low-resistance cartomizers I have are not of good quality.

 

[jmaul99]

I have the same issue with LR catomizers. My solution is to take the cap and the rubber piece under the cap out and use a drip tip with the LR cartomizer.

 

[Col. Gaunt]

Not all LR atomizers ( for use with 3.7v devices with batteries over 450 Mah) are the same, the key is how many Ohms they are. For instance when LR cartomizers came out the first one I tried ware 1.5 ohms and it vaped too hot and I did not like it. The second one I tried was 1.8 Ohms and it made all the difference in the world.

Regarding high voltage atomizers ( for use with 6.0, 7.2 and 7.4 volts) I find the 5.2 Ohms are great but recently tried 4.0 ohms and it was too hot and too harsh.

 

[pedromj]

Hi,

As I said before, the important factor is the intensity. For example, pairing the voltages you said with the resistences you get the following results:

• 3.7 V / 1.5 Ohm = 2.47 A
• 3.7 V / 1.8 Ohm = 2.06 A
• 6.0 V / 5.2 Ohm = 1.15 A
• 7.2 V / 5.2 Ohm = 1.38 A
• 7.4 V / 5.2 Ohm = 1.42 A
• 6.0 V / 4.0 Ohm = 1.50 A
• 7.2 V / 4.0 Ohm = 1.80 A
• 7.4 V / 4.0 Ohm = 1.85 A

So, when you use higher voltage, you get the same results with higher resistance. But, for example, if you get crazy and mix high voltage with low resistance, you get the following:

• 6.0 V / 1.5 Ohm = 4.00 A
• 7.2 V / 1.5 Ohm = 4.80 A
• 7.4 V / 1.5 Ohm = 4.93 A
• 6.0 V / 1.8 Ohm = 3.33 A
• 7.2 V / 1.8 Ohm = 4.00 A
• 7.4 V / 1.8 Ohm = 4.11 A

These are crazy high intensity results. If you compare them with the 1.48 A given by a standard TITAN/TORNADO atomizer (working at 3.7 V with around 2.5 Ohm) you can notice that they are so high.

Regards,
Pedro