I feel good. Not physically well by any means, but my new cartomizer is working so well that I may crack a smile before the day is over with. Not only does it accomplish what I had hoped for, but it automatically created a new feature that may be good idea for use in new cartomizers of the future. I call it the BR Twist.
As a few of you may recall, condensation in a cartomizer has been one of my major gripes with all of my experiments. For that matter, it's been a problem every since I began using electronic cigarettes. I just didn't know back then what to blame it on.
Condensation happens in any space inside a PV that is large enough to cool the vapor and it can accumulate everywhere from the air intake to the hole it goes through to enter your mouth. In other words, the juice that gets in your battery fitting and the juice you get in your mouth from time to time may not be a leak. It may be condensation. Maybe you never have this problem, but some people do.
The object of the new br mod was for it to get its air from the top of the cartomizer instead of the bottom, thus eliminating additional places for vapor to form and/or accumulate. I don't claim this location as my idea. The genesis type cartomizer gets its air from the top, but due to its type of construction, it can have a larger condensation problem than most other PVs. My goal was to get the air directly to a coil that is installed in a rather small area.
Fortunately, my previous design allows this in a rather unorthodox sort of way. Just drill a hole from the outside of the cartomizer all the way through everything until it gets to the coil chamber. That is, a hole through the cartomizer body, a hole through the mouthpiece, and a hole through the coil cup. But why stop with just one hole? Why not four holes all the way around the circumference so that air hits the coil from four different directions?
So now I still have a removable mouthpiece just like before that can easily be pulled out to fill my cartomizer. It's not quite as convenient to put it back in now though, because I have to rotate it until all the holes line up. But wait a minute. This thing can shut the air completely off, but it can also be twisted to allow however much air I want it to draw. Stiff draw, soft draw or wide open for a direct draw. Well, I'll just be damned. The br Twist.
The br Twist aside, it looks like I reached another goal in the saga of CE-2 design concept. So far all tests are looking good and I honestly believe my condensation problem has been eliminated.
There's a good bit more to the condensation problem than mentioned above, but I won't get into that for now. However, I will say this. If your mouthpiece has a passage inside of it smaller that 9/64", you may have a condensation problem.
My latest prototype looks about like all the rest of them, so I didn't take a photo. Here's a drawing of the latest Masterpiece, though. I doubt if it interests most of you, but there may still be someone on this thread who will glance at it.
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The elimination of the lower air tube allowed the positive post to have a smaller diameter. This either allows a little more space for juice or it allows the cartomizer to be a bit shorter and keep the same tank capacity. I always design toward smaller and lighter, so the Masterpiece is still getting leaner and meaner.
I can also say that the Masterpiece has also gotten cleaner through the past couple years, but I doubt if you kids want to listen to me about that. I say get rid of all the devices that pull clean air through in, around and through a nasty mix of battery corrosion and e-juice. I don't never vaporise any of that crap.
As a few of you may recall, condensation in a cartomizer has been one of my major gripes with all of my experiments. For that matter, it's been a problem every since I began using electronic cigarettes. I just didn't know back then what to blame it on.
Condensation happens in any space inside a PV that is large enough to cool the vapor and it can accumulate everywhere from the air intake to the hole it goes through to enter your mouth. In other words, the juice that gets in your battery fitting and the juice you get in your mouth from time to time may not be a leak. It may be condensation. Maybe you never have this problem, but some people do.
The object of the new br mod was for it to get its air from the top of the cartomizer instead of the bottom, thus eliminating additional places for vapor to form and/or accumulate. I don't claim this location as my idea. The genesis type cartomizer gets its air from the top, but due to its type of construction, it can have a larger condensation problem than most other PVs. My goal was to get the air directly to a coil that is installed in a rather small area.
Fortunately, my previous design allows this in a rather unorthodox sort of way. Just drill a hole from the outside of the cartomizer all the way through everything until it gets to the coil chamber. That is, a hole through the cartomizer body, a hole through the mouthpiece, and a hole through the coil cup. But why stop with just one hole? Why not four holes all the way around the circumference so that air hits the coil from four different directions?
So now I still have a removable mouthpiece just like before that can easily be pulled out to fill my cartomizer. It's not quite as convenient to put it back in now though, because I have to rotate it until all the holes line up. But wait a minute. This thing can shut the air completely off, but it can also be twisted to allow however much air I want it to draw. Stiff draw, soft draw or wide open for a direct draw. Well, I'll just be damned. The br Twist.
The br Twist aside, it looks like I reached another goal in the saga of CE-2 design concept. So far all tests are looking good and I honestly believe my condensation problem has been eliminated.
There's a good bit more to the condensation problem than mentioned above, but I won't get into that for now. However, I will say this. If your mouthpiece has a passage inside of it smaller that 9/64", you may have a condensation problem.
My latest prototype looks about like all the rest of them, so I didn't take a photo. Here's a drawing of the latest Masterpiece, though. I doubt if it interests most of you, but there may still be someone on this thread who will glance at it.
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The elimination of the lower air tube allowed the positive post to have a smaller diameter. This either allows a little more space for juice or it allows the cartomizer to be a bit shorter and keep the same tank capacity. I always design toward smaller and lighter, so the Masterpiece is still getting leaner and meaner.
I can also say that the Masterpiece has also gotten cleaner through the past couple years, but I doubt if you kids want to listen to me about that. I say get rid of all the devices that pull clean air through in, around and through a nasty mix of battery corrosion and e-juice. I don't never vaporise any of that crap.
