Comparing all of the CE2 variations

[cosprings]

I am somewhat of a noob to this whole thing and kinda wish I had a cheat sheet for the many varieties of the CE2. Hopefully this will help the next guy.

Please feel free to point out where I have erred; I have only my experience and feeble memory to draw from.

First, the CE2 is a Cartomizer Edition 2, a significant improvement over previous attempts at cartomizers. They generally consist of a tube with lots of wick dangling in the fluid, leading up to the coil at the top, sitting in a ceramic cup. These are capillary fed instead of the traditional gravity fed devices.

These are presented in what I suspect is roughly the order of introduction.

STEEL
From what I can gather, the first CE2 devices were steel, either stainless steel or with a black coating.

Advantages:

• Improved consistency from the previous cartomizer
• More capacity, approaching 1 ml
• Durable, i.e. very hard to hurt these by bending (e.g. in pockets), dropping, etc.

Disadvantages:

• Like the cartomizers before these, the user has no indicator of remaining juice
• The wicks hold an amount of juice across fills, making it difficult to transition abruptly to a new flavor. This disadvantage has not been addressed by any variant of the CE2.
• The wicks are thin, creating issues with juice flow in back-to-back vaping.
• The tip looks silly and feels even sillier in one's lips. This also has not been addressed

CE2-X
The -X cartomizers have a fatter wick feeding the coil.

Advantages:

• Almost perfect back-to-back vaping experience

Disadvantages:

• The coils foul within 5 to 10 fills. This may be just my experience and I could even be imagining it, so take it with a grain of salt.

XL
The tubes are longer, holding more juice.

Advantages:

• Tubes are longer, holding more juice

Disadvantages:

• They are bigger, possibly causing issues with keeping the vaporizer in pockets

CLEAR
These are basically the same as the steel tubes except they contain a clear plastic shell in place of a steel shell. These are also available in regular or XL, but can only be purchased as a CE2-X. Put another way, GV does not sell these with the thin wicks.

Advantages:

• The juice level is visible, allowing for many sub-advantages, including:
  • Knowing if you have to top off before heading to work for the day
  • Knowing whether or not you should top off the cartomizer during lunch
  • Knowing when the cartomizer is full before you spill juice all over the top
  • Knowing when the cartomizer is full vs. having large air pockets (I didn't even know these HAD air pockets until I bought my first set of clears)
  • Knowing whether or not a perceived dry hit is the result of an empty cartomizer
• GV does not sell these with the thin wicks, so you can't accidentally purchase 15 of horrible thin wick cartomizers and try to make them last two weeks until the next family budgeting cycle (personal experience talking here)
• Tube is easy to remove for cleaning (if you are into that sort of thing). The steel tubes need a hydraulic press, an industrial punch and an acetylene torch to remove.

Disadvantages:

• Fragile. The tubes are much easier to crack, break, bend, scratch and warp than the steel tubes
• Tube is easy to remove and will come right off if placed in your pocket and the PV is bent, leaving a nice, hard to explain, wet plume on your slacks. Don't try this at home.

Ok, what did I miss? Feel free to add and fix items.

Cheers,
Marty

 

[StotheK]

That's pretty awesome!

I know there were 5 iterations of the E2 series (6 if you count the thick tubes in the latest fluxos). Badkolo was heavily involved in the whole process from version 1, so maybe he can add some here.

I believe the Maximizers are also part of the E2 family, and those are on their 2nd revision (changed from the single large filler hole and leaking problems through the window to a design more similar to the other E2s and an elongated inner tube to prevent leaking).

 

[MJBinNM]

Fairly complete overview...to address the issue of the coil getting "fouled" as you put it, the CE2s can be dry burned to clean up the coil.

For the steel tubes, rinse thoroughly in hot water, you can even let them soak for a couple hours. Let them dry completely, I usually set them on the table next to my laptop fan port with the end open. This will dry the wicks pretty quickly. Mount them on a manual battery and push the button till the coils glow. Do this a couple times then rinse and allow to dry before use.

This same method can be used for the clears, or you can carefully remove the tube to rinse the coil and wick. The original tubes are pretty fragile and prone to cracking so you need to be careful. For the clears, I would recommend replacing the tubes with a 3ml BD syringe. These can be bought in bulk online pretty cheap. (do a search for "CE2 syringe tube mod" as there have been several posts on this subject). The only drawback to this mod is that they will not fit in an unmodified eGo cone, if that is important to you.

 

[MASTER0FDAMPF]

the syringed clearos will not fit a PCC nor will any of the XL (possilbe with some PCC's if you replace the juice bottle with 2 of them.

The version 1-4 clearos will fit in a standard PCC, but the v5 will not (boge PCC - the Joye one is hit or miss depending on production run. The thicker fatter tubes make the difference. (I have not tried with the GP replacement tubes, but about to order them.

I have not seen the black 2.4 metal Ce2 for quite a while, and never seen it in v4. I dont know if these were produced or not (if so, I want to buy about 10 boxes XD).