When I read this Bill, I wonder what you're doing wrong?
A mesh RTA/RDA has no variables, like a pre-made coil,Plug & Play, with an RTA you need to get it right by trial & error! The right Coil, coil hight, positioning , wicking all factors in your end result! What are you doing wrong Bill? Cause I can assure you no mesh coil is beating my Plus's in any department!
Ah... I believe I know the answer. I believe it is a design flaw of the Aromamizer. They use big heavy SS pieces for one. They use too many SS pieces for two. The chamber is all angled wrong for three. And the airflow is only from the side only for four. All four result in a poor unflavorful vape for me. Plus they forgot to add a few o-rings here and there. Which makes it a little leaky.
Sure stock mesh strips you can't adjust them or anything. But stock is where they found it works the best. You could change it by buying different mesh in different sizes and experiment if you would like. Instead of a dome shape, go for a pointed top, flat top, concaved top, pyramid top, whatever you would like. But I am not sure you would get it any better. But just like an Aromamizer. There is only one good spot for coils to work well and that's it.
Here is what mesh seems to me. With a horizontal coil wire with no airflow on the bottom that will be a hotspot even with TC. As TC only regulates the average temperature and not for the hotspots or coldspots. Being too hot on bottom, the heat bakes some of the juice off as vapor and the rest of the heat rises through the wicking. Thus warms up the rest of the juice before it is vaporized. Warming up juice before it is vaporized tastes horrible to me (the flavor fades so very fast from heat). And I bet to most people. Why do you think some loves dripping? Pour that nice room temperature juice right on the coils and vape. It is so good!
Mesh is a lot like a horizontal coil except there is no bottom half. Nor does it have hotspots or coldspots. None of that extra wasted heat heating up your juice before you vape. Nor any of that toasted vapor from the bottom. The juice stays at room temperature until it gets close enough to the mesh and it is off as vapor. Much like dripping room temperature juice in a dripper.
Here is another thing I noticed about juice. Once vaporized, ever notice that timing is everything for flavor? Take a vape from your Aromamizer for example and hold it in your lungs for a few extra seconds and then exhale. Flavor of the juice is virtually gone and then you taste the coil, wicking, etc. instead. Just horrible. So you only have a very short period of time to grab that flavor as it fades so very fast. So the shorter the time and distance is very important for flavor. Although when I try holding it in longer with the Zeus X Mesh, flavor is weaker, but the rest is so very clean. Nothing like the bad taste you get from using coils.
Now there has been many attempts at rebuildable mesh and the majority has failed. There are a few reasons on what went wrong. The shape and size of mesh itself, the angles and size of the chamber, airflow angles, etc. But get it all right and the vapor and the flavor is just fabulous. Plus the Zeus X is a top airflow, that's even harder to get right. But they did it. But they also had experience from the Zeus original, the dual, the X, then the X Mesh and I bet countless prototypes in between. They definitely learned from past mistakes.
