Help me understand carto tanks

[TheseColorsDontRun]

Up until recently, I have only been vaping with cartomizers. I have recently branched out to clearos with little success right off the bat, but I haven't given up on them (I have a Nova and an Evod coming to try). I am still curious about tanks, but not sure how they work. Is there only one type of tank? Here is my understanding of these. It is basically a cartomizer, inserted into a holding tank. As it is vaped, the carto sucks juice out of the tank. The obvious benefit is more time between refills, which is what I am looking for. Am I off base here?

 

[Spazmelda]

That's pretty much it.

You have a carto with a hole or a slot. That slides into the tank. You need to fill the carto first, so that the liquid will wick into it as the carto is used. Um, what else? If you have an air leak into the tank, your carto will flood. Other factors can influence how the carto wicks juice in (either too fast- flooding, or too slow- dry hits, burning). Those factors include the size of the carto hole/slot, the viscosity of your liquid, and how full/empty the tank is.

I prefer carto tanks to all other options I've tried at this point, although I'm thinking about trying a kanger protank as I haven't tried any sort of bottom feeding tank yet.

 

[d3mon]

Up until recently, I have only been vamping with cartomizers. I have recently branched out to clearos with little success right off the bat, but I haven't given up on them (I have a Nova and an Evod coming to try). I am still curious about tanks, but not sure how they work. Is there only one type of tank? Here is my understanding of these. It is basically a cartomizer, inserted into a holding tank. As it is vaped, the carto sucks juice out of the tank. The obvious benefit is more time between refills, which is what I am looking for. Am I off base here?

Exactly so. carto tanks is a very natural progression from just cartos. how you set it up is different a bit, but everyone i know that used cartos moved to DCTs with EASY and enjoyment.

there are different styles of tanks..side fill, top fill, delrin, alum, glass, ect.... but they all do the same thing.

I've used carto tanks for well over a year now. like all things vape, sometimes it gets a little fussy and a little annoying, but when it's right...it vapes fine. set up takes about 5 mins for me...and after that, topping the tank off takes seconds.

my side fill DCTs

 

[Elantis]

An ECF member here has a very informative blog about carto tanks here:

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/blogs/baditude/3710-5-cartomizer-tank-setup.html

I read this and now Tanks are my favorite delivery device.

 

[bnrkwest]

Exactly, what the tank choices are basically is polycarb, polypro and pyrex glass. In my experience the best to get is polypro or pyrex glass as they can both handle all types of liquid. The cartos you can punch yourself or buy prepunched cartos. For me carto tanks are the most reliable and take much less fiddling than clearos. bnrk

 

[TheseColorsDontRun]

Excellent info, thank you. How are the reliability of these setups? I seem to read about 50/50 success/failures regarding clearos. I'm specifically asking about longevity, quality of vape and leaking.

 

[r77r7r]

It's a great upgrade, even if you get a small tank. I used to condom fill several cartos a day, and now just fill my 6ml. once and I'm done.

Best thing is no more dry hits near the end, and, when you get it right, it'll give you Fabulous hits all day. Using a carto w/o a tank goes from very wet to dry all day. Cartotank gives that great hit that you only get with a carto only part of the time.

 

[d3mon]

the down side is...murphy's law dictates that cartos NEVER start going bad when the tank is empty...but shortly after you top the tank off lol.

 

[Baditude]

Cartotanks have been my primary juice delivery device for almost a year. I use primarily IBTanked pyrex tanks with Ikenvape cartomizers (510 Fusion or Platinum) on my two Provari's.

I've written a beginner's tutorial on juice delivery devices that goes over cartomizers, atomizers, clearomizers, Nano clearomizers, Vivi Nova tanks, and cartotanks in quite a bit of detail here in my blog:

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/blogs/baditude/3230-1-proper-terminology-carto-tank-what-primer-juice-delivery-attachments.html

Someone already posted a link to my blog article on cartotank setup. Thanks. You can access my other blog articles by clicking the link to the left below my avatar.

 

[Spazmelda]

the down side is...murphy's law dictates that cartos NEVER start going bad when the tank is empty...but shortly after you top the tank off lol.

That's why you have to figure out how to hot swap, or whatever it's called. Guess it doesn't work on all tank types though.

 

[TheseColorsDontRun]

Are carto tanks the only type of tanks? Aside from wicking clearos.

 

[Baditude]

Are carto tanks the only type of tanks? Aside from wicking clearos.

The cartotanks and clearotanks are by far the most common. There is a new entry called the AMP tank, which can use any "drip atomizer" in it.


A new development in juice delivery devices is using a drip atomizer in a tank. The AMP Tank allows you to use 510 and 306 dripping atomizers in a tank with 3 ml or 5 ml of e-liquid capacity in a fused quartz glass tank. The AMP Tank 510 Submersible Atomizer Tank is sold exclusively by AvidVaper. Below is a demo of this tank:

The AMP Tank - 510 Submersible Atomizer Tank From AvidVaper - YouTube

There is at least one entire thread on these here on ECF in the tank sub-forum. I do not have one of these to be able to offer a comment on them.