Horizontal vs. vertical coil?

[Zaratoughda]

Just reading this thread here and... there is one thing I gotta say.

The Boge cartos are called 'vertical coil' cartos but... that is a misnomer.

The truth is that the heating element in these cartos is NOT in the form of a coil.

Rather, the heating element runs up the inside of the inner tube, for the total length of the filler material, and then back down through the filler.

It is NOT in the form of a coil.

Regardless of this misnomer, the thing about the boges is that, instead of the heat generated by the heating element being concentrated in one place (the coil), it is instead much more evenly distributed through the cartomizer. Given the general opinion that with lower wattage vaping you get more flavor, but with higher wattage vaping you get more TH, with the boges you get the flavor of lower wattage vaping but a lot more vapor.

This is why they are so popular.

 

[Commie]

Rather, the heating element runs up the inside of the inner tube, for the total length of the filler material, and then back down through the filler.

I was under impression that it's the no resistance wire that runs the full length of the filling, and in the middle of it, that's connected to a relatively small coil.

 

[Zaratoughda]

I was under impression that it's the no resistance wire that runs the full length of the filling, and in the middle of it, that's connected to a relatively small coil.

With your comment I finally took it upon myself to take one apart and... you are correct... there is a small coil in there. Apparently, it runs circular along the inside of the cardboard inside, maybe 30 to 40% of the way up from the bottom.

When I was using these regularly I oftentimes had to run a mid-sized paper clip up there to unclog a carto that I had a thick e juice in, like a cafe mocha or the like. Yeah, could get the paper clip though and all the ways out the other end and, that prooved a good tool to unclog. It was more difficult typically around 30 to 40% up there and, guess that was running through the inside of the coil.

Why they have the zero resistance wire run all the ways up to the top and then back down, I don't know. Also, I would guess that if that indeed was the heating element, the heat would have been too dispersed to vaporize the e juice.

But, the principle I stated still applies. The coil runs circular through the inside of the cardboard tube, and thus the heat is dissipated over a greater area than you would get with, say, dripping. So, this means you get more juice vaporizing that is less hot but, you get more flavor.

Thanks for the response!

 

[tA71ana]

I used Boge 510s when I first started vaping and just on a lark one time tried the Kanger bottom/horizontal coil cartos and have been using them ever since. The Boges were much too airy for me and I seemed to go through them much faster than the Kangers.

 

[Zaratoughda]

Hmmmm... when I first tried cartos I also tried some Boge 510s and also found them to be a bit airy... but went to the Boge 306 cartos that have a thinner inner hole and thus a tighter draw and no problem with being airy.