Is dripping on the way out?

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edyle

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I have to wonder, with the latest advances in new tanks, if dripping is still as popular as it was. Personally I have a few tanks so good that it would be hard to tell the difference. And that's without the constant fiddling, not to mention the whole building coils hassle. Don't get me wrong. I have NOTHING against dripping. I just wonder if it will become old school soon. What do you say?

What latest advances?



The only latest advance that comes to mind would be the kayfun4; but I can't say much about it myself;
 

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Newer rtas have juice flow control, air flow control rings, you can remove the deck without draining the tank, top fill, turning off juice flow, top fed decks. The designs have gotten more flavorful with newer chimney designs, juice flow channels are tweaked and redesigned. It's like every version gets better than the last.

Basically, dripping is convenient and flavorful, right? Rtas are getting more convenient and more flavorful than their predecessors. So if they remain on that path, they will be able to handle more power, be easier to maintain, and create awesome vapor.
 
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I think it takes a technological leap beyond all our current gear to make any of it obsolete. All current iterations are here to stay until something definitely irrefutably better comes along. I'm not thinking a better atty. I'm thinking an altogether different delivery system than our current wick and resistance wire setups. Whatever that will be... I have no idea. I've seen a couple ideas and neat concept videos - but still no game changer available for purchase.

While neat and new is fun to play with - tried and trusted is what I prefer. Need a little bit of both, tho. I'm not abandoning ship until neat and new becomes tried and trusted.
 

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technically its still dripping isnt it? just a bottle inside the mod itself than you actually dripping onto the atomizer.

Technically, it is squonking. :laugh: The juice comes up through the 510. I guess, it is still dripping when the bottle is released after a squonk and the juice drips back into the bottle. :img:
 

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Forgot the name but I'm interested in the dripper with the spiral sleeve to mix the vapor better, flavormiser or something

In the end just about all class of rebuildables aren't going anywhere.as they just keep fine tuning them more and more. What we have now is such a far cry from our old vivi novas and ce4' s many started on. And we thought those were innovative back then lol
 

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    I have to wonder, with the latest advances in new tanks, if dripping is still as popular as it was. Personally I have a few tanks so good that it would be hard to tell the difference. And that's without the constant fiddling, not to mention the whole building coils hassle. Don't get me wrong. I have NOTHING against dripping. I just wonder if it will become old school soon. What do you say?

    Well vendors would love that. That way you will continue to buy-buy-buy instead of becoming self reliant, and not needing vendors anymore.
     

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    Newer rtas have juice flow control, air flow control rings, you can remove the deck without draining the tank, top fill, turning off juice flow, top fed decks. The designs have gotten more flavorful with newer chimney designs, juice flow channels are tweaked and redesigned. It's like every version gets better than the last.

    Basically, dripping is convenient and flavorful, right? Rtas are getting more convenient and more flavorful than their predecessors. So if they remain on that path, they will be able to handle more power, be easier to maintain, and create awesome vapor.

    1: Juice flow control:
    There are a few rta's that are supposed to have some sort of juice flow control

    ............ was just checking
    I have a rose v3; the rose v2 is supposed to have juice flow control; when I was ordering, I saw there was a rose v3 so I ordered that one; turns out the v3 does not have juice flow control. That's an example of a newer rta not having juice flow control even when the earlier version had it!

    Bottom line: of all the rta's I have so far, none of them have juice flow control.

    2: Airflow control rings:
    Airflow control rings are useful when the airflow fundamental limit is wide open; then you use the airflow control ring to reduce the flow.

    I have 1 rta with a useful airflow control ring: a "Heavy Taste mod-60", which 4 hole sizes which could be 1mm, 2mm, 3mm and 4mm and it's a twist lock/groove arrangement when your turn it and it falls into a groove and stays in place, and for each hole size there are 3 holes 120 degrees apart; That's the one airflow control arrangement I've got that's actually well implemented that I use.

    Most airflow control rings go from : now wide/open enough, to tight/closed

    3: You can remove the deck without draining the tank:
    I can do that with my
    - flash evapors which I use
    - herons, which I dont' use
    - heavy taste mod-60, which doesn't hold enough
    - bigD v1 which I use sometimes
    - bigd v2 which I hardly try to use so far

    4: Top fill:

    hmmmmm ; nope; none of my rta's are top fill; Used to top fill my kayfun3.1 but got tired of that hassle.


    There are innovations/improvements in rta's but take the kayfun v4 as an example, I still haven't ordered one yet after all I don't want to continue ordering some other tank just to try out and not end up using or maybe there'll be a major issue and there'll be a kayfun4.1 or a kayfun 5; actually I happened to scratch off the kayfun4 from my wishlist just last night on fasttech and added the 28mm kayfun4 version instead - there ya go - good thing I waited.

    And dripping is not convenient; the reason I drip is the rta's haven't been good enough; but at this point I'm using my flashevaps more; best compromise.

    I can see modular boxes in the future that resemble REO's
     

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    Basically, dripping is convenient and flavorful, right?

    I agree with everything you said until dripping is convenient. Dripping is a PITA. Constantly having to drip all the time. Dry hits if you missed adding more a few moments ago. It's not practical for on the go.
     

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    There isn't a tank on the market that can match the flavor of my newest RDA. The masses are talking about all these new Sub-ohm tanks without realizing just how innovative these new RDA's are becoming with things like top Vertical Airflow.

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    That coil.... So very sloppy
     

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    The next big thing is squonking, that alone will maintain the RDAs demand, I was slowly replacing my drippers with my orchids, untill i started squonking, my tanks are now retired

    Squonkers have been around for a long time. Reos have been around 4 or 5 years. But it's still a niche market. Reo owners are the guys sitting quietly in the corner, giggling at the fiddling around that conventional drippers do.


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    Mailablemage

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    It's twisted Ni200. I just started working with it and compared to Kanthal is a huge pain in the .... Show me better.

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    Show me better... LOL this guy. I don't so twisted wire, but I'll wrap dual 26g tri coil for you when I get home from work

    EDIT how is that cool not shorting? It looks to be well over the lip of the base
     

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    Squonkers have been around for a long time. Reos have been around 4 or 5 years. But it's still a niche market. Reo owners are the guys sitting quietly in the corner, giggling at the fiddling around that conventional drippers do.


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    yep except that competition is gonna blow the peace of a few reo owners and make squonking mainstream, chinese are producing regulated squonkers, coming on the market like, right now
     
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