Never said it was more accurate, just that it sounds better.But that's a debate for another forum; OT here.
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Have you checked out diyaudio, it's a really good technical site. Don't mention vinyl unless you want to start a flame war.
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Have you checked out diyaudio, it's a really good technical site. Don't mention vinyl unless you want to start a flame war.
My Prodigy is merely a battery holder.
Only when I connect an atomizer can I call it an electric vazer (or vaporizer, if you must, lol).
It's mechanical, but I believe it to be more reliable than any electronic vaporizer. It was one of the main reasons I bought it. The other was durability.
The tactile switch on an eGo, for example, would stop working long before the Prodigy's switch would quit.
Okay, buildup on the switch or threads could reduce efficiency, but regular cleaning and maintenance prevents that.
I wish they made one with an integrated rebuildable dripping atomizer and mouthpiece so I stop destroying my atties by dropping it, LOL!
Whoops! Back on topic, I consider it an electric vazer, but neither analog nor digital. I wouldn't call a toaster analog or digital (unless it's got a clock timer or something).
So.
Yeah...
Take your new-fangled talking toaster and tell your kids to stay off my damn lawn!
Only when I connect an atomizer can I call it an electric vazer (or vaporizer, if you must, lol).
It's mechanical, but I believe it to be more reliable than any electronic vaporizer. It was one of the main reasons I bought it. The other was durability.
The tactile switch on an eGo, for example, would stop working long before the Prodigy's switch would quit.
Okay, buildup on the switch or threads could reduce efficiency, but regular cleaning and maintenance prevents that.
I wish they made one with an integrated rebuildable dripping atomizer and mouthpiece so I stop destroying my atties by dropping it, LOL!
Whoops! Back on topic, I consider it an electric vazer, but neither analog nor digital. I wouldn't call a toaster analog or digital (unless it's got a clock timer or something).
So.
Yeah...
Take your new-fangled talking toaster and tell your kids to stay off my damn lawn!
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O.K., despite my joint date I'm still really a newbie. (Long story short, first tried vaping a while back, quit after being disappointed with what was available at the time, giving it another go.) So I know I'm in no position to be making demands. Just my two cents, but seeing the term "analogs" for cigs bothers me a little. My other big hobby besides consuming nicotine is listening to vinyl records, a.k.a. analog sound. So seeing that term used in a disparaging sense just rubs me the wrong way.
Hello fellow new vapor
I've also had some difficulty wrapping my head around the many different terms used to describe vaping. If you look up the word "analog" one definition is, "Something having the property of being analogous to something else." Looking up the word "Analogous" I found it to mean:
"Similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar."
So using the word "Analog" does fit a description for cigarettes in relationship to e-cigs.
Perhaps if you allow your mind to accept that the word analog, doesnt just refer to vinyl records, it might not bother you so much. After all, the English language can be confusing as hell in its own right. Its no wonder I have a dictionary strapped to my hip, lol!
A problem Im having is, the use of the word, "Atomizer." In my mind I associate it with the little bottles with the ball shaped squeeze thingy attached that you put perfume in! Its just a matter of having an open mind and learning what the ecig community uses these words for, because were going to hear them used often among fellow vapors and e-cig vendors.
Just for the record, I don't like the name and reference to cigarettes in the word,
"e-cig."
I would like to change it to "EVD" standing for a "Electronic Vaping Device." The reference to cigarettes in the name e-cig gives them a bad rap right off the bat in my thinking. As soon as most people hear the word cig....they think of cigarettes, and then they think BAD!!!
But oh well, thats the name of these life savers!!!!
Hang in there and keep Vaping....your lungs will thank you!!!!
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Makes me cringe a bit too, but I think it's firmly entrenched in the lexicon at this point. I'd put up with it gladly if we could stop calling vaporizers, E-Cigs or Electronic cigarettes. That's not going to happen either, but I honestly think it would make this entire uphill battle at least somewhat easier. So many things that we could transition to, mods is a bit generic but my personal favorite,steamer, rocks!
Ok sorry , off my box
Analog? Don't like it either. But I like the fact that we call cigarettes, "analogs", and we call our personal vaporizers e-cigarettes even less!
I Couldnt Agree More With You. In Fact Before I Read Your Post I Have Also Expressed My Thoughts On The Use Of The Name "e-Cig" in this forum.
For Instance...Yesterday, I went to visit my dad. He had asked me months ago, to please try and quit smoking as it would make him so very happy before he dies to know I did.
So Im sitting in his house vaping, along with my sister who I just converted, and he says to me,
"Well, now that youve quit smoking cigarettes, you can also stop smoking e-cigs, because its all bad for you, to be hooked on cigarette anything!"
His statement just goes to prove what the use of the word, ecig conjures up to the average person.
I then tried to explain to him how much I enjoyed vaping and he just called me addicted to smoking!! LOL
So I told him "Ok, Im a baby who likes sucking my thumb, but this thumb, holding up my vaping device, wont give me cancer!!!"
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I think I'll start calling them Binaries. Because they exist in two states. Burning and not.
I agree analog is not a very good term to describe traditional cigarettes.
1) When looking at the difference as digital vs analog , vaporizers (with the exception of new PWM mods) are actually the analog devices.
2) When looking at the traditional meaning of the word analog, as in the word analogy, the vaporizer is the analog of the combustible cigarette.
I propose using the words vaporizer and combustible.
1) When looking at the difference as digital vs analog , vaporizers (with the exception of new PWM mods) are actually the analog devices.
2) When looking at the traditional meaning of the word analog, as in the word analogy, the vaporizer is the analog of the combustible cigarette.
I propose using the words vaporizer and combustible.
Coming from the electronics world, I found the term 'analog' to be quite appropriate. You turn on a cigarette by lighting it, and vary its performance by how strongly you draw on it, from just barely lit to quite hot. You're not restricted to off-low-medium-high. And it's a little bothersome to turn it off part-way through usage.
With a PV (or e-cigarette, if you prefer) you turn it on when you want to use it (draw on the automatic batteries, push a button for the manual ones), and it is off the other times. On or off. Sounds rather digital/binary/non-analog to me.
Alternate definition of 'analog' : an object that in some ways resembles another object. What is a well-known object that resembles an e-cigarette? (hint: it is a paper tube, usually filled with tobacco).
I have heard a different term for 'cigarette', used by a few British and Australian aquaintenances, that has been used as a derogatory term for a male homosexual. Not sure that term would go over too well here.
With a PV (or e-cigarette, if you prefer) you turn it on when you want to use it (draw on the automatic batteries, push a button for the manual ones), and it is off the other times. On or off. Sounds rather digital/binary/non-analog to me.
Alternate definition of 'analog' : an object that in some ways resembles another object. What is a well-known object that resembles an e-cigarette? (hint: it is a paper tube, usually filled with tobacco).
I have heard a different term for 'cigarette', used by a few British and Australian aquaintenances, that has been used as a derogatory term for a male homosexual. Not sure that term would go over too well here.
I am not a newbie, and I think calling cigarettes analogues is just stupid. Call things what they are. All in all, it seems an effort to distance oneself from smoking status. Using politically correct language to identify something as common as a cigarette is nothing but silly to me.
In German forums and tutorials on youtube, cigarettes are called "Pyros".
I am a new vaper, but to me -as a German- this also sounds strange. Why not call it, what we called it before we started vaping? I really don't understand.
I am a new vaper, but to me -as a German- this also sounds strange. Why not call it, what we called it before we started vaping? I really don't understand.
I like it, it makes sense to me. My father is deaf, and for decades had a hearing aid that he just called his hearing aid. It wasn't until digital hearing aids came out that his older models became classified as analog hearing aids, and he refers to them as such, analog versus digital. In the cigarette world it makes sense to me to call them analog & electronic cigarettes. I understand that the old hearing aids litterally used analog signals to amplify sounds, but to me analog has semi-involved to mean older or classic style, of whatever I attach it too. It makes sense to me to call manual transmissions analog transmissions, just my .02.
Truth be known, I called cigarettes, cigarettes before I joined the forum! Stinkies sound much more appropriate to me, and it fits.
Also, analog watches come with both wind up main springs, and electric circuit boards. As long s they have hands instead of a digital read out, they are considered analog.
Also, analog watches come with both wind up main springs, and electric circuit boards. As long s they have hands instead of a digital read out, they are considered analog.
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Gamers do have their own terminology/lingo as well. Being a gamer, maybe that's why it doesn't bother me so much. Justa word.
I sometimes call them analogs on the board, depends on my mood. Doubtful if anyone calls them analogs IRL. That's even too geeky for me.
I like the term "analogs" even though I don't use it.
I just call them cigarettes.
What I don't like is the term "personal vaporizer" although I can live with it.
What I can't live with is the word "toot" for taking a drag.
Just hearing that word makes me feel like someone cut my marbles off.
I just call them cigarettes.
What I don't like is the term "personal vaporizer" although I can live with it.
What I can't live with is the word "toot" for taking a drag.
Just hearing that word makes me feel like someone cut my marbles off.
My coworker still smokes. I tell him his analogs stink. He looks at me like I'm crazy, and asks what's an analog? I just got used to the name on the forum. It grew on me. I don't care what he thinks. I'm the smarter one.
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