can you explain more or reference this I'd love to learn about it.
Eric.
The main reason for falure of a cartomizer is the build up of caramelized juice and other contaminents around the coil. This results in major decrease of flavor, vapor and TH. Plus it is the major reason for the draw getting really tight after extended usage. With horizontal coil cartomizers the coil is seperate from the filler thereby allowing the filler material to be removed without destroying the electrical connection to the coil. Once the filler is removed, it can be cleaned and refreshed or replaced with new filler. The most important aspect of this is the fact that the coil can be dry burned, thereby removing all substance build up by burning it off and essentially making the carto perform as factory new again.
With vertical coil cartos the coil is integrel to the filler thereby preventing one from dismantling the carto and still maintaining the functioning integrity of the vertical coil system. The most you can do with a vertical coil carto is flush out the taste of the old juice but you cannot refresh the coil with a dry burn. You dry burn a vertical coil, you have a burnt taste forever and you might as well throw it away. With horizontal coils, dry burning is a normal process of refreshing the carto for reuse and can be done numerous times thereby extending the practical life of the cartomizer well beyond what the average vendor would like to see for his bottom line.
Hope this clarifies any misconceptions anyone has about the difference between the two systems.
I use in regular rotation a mix of resurrectors at 1.7, smoktek dual coils, and boge lr cartos. All of these are vertical coil cartos. They all perform well for a limited period of time and then I just throw them away. I've thrown away many dozens of each type.
On the other hand, I always have at least one or more gocarts working and have had them working in rotation since early march. I've only had 5 gocarts die on me since march. I've cleaned and refreshed dozens of them, some as many as 5 times. Gocarts are built like heavy duty work trucks.
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