Simple truth about throat hit: cool atomizer

[Sedar]

Can't believe I didn't quite grasp this over the past 2.5 years of vaping. The hotter the atomizer gets (i.e., the harder and faster I puff on it) the less the throat hit.

Can someone explain what explain what's going on here? I'm guessing it has to do with some of the juice boiling or vaporizing prematurely on a part of the atomizer other than the heating coil?

 

[washvap]

That's extremely odd. It's usually the opposite. What's your set-up? I usually take lighter and longer hits and haven't noticed that yet. Might be why your not getting the TH you need. Also, what juice are you using? ex. mg, pg/vg, and vendor

All of which have an effect on the TH your getting when your vaping.

 

[mooreted]

Well, when I want to get a major throat hit I hold the button down longer before vaping which heats it up more. You would think the hotter you get it the more TH you would get (to a point).

 

[Creniker]

Yeah I'm going to go with mooreted on this one. More = more throat hit. Don't know why your getting the results you are, I'm extremely curious as to what your setup is.

 

[Princessdee]

Sounds like maybe you're puffing on it like a cigarette. Take a l-o-n-g slow draw. Take it into your mouth.
When your mouth is full, stop and open your mouth and inhale the whole mouthful into your lungs. It'll "hit" your throat on the way down.

 

[wdave]

Can't believe I didn't quite grasp this over the past 2.5 years of vaping. The hotter the atomizer gets (i.e., the harder and faster I puff on it) the less the throat hit.

Can someone explain what explain what's going on here? I'm guessing it has to do with some of the juice boiling or vaporizing prematurely on a part of the atomizer other than the heating coil?

My experience also. The more heat, the less the vapor is less saturated with juice. So there is less liquid juice to increase throat hit. However, the more saturated the vapor, the more vapor enters your stomach, possibly causing nausea.

You may increase the throat hit without sacrificing heat by increasing the velocity of the vapor when it enters your mouth. To do this, you need to go against common misinformation in this forum and use carts/cartos that deliver a thin stream of vapor that easily reaches the back of your throat. There will also be less juice entering your stomach so there is less chance of nausea.

HTH,
Dave

 

[Mindfield]

Are you referring to how hard of a drag you take, rather than how long? Because if you take a drag on a PV like you do on a cigarette (quick and hard) then yeah, you're not going to get a great deal of TH.

What's happening there is basically the opposite of what happens with a cigarette. When you puff on a cigarette, the harder you puff, the more oxygen is drawn into the cigarette, and since fire likes oxygen, it burns hotter and produces more smoke. It's completely the opposite on a PV though because now you're dealing with heat in a different way. When the coil heats up it produces vapor. Left to its own devices, the coil will continue to heat up because the vapor being produced, having nowhere to go, acts like an insulator, keeping heat around the coil and preventing it from exhausting.

When you take a drag, it removes vapor and heat from the coil. The harder you drag, the faster heat is removed from the coil and the cooler the coil stays. Slowing the drag down allows the coil to reach higher temperatures, produce more vapor, and therefore more TH.

 

[wdave]

And watch the money you spent for all that vapor literally vanish into thin air.

While you are at it, use a metal cart/carto that provides no insulation so all the heat escapes into the outside air.

 

[Sedar]

Oops, should have worded that better. What I mean was between drags. If I vape like mad and it gets super hot, the throat hit gets progressively worse. If I wait for it to cool down and then take a puff, it's better.