The definition of terms used... "analog" and "vaping"

[Craterz]

I don't really understand the term "analog" when referring to cigarettes. Maybe it's because I'm an electronic engineer for too many years that I care to share, I'm also a guitar/bass musician for almost as long. When I think of "analog" I think of LP's or cassette's, that is vinyl albums or magnetic tape format. Not the digital media that is so prevalent these days (CD's, DVD's, etc.). What I don't understand is the reference to actual cigarettes as "analog" as compared to e-cigs? Actually, both are "analog" in a sense. One just utilizes natural process of "slow-burning" tobacco, whereas the other uses a vaporizing electrical process via a DC power source and various natural (or otherwise) chemicals. Yet is still an "analog" process, that is, a liquid vaporized by an electrical coil. Not something new, really, and a "analog" process at that.

So what's the difference in terms? Is it just a "term"? Or is there something I am missing?

Just curious

 

[jericoriver]

I think its just a term. As in the comparing of an old analog vom, to a digital multimeter. The old way and the new way????? And vaping, well you are inhaling vapor, not smoke.

 

[Craterz]

Perhaps I'm just being too critical of the term!

Like comparing an VOM to a new multi-meter. Not quite the same. Like comparing an old Simpson to a Fluke? Maybe I'm just dating myself HaHa! That is if anyone remembers an old Simpson multi-meter as compared to the modern Fluke multimeters. Or, being the musician that I am, analog "tube" mixing boards as compared to ProTools digital mixing technology.

 

[Ryedan]

IMO refering to cigs as analogues is just a term. There have been many threads about this on ECF and AFAIK there is no clear logic to it.

 

[Craterz]

Forgive me... I understand ECF... but don't know what AFAIK means?

 

[danca90]

as far as i know. And I think that analog is just supposed to be fun.

 

[Katya]

Forum Glossary - ECF InfoZone

BTW (by the way), I hate "analog" and refuse to use it.

YMMV (your mileage may vary)

 

[jericoriver]

That was what I was meaning to compare. I've used old simpsons and do now use a fluke.

Perhaps I'm just being too critical of the term!

Like comparing an VOM to a new multi-meter. Not quite the same. Like comparing an old Simpson to a Fluke? Maybe I'm just dating myself HaHa! That is if anyone remembers an old Simpson multi-meter as compared to the modern Fluke multimeters. Or, being the musician that I am, analog "tube" mixing boards as compared to ProTools digital mixing technology.

 

[FlamingoTutu]

Here is another link to vape world terminology Ecig Terms and Definitions, Vapeology - Electronic Cigarette Forums - Ecig Advanced

 

[Katya]

Here is another link to vape world terminology Ecig Terms and Definitions, Vapeology - Electronic Cigarette Forums - Ecig Advanced

Thanks! I haven't seen this one!

 

[FlamingoTutu]

Yes, it's a good one. Far more extensive.

 

[NicoHolic]

One of the major advantages of vaping is that it isn't consuming product when you aren't hitting it. A tobacco cigarette is "on," consuming product at an infinitely variable level (how hard you hit it), from the time you light it until you put it out, even when you aren't hitting it. An e-cig is binary, it's on when you hit it, at a fixed level determined by the voltage and resistance, regardless of how hard you draw, and off when you don't.

 

[Ryedan]

One of the major advantages of vaping is that it isn't consuming product when you aren't hitting it. A tobacco cigarette is "on," consuming product at an infinitely variable level (how hard you hit it), from the time you light it until you put it out, even when you aren't hitting it. An e-cig is binary, it's on when you hit it, at a fixed level determined by the voltage and resistance, regardless of how hard you draw, and off when you don't.

First, a cigarette can not operate at 'an infinitely variable level'. It has to maintain combustion and it also has a maximum rate of production.

Second, my mechanical mod is not binary. It produces the amount of vapor that the analogue battery that is powering it puts out at a given state of charge.

 

[Ryedan]

Here is another link to vape world terminology Ecig Terms and Definitions, Vapeology - Electronic Cigarette Forums - Ecig Advanced

Great link! Thanks!

 

[stevegmu]

If a cigarette is an analog, are my Tritons and ProVaris digitals?

 

[eyerhere]

Wow lets over think this and when we are done we should talk about getting the whole world to follow just one religion! Lol

 

[cmdebrecht]

I have no idea why, but the term analog made complete sense to me. I guess I applied a meaning to it along the lines of less advanced or inferior in technology. Something along the lines of

Analog (cigarette) is to PV (personal vaporizer, ecig, etc.) as trepanation is to Tylenol.

 

[Andy t]

Hi I wounded what they ment by analog

 

[WattWick]

When I first joined EFC I thought it might be one of those "we don't mention cigs around here in case people get tempted" quitting mentalities. Appears it's just some funny name someone came up with.

I still call them cigs.

 

[Train2]

As Far As I Know
AFAIK

Forgive me... I understand ECF... but don't know what AFAIK means?