The electrical Vaper

[Steam Turbine]

If you are like me, you didn't know squat about electricity when you first started vaping.

vaping had such an incredible impact on me that I constantly read anything vape related even if it doesnt look like it at first glance.

I'm on the computer and my girlfriend asks:

- What are you reading?

- Oh! just some stuff about how 2 parallel circuit with different resistances will behave when applying a current to it. It's interesting to see how...

- Why are you reading this?

- Oh, just to see how a dual coil atomizer behaves.

- Your such a NERD!

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Guess she's right. But a cool nerd I must say!

 

[Scoper50]

I'm the opposite. I'm a bus mechanic so my knowledge of electricity is pretty extensive. The electrical technology used in e-cigs is actually pretty basic. The most technical part of it is the batteries.

 

[MoonLit_Water]

Having more knowledge than You need is a good thing

 

[klynnn]

When I first started vaping the only thing I new about batteries was they went in flashlights, remote controls, and smoke detectors and showing my age transister radios.

 

[BlueMoods]

Oh definitely. While I knew the basics, having been an electrician for commercial wiring, there was, and I am sure still is, a lot to learn about these small electronics we call PVs or e-cigs. Not complicated but there are a lot of possible variations for different results and performance. I'm one of those people that isn't happy with "You push the button, the atomizer heats up and vaporizes the liquid." I immediately ask "How does it do that, what makes it tick, can I change it in any way? Can I fix it if it doesn't do what it's supposed to do? Do I want to fix it if it doesn't do what it's meant to do?"

 

[klynnn]

I built my first coil about a year ago- it worked and I was just amazed, all I could do was brag about how much I had learned here

 

[Rocketpunk]

Using these things is no more difficult than figuring out a smartphone. But the knuckle-draggers want to make this more difficult than it really is. They can rebuild a car engine, use an iPhone, or program their satellite TV, but an electronic cigarette is too confusing for them.

No, you're not confused or ignorant, Cletus, you're lazy.

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[Scoper50]

Using these things is no more difficult than figuring out a smartphone. But the knuckle-draggers want to make this more difficult than it really is. They can rebuild a car engine, use an iPhone, or program their satellite TV, but an electronic cigarette is too confusing for them.

No, you're not confused or ignorant, Cletus, you're lazy.

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I completely agree. Our lives are filled with technology. Almost everybody has learned to use a computer or their digital cable, smartphone, etc... Yet you get new people on here that are looking for the most basic setup they can get, and are unwilling to learn anything new. Like how to fill a cartomizer. Instead they want to waste their time with crappy clearomizers that last half a day, or use pre filled carts.

I like to think that those people eventually come around and advance to something better and more reliable, but I have a feeling that an undesirable percentage of people give up and go back to smoking heaters.

 

[Rocketpunk]

Scoper, while I also agree with you 110%, members of the ECF represent an acute minority of vapers. We're like cockroaches. For every ECF member/vaper, there are a gazillion more out there in the wild.

Only certain types will do their research or even make it past the new member's forum.

 

[Grimwald]

When I first started vaping the only thing I new about batteries was they went in flashlights, remote controls, and smoke detectors and showing my age transister radios.

I understand transistor radios...now if I only knew what Bluetooth meant.

 

[Mike Sheda]

I understand transistor radios...now if I only knew what Bluetooth meant.

Isn't that where it gets so cold your teeth turn blue? I don't understand what being cold has to do with e-cigs, other than you no longer have to stand out in the snow to get your nicotine

 

[BigBaby]

No I actually started vaping coming from an electrical background. It actually made a lot of things quite frustrating for me. There are a million and one things on this earth that I am ignorant of, and I try to keep that in mind. However, since day one, hearing electrical theory and electrical terms molested and incorrectly parroted back and forth in the community has been worse than nails on a chalk board with a fork jamed in my eye.

 

[BigBaby]

Good thread Turbine, that felt good to get off my chest.

 

[Myrany]

Using these things is no more difficult than figuring out a smartphone. But the knuckle-draggers want to make this more difficult than it really is. They can rebuild a car engine, use an iPhone, or program their satellite TV, but an electronic cigarette is too confusing for them.

No, you're not confused or ignorant, Cletus, you're lazy.

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TO be fair Rocket I am far from a dim wit but I found the myriad of battery choices we have quite confusing. It is not helped by the fact that most sources I found online really only cover Protected and not protected and really don't mention the safer IMRs, then throw the hybrids into the mix and my head was spinning for a few days trying to sort it all out.

 

[skyztheLynnit]

I completely agree. Our lives are filled with technology. Almost everybody has learned to use a computer or their digital cable, smartphone, etc... Yet you get new people on here that are looking for the most basic setup they can get, and are unwilling to learn anything new. Like how to fill a cartomizer. Instead they want to waste their time with crappy clearomizers that last half a day, or use pre filled carts.

I like to think that those people eventually come around and advance to something better and more reliable, but I have a feeling that an undesirable percentage of people give up and go back to smoking heaters.

Scoper.. have you tried clearomizers recently?

And all due respect... there are many abstaining from smoking because of pre filled carts.

 

[scalewiz]

Bluetooth is a pirate.

Bluetooth The Pirate - YouTube

BTW, sand is really bad for vaping!

 

[WalkinRuin]

About 3rd or 4th (1964) grade I made a flashlight out of PlayDoh, a battery, a light bulb and some wires. If only I had the vision to wrap some kanthal around silica and pour e-juice all over the whole thing. I'd have single-handendly ended smoking tobacco 40 years ago.

Sorry, all my fault. I was close but had no imagination as a kid.

-Ray