At dinner tonight as I was itching to break my 510 out and scare all the mundanes, and yet chickening out, I started thinking about what the next generation e-cig would be like. That got me to thinking about how I used to drive my mom nuts by playing with her perfume atomizers and it doesn't seem to me that these "atomizers" are actually atomizing anything. They're cookers aren't they? I mean they're actually cooking the juice which produces the vapor rather than atomizing the juice and then cooking mist, I think...
If they were actually atomizers we'd be getting mist in our mouths instead of squirts when we overfill carts, wouldn't we?
And yet an actual atomizer seems like the next logical step. Instead of
[battery][atomizer][polyfill cart/mouthpiece]
it might be
[battery][juice ampule][atomizer][mouthpiece]
I can see this in my mind but I'm not sure how to describe it.
The atomizer tube would be split vertically, one side for airflow down and across the juice tube, the other side for mist to travel up, through a heating element and then out the tip into the mouth. The external air intake would be on the near side of the atomizer instead of the far side.
The way it's working in my brain is as you inhale air is drawn into the atomizer down one side of the tube, that air then passes over a diaphragm of a juice ampule drawing out eliquid that would be atomized in the air stream in the way a perfume atomizer works. That mist of juice would pass through the heating coil on the other side of the atomizer tube. You'd get a mouthful of vapor and there wouldn't be a cartridge filling material issue or melted fiber or "wicking" problem ever again.
I imagine you could get a one or two ml ampule of juice in if there's no filler competing for space and that would take care of most people all day long (in a 510 type, you could probably get enough juice for several days in a penstyle). I don't think you could easily flood the atomizer either. Putting the juice on the other side of an actual atomizer should take care of that, yes?
I'm sure someone will be able to poke all kinds of holes in this idea, but it's so late it seems pretty easy to me. I mean I THINK perfume type atomizers are dead easy since they've been around for a zillion years and turning atomized juice into vapor should be more efficient than cooking off a pot full of liquid.
I think it would solve most of the noob issues that I've had at least and it would end fiddling around with carts and filler, just snap in a new juice pack (or refilled pack of course) and you're off.
If they were actually atomizers we'd be getting mist in our mouths instead of squirts when we overfill carts, wouldn't we?
And yet an actual atomizer seems like the next logical step. Instead of
[battery][atomizer][polyfill cart/mouthpiece]
it might be
[battery][juice ampule][atomizer][mouthpiece]
I can see this in my mind but I'm not sure how to describe it.
The atomizer tube would be split vertically, one side for airflow down and across the juice tube, the other side for mist to travel up, through a heating element and then out the tip into the mouth. The external air intake would be on the near side of the atomizer instead of the far side.
The way it's working in my brain is as you inhale air is drawn into the atomizer down one side of the tube, that air then passes over a diaphragm of a juice ampule drawing out eliquid that would be atomized in the air stream in the way a perfume atomizer works. That mist of juice would pass through the heating coil on the other side of the atomizer tube. You'd get a mouthful of vapor and there wouldn't be a cartridge filling material issue or melted fiber or "wicking" problem ever again.
I imagine you could get a one or two ml ampule of juice in if there's no filler competing for space and that would take care of most people all day long (in a 510 type, you could probably get enough juice for several days in a penstyle). I don't think you could easily flood the atomizer either. Putting the juice on the other side of an actual atomizer should take care of that, yes?
I'm sure someone will be able to poke all kinds of holes in this idea, but it's so late it seems pretty easy to me. I mean I THINK perfume type atomizers are dead easy since they've been around for a zillion years and turning atomized juice into vapor should be more efficient than cooking off a pot full of liquid.
I think it would solve most of the noob issues that I've had at least and it would end fiddling around with carts and filler, just snap in a new juice pack (or refilled pack of course) and you're off.
