Windy e-smoking

[TropicalBob]

I was walking the dog this windy Florida morning and noticed my Janty Kissbox with the automatic switch kept coming "on" before I inhaled. It got a bit warm from the constant "on" state, so I put it back in the lanyard I wear. It cooled.

Then I connected the dots. See if yours does the same: Blow across the mouthpiece end. Blow where the switch meets the atomizer. When I do either, the unit turns on. I see the red light and hear the crackle-hiss. A pressure difference is being generated and that activates the switch.

That same wind-created pressure difference is why smoke inside a car is drawn rapidly out of a cracked-open window when the car is in motion. When the cars stops, the smoke goes nowhere. When the car is put in motion, a pressure change exits the smoke.

I guess I can't be the first to e-smoke in a hurricane. Or on a motorcycle.

Course, I could use my manual switch.

 

[windblown]

Well, I had to whip out my Kissbox and blow on it, and it does the same thing..... lights up and gurgles when I blow on the right spot.

Uhhhhh......are you sure it's okay to discuss this in public?

 

[TropicalBob]

I'm thinking more what happens when an e-smoker goes outside on a cold, windy day to join friends still smoking regular cigs, which they cup with a hand, while the e-smoker gets frantic because the LED comes on, blinks, comes back on, and the e-cig gets hotter and hotter, etc.

I think a second use of e-cigs might become .. hand warmers!

One more small aside on strange behavior: When I refrigerated liquid, it thickened. Hmmm. So, on cold days, will the cold, thick e-liquid work as well as it does with thinner viscosity? And will an atomizer below freezing from environmental temperature burn out in a pop when it rockets to red hot in a second?

I don't have this problem in Florida, but will be interested if friends in the frozen North have sudden e-cig troubles this winter.

 

[RatInDaHat]

the kissbox is the only one i have that is so sensitive to the pressure differential. The others i use take much more effort.

 

[ned Zeppelin]

Yes I agree the atomiser is very sensitive on auto and I find the sedansa diva to be the same but the atomiser is pretty much identical except for the paint job anyway.


But I think this what makes the Janty so good with the manual switch and I also believe that all manufacturers will eventually have to put some sort of manual switch in place because of safety issues especially with things hotting up in Europe as I have already received various different electronic cigarette devices that had started to burn and melt in the box in shipment and I cannot understand why they are not packed without the battery attached. It ain't rocket science. Where this will probably become law in the future.

 

[TropicalBob]

Excellent point, Ned. They might be burning up in transit if a sensitive switch detects a sudden pressure change in the cargo bay of the transport airplane during takeoff or landing and thinks a user is inhaling! A cabin is pressurized; cargo areas are most often not.

batteries should not be attached during transportation. And liquids should be refrigerated in transit. Very simple things to do to assure safety and quality.

 

[Janet]

These e-cigs are beginning to remind me of cars. Pretty soon there will be e-cig mechanic shops popping up! You got Kissboxes and Divas (BMWs and Porsches) and Njoy and generics (Chevys and Hyundais). I just want the dad burn things to take me where I'm goin'! Then you got Trog with his self-built ones like the song by Johnny Cash about his Cadillac he built over the years he worked at the plant.

 

[TropicalBob]

Excellent comparison, Janet, and I, too, thought of that Johnny Cash song when I first saw Trog's screwdriver device.

Ned and I are on same page here, though. Bite your nails and hope we don't see a headline about an aviation onboard fire caused by an e-cigarette in transit. And since batteries bursting into flames are problems in laptops, cell phones and e-cigs, then just make sure the battery is never attached to the atomizer during transit.

P.S. A good time ago, we early forum members joked about "customizing" e-cig. Imagine the Orange County E-Cig Chopper Shop. Or Pimp My E-Cig.

 

[Janet]

I love that Johnny Cash song - always makes me laugh. I think I was to blame for the "Pimp my ..." thread because I hand-painted my plain white e-cig and posted it. Still can't get used to seeing that word as slang for a cigarette! Haven't painted any since then - too much work for somethin' that doesn't last. However, one atomizer and battery from the two I painted are still working. I have however decorated some of my e-cigs with fingernail decals. Helps me to tell them apart from one another, especially the batteries. To get back on topic - I'm soooo glad I don't have to go outside in the cold and wind to have a cigarette!

 

[ned Zeppelin]

Excellent comparison, Janet, and I, too, thought of that Johnny Cash song when I first saw Trog's screwdriver device.

Ned and I are on same page here, though. Bite your nails and hope we don't see a headline about an aviation onboard fire caused by an e-cigarette in transit. And since batteries bursting into flames are problems in laptops, cell phones and e-cigs, then just make sure the battery is never attached to the atomizer during transit.

P.S. A good time ago, we early forum members joked about "customizing" e-cig. Imagine the Orange County E-Cig Chopper Shop. Or Pimp My E-Cig.

Its funny you saying that Bob as there is a drum manufacturer called Orange county in the good old USA producing handmade and custom-built drums and repair service for drummers.
Now becoming very popular in the UK and are excellent sounding drums with superb finishes.