I know electricity will take the shortest/easiest path to ground, and that path for a wire wrapped around a bigger wire/cable should be shorting through the bigger wire.

Right?

Edit: Turns out I was right about electricity, but wrong about how the genesis style atomizers were wicked. I didn’t know the cable was just to draw the liquid from the tank to the cotton. I thought the cable was a cotton replacement.

  • jocanib@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It would be very hard to make the resistance of the larger cable lower than the smaller one because resistance is a function of the cross-section of the wire. Obviously also a function of the metals, maybe something like silver and Kanthal but it feels like a long shot.

    I don’t know what tech the OP is talking about but you don’t need a wick if you can get e-juice flowing over the coil anyway. You can use a dripper like this so I’m guessing someone has developed a tank to feed the juice into the setup?

    • thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.comOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      My assumptions on how a genesis style tank was wicked was wrong. I thought the cable replaced the cotton instead of just drawing the liquid up to the top so the cotton didn’t have to go in the tank.