Your choice of clearomizer is the most important thing when you’re preparing to switch to e-cigarettes. It’s the part that makes the vapour. It’s crucial that it meets your needs so that vaping satisfies you and you don’t go back to combustible cigarettes. All-round clearomizers give you a wider range that will meet more varied needs.
Can-do clearomizers
Unlike clearomizers that can only offer one vaping style, versatile clearomizers are more flexible and you can adjust them to suit your preferences or change your vaping style any time. But versatility also has its limits and imposes its own constraints. The choice is actually quite simple if you think about the right criteria.
- Different vapes on the market
- Does versatile mean better?
- The limitations of being versatile
- Different coils
- So, versatile or not?
Even mentioning versatility in relation to clearomizers may surprise you, as they all ultimately do the same thing: they make vapour. None makes coffee or dispenses ice cubes, as sad as that may be. However, remember that there are different types of vapes, and that’s where the versatility comes in.
You can vape with the tightest indirect inhalation, the most open direct inhalation, and everything in between. It can work at 5W with a very tight air flow, right up to 200W with a free air flow. Some clearomizers are designed to vape at a reduced power range, e.g. for MTL, while others can use a wider power range. Those are the versatile ones.
Is there anything more annoying than wanting a clear cut answer and being told, “it depends”? This is going to annoy you, because the only answer to this question actually is, “it depends”. It depends on what you are looking for – as it so often does with vaping.
In a word, clearomizers intended for a specific style of vaping will be better at that style. If you use MTL, for example, the clearomizer that will give you the best flavour rendering will be one designed specifically for MTL and optimized for that, but that will be all it can do.
Versatile clearomizers are not quite as good as the best for each vaping style, but they do let you switch style easily with just one clearomizer. That slight loss of performance more than justifies their existence.
What it comes down to is how much you’re prepared to lose on performance – compared to the best specialized vapes – to get more versatility. Overall, the wider a range of vaping styles a clearomizer offers, the worse it will perform for any one style. This explains why no clearomizer goes from 5 to 200 W for example – it would be terrible at any power.
However, there are excellent clearomizers that can work from a restrictive MTL to a moderate direct inhalation vape, from 10 to 40 W for example. The best clearomizers have very little loss of flavour or vapour production compared to specialized clearomizers, which is almost unnoticeable in everyday use.
If you want to switch from one vaping style to another, you have to change the coil. Every coil is designed to be used over a fairly small power range, for example between 10 and 15 W or between 35 and 50 W. To change from MTL to direct inhalation, you also have to change the coil to keep enjoying the vape.
How easy it is to change the coil becomes an important factor. With some clearomizers, you can do this without emptying the tank. That’s an essential part of the process, so not getting your hands covered in liquid every time is a real plus point.
In any case, it isn’t something you can do as and when, just walking around. You have to stop, change the coil and have somewhere to put the old one – if you just put it in your pocket it’ll stain.
If you want to switch regularly between MTL and aerial vaping for example, the best thing is to have two clearomizers. That way you can switch just swap them over and adjusting the power on your box. That gives you the option of using different nicotine levels depending on the power you use with each clearomizer. Plus, it gives you two flavours to choose from.
Versatile clearomizers, on the other hand, allow you to switch from one vaping style to another whenever you feel like it, and once you find the style you like best, you can use it for longer. If your favourite style changes over time, a versatile clearomizer will be able to adapt, so you won’t need to buy a new one.
