Do you like savouring as much flavour as you can handle when vaping? And are you an e-cig devotee who just can’t resist generating the biggest plumes of vapour known to man (or at least to your vaping crowd)? If the answer to both those questions is yes, then sub-ohm vaping is very much for you. Heard about it but not sure what it actually is, let alone how to go about doing it? Read on…
How low can you go?
Sub-ohming kicked off thanks to the desire of experienced vapers to get the most intense clouds and flavours possible; that is, an all-round awesome vaping experience. To produce ever greater plumes of vapour, these innovative, industrious types started building lower and lower resistance coils, until they were coming up with coils delivering less than 1 ohm (Ω) in resistance (i.e. sub-ohm e-cig devices); the result of which were e-cig devices that could deliver more and more wattage (power) and so more and more of the good stuff. So, more specifically, sub-ohm vaping delivers:
Colossal clouds – if you fancy yourself a cool-cat cloud chaser, going the sub-ohm route’s the way to do it, all right
- Fulsome flavour – an atomiser fitted with such a low-resistance coil (with its organic cotton wicking) as you get with a sub-ohm device pretty much spoils you for life when it comes to flavour; a standard clearomiser instead of the aforementioned atomiser’s never going to deliver so much taste intensity because it simply can’t deliver as much bang-for-your-buck vapour per hit
- Heated vapour – yes, that’s right; sub-ohming does deliver warmer vapour owing to the reduced resistance and thus the high wattage (power), which means many vapers find this seems to satisfy that old nicotine craving even more (but doing worry, the vapour’s not hot enough to burn your lips or mouth).
How to get going with sub-ohming
Sounds great, right? There’s just one thing left – how do you actually get sub-ohming? Well, fortunately, there’s no longer the need for a vaper to be an electronics whizz and/ or done Physics at A-Level to get to grips with all the technical ins and outs that was once necessary. Instead, mercifully, nowadays all it takes to generate those colossal clouds and impress your peeps is to get your hands on a ready-made sub-ohm tank and a high-quality mod that can take 50W (or more) in which to use it. So, if you’re a relative newbie to vaping, it’s pretty quick and easy to get sub-ohming – and, to be precise, here are some of the principal bits of vape accessories UK you’ll need:
- Sub-ohm tank – yes, as pointed out, today one of these is essential for quick, easy and effective, efficient sub-ohming; such tanks accommodate disposable, pre-manufactured coil heads and they’re fantastic bits of kit, for sure, making this vaping side-line accessible like it simply hasn’t been before previously
- Rebuildable Dripping Atomiser (RDA) – back in the day (that means a few short years back), the only real way to experience sub-ohming was to call on the capabilities of an RDA; they’re usually smaller than sub-ohm tanks and, attaching to mechanical/ box mods, they oblige users to drip small amounts of e-liquid directly on to their coils and wicks before most hits to deliver the required sub-ohm effect
- Rebuildable Tank Atomiser (RTA) – the advantage with one of these over an RDA is that, although it requires a bit of man-handling and putting your back into it, as it were (unlike with a sub-ohm tank), it doesn’t necessitate dripping juice on to coils and wicks, as outlined above; more and more, as the technology and market’s evolving, RTAs are being geared towards sub-ohm niche vapers, coming complete as they do then with appropriate airflow options.
In fact, you’re even likely to come across Rebuildable Dripping Tank Atomisers (RDTAs) now, a hybrid that combines the traditional but personalised dripping control of the RDA with the tank-based ease-of-use of the RTA. That said, as clearly pointed out above, when it comes to tanks and sub-ohming, nothing’s easier-to-use than a modern purpose-built sub-ohm tank.
