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.

    • thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.comOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I haven’t been able to find any pictures of the coil wrapped around the cable, but here’s a product picture of the cable.

      Edit: I may have misunderstood the wicking method for the genesis style tanks. I didn’t realize the cables didn’t touch the coil, but just wick the liquid up to the surface so the cotton doesn’t have to go all the way in the tank.

      • jocanib@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Oh, yeah. They’re just conduits for the juice, they don’t touch the power terminals. Used for drippers with tanks on the bottom so that you don’t have to tip them up to soak the wicks. They still have cotton wicks in the heating coils.