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Lol no HL? He came out way before all those others and it's diy, is your list for diy or just purchased units plug and play?
If you read through the thread you would see that they were limited on how many products they could list in the poll, nothing intentional about what was excluded, if you read here others have already mentioned it... And if you read my post above and below, I don't consider the HL to be in the same category as other ball vapes, I think halogen is its own thing despite the fact that there are some balls in it...
I’m not familiar with the atlas aside from pictures but I guess with less thermal mass I would think it would just be a less effective ball vape. It’s just the physics of it: there’s less mass to hold and transfer heat. The glass and heater might make for a more pure taste than something like a ti body. I guess the alternative would be that the heater itself is putting out more calories of energy and just not relying on the balls to store the excess as much as to force the air to be in contact with the heat source.
I think you missed my point, the Atlas has more thermal mass, it is ceramic cartridge with more rubies as the main heating element, the Halo relies on the halogen bulb as the heating element, there are some rubies and steel mesh to help disperse the heat etc. The overall mass is different, it is relying on the halogen to heat primarily, whereas Atlas and these others are relying on the balls themselves, that is what I consider a ball vape. Halogen vape is a different category imo
Either way it’s still following the same design pattern in a slightly different configuration was more my point. It’s not a fundamentally different tech to heat the air, so I guess for me it’s still a ball cape, even if the design wasn’t necessarily intended to hang with the heavier hitters as much as to chase after purity of flavor. I think that’s the point of this thread, right? There’s not an objective best, but there might be one designed more for flavor (heater not in direct contact with the air path, all glass air path vs ti/ceramic body and heater directly in the airpath) that user a prefers while user b prefers that design that’s just chasing after huge efficient rips.
Yeah my point is I disagree, it is not the same design pattern, despite the similarities. It's another category of vape like a regular log is another category itself