Vapebeat Explains…
What Is Vape Tank And How Does It Work?
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What is a vape tank?
A vape tank is the bit of your setup that holds your juice and hides the coil that turns it into vapour.
It threads onto your mod or battery via a standard 510 connection, so it plays nice with most devices out there.
Get the tank wrong and everything else you bought is wasted money.
Want the full picture on which type suits you? I’ve broken it all down in my vape tank types guide.
How They Make The Vapor…
It might seem like magic, but the mechanics of how vape tanks work is actually pretty simple.
Here’s how it breaks down, step by step:
- Cotton wicking inside the tank’s coil pulls juice out of the reservoir like a sponge.
- Hit the fire button, the coil heats up, and that soaked cotton turns to vapour almost instantly.
- It rises through the chimney and out the drip tip, which is just a fancy name for the mouthpiece you’re puffing on.
Airflow is the part people ignore until their vape tastes wrong.
- Crank it open and you get airier draws with bigger clouds.
- Close it down and you get a tighter, DTL pull that feels more like a cigarette.
I’ve had tanks that nailed flavour and leaked everywhere, and tanks that never leaked but tasted like cardboard.
Finding one that does both well is the whole game.
- MTL tanks are your pick if you want something closer to smoking, low vapour, tight draw, easy on your juice supply.
- Sub-ohm tanks are the cloud machines, big vapour, warmer hits, but they’ll chew through e-liquid and batteries fast.
If you’re ready to buy, I keep my current favourites updated in the best vape tanks right now.
And if you’re stuck deciding between the two best sub ohm tanks of this year, I put them head to head in Uwell Valyrian IV vs Vaporesso iTank T.