Why 22mm?

[SteveF]

Its a question thats been running around my head. Why are the vast majority of atomisers 22mm wide?

Is it or was it simply down to battery and tube dimensions?

[car147]

Not sure but I would hazard a guess at it being the dimensions to a tube mech mod, and the casing required to house the batteries. Once this was designed around 18650 batts atty dimension would be in the 22mm region.

I could be talking crap though

[phtumshk]

And God said on the first day 'let there be Mech'.
So battery and tube dimensions would be my first thought as well.
Apologies to any religious folks.

[enjay]

Now I'm into vaperzcloud products it's all 23, 24, 25, 28 and 30mm lol. The VCM mod is 23mm then there's the X1 which is 24.5 and then there's a 25mm VCM too or will be oh and a 30mm one.

I think the whole 22mm thing is changing, agree with the above about the mods all being 22mm originally but not any more.

[sydsut]

As the first mechs were converted torches I expect that was the outer diameter which fitted the 18650 batteries so all followed on from there but I'm guessing

[VapingBad]

Yep most tube mods were 22 mm for a few years

[SteveF]

cheers all, 30mm sounds like a monster, easy enough to build I suppose, none of this micro surgery with 22mm tanks that claim to give dripper quality flavour

[Deleted]

I do prefer a smaller chamber. I know I keep banging on about them to the point of boring but cyclone is my bestest for squonking. 14mm and HUGE magnifier !

[*-SARIN-*]

Jan 17, 2016 23:55:31 GMT car147 said:

Not sure but I would hazard a guess at it being the dimensions to a tube mech mod, and the casing required to house the batteries. Once this was designed around 18650 batts atty dimension would be in the 22mm region.

I could be talking crap though

I don't know the answer to OP's question but 'd guess the above is probably correct.

[b1mble]

Jan 18, 2016 1:45:51 GMT sydsut said:

As the first mechs were converted torches I expect that was the outer diameter which fitted the 18650 batteries so all followed on from there but I'm guessing

Torches never have standardised on diameter apart from the absurdly overpriced SureFire products which were designed to fit on guns. The standard diameter of their bodies (and their thousands of clones) was a bit under an inch. The clones were cheap and easily available so would have been the first used for modding - especially with SureFire type switches as they could actually handle the current unlike most torch switches. (Many of them have problems with XML LEDs which need 3A.)

They were also momentary rather than locking switches - you really, really don't want locking switches on a mod.

I've not actually measured any of my 100+ torches' diameter but the Surefire clones would be around 22mm.

None of this is supported by any evidence I'm aware of but seems probable to me.

[enjay]

Jan 18, 2016 6:48:10 GMT SteveF said:

cheers all, 30mm sounds like a monster, easy enough to build I suppose, none of this micro surgery with 22mm tanks that claim to give dripper quality flavour

Vaperzcloud mega tank, they do a 25 and a 30mm one, loads of build space and are pretty close to a dripper. You can check them out at evolution vaping.