Cart Grudge Match Shootout

Game-changing, groundbreaking, innovative, streamlined, stunning, revolutionary and other meaningless drivel is constantly spouted in cart manufacturers' press literature.

It's easy to dismiss such emotive absurdity as cheap marketing tripe, but is there anything here we should know about? Are these any different to the cheap knockoffs available from Wish for a fraction of the cost?

Here we dissect 6 different carts, comparing internals to a generic cheapo knockoff TH210 from Wish, just to see how they all tick. We then vape test all using a 1:1 mix and report conclusions

Pic: from top to bottom. Ccell TH210, knockoff TH210, generic "all glass wickless", Ccell Evomax, Ccell Evo, Ccell Zico

General Similarities

All carts tested work on exactly the same principle, featuring an atomiser with an absorbent ceramic bead wick with a heating coil partically embedded around the inner hole hollow of the bead.

Ceramic Bead: Beads are covered with a thin woven cotton jacket, which is either in the form of a length of tape wrap, or top mounted split bonnet(s).

Bead materials are all hard, porous and apparently ceramic. The newer genuine CCell models tested are dark coloured blackclose inspection suggested a slightly different structure, perhaps slightly less tightly packed together granules and more brittle. How much this affects performance with Dimitri juice is currently unclear

The external diameter and length of beads can vary between cart models but they all have a ⌀2.0mm hole through the centre of the bead.

Heating Wire This is ultra-fine 34 to 36AWG and the number of effective complete turns varies from 2 to 4. It's also probable that different wire materials are used, as the wire from some carts was noticably stiffer and more prone to fatique fracture than others. Perhaps the metal type is selected to achieve a desired resistance (and therefore power disspiation on a Voltage-set cart battery) from the designed number of coil turns

(Right)The porous ceramic bead with ⌀2mm with heating coil on the inside. On the left the bead has been partially broken to reveal the coil.

The ceramic beads with the two cotton jacket types. Left is the top-mounted split jacket, right is the wrap-around tape design

Differences Between Models