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.
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.