The scope traces are showing the voltage levels. For vaping we would need a "temperature scope", be able to see how much the temp varies, it's what makes the vapor.
Andria
I remember my senior year in high school, I already had my math requirements done for graduation and decided to drop Trigonometry. When I went to have the teacher sign the form to drop he told me "This is probably the smartest thing youve done all semester".
Trig made sense to me in high school, it was statistics that I just couldn't get my head around. It's interesting how time can change things though.
That's what I was talking about earlier, where the algorithm they used would work under certain conditions, but alter any of them it becomes way offI dont know about dirty signals or clean signal or any of that, Im a mechanic, not an avionics tech so all I can share is what I experienced with my vapes and what I thought of them.
With that out of the way, I tried the M80 Plus with a dripper tonight. Used my mutation X with a dual coil build on it ohming out at .55 ohms. With it at 430 I got some nasty dry hits. With it turned down to 400 F I got some hits that wasnt exactly dry hits but had that burnt taste but didnt burn the throat and make me choke like a dry hit does. More of a scorched hit than a dry hit. With the Mutation X only able to hold six drop before leaking, I was able to test it heavily tonight.
So does TC work on the Smok M80 Plus, well yes and no. With an RTA I got three times in a row where the TC protection worked. With a dripper, not so much. With that being said I dont think I would recommend the M80 Plus to anyone wanting to do TC. Too many mods out there that work far better at TC. In my opinion Smok is working hard to make this a true TC mod and would be worth watching what they come up with next to advance it in the TC market.
That's what I was talking about earlier, where the algorithm they used would work under certain conditions, but alter any of them it becomes way off
As a kid you dont have a clue what the future holds for you. I had Trig and high school calculus and havent used any of that since. The most math I use now is like, I have a space that needs filled but with a .15 to .20 pinch fit so after measuring the space determine the shim size...whoopie.
The few occasional times I get to go flying I have to do a lot more math but it is still simple math. Fuel usage for a flight determined by estimated flight time against known fuel burn, airspeed minus headwind times estimated flight time, stuff like that and a lot more, but nothing like the advanced math I took in high school.
The m80 doesn't adjust according to resistance change.... That is not measurable by the chips in even the most expensive mods on kanthal. With Ti and Ni, the tcr coefficient is a known quantity, with that, and a known starting temp, measuring the change in resistance is pretty accurate for figuring temp.... The m80 is relying solely on a guestimate algorithm... No actual measurement is taking place. This is why it worked do poorly for you on an rdaI am fairly sure they are all using algorithms of one form or another because they sense resistance change, not actual temperature and with nickel and titanium wire its far easier to predict what a coils resistance will do versus kanthal and all its many sizes available. Eventually they will find a way to TC with Kanthal and many of us will be happy to see it.
LOL, nasty clipping on that output...I see those pictures of the PWM charts and think "man that amps got problems, didnt they bias the power tubes right?"
Hold on, I'll dial back the preamp.LOL, nasty clipping on that output...
LOL, that's priceless Andria
Math fascinated me when I was in school, but I was never any good at it back then. I also thought I would never use it so what was the point of trying to 'get it'.
A decade later I was using a lot of math at work and it kinda grew on me.
That's probably why I'm such a nerdy vaper now
To me, all this electrical/electronic stuff is very much in the theoretical not-real-world, it's nothing I can see or touch or count, it's just this magical force passing thru a wire -- nothing at all like paying bills or buying groceries or budgeting for that sort of real-world stuff.
When I got to this part:
I almost peed myself laughing.
There's magic in thim ther wires boys!!!
Are magnets where they keep magic that's not in use...
Andria, you are awesome
electrons are just tiny little bits if energy. Very very very tiny. They are 1/3 of the stuff that makes up matter. You have protons neutrons and electrons. Normally electrons are attached to an Atoms but some Atoms have electrons that don't stick to them very well.
If you want to think about electrons like something you can see, imagine they are little ball bearings.
A very good conductor could be equated to a length of PVC pipe. The ball bearings could flow through it without any interference getting from one end to the other.
Now if you were to put a piece of open cell foam in the pipe the ball bearings could still get through but they would have to bump into a lot of things before they could make it through to the other side. All that bumping into things would be friction and generate heat, all because you added resistance to the flow.