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  1. TheBloke

    200W Asolo TC Box Mod by Heaven Gifts

    Fair enough! Personally I have barely used Kanthal since I discovered TC and I am now exclusively using Titanium and also some new, better TC wire materials such as NiFe wire. I generally see no reason to vape Kanthal as I get the flavour and vape I want from TC, and I really like the...
  2. TheBloke

    200W Asolo TC Box Mod by Heaven Gifts

    Wow I just checked the price: $170 at HeavenGifts, more than I realised. So it's in DNA 200 and Yihi SX Mini M territory, and double to triple a lot of other VW/TC mods. Let's hope the Kanthal DP works out really well in a variety of situations..
  3. TheBloke

    200W Asolo TC Box Mod by Heaven Gifts

    It will achieve that goal, but so will basically every other mod :) Do you want to use TC with Ni200 and Titanium - or might in the future? Do you care about potentially avoiding dry hits with Kanthal? If so, are you willing to put up with the possibility of occasional hiccups - it saying...
  4. TheBloke

    200W Asolo TC Box Mod by Heaven Gifts

    Briefly on this resistance thing: I took the resistance numbers from the Kanthal A1 datasheet, specifically that a 1.0Ω coil rises to 1.01Ω by 500°C Putting this into the TCR Calculator gives a TCR of 0.00002 (300 times lower than Ni200, 175 times lower than Titanium :) ) Then putting in a...
  5. TheBloke

    200W Asolo TC Box Mod by Heaven Gifts

    OK here's the vape on camera if it's of any interest to give you an idea of what the vapes look like in terms of watts. Just cell phone camera for now so apologies for the quality! Later I'll get proper graphs from the oscilloscope which will give us a clearer picture of precisely what...
  6. TheBloke

    200W Asolo TC Box Mod by Heaven Gifts

    OK I was wrong, it didn't tail off in the above test, rather it fluctuated in the range 9.4W - 13.8W, tending towards 9-12W from 4 seconds onwards. I recorded a video of the test - after training for 2.9s, I then vaped for 6.8s Here's what happened: 0.0 - 0.2 seconds: Rising to 15W by 0.02...
  7. TheBloke

    200W Asolo TC Box Mod by Heaven Gifts

    OK, I did the 'reset' again (device on/off, atty on/off - probably device on/off not necessary to clear it, just being sure) and this time I trained for 2.9s and then switched to DP and videod a vape of about 5s It was at 15W for 3 seconds, then I saw a bit of the wild fluctuating that...
  8. TheBloke

    200W Asolo TC Box Mod by Heaven Gifts

    Yup I'm getting a consistent 15W now, just videoed the screen to be sure. Going to re-test a shorter train
  9. TheBloke

    200W Asolo TC Box Mod by Heaven Gifts

    Hmm, that might be it. I just unscrewed, turned the device off and on again to be sure, rescrewed, then vaped for 6s before hitting the T. I don't think it's lowering the watts so much now. It's hard to be completely sure without looking at the screen, and I can't look at the screen without...
  10. TheBloke

    200W Asolo TC Box Mod by Heaven Gifts

    There's probably a lot of significance in this 'training' aspect. What does it look for when you train? Well, I suppose it must monitor a vape and see how much the resistance rises. Then it decides "this much resistance rise is a good vape, because they will only train on a fully wet wick."...
  11. TheBloke

    200W Asolo TC Box Mod by Heaven Gifts

    Yeah true, and a self-made rayon wicked coil is a world away from a tightly packed 1.8 coil head. I'll try my own build and see if I can see the consistent wattage you're getting.
  12. TheBloke

    200W Asolo TC Box Mod by Heaven Gifts

    And to be clear, I don't see it go to zero and back up. When I first hit the button I think I can see it going up to 15W, very quickly, like maybe 9, 14, 15. Then it stays at 15 for about a second, then I can see (and feel in the vape), it dropping off - 14, 13, 11, 9, etc. I don't know if...
  13. TheBloke

    200W Asolo TC Box Mod by Heaven Gifts

    OK interesting. It might vary with the base resistance of the coil for example. I'll get it properly recorded later on camera for the screen and oscilloscope for the output. It's very hard watching the screen while vaping, and if I stop drawing on it for too long while holding the button then...
  14. TheBloke

    200W Asolo TC Box Mod by Heaven Gifts

    To add: I'm not saying the downward slope is definitely pre-programmed/simulated; it might be directly related to the resistance increase, which on a 1.8Ω coil would be fairly easy to measure - up to ten milliohms of resistance rise perhaps. I need to measure it properly to be sure exactly...
  15. TheBloke

    200W Asolo TC Box Mod by Heaven Gifts

    I still don't understand the resistance readings. On this 1.8Ω Triton coil, a couple of other mods are reading it - consistently before, during and after vaping on it a bit - at 1.84Ω The Asolo showed it as 1.88Ω to start, and now it's generally at 1.90Ω - 1.91Ω but has been as high as 1.92Ω...
  16. TheBloke

    200W Asolo TC Box Mod by Heaven Gifts

    Interestingly that downward wattage slope seems irrespective of the juice in the tank/wick. That might be because I'm getting resistance fluctuations, or it might be a pre-programmed wattage curve, like the Smok M80 had. Hold a vape for a long time and you can feel the strength dropping and...
  17. TheBloke

    200W Asolo TC Box Mod by Heaven Gifts

    It outputs the wattage you set as a maximum, but then lowers that value throughout the vape, or at least that's what it's doing for me right now - I don't yet know if that's variable or fixed behaviour. Eg with Triton 1.8Ω coil, 'trained' at 15W, it builds up quickly (but not instantaneously)...
  18. TheBloke

    Smok X Cube II 160watt TC Bluetooth $55.9 coupon

    It's not a bad device, as long as you know you need to apply a temperature offset, and as long as you can use an up-to-date Android or iOS device (with Bluetooth 4) to enable Titanium, and soon - hopefully - Stainless Steel support. For $60-odd for a dual battery, chunky all-metal device, which...
  19. TheBloke

    New Kangxin 50W TC device - Mini VF KX-50D: single 18650; LED torch; USB charge; multiple colours

    Yeah, but with a higher resistance, a lower wattage is required to achieve a given amount of heat, surely? With TC what we care about is target temperature So let's say we have a 1.0Ω stretch of wire and a 0.1Ω stretch of wire. The 1.0Ω stretch of wire can be heated to 250°C in 1 second...
  20. TheBloke

    200W Asolo TC Box Mod by Heaven Gifts

    Oh and I see what you mean about the seam, yeah I can easily get a fingernail under there.
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