Hello All,
I've been away for a while, working on projects, plowing through school, you know the deal. Well, probably.
Anyway, over the past few months i've been working on the design of a rather interesting sort of power supply, which is a part of a larger project, non e cigarette related. I can't talk about it much, though.
Regardless, I now have a working design of a remarkable sort of amplifier topology which I have been perfecting for that time. With a buck-boost power supply, some OP-amp based feedback, and some 1kam electronics magics, I have a breadboarded circuit which can precisely control the current flow through any arbitrary load (from 0 ohms short on up.)
I think that a regulator of this type might be advantageous to the e-cigarette world. For one thing, it would mean that the power out of the battery could be constrained to a known maximum amperage instead of regulating by voltage. For another thing, given that P = (I^2)*R it makes more sense to me to attempt to regulate current flowing through a resistive load than regulating the voltage across it (which is a crude form of regulating current when one assumes that their coil stays at the same resistance (( which it most certainly does not))).
Anyway, I could build a trial of this and see how it works, if anyone has any interest in me doing so. I think I could get the technology for this squeezed down into a metal barrel about the size of a rda, though the barrel itself will have to do some heatsinking... shouldn't be too bad.
I've been away for a while, working on projects, plowing through school, you know the deal. Well, probably.
Anyway, over the past few months i've been working on the design of a rather interesting sort of power supply, which is a part of a larger project, non e cigarette related. I can't talk about it much, though.
Regardless, I now have a working design of a remarkable sort of amplifier topology which I have been perfecting for that time. With a buck-boost power supply, some OP-amp based feedback, and some 1kam electronics magics, I have a breadboarded circuit which can precisely control the current flow through any arbitrary load (from 0 ohms short on up.)
I think that a regulator of this type might be advantageous to the e-cigarette world. For one thing, it would mean that the power out of the battery could be constrained to a known maximum amperage instead of regulating by voltage. For another thing, given that P = (I^2)*R it makes more sense to me to attempt to regulate current flowing through a resistive load than regulating the voltage across it (which is a crude form of regulating current when one assumes that their coil stays at the same resistance (( which it most certainly does not))).
Anyway, I could build a trial of this and see how it works, if anyone has any interest in me doing so. I think I could get the technology for this squeezed down into a metal barrel about the size of a rda, though the barrel itself will have to do some heatsinking... shouldn't be too bad.
