I have prepared this little write up to do a vid and was wondering if you could please have a little read and please tell me if I have any incorrect info the last thing I want to do is pass on any wrong info and if there is anything you would add Thanks in advance Adam
Coil: Do’s and Don’ts
With more and more research being done every day the questions regarding the safety of personal vaporizers (e-cigarette’s) is always in question. Anyone who has taken the journey from cigarettes to vaping will know there are still many unanswered questions and lots of misinformation out there.
Let me start by saying I will not compare personal vaporizers (e-cigarette’s) to traditional cigarettes I believe we have gone beyond that in this stage in the game. I would just like to share what I have learned and by no means claim to be an expert or an authority on this subject.
If we just look at the properties of the wire we are using to make our coils we will find that to be as safe as possible it is best not to dry burn our coils. I will discuss the wire types I am using right now which are Kanthal and Titanium.
Titanium readily reacts with oxygen at 1,200 °C (2,190 °F) in air, and at 610 °C (1,130 °F) in pure oxygen, forming titanium dioxideI must stress that when using Titanium wire that you should never dry burn your coils which is very harmful to your lungs so please never dry burn Titanium wire.Take note with new temp control devices your coils should be evenly spaced and not touch each other and the same gauge of Titanium wire has approximately half the resistance of Kanthal wire.
Ordinary Kanthal FeCrAl alloy has a melting point of 1,500 °C (2,730 °F). Special grades can be used as high as 1,425 °C (2,597 °F).[2]
Everyone that Vapes will probably know about Kanthal wire anyone like me who has watched a million YouTube videos showing coil build’s using different gauges of Kanthal wire have watched different You Tuber’s dry burn and fineness there coils with tweezers to take out any hot spots and get their coils glowing from the inside out evenly and I myself am guilty of this practice in the past. So is it safe to dry burn Kanthal wire. My thoughts are it is better not to dry burn any coils whatever the wire you are using best to be a safe as possible. But we are all adults and the decision is entirely up to you.
What put things into perspective for me is the boiling point of PG is 188C and the boiling point of VG is 290C so any e-juice reaching this limit or above will produce acrolein, formaldehyde and acetaldehyde. Best not to exceed 280C to be safe! It is interesting what information you will find did you know:
“A heating element will stay at the boiling point of a liquid until all of the liquid has boiled off. So we're quite safe in assuming that the Kanthal stays an entire order of magnitude cooler than is required to give off harmful fumes.”
So please do your own research and make the healthiest choices it is all up to you Vape Safe and stay off the cig’s
Coil: Do’s and Don’ts
With more and more research being done every day the questions regarding the safety of personal vaporizers (e-cigarette’s) is always in question. Anyone who has taken the journey from cigarettes to vaping will know there are still many unanswered questions and lots of misinformation out there.
Let me start by saying I will not compare personal vaporizers (e-cigarette’s) to traditional cigarettes I believe we have gone beyond that in this stage in the game. I would just like to share what I have learned and by no means claim to be an expert or an authority on this subject.
If we just look at the properties of the wire we are using to make our coils we will find that to be as safe as possible it is best not to dry burn our coils. I will discuss the wire types I am using right now which are Kanthal and Titanium.
Titanium readily reacts with oxygen at 1,200 °C (2,190 °F) in air, and at 610 °C (1,130 °F) in pure oxygen, forming titanium dioxideI must stress that when using Titanium wire that you should never dry burn your coils which is very harmful to your lungs so please never dry burn Titanium wire.Take note with new temp control devices your coils should be evenly spaced and not touch each other and the same gauge of Titanium wire has approximately half the resistance of Kanthal wire.
Ordinary Kanthal FeCrAl alloy has a melting point of 1,500 °C (2,730 °F). Special grades can be used as high as 1,425 °C (2,597 °F).[2]
Everyone that Vapes will probably know about Kanthal wire anyone like me who has watched a million YouTube videos showing coil build’s using different gauges of Kanthal wire have watched different You Tuber’s dry burn and fineness there coils with tweezers to take out any hot spots and get their coils glowing from the inside out evenly and I myself am guilty of this practice in the past. So is it safe to dry burn Kanthal wire. My thoughts are it is better not to dry burn any coils whatever the wire you are using best to be a safe as possible. But we are all adults and the decision is entirely up to you.
What put things into perspective for me is the boiling point of PG is 188C and the boiling point of VG is 290C so any e-juice reaching this limit or above will produce acrolein, formaldehyde and acetaldehyde. Best not to exceed 280C to be safe! It is interesting what information you will find did you know:
“A heating element will stay at the boiling point of a liquid until all of the liquid has boiled off. So we're quite safe in assuming that the Kanthal stays an entire order of magnitude cooler than is required to give off harmful fumes.”
So please do your own research and make the healthiest choices it is all up to you Vape Safe and stay off the cig’s
