Are Silver plated contacts better than solid Copper? Info I need for next purchase.

[DaveP]

if you are REALLY concerned about conductivity...
Silver contacts ( go for the solid silver, the plating wears off)
Oxygen Free Copper for the tube and have that silver plated...

Or, just use it until it gets flaky and toss it. That's our society today ... all about cheap throwaway devices.

Another alternative would be to use inert gas filled sealed switches or just add a touch of dielectric grease to the contacts. No arc.

That said, my Provari and my sigelei Zmax both exhibit the symptoms of contact bounce. I'm vaping and look down to see that the menu activated. It's just a result of cost effective manufacturing vs quality (but expensive) engineering.

 

[sahsah]

Yeah, gold is better than silver for conductivity. I think platinum is the best natural material, but I'm not entirely sure.

What are you talking about? Silver is number 1, then copper, and then gold. Platinum isn't even top three. You should really do more research before spouting off misconceptions as facts

 

[sahsah]

if you are REALLY concerned about conductivity...
Silver contacts ( go for the solid silver, the plating wears off)
Oxygen Free Copper for the tube and have that silver plated...

im still unable to find solid silver contacts for anything like a stingray, a xxix, a nemesis, hell even a turtleship v2. People always come up with the bull.... answer that silver is too soft but that's bull.... you can add like a percent of something sturdy to balance it out and it'd still be great. I don't even know if that would be necessary since I suspect solid silver on it's own may be resilient enough for our applications...

 

[Ryan419]

I just ordered a Corsair Style clone mechanical mod SS body with silver plated brass pins cant wait to try it out cant be worse than my k100 with SS pins!