Complete personal Vaporizer

[danman1453]

This will be a long term work in progress, just wanted to show the work so far...

If you have any questions, please ask.

The two wires will be holding a wick/heating element suspended in the glass tube.

I tried to get as much detail as I could.

 

[jj2]

It's gonna be an itty bitty PV!!!
I'd be scared I'd lose it in my purse or a pocket!!!

 

[danman1453]

The whole thing is going to be mounted to an enclosure, with a wall wort for power. The goal is to be able to see vapor production. The tiny tubing is for juice delivery after completion. The shorter larger tube is for air delivery/power delivery. The long larger tube is to retrieve said vapor. For testing, i hooked it up to a laptop PS with a piece of mechanical pencil lead as the element. I stuck a piece of my insulation wick on the lead for testing.

Also, the glass vial is about an inch in diameter, and about 2 inches long.

 

[danman1453]

I have found a heating element material other than nichrome wire. A lot easier to obtain too. During my browse through my local walmart, I found some beading wire in the crafts section that looked worth a try. I burned the "insulation" off it, and unwound a single strand. As a test, I wrapped about 3 inches around some wicking material, and tried different power options. My try with a 12v 850mA wall wort was successful. I was able to hold the power on with the wire only reaching an orange glow. I repeated it several times, with no noticeable degradation in strength.

I now have to find a long distance wick that is heat resistant, and easily replaceable.

Feel free to offer suggestions.

 

[asdaq]

Silica rope perhaps. This beading wire does it have lead or copper in it to make it more bendable?

 

[danman1453]

the beading wire is actually pretty stiff. stainless steel. with nylon coating that would need to be removed.

A slight problem i am having with it is when winding, it readily tries to spring back to its original shape. The little ripples (from being part of a twisted cable) along the length are impossible to get rid of.

 

[danman1453]

Some super blurry pics of a single 3 inch strand from the beading wire with 12v 850mA running through it. No flash makes an in-focus pic hard.

 

[Cool_Breeze]

...got a thought for a connector for coil legs. I'll try to work up some graphic on it. Not sure it is viable, but may lead to something.

 

[danman1453]

Here are some new pics of about 3 inches wound... the vapor pic is with 3 drops applied directly to the wick under the coil.



As usual, any questions or comments are welcome.

 

[danman1453]

Here is a 3 inch piece of wire, with wicking wrapped around it. Mostly, to prevent shorting across sections of coil.

 

[danman1453]

Here is a few pics with the wick/element in a pool of 50/50 PG/VG.

 

[danman1453]

ITS ALIVE!
its not very pretty right now, but its together and it works.... great!
all for about 2 bucks.

 

[Cool_Breeze]

Congrats, danman!

 

[danman1453]

Thanks Cool_Breeze.

I am open to suggestions in the aesthetics department.

I am not going to yell at you if you say its terrible looking. At this moment, I am concerned with function over form.

But, I would like ideas on where to go from here.

 

[Cool_Breeze]

I'll give it some thought.

 

[CraigHB]

The way it looks right now, I'd say it's just aching to be put in an e-pipe configuration. I haven't used an e-pipe myself, they're not all that common, but people who've used them really like them. Probably work well for me since I vape like I'm smoking a tobacco pipe anyway.

 

[danman1453]

Well, I have started collecting parts for ver. 2. The bottom tank is going to be a small threaded glass bottle. The top is going to be a plastic vial with an RGB LED sealed with silicone to light the vapor depending on "mood" and/or voltage being used. For the stand, I am aiming for a hand formed copper wire design. Kind of twisting up and around the bottle/vial assembly. Heavy gauge. The base is where all the fun will happen as far as switching and pwm controls go. Reduction from 120v AC to DC will be carried out in the base also. People have enough wall warts.

 

[danman1453]

current work on protomod v2.

This one runs on 5v. hand wound coil, with wick into bottom container (e-juice tank). Top is just for visual aid.

Still using the stainless wire for the coil.

Rough run went good. A little left over cinnamon in the bottle had me coughing pretty good. That stuff is STRONG!

 

[WillyB]

I think I'd stick with nichrome80.

Cheap and many gauges/resistance to choose from to 'fine tune' your device.

PnJ Resources, LLC : Nichrome 80

The prices include shipping.

 

[Cool_Breeze]

Hi danman,

Earlier when we were in chat, I had been looking at the wrong (older) picture. I now see the hose and it makes better sense.