I can see them playing real havoc with TC, different resistance every time you snap it on/off.
It might. But if the 510 pin is gold plated, it might not be a problem. The grounding shouldn't be a problem since it is so huge. Heaven forbid if it is chrome plated brass then all bets are off. But it looks like SS to me so it should be ok. But since I ordered some, I guess I'll find out.
I imagine you could mod one of these up for scope probe access quite easily since they have an acrylic tank.
Volt Meter 510 Voltage reader for Mechanical Mod
Edit: Didn't notice they were OOS, but I imagine other places have them or something similar.
Yes, I looked at them before and they were manufactured in 2014 or before. And I don't think they would be built to handle high wattage. Nor would they care about resistance stability back then either. So that would be iffy at best. But the last couple of years I haven't found any in stock anywhere anyway.
The easy way to connect up a scope is just use an RDA with the top cap removed. But then you get all of that heat (dangerous to a $100 scope probe) and without the cap and can't check it while vaping. Well there is that
Kiss of the Dragon vaping without a top cap, but you never hear of anybody practicing this very long (I bet once their tongue singes on the hot coil, they never try that again).