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CraigHB

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It's not out there at all, really. A gas powered atomizer would probably be smaller and run longer than a battery powered atomizer. Actually surprised nobody has come up with anything yet. Mount a boiler tube and juice feeder on one of those high power cigar lighters and there you have it. Though it might be tricky to keep the juice from getting too hot. VG gets nasty when overheated.
 

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I've been surfing around and there are butane powered vaporizers out there (designed to vaporize other "Organic" materials) but they tend to be more "session" oriented as opposed to the "on demand" duty cycle we mostly require. I think this is by virtue of the heat/cool lag times...

I just can't help but think, in a world of over the top tech we are still so much in the dark ages with our basic potential+resistance=heat methodology...I've shown my mods to the guys I work with and they talk about designing thermistors feedback loops into a variable wattage controller, coupled with conductivity feedback of the wicking to drive a direct feed micro pump (totally independent of air flow drawing liquid), with proper control and maintenance an atty coil should last years not weeks...sooner or later there'll be a quantum tech leap for e cigs, I guess it's just a matter of R&D recovery...
 

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I've been surfing around and there are butane powered vaporizers out there (designed to vaporize other "Organic" materials) but they tend to be more "session" oriented as opposed to the "on demand" duty cycle we mostly require. I think this is by virtue of the heat/cool lag times...

I just can't help but think, in a world of over the top tech we are still so much in the dark ages with our basic potential+resistance=heat methodology...I've shown my mods to the guys I work with and they talk about designing thermistors feedback loops into a variable wattage controller, coupled with conductivity feedback of the wicking to drive a direct feed micro pump (totally independent of air flow drawing liquid), with proper control and maintenance an atty coil should last years not weeks...sooner or later there'll be a quantum tech leap for e cigs, I guess it's just a matter of R&D recovery...

;) Then we'll have to look into financing our atties :D
 

Quigsworth

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;) Then we'll have to look into financing our atties :D

Not really, at the end of the day a 32 AWG Kanthal coil running at 190-200 degrees (well under it's max operating temp) should last a loooong time...it's the gunk and goo that tends to build up eventually mechanically breaking the coil as opposed to it burning out...another thing our equipment does quite well is just keep running the current through it well beyond what's necessary...hit the fire button, within 3-5 seconds that coil will have reached the sweet spot temp, once at that temp you could drop the current flow considerably and still maintain the sweet spot, one could argue by using all kinds of hot/cold resistance calculations that heating coils are self regulating (a hot coil has a higher R value than a cold one, essentially choking it's own current, also why there is a fairly high inrush current to a cold coil)...if we could only have that current stepped or pulsed to achieve as fast as possible then maintain a desired temp the coil would last longer, there'd be less build up of gunk/char residue not to mention how it could possibly extend our batt life...we need a smarter mod not higher volts
 

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Because you buy it from Canada, then don't pay us <<cough, California>>...(oops, did I say that out loud, lol?)

Get ready for more losses 'um California' from your electricity as California is in the news as planning on shutting down 2 of it's nuclear reactors.

They set their own radical environmental policies and drive business away so in my opinion they should have to suffer the consequences without outside assistance (bailout}.
 

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Get ready for more losses 'um California' from your electricity as California is in the news as planning on shutting down 2 of it's nuclear reactors.

They set their own radical environmental policies and drive business away so in my opinion they should have to suffer the consequences without outside assistance (bailout}.
This the second time the same guy has tried to get them shut down. He will need over 500,000 signatures in 5 months just to get it on the ballet. Even if on the ballet IMO it doesn't stand a snowballs chance in he11 of passing.
 
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