Home Made Pyrex/Ceramic Combo heating coil

[nicotime]

Nope stayed right at 2.4ohms

As compared to an open exposed coil, the open coil produces WAY more vapor than the ceramic covered one does. Back to the drawing board.
Dan

Exposed coils will also get hotter when air hits it...just like blowing on a hot ember of charcoal or wood. I also experimented with wick in the tube but I found when it vaporizes inside the tube it also condenses on the tube and back to the wick...so its a nowhere cycle. Plus we know from the wizard stick that it will gum up eventually. The thing to shoot for is an easily replaceable module so you can pop one out and plug one back in in no time...this stuff is so inexpensive why bother cleaning it.

 

[Scubabatdan]

Exposed coils will also get hotter when air hits it...just like blowing on a hot ember of charcoal or wood. I also experimented with wick in the tube but I found when it vaporizes inside the tube it also condenses on the tube and back to the wick...so its a nowhere cycle. Plus we know from the wizard stick that it will gum up eventually. The thing to shoot for is an easily replaceable module so you can pop one out and plug one back in in no time...this stuff is so inexpensive why bother cleaning it.

I have to agree, I have found that with this setup I can test MANY different types of heating coils without having to attach the IC legs to the nichrome. A simple screw and I am vaping.
I have found my sweet spot at 2.2ohms using 34ga wire wrapped around a small amount of of wick and a straight pin for support when wrapping. This configuration produces the best throat hit and vapor I have found yet. I do want to try a pyrex tube with the coil on the inside pack full of the thermeez ceramic material.

On a side note I am also working on etching my own PCB board with muratic acid and hydrogen peroxide We will see how that goes. LOL
Dan

 

[Vaporer]

I have to agree here. The materials are readily available and cheap.
If screws can be used with no soldering required, why solder? I have a couple exceptions that screws just won't work, so IC plug ins do the trick.
Many times when I look at the removed coil, it's just lost good vaping power from the crud that forms. Sometimes you can unwrap the wire letting the crud fall off, run the wire through your fingernails cleaning it off and rewrap it on new wick. Install and go on.

The "recycle" nicotime refers to occurs in my DSE601 pipe. The condensate runs back into the atty from a very large chamber and a longer distance to exit the mouthpiece. The problem is that many flavors will be vaporized and are out the mouthpiece on the draw. Some condense quicker(higher vaporization temperatures), condensate forms and they run back down. Eventually, the atomizer has to be rinsed or the concentrated "run back" over powers the flavor you are using and they all taste the same.

 

[Bubo]

Okay... Just to chime in (Been watching!)

Question for Dan and Vaporer: Just to confirm, IC refers to Integrated Circuit? Basically an atty with stiff legs that'd plug into a socket or something rather than screw/solder? Like a small halogen bulb? (Just checking)

And to sum up all of the threads; post number one and seventeen are still the best yet?

And question about plugging the ends of the Pyrex (post 17) with thermeez - I thought it was on this tread, but now I can't find it; isn't there any heat/air expansion that'd blow/crack the tube? (Didn't we cover this in another thread?)

Sorry to be so "bouncy" in the questioning....

 

[Vaporer]

Bubo,
The preferred IC sockets are here post #170.
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...6-new-atomizer-coil-shape-17.html#post1564619
The round pin on the bottom fits perfectly in the top hole. So, one can be the socket and the other the plug. Since 2/3's of the length is hollow, they can be trimmed to length if needed.
The pyrex tubing thing is Dan's baby.

 

[Bubo]

Ug, eight more pages and references to go through!
I think the first few pages look familiar, I must have followed it for a while and then stopped...

Thanks Vaporer!

PS - I wanna pipe now!

 

[Scubabatdan]

Okay... Just to chime in (Been watching!)

And to sum up all of the threads; post number one and seventeen are still the best yet?

And question about plugging the ends of the Pyrex (post 17) with thermeez - I thought it was on this tread, but now I can't find it; isn't there any heat/air expansion that'd blow/crack the tube? (Didn't we cover this in another thread?)

Sorry to be so "bouncy" in the questioning....

Post 1 and 17 work as good as an exposed coil does, the thermeez paste was covered with a link here:
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...6-new-atomizer-coil-shape-18.html#post1567894

I have not had a blow out or cracking with the pyrex tubing. The standard glass had that problem.

Hope this helps since Vaporer covered the IC issue.
Dan

 

[Bubo]

Wow.. I think my eyes are bleeding...
90 min to read through the New Atomizer Coil Shape thread (Yes, there where intreruptions!) But chock full of good info!

Now I need pill fobs, firewick, thermeez, nichrome, another job to afford all of this, tiny fingers, new eyeballs, Zinc Cloride Flux Capacitor, time to play with.....

Vaporer and Dan - thanks for all your info and the sharing of it! (I'm blaming you two when my wife starts to ..... at me....)

 

[Scubabatdan]

Wow.. I think my eyes are bleeding...
90 min to read through the New Atomizer Coil Shape thread (Yes, there where intreruptions!) But chock full of good info!

Now I need pill fobs, firewick, thermeez, nichrome, another job to afford all of this, tiny fingers, new eyeballs, Zinc Cloride Flux Capacitor, time to play with.....

Vaporer and Dan - thanks for all your info and the sharing of it! (I'm blaming you two when my wife starts to ..... at me....)

Just send her our way, I am half deaf anyway from 24 years around turbine engines