Interesting news for modders and a question

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jayvolt

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Please Remember that these are rough samples. The idea is to have the units stack able. You would have a main board that has the power reg unit, and a second board that would stack on it with the LCD, that would make different button and POT config easily changeable for a persons specific needs.

I am hoping to have more photos directly from my own mods and decent macro photo's of the true "alpha" units soon. I will try at that point to show more clearly the options on these. For now this should wet your whistle and let you know the general direction that these are going to take.
 

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I'm doing a mod right now that "could" do wattage control if I wanted since I'm going to employ a fairly accurate current sensor with it. However, I'm still going to use voltage control. The current sensor will only be for user feedback, not control. I've actually wanted a current sensor since the first mod I did, but I only recently came across a way to employ one for high currents cheaply by using a 10mm length of 16ga nichrome wire. High wattage current sense resistors are large and expensive. Though I'm going to have to figure out how to solder that stuff on a PCB.

Voltage control just seems like the best way to me. One downside with wattage control is the reliance on two control points instead of one. The error for voltage control is going to multiply with the error for current sensing. So, for example, if your voltage control has 2% error and your current detection has 3% error, your output will have 6% error by wattage control and 2% error by voltage control. Really not a big deal since you probably wouldn't notice a 6% error anyway, but as a matter of design principle, voltage control is going to be more accurate. However, as already stated, that's getting into a "lipstick on the pig" kind of thing.

More than one way to skin a cat. This is very inefficient. And the errors that you show may be accurate for your personal setup, but not mine, and not VW in general.

I love the idea of a mod chip.

A lot of haters on here think that it's all the same. One hit, and you'll change your mind. It's not all the same only slightly differently. Just look at the video.

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Boost yes, and to air1, This is an argument that has been had a thousand times and until one of you crack the programming used you cannot make statements like that. While I value your opinion this is not a power reg vs VV arguement, just an insiders look into a new product. I cant understand people in this matter. If you prefer a Vari or other VV device vape it hard and long. But as I don't try to rile things up in vari threads I ask only that people do the same for me.

IMHO though of the 2 varis and 3 darwins I own, I will pick up the darwin every time. As to people that say anything at all about a tech without seeing the programming behind it and a full understanding of how that works in tandem with the hardware, it is just bad science.

in short with all due respect I have to disagree with you.
 
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