Just An Idea...

[carpedebass]

I've been pondering this whole PV thing and it seems to me one of the weak spots that everyone tries to get around by modding is getting a full "burn" of all the juice in the cart. Now I'm sure someone has thought of this or there are good reasons why it hasn't been done...etc. But I thought I'd throw it out here just in case...sometimes someone who is not familiar with things can throw out an idea that is so simple...but just hasn't been thought of or whatever...

My thought is this...the fluffy stuff in the cart seems to be holding more juice away from the atty and you get the old familiar burning of the fluffy stuff.

So why not extend the bridge by soldering a straight (perhaps smaller diameter) piece of bridge material from the bridge itself through the fluff to the other end of the cart? Would this not allow a better, more complete burn of the juice the fluff is holding? Isn't that kind of what the spring mod is trying to do?

There must be a reason why it hasn't been done. Or has it? Perhaps too much surface area? Too hot? Too much battery drain?

Thoughts?

 

[Hoosier]

I like the way you think. After all the old AB battery was made by a guy who did not know that the experts said A and B types were too different to ever be combined. (For those who remember their battery history and go back to the time when they were made in glass jars....)

There is no electrical reason this could not be done as the bridge is part of the wicking system as is the cartridge filler. The bridge material is probably nickel foam, which is really tough to solder and would lose the properties it is used for if it had solder applied, and it acts like a sponge to help transfer juice from the cartridge filler to the wick that is wrapped in the foam metal.

The reason it would no solder well is the same reason it works like a sponge. If you get the foam hot enough to melt the solder, then the solder would move into the same area the juice uses and then it would solidify.

The way I understand the Joye tank system is there is a bridge that pokes through a silicone cover into a juice reservoir where there is no fill or fibers to hold the juice. So it seems like your idea has been looked into.

The spring mod is an attempt to get a better contact between the filler and the bridge sponge. Better contact should help juice transfer. The tighter you place two absorbent things together the quicker they transfer liquid to each other, to a certain point of course too tight and you squeeze all the liquid out of both.

Please keep thinking. It is us, the user community, that will drive this product into the future. (Not that any of my ideas have panned out yet, but I have seen things being done out there and am impressed by the inventiveness of others.)