Looking into temp control.

[Srichampootv]

I've got a bunch of iSticks and other VV/VW mods and just bought an Invader Mini, DNA40 clone. To me TC is still in its infancy and there is a ways to go before it really starts to shine. I will say I have no problems working with 30 gauge Ni200 at all and wicking it with rayon. The coil life seems to be fairly extended because overheating, and the gunking that produces, is limited or even eliminated. I do like the iSticks, ipv and other VV/VW stuff, but the Invader has become sort of my main device, especially when out and about.

As far as temp control in Kanthal or nichrome, I'll believe it when I see it. While I am not saying it can't be done, it does require a level of resolution and accuracy far beyond what is available in "garden variety" electronics. Ni200 and titanium vary resistance in terms of tenths and hundredths of an ohm over a range of a couple of hundred degrees. Kanthal and nichrome vary thousandths and ten thousandths over that same range, which is what they were engineered to do to provide good heating elements. Unless some means of monitoring temperature is built in as a separate sensor, and connected to the board separately, it's going to be extremely difficult to do. Connecting a separate sensor would mean the 510 connector has to go, just for starters and then it starts to get very proprietary based on the choices made by each manufacturer.

I have an important question for the Snow Wolf 200w I had a Herakless Tank and I used the .2 coil it came with and I heard it isn't suppose to be on power mode, but instead in temp control. As soon as I screw in my tank it displays "new atomizer" I select yes and have the temp at 212F, but as soon as I hit it, the power mode comes on? Is it suppose to do that?

 

[smegmake]

Having some issues with TC, using Subtank Mini with nickel coil build at 0.15 with organic cotton and the vapor is really lame. I have to crank my IPV D2 temperature settings to the max, around 280-300 celsius, joules to 40-50, to get any kind of satisfying vapor. Seems kinda odd, to be on top of the scale where you can't go any higher in temp, rather than somewhere in the middle?

 

[awsum140]

I have an important question for the Snow Wolf 200w I had a Herakless Tank and I used the .2 coil it came with and I heard it isn't suppose to be on power mode, but instead in temp control. As soon as I screw in my tank it displays "new atomizer" I select yes and have the temp at 212F, but as soon as I hit it, the power mode comes on? Is it suppose to do that?

I can't comment on the Snow Wolf or the Herakless since I don't own either one. Just an observation, if the setting is changing automatically to VW with a nickel or titanium coil, there is a problem with the device. Remember though, that low resistance does not indicate nickel or titanium, or maybe stainless, for the coil. Those specific wire types are needed for most temperature controlled mods, although there are a few that are claiming TC for kanthal or nichrome as well.