I am surprised that no one has developed a mod which uses a mercury switch instead of a mechanical firing button. When our mods are vertical, we are not planning to vape on it, but when we tilt the mod we are usually planning to take a vape. Why not just use a mercury switch. It would allow the mod to be much shorter. The switch can be biased to fire at 45 or 60 or 75 degrees. I bet it will be used on a VV/VW first but there is no reason it cannot be used on a mech. Just a thought.
Mercury switch.
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Mercury is pretty toxic and consider the rocking motion of walking with it in you pocket would have it firing every so often. Those are the things wrong I can see at the moment.
I'm sure it has been done but I haven't seen any. I was thinking about this just a few days ago. I have an old thermostat that has a mercury switch in it. Then I started thinking about what would happen if it got knocked over and rolled under a couch or something. Also it would need to be used with a regulated mod or at least a mosfet since it won't handle high amperage. I'm not ready to step into any regulated mod building yet and I'm not sure if I ever will be.
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In Silicon Valley Mercury switches are all but outlawed. Funny because we have Mercury mines all over here in the hills. Mercury flows down into the SF Bay from creeks and rivers.
In Silicon Valley Mercury switches are all but outlawed. Funny because we have Mercury mines all over here in the hills. Mercury flows down into the SF Bay from creeks and rivers.
Mercury switches have all but been replaced by modern SMT components such as gyroscopes and accelerometers. These are cheap, tiny, safe, easy to control, and output logical signals which can be interpreted by FETs or micro-processing units.
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