Performance of Different Metals in Mechanical Mods (body not contacts)

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Tony M

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No the voltage doesn't take a hit of ... and then go party all over the body of any mod and then, somehow through blind luck, find your addy and light it up. LOL WTH are you talking about! If it did that and since you are a ground, you'd feel a lil bit of electrical charge in your fingers. It doesn't happen because the electricity is taking the path of least resistance. And the whole mod is not the path of least resistance nor is your body that path. The pin is that path. And if you're feeling a.1 volt difference in your vape. well dude you have one very sensitive set of nerves. 4.2v down to 4.1v I have never felt a difference in my vape nor seen it in a blown cloud. And I doubt you notice that .1v either until maybe around 3.5 from 3.6v.

Each type of metal has a different conductivity. Even within each type of conductive metal, there are different blends of those particular metals to enhance or diminish the amount of conductivity it may have. Hence why on my brass mods, they either have a copper or silver plated pin. I won't buy a brass mod with a bass pin in it. Why! Because if (like in some clones) the manufacturer uses the same brass the mech is made of in the pin, then we could indeed have an ... party and then electricity could start to party all over the brass, since the whole thing is made of all the same metal with the same conductive amount. Especially too if the pins aren't isolated with some sort of no conductive amterial to stop the party before it starts. No! what has happened I think, really is that once those screw in readers came out to the market with their built in resister ( the one in mine was a .5 ohm resister) people started seeing that result of the built in resister on their battery when placed on top of their mod and decided OH NO! MY MECH has a voltage drop! No it doesn't. But your reader certainly will read less voltage then what your battery has in it simply because like your addy, it has a resister in it. Kanthal and nichrome wire is called.... (drum roll please) RESISTANCE WIRE. Resistance will drop the voltage because it tries to slow down the electrons. It resists the speed of the electrons, thereby through friction caused by it, heats the resistance coil up. Anyway. I've yet to read with any mult-meter (and I have two, my cousin one, which I also used to check with, 3 neighbors who had them that I borrowed just to make sure nothing was wrong with mine and to see if any one of them would give me any different results) any substantial difference to start crying wolf about mechs having built in volt drop to them.

Yes Op, different metals do have different conductive abilities and within each metal type, (as I stated before) there are blends of them to make them more conductive and less. Silver is the most conductive, then copper , then Gold, Aluminum, Zink Nickel, iron and the list goes on. Best place to find your answer would be to goggle "10 most conductive metals"
 

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No the voltage doesn't take a hit of ... and then go party all over the body of any mod and then, somehow through blind luck, find your addy and light it up. LOL WTH are you talking about! If it did that and since you are a ground, you'd feel a lil bit of electrical charge in your fingers. It doesn't happen because the electricity is taking the path of least resistance. And the whole mod is not the path of least resistance nor is your body that path. The pin is that path.
I feel you are still not getting the fact that the negative terminal on the battery is in contact with the body of the mod. I wasn't gonna bother, but w/e, so I made you a diagram

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Look at the 510 connection on your atty. Notice the inside part that contacts the pin and the outside part that threads onto the top cap. Notice the insulation between these sections.

Charge enters through the center post and exits through the outer threaded part, where it travels down the body of the mod to the negative terminal. The positive post in the atty is connected to the center post of the 510, and the negative post(s) is(are) conected to the body of the atty and thus the threaded section of the 510. If that didn't happen there would be no circuit; the switch/button at the bottom closes the circuit between the mod and the battery.

In short the charge exits the top (+) of the battery, travels the atty, and follows the body of the mod to get back to the bottom (-) of the battery. That is the path of least resistance; it is a circuit.

It doesn't matter how much you talk the facts of circuitry and electrical conduction won't change.

Think on this: If according to you drop only occurs because of the resistance of the coil, why does a setup with very low resistance show greater drop than one with higher resistance? Volt drop @ 0.2 is much more pronounced than volt drop @ 1.5
 
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Dielectric absorption ratio was what I was curious about with regards to my last post...

But if electricity didn't flow through out the whole MECH mod, we'd some how be breaking the first, very elementary fundamental that electricity flows within a closed circuit. I feel like I'm paying a troll to cross a bridge right now though...
 

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Dielectric absorption ratio was what I was curious about with regards to my last post...

But if electricity didn't flow through out the whole MECH mod, we'd some how be breaking the first, very elementary fundamental that electricity flows within a closed circuit. I feel like I'm paying a troll to cross a bridge right now though...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTUi9l84fRw&t=4m37s
 

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Ok. I hate to break up the voltage drop party here, but it's not a matter of voltage drop.....it a POWER drop. Every mech out there is going to have a little resistance. It doesn't matter what it's made of. Some metals have higher some lower ect.

Let's say for instance you build a gorgeous quad coil dripper that reads out at .2 ohms. Now you get excited because you're gonna knock your socks off at 88 watts!! But wait, that dripper needs to be screwed on to something first. So you go and put it on your K 100 which just happens to have .1 ohm resistance all by itself. Uh oh. Now your whole set up is .3 ohms because you gotta add them all together. Now you're only going to be able to vape at a measly 58 watts. That's just terrible.

If the mech metal has resistance, it's going to affect the entire build. Copper less resistance, SS more. Even the length and thickness has a hand in the resistance of the mech as well, but that's for another time.

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