I have been employing the Taryn spin in the process of filling cartos. My question to the veterans/experts is: Being that the Taryn spin mimics the effect of a centrifuge, is it possible the components of the e-liquid could separate and destroy the proper mixture?
Question about Taryn spin
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You're spinning it for a few seconds with your arm. It's not going a couple thousand RPMs for 10 minutes. I don't think the different liquid's specific gravities are enough different to separate with that little spin.
You can't spin it fast enough for that to happen and if you do you arm will be of no use to you anymore. If anything it'll cause separation from occurring.
You're really only spinning it fast enough to move liquid from one area to another. Think of the spin cycle of a washing machine. A centrifuge for blood, for example is run with an angular speed of about 3,400 revolutions per minute, and acceleration about 400 times greater than gravity. That large acceleration is what separates blood cells.
It's not the acceleration that separates the components but rather the centrifugal force. Acceleration is a change in velocity, and once the centrifuge has reached it's working speed (velocity) the acceleration is zero.
WELL!!! If you're going to get technical, it's not centrifugal force either. That's imaginary. It's actually inertia. If left to their own devices, objects in a centrifuge will head off at a 90 degree angle to the radius of the centrifuge. The centrifuge exerts a force constraining that movement. If you're in the centrifuge that force is felt as centrifugal force but, that's only because of the frame of reference.
You are saying there's no angular acceleration, therefore there's no acceleration. However, that's not the case. Acceleration is a change in velocity. At any point, an object in a centrifuge has velocity at a 90 degree angle to the radius of the centrifuge and no velocity in any other direction. However, a second later the direction of that velocity has changed because the object is at a different angle. To accomplish that change in direction, the object was accelerated linearly rather than angularly. Force is mass times acceleration. Without that linear acceleration centrifugal force would never be felt.
SHEESH!! I never should have gotten that degree in ME.
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I was trying to explain it as simply as possible that it wouldn't harm the juice.
But by all means, jump right on my answer instead of answering the OP's question yourself.
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Although wouldn't the forces from a centrifuge by definition have to be centrifugal forces?
Yeah, a person being able to move e-juice fast enough to get it to separate it isn't too likely. Although putting a bottle down on a countertop and letting it sit there would eventually do the trick.
Yeah, a person being able to move e-juice fast enough to get it to separate it isn't too likely. Although putting a bottle down on a countertop and letting it sit there would eventually do the trick.
I was trying to explain it as simply as possible that it wouldn't harm the juice.
But by all means, jump right on my answer instead of answering the OP's question yourself.
That's kinda why I provided the first semester dynamics lesson.
You actually were right about acceleration.
(for what it's worth.....stay away from tile counters while spinning.....they tend to smash cartos !)
I've had a few flying cartos. Now I just shake it like a thermometer. Or if I'm bored sing a little Outkast and shake it like a Polaroid picture. My dog tends to look at me funny when I do this.
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