Innovation in the automotive and energy sectors has led to a breakthrough in capacitor technology that is primed to take the enthusiast vaping community by storm!
18650 cells (18mm x 65mm) hold up to about 10Wh (~3000mAh) of energy charge, take a couple of hours to charge, and output 3.6V nominal at up to 30A. C-rating up to 20C. They are designed for slow, constant discharge that does not resemble vaping, and last for only a year or two in practice since they are good for only a few hundred cycles. Cost $15. Boy, it's hard to imagine why we're still clinging to this stone age technology, since:
A supercapacitor like the Maxwell BCAP3000 in the moderately larger form factor of 601400 (60mm x 140mm, fist sized) holds 3Wh (~1100mAh) of stored energy, outputs 2.7V nominal, and takes seconds to minutes to charge depending on your source of DC power. They can be combined in series to allow higher voltages and higher capacities. The supercapacitor is intended to discharge rapidly at hundreds or thousands of Amps without trouble which makes them ideal for the intermittent, high-drain application of vaping, especially competitive vaping. C-rating of 1700C! Good for up to a million cycles, supercaps could last for decades in practice. Cost $60.
As you can see, even the fattest coils that steam-engine will allow require less than 1% of the amp limit. The potential is clear. No longer are we limited to anemic dual-coil builds. We are clearly headed toward multiduodeca-coil milli-ohm vaping at thousands of watts.
Though the trivial details of implementation still remain, by this time next year I could be saluting you with my Wonkvape Dualcap Quattuorviginti-Coil 8.3mΩ 3500W Cloud God!
18650 cells (18mm x 65mm) hold up to about 10Wh (~3000mAh) of energy charge, take a couple of hours to charge, and output 3.6V nominal at up to 30A. C-rating up to 20C. They are designed for slow, constant discharge that does not resemble vaping, and last for only a year or two in practice since they are good for only a few hundred cycles. Cost $15. Boy, it's hard to imagine why we're still clinging to this stone age technology, since:
A supercapacitor like the Maxwell BCAP3000 in the moderately larger form factor of 601400 (60mm x 140mm, fist sized) holds 3Wh (~1100mAh) of stored energy, outputs 2.7V nominal, and takes seconds to minutes to charge depending on your source of DC power. They can be combined in series to allow higher voltages and higher capacities. The supercapacitor is intended to discharge rapidly at hundreds or thousands of Amps without trouble which makes them ideal for the intermittent, high-drain application of vaping, especially competitive vaping. C-rating of 1700C! Good for up to a million cycles, supercaps could last for decades in practice. Cost $60.
As you can see, even the fattest coils that steam-engine will allow require less than 1% of the amp limit. The potential is clear. No longer are we limited to anemic dual-coil builds. We are clearly headed toward multiduodeca-coil milli-ohm vaping at thousands of watts.
Though the trivial details of implementation still remain, by this time next year I could be saluting you with my Wonkvape Dualcap Quattuorviginti-Coil 8.3mΩ 3500W Cloud God!
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