Temperature Measurement
Resistance thermometer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I'm not meaning to start a long technical conversation with this thread, nor a debate, just point out something I haven't seen mentioned in other threads I've read so far. Controlling temperature by measuring electrical resistance in wire, especially nickel wire, has been around for a while and is used in many applications. There are probably many engineering companies with lots of experience designing temperature sensing systems with nickel wire and connecting that to a control for electric power. The ecig industry did not invent this, it just finally occurred to someone that this technology could be used to regulate ecigs.
It's plausible that an ecig company could stumble into to a monitoring and controls company with just the right experience to design something that works better than what's come before.
I bought my first temp control device a couple weeks ago with some anxiety that it would be a fussy finicky device based on the frustrations I read about with the first evolve boards. So I got a Kangxin mini because of the price and the favorable reviews and the performance of the temp control has been flawless and trouble free as far as I can tell. Once in a while it stops me from firing the device and asks if the atomizer it's sensing is a new one or the same one. I answer that question and things go on as before.
Assuming that the first to market with temp control must have an advantage isn't necessarily so. I've only used one TC device so I can't compare it to others but what the Kangxin does for under $50 has me wondering what else it needs to do to justify paying 4 times that amount.
Resistance thermometer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I'm not meaning to start a long technical conversation with this thread, nor a debate, just point out something I haven't seen mentioned in other threads I've read so far. Controlling temperature by measuring electrical resistance in wire, especially nickel wire, has been around for a while and is used in many applications. There are probably many engineering companies with lots of experience designing temperature sensing systems with nickel wire and connecting that to a control for electric power. The ecig industry did not invent this, it just finally occurred to someone that this technology could be used to regulate ecigs.
It's plausible that an ecig company could stumble into to a monitoring and controls company with just the right experience to design something that works better than what's come before.
I bought my first temp control device a couple weeks ago with some anxiety that it would be a fussy finicky device based on the frustrations I read about with the first evolve boards. So I got a Kangxin mini because of the price and the favorable reviews and the performance of the temp control has been flawless and trouble free as far as I can tell. Once in a while it stops me from firing the device and asks if the atomizer it's sensing is a new one or the same one. I answer that question and things go on as before.
Assuming that the first to market with temp control must have an advantage isn't necessarily so. I've only used one TC device so I can't compare it to others but what the Kangxin does for under $50 has me wondering what else it needs to do to justify paying 4 times that amount.
