For everyone not following the official GP thread I thought that I would make a post here.
Note; a few blocks of the text here will be copied straight from Perseas's posts but I have edited it a bit and added my own thoughts. If you see 'we' it is referring to Vapourart.
THE NAME
HERON will be the name of the upcoming GP Spheroid 22/23 atomizer to honour the Heron of Alexandria.
Hero (or Heron) of Alexandria (c. AD 1070) was an ancient Hellene mathematician and engineer who was active in his native city of Alexandria, Roman Egypt. He is considered the greatest experimenter of antiquity and his work is representative of the Hellenistic scientific tradition.
He's best known for what we call Hero's turbine -- a steam-driven whirligig that worked a little like a modern jet engine. He did mechanics, astronomy, and math. It is almost certain that Heron taught at the Musaeum which included the famous Library of Alexandria, because most of his writings appear as lecture notes for courses in mathematics, mechanics, physics and pneumatics. Although the field was not formalised until the 20th century, it is thought that the work of Hero, his automated devices in particular, represents some of the first formal research into cybernetics.
You see, Hero invented feedback control devices. His self-filling wine bowl, for example, had a hidden float valve that automatically sensed the level of wine in a bowl. When guests ladled out wine, the bowl mysteriously refilled itself.
That's called a closed feedback loop. Egyptian inventors had been making gadgets like that for 300 years before Heron. They'd made feedback-controlled water-clocks and lamp-fillers.
By the time Heron lived, 2000 years ago, Rome had annexed Egypt, and intellectual freedom gave way to imperial authority. Heron was the end of an inventive age. Not 'til the 1600s was another feedback device invented. Feedback meant letting go of control -- letting a machine make its own decisions. Authoritarian minds don't like that.
Heron had set up a do-loop for what we call an iterative solution. The same person who worked with feedback control loops now gives us a wonderful computer do-loop. In either case we start a process and then let it pass out of our hands.
Heron's story has a moral: we have no freedom without letting go of control.
Heron ... was the last breath of a Golden Age in North Africa. It'd be 1600 years before math, mechanics, and human affairs would catch up with that fragile inventive freedom we sell so easily for security -- that we sell to satisfy our need to stay in control.
Vapourart uses the symbol of the aeolipile as our trademarked insignia from the beginning, because we are great admirers of this unique Hellene scientist.
THE ATOMIZER
The GP Heron atomizer is based on the same principle as GP Spheroid v2. Instead of a 510 connection the Heron will use a hybrid connection with M20x1 threading. It will be 22mm in diameter.
It will work with GP PAPS v1, v2, v2.1, v2.5 mods as well as the PAPS X via a conversion ring for the M21x1 thread of the X. Due to the 20x1 threading it will also work with other tubes with the same threading, but Perseas has only tested with GP mods.
The Heron uses the new Gpin for the connection to the battery, a simple approach eliminating any need for adjusting the positive post in relation to the battery and the atomizer.
We designed the GPin in August 2013, but it wasn't ready until now, it is a spring loaded pin, a double ended pogo pin, a quite common solution in the market, but first time for the vaping community and we'll apply it into our mods.
We started on 2011 with a hot spring, back then people were experimenting with all kinds of batteries. During August 2012 we designed the telescopic post for the GP PAPS X, but we introduced it in the GP PAPS v2.1, because we couldn't find a CNC to follow our schematics for the precise switch of the X, which finally came out 13 months later. In August 2013 we designed the GPin, which shall replace the telescopic centre post of our mods and the first mod with that kind of pin will be the GP PAPS X. The spring will be silver plated and the applied pressure onto the contacts will exceed 5 kg to ensure a proper conductivity.
The capacity of the Heron will be roughly 5ml and uses the same material as the Spheroid to hold juice.
The Heron will be made with EU certified 316 SS.
All of the pictures of the outside of the Heron are of the prototype unit. I believe the only changes that will be made are to the top of the atomizer and they will be small. The drip tip you see will be included with the Heron.
The hybrid 20x1 connection and the new Gpin.
The airflow control can be seen clearly in this shot. Obviously airflow control on any atomizer is very exciting and these days almost mandatory on a high end atomizer. Any owners of the Spheroid will be very happy about this. Perseas says that vapour production and throat hit will see increases in comparison to the Spheroid. Flavour will also be enhanced.
Some currently released pictures of the atomizer deck. Perseas has said that the deck has a removable ring that will be used as a juice well for a planned upcoming addition that will turn the Heron in to a dripper.
The inside of the top cap that holds the juice. The one on the top is the prototype bell and the one on the bottom is the production unit.
Seen here on a 18650 PAPS Lux
Seen here on a brushed PAPS 2.5, the Heron and the PAPS have a slightly different finish but this is due to the atomizer being a prototype unit. The production unit will match the finish of the PAPS.
EDIT. In the first batch there will be two finishes. A full brushed and a brushed/polished. These pictures are from the initial tests. I'm loving the mixed finish myself. Also, I have to assume this is the production model with the slightly modified top that is a little more rounded than the previous pictures.
WHAT WE DONT KNOW
As of now there is no price and I'm not even going to make a guess on this. There is also currently no release date for the Heron. Perseas has said that they hope for it to be before Christmas and if not it will be the beginning of January. He has said that he should know by mid week this week. I would guess you should watch http://www.vapourart.com/en/ for an announcement very soon. Details will also undoubtably be announced in the official GP thread here on ECF as well.
I am personally very excited for this atomizer. I purchased a Spheroid this fall and it changed my opinion on atomizers and what is possible when it comes to flavour. In my opinion nothing else I've tried is close and most Spheroid owners will say the same. Having a 22mm Spheroid in the form of the Heron is very exciting. I personally feel this atomizer will be very sought after and become one of the best high end atomizers on the market. The hybrid connection and the new Gpin is very exciting and I'll be purchasing a GP PAPS 2.5 just for the Heron.
I guess we'll find out soon enough.
Note; a few blocks of the text here will be copied straight from Perseas's posts but I have edited it a bit and added my own thoughts. If you see 'we' it is referring to Vapourart.
THE NAME
HERON will be the name of the upcoming GP Spheroid 22/23 atomizer to honour the Heron of Alexandria.
Hero (or Heron) of Alexandria (c. AD 1070) was an ancient Hellene mathematician and engineer who was active in his native city of Alexandria, Roman Egypt. He is considered the greatest experimenter of antiquity and his work is representative of the Hellenistic scientific tradition.
He's best known for what we call Hero's turbine -- a steam-driven whirligig that worked a little like a modern jet engine. He did mechanics, astronomy, and math. It is almost certain that Heron taught at the Musaeum which included the famous Library of Alexandria, because most of his writings appear as lecture notes for courses in mathematics, mechanics, physics and pneumatics. Although the field was not formalised until the 20th century, it is thought that the work of Hero, his automated devices in particular, represents some of the first formal research into cybernetics.
You see, Hero invented feedback control devices. His self-filling wine bowl, for example, had a hidden float valve that automatically sensed the level of wine in a bowl. When guests ladled out wine, the bowl mysteriously refilled itself.
That's called a closed feedback loop. Egyptian inventors had been making gadgets like that for 300 years before Heron. They'd made feedback-controlled water-clocks and lamp-fillers.
By the time Heron lived, 2000 years ago, Rome had annexed Egypt, and intellectual freedom gave way to imperial authority. Heron was the end of an inventive age. Not 'til the 1600s was another feedback device invented. Feedback meant letting go of control -- letting a machine make its own decisions. Authoritarian minds don't like that.
Heron had set up a do-loop for what we call an iterative solution. The same person who worked with feedback control loops now gives us a wonderful computer do-loop. In either case we start a process and then let it pass out of our hands.
Heron's story has a moral: we have no freedom without letting go of control.
Heron ... was the last breath of a Golden Age in North Africa. It'd be 1600 years before math, mechanics, and human affairs would catch up with that fragile inventive freedom we sell so easily for security -- that we sell to satisfy our need to stay in control.
Vapourart uses the symbol of the aeolipile as our trademarked insignia from the beginning, because we are great admirers of this unique Hellene scientist.
THE ATOMIZER
The GP Heron atomizer is based on the same principle as GP Spheroid v2. Instead of a 510 connection the Heron will use a hybrid connection with M20x1 threading. It will be 22mm in diameter.
It will work with GP PAPS v1, v2, v2.1, v2.5 mods as well as the PAPS X via a conversion ring for the M21x1 thread of the X. Due to the 20x1 threading it will also work with other tubes with the same threading, but Perseas has only tested with GP mods.
The Heron uses the new Gpin for the connection to the battery, a simple approach eliminating any need for adjusting the positive post in relation to the battery and the atomizer.
We designed the GPin in August 2013, but it wasn't ready until now, it is a spring loaded pin, a double ended pogo pin, a quite common solution in the market, but first time for the vaping community and we'll apply it into our mods.
We started on 2011 with a hot spring, back then people were experimenting with all kinds of batteries. During August 2012 we designed the telescopic post for the GP PAPS X, but we introduced it in the GP PAPS v2.1, because we couldn't find a CNC to follow our schematics for the precise switch of the X, which finally came out 13 months later. In August 2013 we designed the GPin, which shall replace the telescopic centre post of our mods and the first mod with that kind of pin will be the GP PAPS X. The spring will be silver plated and the applied pressure onto the contacts will exceed 5 kg to ensure a proper conductivity.
The capacity of the Heron will be roughly 5ml and uses the same material as the Spheroid to hold juice.
The Heron will be made with EU certified 316 SS.
All of the pictures of the outside of the Heron are of the prototype unit. I believe the only changes that will be made are to the top of the atomizer and they will be small. The drip tip you see will be included with the Heron.
The hybrid 20x1 connection and the new Gpin.
The airflow control can be seen clearly in this shot. Obviously airflow control on any atomizer is very exciting and these days almost mandatory on a high end atomizer. Any owners of the Spheroid will be very happy about this. Perseas says that vapour production and throat hit will see increases in comparison to the Spheroid. Flavour will also be enhanced.
Some currently released pictures of the atomizer deck. Perseas has said that the deck has a removable ring that will be used as a juice well for a planned upcoming addition that will turn the Heron in to a dripper.
The inside of the top cap that holds the juice. The one on the top is the prototype bell and the one on the bottom is the production unit.
Seen here on a 18650 PAPS Lux
Seen here on a brushed PAPS 2.5, the Heron and the PAPS have a slightly different finish but this is due to the atomizer being a prototype unit. The production unit will match the finish of the PAPS.
EDIT. In the first batch there will be two finishes. A full brushed and a brushed/polished. These pictures are from the initial tests. I'm loving the mixed finish myself. Also, I have to assume this is the production model with the slightly modified top that is a little more rounded than the previous pictures.
WHAT WE DONT KNOW
As of now there is no price and I'm not even going to make a guess on this. There is also currently no release date for the Heron. Perseas has said that they hope for it to be before Christmas and if not it will be the beginning of January. He has said that he should know by mid week this week. I would guess you should watch http://www.vapourart.com/en/ for an announcement very soon. Details will also undoubtably be announced in the official GP thread here on ECF as well.
I am personally very excited for this atomizer. I purchased a Spheroid this fall and it changed my opinion on atomizers and what is possible when it comes to flavour. In my opinion nothing else I've tried is close and most Spheroid owners will say the same. Having a 22mm Spheroid in the form of the Heron is very exciting. I personally feel this atomizer will be very sought after and become one of the best high end atomizers on the market. The hybrid connection and the new Gpin is very exciting and I'll be purchasing a GP PAPS 2.5 just for the Heron.
I guess we'll find out soon enough.
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