As
@Croak suggested, I emailed Mr Given Lees of Geeco regarding the Nickel Purity. I heard back from him today, after a couple of days.
I asked him a somewhat technical question: does Nickel Purity modify the Coefficient of Resistance, such that we can use the feature to adjust for different wires with different coefficients, such as Titanium (coefficient 0.0035 versus nickel 0.006). This he answered, somewhat.
I also went on to ask the specific number used - eg is Nickel Purity 100 = a coefficient of 0.006? And if so, does 50 mean 0.003? This he did not answer at all, which was no great surprise.
Here is his response in full:
Sorry for my delay response , just coming back from HK for business meeting with clients for our new incredible specil temper control box.
I have browsed your questions, my answer as belows:
For the Market differentNickel Purity , Yes sure you can adjust the number 10-100 , for the high Nickel Purity adjust up to more than 70
For the low Nickel Purity adjust lower than 40, 20-40
Yes one point you are right, our this specil function adjust the number: 10-100 in order to change the chip specification and modisifed Coefficient of Resistance of the wire
Its very amazing , in fact the resistance decided by wire rolls . but our this chip sepcil fucntion can modisfeid it for working.
For market all the wire it can be used for our temper control function. But if really it not contain any nickle elements , of course it will not have the temperature control function.
If the wire contain the nickle elements no matter its Purity , it sure will working with the temper control
Titanium wire, and twisted wire with both Kanthal and Nickel it working for our box.
We developed this chip with sepcil function , the traget is let everybody can use our box mod to match with market different wire .
Here's my reading of this:
- He specifically says that yes, it modifies Coefficient of Resistance.
- But then he also says "But if really it [doesn't] contain any nickel elements of course it will not have [TC]. If the wire contain the nickel elements no matters its Purity, it .. will work with [TC]"
- which is implying that no, it won't help with Titanium,
- perhaps because in fact it doesn't modify the Coefficient, and he used that term incorrectly;
- or perhaps because it does, but there's some other factors involved that make Titanium behave differently for temp sensing/prediction.
- But then that is also contradicted: Titanium wire, and twisted wire with both Kanthal and Nickel [is] working for our box".
- Which we know already, but we don't know if Nickel Purity helps with it.
- Perhaps by mentioning it in this context he's saying yes, it is helped.
- Or he might just have picked out the words Titanium and "twisted Kanthal/Nickel" from my email and simply be confirming it works in general on the mod, as we already know.
So really we're not all that much clearer. I'm not surprised, it was always quite optimistic hoping he'd be able to answer a pretty technical question through two barriers to communication: English to Chinese, and Tech to Salesman. I was hoping maybe he'd pass it on to Infinite or his own tech team, but that was also very optimistic.
It does sound promising that he specifically mentions Coefficient. But he might simply have copied and pasted that from my email - certainly he capitalised it exactly as I did
He then negates and re-instates that optimism in each successive statement.
So all in all, nothing close to definitive, and it might be saying nothing whatsoever - he might not have understood my questions, and/or if he's not technical and hasn't asked anyone technical, he might just be telling us general specs which we already know.
But it's positive in that it's at least not negative
He didn't say "no this has no effect with Ti", and he did specifically mention coefficient, even if there's a chance he just used the term because I did. So there's still every chance Nickel Purity will be of benefit.
Anyway was worth a shot, and we should hopefully know soon enough. I ordered several spools of Ti Grade 1, expedited shipping from Germany, which I hope will arrive at around the same time as my Flask next week, and I will be testing Ti with Nickel Purity as soon as I can.
