I was just curious what the material used for the heating element in the wow vaport carts is. i took one appart to compare to another cart and it looks like its copper. I thought copper was like super bad to inhale when heated?
WOW Vapor heating element material??
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Good question. There have been plenty of studies that show that inhaling copper fumes can be dangerous. Of course, copper is something we, as humans, ingest every day. It's naturally occurring in almost all of our foods, and is present in water. Food naturally contains copper. You eat and drink about 1 milligram (1/1,000 of a gram or 4/100,000 ounces) of copper every day. Even the air you breathe contains copper.
Although I don't know what the material used for the heating element is in any of the carts, I do know how you can test to see if it's copper. Put it in a container with some vinegar and water and see if it turns green by next week.
Although I don't know what the material used for the heating element is in any of the carts, I do know how you can test to see if it's copper. Put it in a container with some vinegar and water and see if it turns green by next week.
It is my understanding that the WOW Carto's are the same as the prem. cartos...it's the juice that is different.
i know smoking out of any metal it not very good though brass i think is the safest, but copper i always was told was extremely toxic to smoke out of or inhale when heated, after just doing some extensive research online i still can't find what material people are using for the heating elements in the atomizers but copper is definatly not good to smoke out of or inhale. When copper is heated it enhances the oxidization process forming copper oxide which also contains a cyanide compound which both can be lethal when inhaled.
I hope this post or my question is not taken the wrong way im not trying to bash anyone or cause any problems im still very new to all of this and it just struck me as odd that copper would be used as a heating element.
I hope this post or my question is not taken the wrong way im not trying to bash anyone or cause any problems im still very new to all of this and it just struck me as odd that copper would be used as a heating element.
Hmmm. Don't take this as Gospel or anything.......but I think ALL atomizers are made of Nichrome wire.
ps. I'm sure Addy or Dan or somebody in the know will stop in with the correct answer!
ps. I'm sure Addy or Dan or somebody in the know will stop in with the correct answer!
I also, like thelook, was under the understanding the only difference was in the juice. I am interested if there is a difference in anything else!
I never actually saw the internals of a regular V4L carto, the wow vapor carts were actually my first purchase from them. I was more or less not trying to see the difference between their cartos but what the heating element material was. Because i never saw the internal of any of their other cartos im just using the wow vaper carto as my basis of analysis.
i took one apart and found that the ends of the nichrome wire coil was crimped with what appeared to be small copper peices......sorry no pics.
Did you take one apart that had never been used, or one with juice from the days of old?
it was a WOW carto, i over vaped it and burned the filler and that was the reason for taking it apart. i might take another apart tomorrow for pic purposes....
well guys i take back what i said about the copper crimps.......i just took apart a WOW cowboy, peppermint, cinnamon roll, Vanilla, cola, caramel, cappuccino, and butterscotch....no copper crimp to be found, it must have been some random piece of wire i had at my work bench......and the copper looking wire that you see when removing the rubber cap is not copper, its just the color of the plastic covering for the aluminum wire that’s inside.
I don't think it was some ransom piece of wire from your work bench. I have taken apart many many cartos from the premium (not wow) and have noticed that copper looking end piece of the heating element a couple of times.
Nichrome is a name for a nickel-chromium resistance wire, a non-magnetic alloy of nickel and chromium. A common alloy is 80% nickel and 20% chromium, by weight, but there are many others to accommodate various applications. It is silvery-grey in colour, is corrosion resistant, and has a high melting point of about 1400 °C (2552 °F). Due to its relatively high resistivity and resistance to oxidation at high temperatures, it is widely used in heating elements, such as in hair dryers, electric ovens, toasters, and even electronic cigarettes. Typically, Nichrome is wound in coils to a certain electrical resistance, and current passed through to produce heat.
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Nice, Bobby. 
Yes, the heating element is nichrome wire. The "copper" wire you see is the power lead. It is not copper, it just has copper colored insulation. Older Premium carts have black insulation, but the manufacturer started using a new batch of wire with our Wowvapor carts, and the new batch had different colored insulation. That's all.
Yes, the heating element is nichrome wire. The "copper" wire you see is the power lead. It is not copper, it just has copper colored insulation. Older Premium carts have black insulation, but the manufacturer started using a new batch of wire with our Wowvapor carts, and the new batch had different colored insulation. That's all.
Thanks Leaford.
Nice, Bobby.
Yes, the heating element is nichrome wire. The "copper" wire you see is the power lead. It is not copper, it just has copper colored insulation. Older Premium carts have black insulation, but the manufacturer started using a new batch of wire with our Wowvapor carts, and the new batch had different colored insulation. That's all.
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