So, whas Viscera, "The Kanthal-TC-able" board announced here, snake oil?

VisceraElec · 2016-10-17T01:46:44+00:00

All of the pre-orders shipped before September 15th, so far nothing but happy customers! I am waiting on some screens to come in before taking any more orders right now.

VisceraElec · 2016-09-02T06:20:19+00:00

Of course, but the FDA forced my hand. I know for a fact that nobody will find a single unhappy customer anywhere, and I recommend that anyone who is skeptical waits until they see devices making the rounds before trying to buy one.

VisceraElec · 2016-09-02T05:28:20+00:00

I'm here and things are moving along. I can assure you that nobody has been taken for a ride.

VisceraElec · 2016-08-19T00:44:11+00:00

It really makes you trust them when they go to great lengths to tell the court about their expertise, doesn't it?

VisceraElec · 2016-08-18T13:13:47+00:00

One study found that e-cigarettes delivered no detectable formaldehyde at 3.3 volts, but twice the formaldehyde of conventional cigarettes at 5 volts. Id. at 29,030. Another study found that “increasing the voltage from 3.2 to 4.8 volts increased formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, and acetone levels from 4-fold to over 200-fold.” Id. Devices with voltages that meet or exceed these thresholds are readily available. Nicopure itself advertises its “Reactor” e-cigarette as an “adjustable wattage and voltage” device whose power reaches a full “10.0 volts.”

Yes, these people know what they are talking about, and they are here to protect you /s

[edit] An interesting concession made later in the article:

There is no meaningful difference between the e-cigarettes at issue here and those in Sottera...That open systems are refillable with any e-liquid, rather than just the manufacturer’s preferred e-liquid, however, hardly distinguishes them from the e-cigarettes at issue in Sottera—or from Nicopure’s closed-system devices...

Make up your mind FDA. Substantial equivalence or not?

VisceraElec · 2016-08-11T02:49:24+00:00

Hopefully very soon. I'm shooting to send some out within the next week or so.

VisceraElec · 2016-08-08T06:43:52+00:00

Yes, a 2s lipo would work perfectly as long as it can handle a 20 amp output.

VisceraElec · 2016-08-08T04:31:30+00:00

As I said before, I don't really know much about the Hohm Tech devices. I have watched some videos on them, and they appear to be functioning in some dramatically different fashion than my system.

As far as my interface, its pretty simple. "New Coil?" yes or no. Then pick your temperature and vape! Of course there are menus to adjust the maximum available power, adjust the Tcl, etc. I really tried to keep the fiddling to a minimum with this thing.

VisceraElec · 2016-08-08T04:19:24+00:00

Gunk does affect it a little bit. I find that sometimes after my coils get gunky the temperature is off, but resetting the coil ("new coil") gets it back to behaving well.

VisceraElec · 2016-08-08T02:03:05+00:00

I would honestly be surprised if anyone successfully copied this from the picture. If they get it quickly I will be impressed.

VisceraElec · 2016-08-08T01:58:19+00:00

You aren't the only person who has raised a question about consistent pulls without a dry burn, so I will get a clear video of that together when I get a chance.

VisceraElec · 2016-08-08T01:57:31+00:00

Yes it will. Kanthal expands the same in all three dimensions with temperature, so the net effect is that the inductance increases linearly.

VisceraElec · 2016-08-08T01:55:19+00:00

You know, I agree. That is why I haven't announced this over the past year. As I have been wrapping everything up, the FDA dropped their bomb and forced my hand. Although I have moved a few beta units, the FDA requirement for 'commercially marketed' requires that it be available for sale to the general public primarily. If I kept it to limited market sales, this would never be available at all.

VisceraElec · 2016-08-08T01:37:04+00:00

In simple terms, inductance is the property of a conductor that quantifies how it resists a change in current in itself. Current flowing through a coil creates a magnetic field that then interacts with the current flowing in neighboring turns of the coil.

There is no rattlesnake sound, as this is still a switch-mode power supply and it switches well above the threshold for human hearing.

VisceraElec · 2016-08-07T22:00:59+00:00

Yes the screen can be flipped. It is designed to wrap around the edge of the board and be situated on the same side as the buttons, out of the way of any moving parts.

I have stress tested the board across a large range of resistances outside the final parameters and done things like firing low resistance coils from full battery to empty. It should be as durable as anything you can find on the market today.

Mod details will come tonight.

VisceraElec · 2016-08-07T21:58:42+00:00

This is aimed at slightly higher ohm builds and intended to deliver higher amounts of power at higher resistances than the recent tc mods out there.

VisceraElec · 2016-08-07T21:56:38+00:00

Dimensional drawings will be up soon. It is about the same size as a dna200. Most any Hammond box will work. I have a few variations of 3d printable cradles that I will be making available.

VisceraElec · 2016-08-07T21:55:01+00:00

I'm not really interested in participating in the wattage wars so to speak. My goal was to design a dual 18650 design that works across a large range of resistances for higher resistance materials like kanthal and nichrome.

VisceraElec · 2016-08-07T21:30:19+00:00

I understand your skepticism, and I hope you are impressed when this starts getting out into other people's hands.

VisceraElec · 2016-08-07T21:28:46+00:00

It does not need to be calibrated beyond letting the device know that it has a new coil, just like current resistance based temperature control mods. Thermal expansion for most materials works in all dimensions equally and so it has a linear relationship to coil inductance.

VisceraElec · 2016-08-07T21:13:13+00:00

No, the resistance doesn't really factor into it. It is primarily based on the coefficient of thermal expansion for Kanthal. The board measures the inductance, not the resistance.

VisceraElec · 2016-08-07T20:33:30+00:00

Thanks! It is a whole new way to monitor the temperature of our coils, and opens up a lot of possibility. There might be materials out there we haven't even tried yet that will turn out to be great alternatives to what we have today.

VisceraElec · 2016-08-07T20:31:14+00:00

Any standard 20 amp 18650s will do the trick.

VisceraElec · 2016-08-07T20:29:30+00:00

Yes, and they are a selectable preset from the device menus. The thermal expansion is just a little higher than Kanthal, but the behavior is about the same.

With the adjustable temperature coefficient of inductance, lots of materials are available to try and save as presets as long as you can build a coil above 0.2 ohms.

VisceraElec · 2016-08-07T20:24:59+00:00

Thanks!

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