Vapey and the Bandit
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Hey dudes, first thread and I was wondering if any of you have made your own vaporizers? I want make my own but I'll get into that further down. What I want to know first is, have any of you guys made your own vaporizers either electrically heated or indirectly heated like the dynavaps. I remember a long time ago i read some guide where you used a light bulb, some foil, and a straw to make a crack pipe like thing that you just heated your weed up in. So if you have any stories about people making their own vapes feel free to share.
On to my vape. Here's the idea and I'm doing research now to see if its even viable, but i want to find one of those emergency hand powered radios or flashlights and hook the power output up to an oven where your material to be vaped goes. I'm going to add a vapor path and stuff but lets make sure the electronics work. I was going to add a digital thermometer to the oven and hook that up to an LED strip on the side and put temperatures going up the side. A hand powered on demand vape. Crank it until it reaches the temp that you want, slurp your vapors out of the oven and enjoy.
I realize that there are some problems with this and I'm doing a bit of the math in my head as i write this. So my first question is, does anyone know the specific heat capacity of plant matter particularly the medicinal kind? I just used 2263 J/Kg*C cause I found that for mango leaves in some random academic paper (Thermophysical Properties of Plant Leaves and Their Influence on the Environment Temperature) which means we'd need about 110 J of change to raise 0.25g up by about 350F.
Most of the hand powered this and thats "say" they can do 10 watts, which would mean in a perfect world you could crank it up in about 11 seconds to get well above 450F, but we gotta think about powering the LEDs and the thermometer and also about all the different kinds of efficiency loss. Even if we lost half of our juice to things that aren't straight heat, you could pump yourself out a vape hit in about 20 seconds.
So, what do you guys think? I know my math is running on some very simple principles, but that is what I have so far. Cheers
On to my vape. Here's the idea and I'm doing research now to see if its even viable, but i want to find one of those emergency hand powered radios or flashlights and hook the power output up to an oven where your material to be vaped goes. I'm going to add a vapor path and stuff but lets make sure the electronics work. I was going to add a digital thermometer to the oven and hook that up to an LED strip on the side and put temperatures going up the side. A hand powered on demand vape. Crank it until it reaches the temp that you want, slurp your vapors out of the oven and enjoy.
I realize that there are some problems with this and I'm doing a bit of the math in my head as i write this. So my first question is, does anyone know the specific heat capacity of plant matter particularly the medicinal kind? I just used 2263 J/Kg*C cause I found that for mango leaves in some random academic paper (Thermophysical Properties of Plant Leaves and Their Influence on the Environment Temperature) which means we'd need about 110 J of change to raise 0.25g up by about 350F.
Most of the hand powered this and thats "say" they can do 10 watts, which would mean in a perfect world you could crank it up in about 11 seconds to get well above 450F, but we gotta think about powering the LEDs and the thermometer and also about all the different kinds of efficiency loss. Even if we lost half of our juice to things that aren't straight heat, you could pump yourself out a vape hit in about 20 seconds.
So, what do you guys think? I know my math is running on some very simple principles, but that is what I have so far. Cheers
