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Good point. I guess I should move past the sticker shock on the elements and concentrate on finding the best trade-off of reliability and price. HD, do you have any recommendations?

Thanks for posting that info. Knowing that will save me a lot of time and money. I'm surprised that heating elements are so expensive. Even the ceramic elements are simple components and I feel like the only reason they're so expensive is because I'm not trying to buy 1000 of them at once...

I'm thinking of buying a cheap vaporizer so I can canabalize the heating element and the case. It seems like buying one of the cheap-o $30 vaporizers on ebay would be just as cheap as getting the element, case, and whip parts individually. Is this a bad idea?

Skippy, This is awesome@! I have a million questions but Im going to go read the rest of this thread thoroughly before I ask. That plot is pretty conclusive proof that you've nailed it. Does the graph cover any times when someone was drawing air across the the heating element?

I ran across this forum just now and registered to post this entry. I apologize for not reading any other threads before posting. An arduino seems like a perfect device for making a vaporizer. I've been toying with Arduinos on and off for about a year now so I'm no arduino expert but I've...