I am one of the co-founders of ThermoVape. I am a physician and the other founder is an engineer. I lost my mother to lung cancer in 2007, shortly after I turned to my lifelong friend (and engineer behind ThermoVape) to develop ways for people to stop smoking. In the last 2 years we have filed close to 20 patents relating to vaporizer technology. The name of this forum pretty much sums up the underlying motivation behind our company and products. Our goal is simple, to build the best vaporizers we can, and to never compromise quality, ever.
I wanted to address a couple of questions that I saw when browsing through the thread:
True Convection: The ThermoVape is a convection vaporizer. The outside air is forced/driven through the heater core. This heats the air which then passes directly through the herbal/blend/botanical in the bowl. Some small element of conduction is present in all convection vaporizers, but this is a true convection vaporizer. It will vaporize with a cold (sub-vaporization temp) bowl.
Heater Core Warranty: The heater core has proprietary structural ceramic medical device grade cores hand wrapped in the best heating element available (ie not nichrome). These are 4 of 10 total parts included in the core. All of which are hand finished, and 3 of which go through additional post machining processes. 89$ is what it cost to make the parts and assemble it.
It is subject to heat cycling, and thus fatigue. Plus we have no control over what people may put in the bowl, or how they will treat the device. That is why it has a 3 month warranty.
These aren't made in China, they are made in the U.S. I suspect you will see the core last far beyond 3 months.
We may offer a "recycled core" credit for worn out heater cores. This would help partially offset the cost of a new core.
The bottom line is we have subjected the core to extreme tests of durability. We believe they will perform for a long time unless subjected to extreme abuse. Please see our videos, I have never seen another manufacturer subject their product to anything comparable.
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We could certainly make a cheaper heating core. What we cannot do is make a better heating core then what we have built for the ThermoVape. This is absolutely the best heating core we could build, from proprietary material (medical device grade ceramic) to exceptionally durable core material (vastly stronger and more durable then nichrome), to the hand assembly and testing of each and every unit. These are made right here, in the USA, by people who care about the product, and the people using it.
Materials, O-Rings etc: All O-rings are FDA approved and we only select materials that have a functional range exceeds the temperature that they are exposed. We like to keep some of our material selection to ourselves, but we take the quality of the device as our primary concern. There is no O-Ring in the flow path. The O-Rings serve to 1) engage the mouth-piece (out of the flow-path) and 2) force air into the heater core. Neither is in the flow path. They don't even come close to hitting temperatures outside their operating range.
This is true of the whole device. We could use cheaper materials, and make the device as inexpensive as some of our competitors, but we refuse. We source all materials from the USA. All are FDA approved, the Delrin is the highest grade possible (it has to be to run through our machines), the O-rings are medical device grade, the electroless-nickel plating is a common application for medical devices, our ceramics are medical device grade, the core material is exceptionally pure and made for us by the world leader in the field, and of course made in the USA. We use the newest, safest and most powerful battery technology available. We simply refuse to compromise quality, ever.
New Company: We are a new company, but our passion has been vaporizers for several years. We back our product, we are not going anywhere. We are not in this business to get rich quick. We are in this business because we believe we have something to contribute to vaporizer technology and we believe in vaping as a truly revolutionary alternative to smoking. If you purchase a ThermoVape from us we will make sure you get it as quickly as we can get it to you, we will support you if you have questions or want information, and we will back our warranty.
ThermoVape Running Temp: The device will run where you want it. Like a cooler/pure vapor (where you just get flavor and active metabolites) hit the ThermoVape with a brief warm up and more of a brisk inhale. Want a warmer vape with visible vapor, give it a bit longer warm up and a slower inhale. You can easily trigger the device on and off while inhaling as well, if you feel your vapor getting to warm. The devices is built so it adapts to how you want your vapor, no dials, or buttons, it is a simple device. We want as little as possible between you and your vapor, how you want it.
Forum Discount: We would love to offer a forum discount, however we already dropped our price to the discounted price that GotVape is offering.
Thank you for all the interest, I am going to sign off and tuck my kids in. We will do our best to stay in touch on the forum. Please feel free to email us as well if you need a quicker response.
Cheers!
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