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Good morning everyone! ☕ 📰 In between puffs of my trusty Dynavap, with Troy & Jerry pretty much always in the speakers, I just released Pétrolette 1.3, "The news page that knows nothing about you" 😎 Pétrolette is a news reading home page, Free, Libre, and Open-Source Software. It is immediately...

Vapcap (Ti tip & MP, long body, short condenser) and Sage. Yes, sage, Salvia Officinalis, the normal, easy-to-find (grow it!) bud sister, the Roman Empire panacea. Take a big bouquet of it, and let it dry in a shady & cool place ; now cut the stems out, and grind / crush some leaves in your...

Thank you very much for your patience, I understand now. Ah, but I'd - seriously - love to build a battery-powered device, but I never found a guide that I could follow, with a parts list, a wiring diagram, possible charger models... That would really be tops, do you know of any? EDIT - I just...

Aahhh... And so what could have happened with my 5A and 6A bricks, is that they somehow under-powered the device, giving it 12V allright, but less current than this voltage implied... Right? Ok, so just to be sure (sorry if I sound redundant, I really want to be sure not to fry more modules) Is...

But... I'm confused, I though 60W wasn't enough, isn't it what you said earlier about my two 5A & 6A bricks?

Ooh... can I use this with one of my 5A bricks, and boost it to the required current?

Apparently there are two models : the MINI 028, and the MINI 1.1RE. Which one is better / most reliable?

Just to be sure, it's not the 6A supply that I have to lay to rest under a folded flag, but the (2) modules I killed with it, right? Wow, so even 8A should be just "sufficient"? :\ Can you please post a link to this "nice 200W DC-DC converter" ? Also, would one of these work safely? Yikes...

Thank you very very much for trying to help ; I'd really love to know too, seriously. Here is my design, it's simple : Special OT note : It sports a tuning system to set the height of the heated element, and lock it in this position, like you mentioned in this post :) If I could source...

Wow, that was fast! Thanks a lot for taking time to respond to a quasi-noob ; I'm afraid I need a little more guidance, please bear with me : > FETs short closed. Measure across the Source-Drain junction. OK (I had to look up the drain & source) what value should I look for? I guess any...

Wow, this is precious, thank you all for those fabulous builds, I want to try the half-pint myself, if only I can repair all the fried modules I have lying around :( they all seem to fail at some point. What is wrong with them? So OK, the first half dozen, I fried the FETs by underpowering the...

Hey do you know if there exists a (even basic) schematic diagram of those ZVS IHs somewhere? Reason I ask is because I'd like to replace the MOSFETs on the ones that I fried.

Hey guys, can any of you lucky purchasers of this 7 fins tip grab a scale and tell us how much this baby weigh?

Everything seems to work pretty good now, with the 6A PSU, only when I put the vapcap too low / deep in the coil, the IH won't start. Can I try with more current, would this kind of PSU work ? Oh, and one more thing, what is a cheaponic? :)

OK, so that was the answer. Dude, thank you ve-ry-much :clap: for taking a wild guess to a probably poorly asked noob question. It works now, I mean when it doesn't, the MOSFET doesn't catch fire, the whole module just does not start. Man, you really got me out of a ditch there, you have no...