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All of the controllers (or "mods" as most people call them) can only do so much. For us nerds, if you calculate a TCR in different temp ranges you get different values, meaning the slope isn't constant, as it might be with just a piece of wire. Also small errors in reading Resistance or Temp...

Wow @Vape Donkey 650, I'm so happy to see your PASSION! I'm not saying this with any sort of irony. You really should just get a better IR thermometer, thirteen bucks!. On the temp thing, remember that little boiling points chart? The blacks are terpenes, the greens are flavonoids. We still...

@Critronton Not everyone loves the look, but I think the Pico is cute, small, uses a standard exchangeable 18650, and has worked well in TC mode for me. The downside is that it doesn't (yet?) display resistance changing as it heats up, which is only important if you're calculating your own TCR...

A pet raccoon I knew had a behavior that went like this: he's scratch his butt, then sniff his fingers, and shake-shiver his head in revulsion. Maybe this is related? Now I'm not saying it IS ...

@whatavape On the V2 I have both deep and shallow bowl. It's possible to hold the cup down on the shallow bowl with an inverted screen or some other other kludge. On the deep bowl maybe a little ball of stainless steel mesh, or some other yet kludge. But if the air is cooling the cup it's a...

@nikcorda Try a search like this, I can see many. http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2047675.m570.l1313.TR1.TRC0.A0.H0.Xceramic+donut.TRS1&_nkw=ceramic+donut&_sacat=0 One vendor that has always delivered and very fast was this one. I don't think any of the V2-alikes have as...

@whatavape oh yes, the V2 is very different in that the erl can simmer at a steady temp and the air swoops in from above. It's more economical and focused. The V2-alikes with the air holes higher up and an alumina cup insert are my favorites, even temps and tiny amounts are effective. The V3 is...

@Vape Donkey 650 and @OF, brethren and all, there are very separate issues here. 1 - the more important one to most, is how best to use the various "donut" (resistance-wire-in-ceramic) heaters to vape concentrates. Getting the best/most out of the concentrates. 2 - The other issue, that...

@PPN if you use TC mode on a mod like the eVic, and it stays in TC mode, the 50w only sets the power applied until temp is reached, and then it backs off, so no way it would glow red. With a TCR of 245 and a temp setting of 320 your actual temp on the donut was close to 600 deg F. I just tried...

OK, ok, Sorrreeee! I didn't say "fugly", just ... kludges! Where there's a will, there's a way. I guess I don't have fat enough tubing "in stock", and my watertool is a female that so far resists. Duct tape? I'm sure each of us will find something just right ...

@OF, I love you unconditionally, but we both know that the TCR of a section of wire is only linear under ideal conditions. Less predictable/linear is the overall behavior of a V3 on a TC mod as a whole, as that's involving hundreds of additional factors, including the donut surface and the...

@clearlight You raise damned good points. IMHO this is a fascinating thread. Yes, of course it's non-linear. With @OF and others we are all trying a 2 pass. The calculation gets you a starting value. By setting the mod to that TCR we can try it, and probably touch it up. If we test it on the...

================ In the cave ==================== @Vape Donkey 650 congrats on the video clips and the clouds ! Comes now Fernand to plead the immortal soul of the Titanium nail. T'is true, my liege, that many a caveman wails on a red hot nail, to waste and burn. But if you observe...

Is the $25 FC special over? Seems the link no longer works. Wow y'all cool pioneers are a hard-working bunch! I can't wait to get the V3 that I ordered. There are things I'd like to try to even out temp. :tup: Thermocouples at the ready. :worms: I'm more interested in being able to reliably...

There are a lot of factors here, but if the donut heater material is the same, I see a big difference in the Target Temp setting on the V3 suggesting all sorts of other causes. The mod sees an average resistance change over the entire donut. A desirable vape can be achieved at a lower average...

@Steven of course with the V3 being rebuildable it removes one reason to use a "pan on the burner", you can just take it apart and clean it. The other reasons have to do with temp control and having separate cups of different material ready to vape on that single burner. That and avoiding...

@Steven From pictures it looked like air comes in beneath the donut on the V3. The larger donut might accommodate a 7 mm cup without air lifting it as much as in the 2.X design. As to the ability to maintain Temp Control against a direct air blast, we'll see. It seems most people want clouds and...

Where's everybody? Found a new love? Couch-locked an' grinning in Tarzana?

The whole micro fabrication that makes these Temperature Controlled "mods" possible is so impressive. A Cann pipe with the brains of a desktop PC. I had to fix my eVic as only the Joyetech shows the changing resistance in real time, and that's essential to derive a ballpark TCR. With...

@OF, thanks. The buttons sounded normal and felt credible. Turned out the permanent on-state was there, but right at the microcontroller i/o lines that were soaked in glycerin and crap. It seems OK now, I'm reassembling it later tonight. The vendor had offered to sell me a new one, so I HAD to...