elmoe420
Well-Known Member
I thin you guys are overlooking what you do not want to see. There is indeed solder on the new ceramic rods. Take a closer look at the pics / videos on the jetstream (same ceramic heaters as the QQ) and the pics for the replacement ceramic rods alone.
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That is correct here. The 2 open cylinders / tubes where the ceramic rods slides into are not sealed, so you can remove and replace the rods in the event they fail on you. If it was sealed in there like han solo, yes, that would "isolate" the heaters from the airpath and probably improve heat transfer, but that would also be much harder to design / produce economically, and make the whole atty less "RBA"
So a little bit of hot air swirling around from the mouthpiece tube will mix with air heated from touching the ceramic rods, but that's of little concern to me, other than wasted airflow potential maybe
I think in my mind I had inadvertently munged the prototype QQ you have with the heaters in the final release. Meaning I thought Matt had actually gone the route this time of a coil inside the alumina tube. You are of course absolutely right, now that I look at the picture of the tubes again they have an embedded wire and solder just like the donuts.
The OF post is super informative (the bit at the end always makes me laugh) and I thought Matt did have the v3 donuts tested for off gasing but can't find the post to the report? @divinetribe?
I do think as you said these are concerns rooted in suspicions but not actual data. However, I also understand the fear even if unwarranted. The attitude many people seem to adopt is "avoid unnecessary materials at all cost". This reductionist design philosophy for vapes isn't a bad one but I do think there is a a literal cost that comes with it.
For example, an alternative could have been to leave the SS wire leads poking out after embedding the coil into the alumina. Then the non resistance wire could have been attached to the SS via a gold crimp. That is more expensive materials though and I imagine would add substantially to the assembly and QC costs (not to mention introducing another point of potential failure).
Tradeoffs as always of course! Personally not going to fret much as long as the solder is actually silver and appears properly sealed/coated as OF describes. As always, it would be awesome to see a materials report and results of off gasing test. Probably the easiest way to alleviate any customer fears (even if unfounded).
, I think you should just buy the whole QQ kit, (not just the parts) b/c the cup stand-alone is very tall, narrow, and would be difficult to mount in a very stable way in the type of e-cig RDAs you use, and it could be even more difficult to target some airflow into the cup. This quartz cup without well-targeted airflow would probably work poorly, if at all.
It works with many mods that people use with DT products. (many joye-leaf-smec models) I've already mused about how that firmware could be a great match for the DC Gen 2 herb atty also, but I don't use that vape much, and the good word is slow to spread 
(but similar to the Gen2 herb?)
A 2 or 3-cell mod will let you get many more sessions between charges, obviously, and it won't work the batteries as hard and hot, although extended QQ use can still overheat the CPU on a multi-cell mod too, with a little more work (that might take 4-5 very rapid back to back sessions? who wants to force-feed vape to themselves to make their mod's CPU overheat with the QQ? 
for science! 
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