Hi again Unconnected,
...not effective on particles of metal...
Well, i'm sorry to find that your comment suggests it didn't suffice to explain the related context by writing this:
« ...i tested different metals of various shapes on my Salton plate as a preliminary evaluation, then i quickly realized it only detects bodies with the proper magnetic properties and physical layout... »
You see, such apparent generalization over particles sounds somewhat premature as my conclusion only applies to tests conducted on a
Salton ID-1081 IH device designed to detect compatible cookware specifically, probably just like the NoFlame Plus won't work with anything else than stylus-shaped dental tools it seems...
As far as i'm concerned we still don't know for sure what a
Mini-Ductor can actually do for us, also i feel obligated to use that fine opportunity to correct a mistake of mine: in fact it was
StickyShisha who made mention of it in the 1st place and re-reading Pipes finally it reminded me of that.
By the way, have you tried to follow my links more than 1 level deep? Checking the post written by StickyShisha it wasn't hard to learn about the
Mini-Ductor II CE 230V, a garage tool working on rusted nuts, bolts, bearings, gears, tie rod sleeves, etc... That's still a commercially available product no vaporizer manufacturer would need to produce internally. So, if it's efficient on relatively small bolt heads why not tiny metal chips or even particules,
if you must insist to depend on those that is!
...only big plates or tubes or other larger more solid pieces of metal.
Sorry if it felt like i was rejecting your proposal in some trivial manner, i can only offer a testimony about CD-ROM shaped discs - under a 3 years old context... Additionally, lets not forget different materials have different thermal expansion coefficients and hence i believe that glass-embeded metal particules would cause the substrate to crack, etc.
I guess you could just make a wand out of stainless steel and avoid the entire issue.
Yes, but that someone wouldn't be me as there are better options. Think of halogen-based vaporizers like the Aromed 4.0, Venus, Herbalizer and soon the Versa Infinity: they all have a tungsten (metal) filament contained inside a glass envelope so why not a wireless bulb version using Curie alloys instead?
Although those products may expose the air path to metal or even wood i'm not convinced that's mandatory at all.
...in that case it would be more of a conduction vaporizer than a convection one...
You're making the assumption that our air/cannabic paths necessarily need to be exposed to direct contact with the metallic surface(s) of a stainless steel wand. Since it's quite unclear to me how you came to such a conclusion please try to explain it to me how my planar concept gave you the impression there's got to be conduction in it at all!! Not to mention the same remains true for my LavaWand alternative!...
Induction Heating simply removes wiring and its corresponding joint-sealing issues, whatever. If the 250 °C Curie point isn't enough to overcome thermal resistance from a glass separation layer then manufacturers only need to pick a different alloy as the temperature limit is determined by its formulation.
Personally i'd trust an SS CD-size disc even if the air makes physical contact with it but it doesn't mean there are no other options for purists.
Even though that's a bit elitist...
For teflon exposure you'd need to build that wand using Demeyere's "ControlInduc Granite" model while the one i specifically focussed on (in bold green characters below a picture!) comes «
without non-stick coating ». A lapse of distraction i guess...
Additionally, my HerbalAire has teflon right inside its heat-exhanger and yet i don't get the impression this has ever been a major deterrent on FC... So it means i do share your opinion but still wouldn't want to ignore the member's taste for all-glass paths.
...how many vaporists happily cook daily on a plastic coated frypan and then go and cry about all glass vape paths...
Yes, i understand and i'll add that reading through the Demeyere ControlInduc web page one should realize such coatings
cannot overheat on IH cooking plates: you can only scratch those - e.g. it won't burn anyway.
That's some of the beauty of their Curie alloy pans: it remains possible to control power while the upper temperature limit could be turned into an overheat protection feature only - which is the case in my Demeyere inspired example.
...in my mind i'm sure there is a way that vaporisation could benefit a lot from induction...
I have similar expectations and beyond: power conversion efficiency is likely to prove useful in portable 12+ Volts (car/boat) vaporizers, IMO.
...i don't have the skills to ever put them into production but i hope someone else can benefit off my ideas...
Rest assured it sounds familiar as i'm no manufacturer myself, though it doesn't mean we can't see great potential in this form of heat source.
But how do you get such a user-base without consistant incentives???
