Hi, I've been in the market for a vaporizer.
After reading an extensive article on a well known vaporizer website about the safety of vaporizers, one of the big takeaways that was mentioned was making sure you get one with the right heating element material as if you get the wrong one, when that heats up or breaks down over time you will breath in fumes along with your dry herb. ( not to be confused with the chamber which gets hot or has heat pass through it ) I am speaking about the actual wire COIL that must get hot beneath or around the chamber.
A few materials were said to be no nos. The biggest one was...
Aluminium
Now the guys behind firefly 2 said they were aware of this and had even run into getting reaction in their mouth from using the wrong heating element in their testing of creating firefly so they ended up with something else that they won't mention. Question is.... why wont they mention it? Sure it may be because they dont want competitors using it but hows that any different than saying they use borosilicate glass. Shouldn't safety be the priority?
So after figuring out i wanted to get the firefly 2 as the bowl is made from borosilicate glass, i started looking at videos on youtube that shows what was INSIDE the firefly for the heating element.
From what I could tell, its just a WIRE COIL that is set inside a ceramic area, then above that is more ceramic with holes in it to let the flow of heat and air up into the BOWL
There is also some metal (no idea what that is )
And rubber seals. ( im sure they would break down with heat nearby)
If anything is wrong with that heating element over time ( breaks down etc), the metal with the holes in it, or the rubber you are going to end up breathing in those fumes from whatever that wire is made of, as overtime elements can lead to a break down.
Everything else inside the unit seems decent. Glass pathway, and its not conduction.
So my question is, does anyone know what that WIRE COIL that heats up is made from?
And do you think concerns over the breakdown of rubber seals, and metal is valid?
The only information i can find is this
"heating element of the firefly 2 is made of a food safe super-alloy which does not break down over repeated heating cycles"
Why not just say what that super-alloy is?