VaporNinja said:
Thermovape:
how long can I expect the heating core to last with heavy daily use?
The heavy daily use should NOT wear the core out. We use a proprietary USA made wire (we make our coils, ourselves by hand) that is much stronger then nichrome, and there are plug in desktop units that use nichrome for heating, and last for a very long time.
What will wear the core out is abuse more then use. So if you put anything other then flowers into the Thermovape, (i.e. that is why we are making a separate unit made for oils and concentrates) then that could leak down into the core and shorten functional life.
If you use harsh chemicals or solvents to clean the core (we recommend boiling) that could reduce functional life.
If you use other types of batteries other then the 3.2V LiFePO then that may/may not reduce functional life.
If you blow compressed air on to the coil while it is hot, that will reduce life.
If you pour/douse/submerge the core (while it is hot) with water then that will reduce the functional life.
If you just run the device flat out, without actually drawing air through it, over and over, this may reduce functional life (the air flow through the device cools the coils and reduces thermal stress on the core).
Bottom line is that the core is very durable, we made it as tough as we possibly could. It is a solder free system, we use no cheap or weak connections, the wire is as tough as they come for this application, and we assemble each one by hand and test them, each and every one, before they go out the door. This makes for a tough, durable, long lasting vaporizer. I mean we push the limits when we test the device, you may have seen our videos (
Your link text), and the device keeps working.
We could have easily made a heating core that we new would fail in 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, etc. What we built is the toughest heating core we possibly could, period. The early ThermoVape's we gave to the beta testers (and we told them to try and break them) are all still running strong.
The ThermoVape should stand up to heavy use, it is made for heavy use, it loves it.
Cheers,
The ThermoVape Team