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Originally Posted by Mydriasis
ted it sounds to me like your trying to build a pocket vaporizer?
Whats going to be the power source for the heating element?
How are you going to get it to cool down instantaneously without some sort of gas cartridge(perhaps c02 or n20)?
What is the bowl going to be made out of?
If you draw some schematics than it'd be a bit easier to see how feasible the idea really is and the differences between this and a pocket vaporizer such as a vapir.
It sounds to me like a flash-light might be a decent "Casing" for your device, already with battery holding. The hardest part in my opinion is going to be battery conservation. I tried making a vaporizer using nichrome wire and 9 volts. 15 seconds of it being on resulted in the battery being completely drained.
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I guess you could say that a 'pocket vaporizer' is the goal. I hadn't thought of it that way but I guess you are right. One of the things that made those penlight soldering irons so safe was the nature of the ceramic; it instantly heats up when a tiny current is passed through it, and returns to room temp right away when the current is off. That's why the bowl would be made out of this stuff; and I understand it is an easy ceramic to mold, but really I know nothing about engineering, as perhaps this whole idea shows. I'll have to look up 'vapir'. I didn't know there were pocket vaporizers, so perhaps this wheel has already been invented. But your experience with trying to make a vaporizer would certainly suggest difficulties in the area of power supply. It would be nice to figure out a way to mock this thing up, just to see if it is actually advantageous in any way. It's easy to imagine some device like this, but if it doesn't give an actual benefit over other choices, it's pointless. Still, it's just an idea . . .