Yes, I know about this tank (oh do I know about this tank!!).
Yes, I have them coming in for review (and some abuse ).
Who am I working with?
Directly with GUO Vape, Origin Vape, and The Steamery (also sending me one).
Here’s some additional information that’s been supplied to me:
The CVU chip technology uses a high thermo-conductive ceramic that conducts heat as fast as aluminum. Its surface will not oxidize or degrade with regular use, and this technology is used by pharmaceutical companies for medical applications. Tests have been performed such that 200C temperature gradient was taken every 30 seconds and the part held for 1 million cycles.
In the middle of the high thermo conductive ceramic is a tungsten trace. Both the ceramic and the tungsten has the same coefficient of thermal expansion, so that the material will not crack under pressure and stress in quick temperature changes, such as 0C to 1000C in a few seconds. The tungsten trace and ceramic are chemically fused together. It is a true coiless design. You may inform the public that if they use the beta value for tungsten in their mods they can get it to work. Otherwise, I have been using the setting for nickel in my mods. (I believe he’s speaking about temperature control and TCR values here.)
We believe that the CVU chip, if used regularly (following the instruction manual) and not abused, can last for years. We provide a limited 1 year warranty as a result of our confidence in our product.
- CVU surface is a hard, safe, non-oxidizing ceramic that conducts heat faster than some metals
- As a result it distributes the heat more evenly
- When cotton is wrapped correctly around it and soaks in ejuice, vapor forms from the cotton surface
- This effect is similar to boiling water, in which the energy is used up as latent heat during phase transition
- This ensures minimum or close to minimum vaporization temperature without temperature control
- This is why you get a more layered flavor in which you can taste the nuances of the juice
- Contrary to coiled systems where some micro droplets of liquid is pressurized (along with vaporized cloud) into your mouth, the CVU system does not splash (or rarely does). This is why some coiled tanks produces strong flavor, because they are in fact pressurizing micro droplets of liquid into your mouth.
- A benefit of the CVU system, from our experience, is that next morning you won’t have a dry throat because the vapor is not as irritating as that produced by coiled systems
- You get consistent flavor over long durations before having to switch cotton, unlike some coiled system that taste differently the next day
- When cotton turns color, it is the juice drying up on the surface of the chip, which the cotton helps to filter out from going into your lungs
- It is not cotton burning, as it is very difficult to burn cotton unless you’re dry burning it
- Cotton turns darker faster with darker colored juices because extra ingredients dry up over time
- The chip can be rinsed and wiped with towels, paper towels, etc.
- Dry burning it may decrease the life span of the chip, because the chip ramps up very hot very quickly. If it glows red, it’s at ~600 C, if it glows yellow, it’s close to 1500C. The time difference to ramp from red to yellow could be as faster than 1 second.
- Although the technology is fine under 1000C, we don’t recommend dry burning it because it will reach above 1500C very quickly.
Altus CVU Explanation & Material Information:
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