Safety and higher voltage

[Gatelyne]

I built my first clapton with 26 and 32 wire with 5 wraps. It came out to be .9 ohms. I'm using an evic mini with a tfv4 mini.

My question has to do with the whole 5 volt formaldehyde study.

To get this coil going I'm having to run it at 30 watts/5.17 volts. The flavor is crisp and clean. The vapor is actually slightly cooler than I normally vape but being above 5 volts does worry me.

I haven't researched the formaldehyde study but in my mind I see temperature being more of the culprit. Iike I said, the temp of my vape feels lower than normal... almost like I need to push the coil a bit more.

What do yall think?

 

[edyle]

Yes, it is temperature that matters.

The bigger the coil the more power you need to get it warm.

 

[suprtrkr]

+1. Voltage has nothing to do with it, which tells you more about the study and the studiers than formaldehyde. It's about temperature. They don't mention temperature, of course, in their study because if they did it would be immediately apparent no sane person could tolerate a vape that hot.

 

[LittleBird]

Good for you! Claptons aren't easy to build, IMHO . +1. Enjoy the vape and don't worry about it.

 

[djsvapour]

The 5.0v formaldehyde story is redundant. Obsolete, ignore, no, nada, trash.

The point was (back when it appeared) they discovered around 5.0v would really, really cause trouble using cartomizers or early clearomizers. That 'hurdle' still applies today... if you power something unable to cope with high power you're still going to get unwanted gasses and unacceptable temperatures in the atomizer.

5.0v on it's own means nothing. It's all about the ability of the coil to cleanly vaporize the liquid (no dry glowing of the un-juiced wire) and keep up with the watts you are making.

Please don't worry about it. The results were obtained by abusing e-cig atomizers. Nobody can vape that sort of horrible vapor and if you are running really high power builds then you should use TC, I feel.