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Is Platinum Wire Safe?
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It honestly depends on your definition of "safe", almost any wire will release toxic chemicals at a certain temperature, however from what I've seen ni200 is the most dangerous and it's still deemed safe in TC, I'd highly recommend running platinum wire in temperature control ONLY for a while until testing has been done on it and it's deemed safe for wattage vaping, in the mean time if you're looking for an excellent TC/VW wire I'd recommend stainless steel, it's relatively safe under normal use, so long as you don't get it orange hot for too long, keep it in the dim red area.
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In my opinion here are the best overall wires listed from best to worst
Nife (30-70 and 52/48)
SS (304,316,317,430)
Nichrome
Kenthal
Ti
Ni200
the top 4 work in TC and Watt mode. Ti and Ni200 are TC only
Not sure about platinum.
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it's pretty dam good. The only downside of it is it's hard to find and nobody makes any "fancy" wire out of it yet.
Crazywire sells it but the rest of their wire sucks. their nife is great but their SS wire especially the SS430 sucks. I wasn't happy with them as a whole. If you can find it elsewhere go for it.
Nice I'm gonna check them out. As far as harmful side effects I assume nife has the least?
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not that i'm aware of
TCR - 3400
Technical Specification:
Chemical composition
Name Main Composition (%)
Fe - 45-47
Si - <0.5
Ni - 52-53
Mn - <0.05
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Wouldn't that be bad though? Since nickel is the most toxic?
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I can't 100% sure say it's not but people have been using it for years no issues in both watt and temp mode. Remember it's an alloy. Lots of alloys contain Nickel. As long as u don't have a nickel allergy your fine.
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If u don't feel comfortable with it then get ss wire. It's a great wire
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Depends. Overall I'd say 316l because it comes in tons of fancy wire. But any of them are fine. The most common 2 are 316l and 430.
I buy most of my fancy ss from advancedvapesupply.com if you are looking for just regular wire buy from temco
https://www.temcoindustrial.com/stainless-steel-wire-316l-non-resistance.html
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What kind of life we talking... years...
Just curious as in 3 years of vaping I have never had a coil wearout..... I get bored long before I ever NEED to change a coil.
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Lucky u. I change mine weekly. Sometimes out of need and sometimes out of want
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NiFe has around 52% Nickel
It's the highest
Yep, that's why I won't do Ni200 and why with the high Nickel content I won't try NiFe
Mine, I really like 317L SS.
Best SS comes from Kidney Puncher and Atomizer Wick. Both of them their wire is very clean, Smelted in Sweden and milled here in the US. So the wire is very high quality, it's the best I've found. Also both of them source their Kanthal direct from Sandvick (who "is" Kanthal, they invented it and hold the patent), top quality.
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Nice to know. I know most vaping wire is either made in China or just temco wire repackaged and marked up. Didn't know kidney puncher made their own shit
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KP is very high quality wire, not cheap but not excessively expensive either and I've got a shit load of it stockpiled. @raymo2u turned me on to it and it's excellent wire. Automizer Wick isn't as expensive and their SS is 317L and I'm starting to stock up on it, I really love 317L. Their Kanthal as I mentioned is excellent also.
Was getting my practice wire from KBee, the SS seemed alright and it's pretty cheap. But I ordered a bunch of Kanthal from them and it was filthy, I mean it turned my fingers black. I sent them an email and they replied "I'll let my staff know", nope, won't buy any more from them.
That's the point I rarly have a coil in an atty long enough to worry about longevity. Thats with Rewicking at least daily.
I have had the same coil and wick in a chalice 3 atty for almost a year.. nichrome coil and silica wick.
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Yep, really like Pure Atomist also, but Atomizer Wick has 317L
Why on earth would you spend $70+ for enough wire for a build or 2 made of platinum??
Well if it's safer and lasts longer. Or maybe I'm wrong
When you use vape wire....do you vaporize the juice or the wire?
Wire... any resistance wire, is really only dangerous when you get it hot enough to start vaporizing....the metals..... that happens several hundred degrees above the Temps that juice vaporize at.......
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I usually get bored and rip my coils on after about a month, but I do have on build on my Kayfun V5 over 3 months and still going strong. It's a 30x2/36 @ 0.5 Ohms. I use 317L SS, great flavor, easy to work with, safe and lasts months. So IMO the cost per benefit of Platinum really isn't there.
But hey if you want to try it go for it and let us know the results.