Just found this on their Facebook page:
Temperature sensing mods and why kanthal won't work, why IJOY Asolo can do it
With the rapid introduction of temperature sensing mods the question of "Will it work with Kanthal?" often pops up. The coils for temperature sensing are made of nickel and presents certain .. challenges .. to coil makers so it is a valid question indeed.
It's all got to do with a magic little number attached to each metal and alloy called "temperature coefficient of resistance". Now this is just the shortest way of saying, what change of resistance can be expected at a given temperature.
Temperature sensing mods rely on the fact that the resistance of the coil will change when it heats up, the little micro controller in the mod constantly measures the resistance in the coil and armed with this figure calculates the temperature of the coil and then applies more or less power to get to the target figure as selected by the mod owner.
So this is all fine and well and most of this info is already known to those into the arcane art of nickel coil building. It has also become rather obvious that the micro controllers will have to read much finer changes in resistance to accurately determine the coil temperature on Kanthal, but how much finer?
Here is a list of temperature coefficients of resistance for some relevant metals:
Quoted from
here
The Kanthal A1 figure I found
elsewhere which states it as 10 to the power of -6
Material Element/Alloy "alpha" per degree Celsius
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Nickel -------- Element --------------- 0.005866
Iron ---------- Element --------------- 0.005671
Molybdenum ---- Element --------------- 0.004579
Tungsten ------ Element --------------- 0.004403
Aluminum ------ Element --------------- 0.004308
Copper -------- Element --------------- 0.004041
Silver -------- Element --------------- 0.003819
Platinum ------ Element --------------- 0.003729
Gold ---------- Element --------------- 0.003715
Zinc ---------- Element --------------- 0.003847
Kanthal A1 ------- Alloy -------------- 0.000001
Armed with these values one can now calculate what the change in resistance will be at a given temperature. I'll skip the formula and point you to a handy
calculator here. Enter the coefficient value as stated above, divide it by 10, and enter 1 into the "power of" field.
So for a Nickel coil with a 0.2 Ohm coil at room temperature the resistance will be 0.41117 Ohm at 200 degrees Celsius, that's a large difference (0.21117 Ohms!) and reasonably easy to measure by the micro controller of the mod.
For Kanthal A1 with a 0.2 Ohm coil at room temperature the resistance will be 0.200036 Ohm at 200 degrees Celsius, a very small change (0.000036 Ohms!) and beyond the capabilities of the micro controller to measure accurately.
EDIT: The original calculations posted here was out by a factor of 10, method and totals now fixed.
all the information i list is totally right!
the theory is as DNA40. we are work in different way. and lets see how Asolo able to work on kanthal, and all wire materials.
we can not offer too much information now. but we promise in the release day of IJOY Asolo, we will update all theory for this Asolo for you.
thank you for your time.
ijoy team