Hi again ThujOne,
About thermal stress cycles leading to erosion by cracks i'd say my observation was that it occured mostly in early experiments when still flirting with extremes, then successive trial & error iterations helped to shorten flame duration while retaining the transitional dim-red feature of Silicon Carbide Foam which ain't to be confused with temperature (of a Metal Disc) within my Hybrid Core. After all energy injection proceeds
from inside during an IH-driven ("Plan-A") Pre-Heating phase, in opposition to torching
through a 3.1 mm thick layer of SiC Foam using extra-hot exhaust gases from the corona of clean-burning butane flames. This means a susceptor ain't required to get as thermally stressed as dim-red SiC in "Plan-B", while i'm quite ready to bet both core temperatures overlap around some eventual zone compatible with a Curie effect.
In addition, once most of the SiC erosion was done (during my exploration phase) the remainder could be safely attributed to frequent assembly/disassembly as most cracking sounds had vanished. Wood burns on the Sphere Tops also complicated my transition to blue flames so i persisted in my efforts to further reduce the energy budget, by displacing part of the core closer to its bowl, relentlessly trimming down the different layers while guessing about the next best set of thickness ratios, etc.
Retrospectively it appears my intuition over using a Brass Screen Wrap with the Top-of-Bowl SiC Puck proved fructiful: it served for mechanical support and allowed partial relocation into the Screw-Base aperture which now also behaves as an auxiliary core cavity, something the genuine VG core could hardly do.
Overall only marginal SiC cracking can be expected to take place in any training period today, especially under the ceiling temperature from direct IH-driven core-injection. Butane consumption is optimized, less parasitic heat needs to get purged; it's maintenance errors which may loosen up a Hybrid Core, not thermal cycling as both ends terminate with relatively elastic boundaries ready to just slide under expansion force. Hence practice shows some long while can pass before i feel like reseting the components in place.
About exploring other concepts, although i'm not opposed to discussing them my organism still prefers
Inlet Water, so without it i can't justify engaging myself once again in such extensive way as i did before. Otherwise i'd have switched to Induction Heat many years ago.
If it's too much trouble to DUPLICATE & PEER REVIEW then so be it! My wish is that persons able to see beyond credentials can manage to grasp similar perspectives, hopefully via my "LAVA" reconfigurations while a significant number of challenges already been dealt with to spare them most of the expense + frustrations.
The decades-old rewards of Brief/Dense heat bursts have been explained previously (#2: «
Rapid heating prevents from secondary reaction and decomposition. »), which to me isn't about pyrolysis nor vacuum. So it's important to remind ourselves that industrials of the mid-nineties demonstrated a technology capable of rising temperature to 764 °C in 0.2 seconds, which makes adaptations higly desirable. Forget thermostatic models and embrace the short-lived features of a transitional mode!
The "Micro-Bursting" rate of temperature increase is so sudden all essential compounds can turn volatile and leave their bowl practically simultaneously. It's a time-compressed method to enhance aroma/taste perceptions: it's not just bake-free, it's full-spectrum too; possibly leaving room for a separate mix of activated vs non-activated cannabinoïds, which suggests later control/adjustment via an auxiliary heater stage in the same fashion as the Sublimator of Enrico Bouchard.
Anyway there's ZERO incentive for me in absence of
Inlet Water and i simply don't have 6~8 more years to spare, besides spending another couple thousand dollars over some remote hope to make it happen. Now imagine the level of motivation after observing that omni-present obstructivism as from recent wall-of-shame contributions never stop to pop up once in a while...
Moreover, please dear readers, avoid minimizing the fact that my past "
Prototyping Platform" experiments were never meant to propose a finished product: the goal is to offer experimenters a window through which to acquire their own perspectives on Bi-Energy "Micro-Bursting" and beyond, even
independantly.
YMMV.
It seems somewhat difficult to control in terms of temperature precision.
Not at all, each noble molecule shall fly away the instant it's volatized, presumably at a characteristic temperature, and since there's more energy than ever required then all molecules should leave together until the temporary charge got depleted, in a
predictable model thanks to the Curie point - particularily in the almost-linear operating zones:
![Curie Effect - Nickel Iron Alloys - Linear Temp. vs Perm. Oper. Zones [550x360] .PNG](https://www.bluelight.org/community/data/attachments/11/11071-0059f52fa58a1036ff0235027b468b26.jpg "Curie Effect - Nickel Iron Alloys - Linear Temp. vs Perm. Oper. Zones [550x360] .PNG")
...this all reminds me of railguns, where the magnetic field is controlled by supercapacitor bursts...
Well, it does involve an energy build-up though its release doesn't occur instantly as those railguns rely on projectile acceleration: e.g. it has to conquer inertia 1st and hence there's a significant delay involved, while in principle the IH-driven Heat Charge of my Hybrid Core is already set to its optimum value BEFORE things are set in motion...
Which leaves a few questions open for the posterity. For example how many
Joules to "atomize" a single trichome? Or a bowl full of them?? ... Then doesn't it make sense to invest resources into "
metered dosing",
convective heat and
sessions sharing for training tools?! And/or elimination of
vilification vectors as greed-driven
middle-men, intense conduction-mode "
cooking" and "
monster clouds"??
Of course it's obvious i keep repeating the same ideas so lets finally conclude i've already closed the circle as far as i'm concerned. Which ain't as if i won't revisit my VG-dedicated thread(s) if/when suitable.
Good day, have fun!! ☮
