Hi there GrumpyGrower!
grumpygrower wrote: ↑Sun Nov 24, 2019 10:55 am
...when I get a few moments to myself.
Please feel at ease as i'm dealing with similar limitations myself!
Hopefully a thread can be launched soon which clarifies a few details, the sooner the better.
grumpygrower wrote: ↑Sun Nov 24, 2019 10:55 am
As with any implementation, many iterations are required to produce a product.
Yes, except it's not to be considered a finished commercial product. For example when experimenting with full-metal tops it became clear after only a few weeks that neither brass nor even plain aluminium surfaces would qualify as appropriate in the Flame-Catcher aperture. In other words now that a Hybrid Core has been fine-tuned it would be necessary to address the matter of heat-resistant finish while that's beyond my ambitions - and present capabilities...
In the begining each iteration lasted for months as i needed to develop new perceptions simply to decide what to do next. Such guessing proved taxing for an individual working alone so i'm glad to be done with it since i wouldn't have the lungs to try again.
grumpygrower wrote: ↑Sun Nov 24, 2019 10:55 am
...I started by searching for information published within a month and then within one year.
Oh, i see, then i'll do my best to provide a few additional hints (via PM) as this should only require a few minutes anyway. Not to mention i'm genuinely pleased to have found an audience demonstrating such level of motivation and i thank you warmly for that!
grumpygrower wrote: ↑Sun Nov 24, 2019 10:55 am
...I thought you was involved in the design and manufacture.
No, but i wish! Actually i've contacted the manufacturer on many occasions trying to convince the inventor that he's missing an opportunity to dominate the market, while others attempt to occupy the Induction Heat niche with inferior designs and ludicrous price tags. Most unfortunately nothing can substitute for holding a "Prototyping Platorm" in our hands that people can evaluate for themselves, hence my semi-DiY challenge!
grumpygrower wrote: ↑Sun Nov 24, 2019 10:55 am
May I ask why you're considering abstinence?
Believe me i done my best to avoid such regression! Yet for starters butane-fueled "Plan-B" was never supposed to substitute for IH-driven "Plan-A" and i came to consider even if clean-burning butane only involves trace amounts of "comet dust" (especially in comparison to yellow flames) that's still a potential safety risk i couldn't totally eliminate on the long term. The intense iterations cycles i went through since 2013 are probably equivalent to a decade if not 15 years of chronic use so as i'm turning into an elder it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish between these possible effects and normal aging. That's one good reason why i'd like to evaluate "Plan-A", to verify if "Plan-B" is taxing or not while i can still exploit my natural sensitivity as a radar. Another reason is "Légaleezation" which causes vilification to spread everywhere: it ain't as "safe" as it used to be and my province banned self-cultivation of the only trustable source of true "bio"...
So, a major problem i have is that i probably won't be able to implement "Plan-A" myself while anyway my lungs just wouldn't stand similar abuse again: the initial trial & error cycles were too intense to contemplate going through the same route. By chance all my options haven't been depleted as my "Bi-Energy" strategy is likely to allow a combination of IH-driven power injection followed by some brief torching meant to supply extra-hot H
2O + CO
2 for self-moisturizing and "Potentialization" purposes. So that's why i ain't finished with full-metal tops, having finally identified a near-ideal layout which i hope to materialize before Christmass if lucky. Then IH testing can begin but not before i managed to also implement a susceptor made of SS430 - which i don't know where to find it in appropriate quantity so far and much less how to drill 17 holes through it.
But i'm used to proceeding patiently, one step at a time, although i now live in an institution with other elders and my time machine won't help it somehow.
Good day, have fun!!