fully mechanical vs hybrid mechanical

[eightbitraptor]

For a good illustration of what a full mech is, go and look at a 3D printed squonker if you can get access to one. You’ll see that the internals (other than the squonk bottle) are literally just 2 pieces of bent metal and a 510 connection often with a little plastic nub that pushes the two pieces of metal together and makes the device fire.

That’s a mech.

Mech tubes work in the same way, just that the button that pushes the contacts together is often on the bottom.

Anything else, is not a mech.

It could be an unregulated device (ie the vape gets weaker as the battery dies) or it could be regulated (either fixed voltage output or adjustable voltage)

 

[anthonyb]

If I'm reading all this right,
A Nemesis for example, is a mech tube mod out of the box. If I use it with a kick, is it still a mech tube mod,?
or does it become something different ?

Likewise, does the introduction of a fuse have the same result ?

 

[Rob]

By introducing the Kick, you are making the Nemesis work in a similar way to a very rudimentary Regulated. But as it is a self contained unit, which can be removed, the Nemesis will revert to Mech as soon as the Kick is removed.

 

[eightbitraptor]

If I'm reading all this right,
A Nemesis for example, is a mech tube mod out of the box. If I use it with a kick, is it still a mech tube mod,?
or does it become something different ?

Likewise, does the introduction of a fuse have the same result ?

Fuses are interesting - I know the Gus Mod's often have a removable fuse built into the button.

My take on this is that if it has a fuse but no other components then it still counts as a full mech - as a fuse doesn't add any other behaviour or electronics to the device - a fuse by definition is a mechanical component, it's simply a length of wire that has slightly different properties so that it 'blows' when the current passing through it is too high.

 

[eightbitraptor]

And for the OP's original question - I found this diagram which shows you the difference between a traditional mech vs a hybrid mech (nicked from Zamplebox)

 

[Rob]

Whilst on the subject of Mosfets, the Limelight Freehands (In their many guises, Gloom, Bliss Ultem etc) mainly featured a Piezo 510. Now I am nowhere near clever enough to explain the inner workings of that, but, I see that Dejan now has a new system to replace the Mosfet. Hopefully, this will have greater longevity? They are calling the new switching system RAM, but more than that I can't tell you.

I went for a Mosfet as I found the switch on the fully mech Freehand just a bit too hard for my arthritic hands. The Mosfet improved this tenfold. Would I buy another Mosfet Mod from them? Possibly not. The timescales involved when returning a Mod for repair can be a bit too long, despite what you'll hear being trumpeted about Dejan's "legendary" (sic) Customer Service But this is what happens when you are dealing with a company in Serbia and having to use their somewhat unique postal services.

 

[hol]

Some great information there, every days a learning day at PoTV [emoji106]