The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning

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The New Hotness

  • Vape Cartridge

    Being the kind of guy who lives under a rock, I thought this thing lying at the end of the driveway might be a USB widget:

    Vape cartridge - side
    Vape cartridge – side

    But the contacts are all wrong:

    Vape cartridge - contacts
    Vape cartridge – contacts

    It has an opening on the other end:

    Vape cartridge - exhaust port
    Vape cartridge – exhaust port

    An easy teardown produces a yard sale of parts:

    Vape cartridge - components
    Vape cartridge – components

    The fiber snippet inside the coil carries the same sickly sweet scent as exhaled by passing vapers.

    Some casual searching suggests it’s a Juul Vape Pod. The Juul site insists on lower browser armor than I’m willing to grant it; you’re on your own.

    The heating coil press-fits into slots cut in the contacts:

    Vape cartridge - heater and contacts
    Vape cartridge – heater and contacts

    It’s about 1 Ω cold, so I foolishly assume there’s a current limiter somewhere in the circuitry.

    The little steel tube goes into the Tray o’ Cutoffs, where it might come in handy some day, the debris hits the trash, and I washed my hands up to the elbows.

    Ya learn something new every day around here and, obviously, I must get out more …