Vaping ignorance

[Red]

Do the batteries pulse discharge? If so we could be looking at a similar issue to the EMR field produced around an old resistor type spark plug. Later spark plugs have a rubber shield... Much like the Ego/Riva.

[domesticextremist]

Fascinating. I guess it's pulsed DC, made more intense when toking
as more energy would be supplied to compensate for the vapour being
sucked away.
Has anyone tried wrapping some steel mesh around their device as a
Faraday shield?

[Deleted]

Or you could wrap some cable shield around the LT and ground one end of it

[DiscoDes]

Jan 24, 2012 17:50:29 GMT Red said:

Do the batteries pulse discharge? If so we could be looking at a similar issue to the EMR field produced around an old resistor type spark plug. Later spark plugs have a rubber shield... Much like the Ego/Riva.

Yup, I remember seeing a vid with some girly dressed in a lab coat and showing the output on a oscilloscope.

[deesigner]

Oh my! Very interesting, need to find a radio now so I can play.

I've just had a little tittle at this, I can just imagine vapers being blamed for bringing down planes! I see a new film coming on ---- 'Vapers on a Plane' *Wonder if Samuel L Jackson's free*

[vereybowring]

So Blakey will need to wrap tin foil round his e cig to use it in the office.

Or they could just move the radio a bit.

[blakey]

Jan 24, 2012 22:46:20 GMT vereybowring said:

So Blakey will need to wrap tin foil round his e cig to use it in the office.

Or they could just move the radio a bit.

I'd better do something in case they decide to move blakey
lol
In further experimenting today I found that the angle I held the lavatube with the odysseus also varied the impact on the signal, I had the same problem with the bulli and the RTA, but no problem with DCs or clearo's or even a boge in a V3. I must be winding some strange coils in my re-buildables

[PeeKay]

Don't forget that right now, DAB signals are pretty weak and will continue to be so until the 'digital switchover'. It would be interesting to see if the same effect occurred afterward.

I've just tried this with some of my radio kit (I hold an intermediate radio licence) and it does not interfere with the signal either inbound or outbound - for what it's worth - and aircraft transmit in a higher frequency range than FM or DAB, so we're safe on planes.

Edit: This is more akin to the old coils issue that you used to get from cars and motorbikes in days gone by when they went past your house - fuzzy telly and radio...

[Jemima]

Or put a longer carto on the mod and a nice shiney drip tip and pretend your Harry Potter showing off your magic tricks lol

[kingsley]

Damn that James Clarke Maxwell and his anti-vaping equations! No doubt those evil bastards Faraday and Marconi are in on it too! Where is my tin foil hat?

This appears to be occurring with devices that are stepping up from base voltage to a higher one, no? RF is being generated in the step-up part of the circuit that happens to be resonate with the carriers frequency for digital radio.

The radius of this appears to be small but if we could use similarly designed devices at much higher voltages we could probably plot ranges of concentric circles where using the device would case problems as opposed to regions where it didn't.

Manufacturers of mobile phones, hospital equipment and aeroplanes all took this on board a decade or so ago and so there tends to be a lot of shielding for devices but even the best made e-cig mods and DAB radios are little more than cheap consumer devices.

I shake my fist at you Maxwell!



No offence to e-cog mod-makers; you probably put a lot more thought into functionality and design than any DAB manufacturer has ever considered.