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What makes the device 10 times the cost of the cheapest competitor? Today, I’m going to tear apart the Puffco Core and give you guys a full insight into what’s inside the unit and mostly dissected in line with our new approach where we want to have more objective, scientific, and engineering-based information about what is actually inside these devices, what components that bring about the features that make it function better. And in line with that, I’m going to show you some of the alternative technology that is out there, how it’s potentially tiered, so you kind of know it’s like, “Okay, this is the next tier.
This is the next tier.” And that’s why the cost scales because these components are more accurate or whatever is inside. I’m going to tear these units apart one after the other.
You got to tear me apart.
Just to see what’s inside and what you’re getting because a lot of hard work goes into these devices and now we’re going to get into what that actually translates into. Now, let’s go into top-down shot. All right, so this is the Puffco Core, Proxy Core. And first thing to kind of point out here is the, let’s say, more expensive uh unit that comes with this glass piece. And the glass piece is pretty neat. Uh if you guys really want me to dissect this one, you can request it in the comments, but the module is the same. All right, so it’s exactly the same.
The only thing that’s different is the heating chamber, which is See, so these two parts are identical from a, let’s say, component perspective as far as I can see right now. And you can see even the heating chambers are identical. It’s the silicon top part that is different. This is one of the, let’s say, hallmarks of successful, let’s say, product engineering when you make components that can go into different products. They’re the same components, so you can get the, let’s say, scale in production while the components around it you start kind of making it better for specific type of purposes, and then you got, let’s say, two different products that fulfill slightly different needs.
There’s two different two main components that make a wax vaporizer very, let’s say, good. One is the heater and the other one is the airflow. What you can see basically between these two devices is that the airflow is different. So, I’m going to just unpack this one. So, you can see this one has directional airflow. So, you get to kind of like manage how it goes in, but the heating chamber is the same. This one has these static intake holes, so it creates a static vortex. And the vortex I tested, that’s why there was this terp pearl in the Oh, there it is.
That’s why the terp pearl was in there. So, I tested the terp pearl as well just to make sure that the vortex airflow is there. It is there. You need to draw a bit hard. So, that that’s what makes it difficult in engineering because not only do you have to do the vortex airflow, but it also has to be, let’s say, it has to be initiated with a regular draw from the device so that the terp pearl moves and it agitates the wax. And that helps improve the flavor profile because obviously the wax is not stagnant and it’s not burning at the bottom molecular level while the top layer is not vaporization temperature, it’s not quite there.
So, the better you do the vortex, the better the terp pearl can move. And when the terp pearl moves, it agitates the wax. So, here what we can see is that that’s the one difference between the two. You get more airflow on the Puffco Proxy set as compared to the Proxy Core, which is meant to be just a unit that doesn’t have, let’s say, filtration. So, they just kind of like close the hole here. So, the resulting, let’s say, clouds don’t go through the glass here, which requires it to come out down here. See? And then it goes through the glass and it cools down a bit, you know?
And in contrast, this one, it takes the air in at the top and it exhausts at the top. So, it gives it out at the top. One of the, let’s say, cheapest units in the market is this device. Yocan specializes in them. They’re a good company in that they really know how to make the devices inexpensively to get the job done. So, bicycle, Mercedes type of thing. Gets you from A to B. This gets you to A to B, obviously. Got the sound system and all that stuff. Talking about the Mercedes. But, this one, you can see in contrast that it’s got and I’m and I’m heating the coils here.
Let’s go to the macro lens. I’m heating the coils here and you should see them kind of glow up. Let me check it. Yeah, they glow up. But, obviously because of the way they need to manufacture and you see this this top part goes on here. So, there’s a bunch of, let’s say, problems from a practical perspective like this thing goes short when there’s too much melted wax. And on top, you have all these like metal parts where your wax can get stuck and it does get, let’s say, melted to go down into the coil. And the coil obviously has no managed temperature.
So, the moment the concentrate gets close to it, it can get smoky, okay? So, you don’t get the flavor profile. So, I wouldn’t really put like high-quality concentrates in these types of devices. You can make do with cheap stuff. But, overall, you can see it kind of gets the job done, but it lacks all the technology. Now, when we get into the higher-end segment with this one, you can see the heating chamber. Just look at the contraption here. I’m going to take the top off because we’re going to go through that anyway. You can see this is this is the equivalent of what inside here.
Take that terp pearl off that. That thing keeps to rolling around all over, right? So, you can see that coil there is the equivalent of this contraption. And this contraption and you need to make it work with Bluetooth and app and regulated and sense the temperature. And so, you can already see that from outside you can tell, okay, this is more this is more elaborate. And as I said, we do engineer our own devices. So, we have two different kind of categories of products here as well. So, one of them is a let’s say a kanthal coil. So, they’re different.
They’re let’s say slower to heat up and much easier than the thinner coils to get the coil to go a little slower on the heat up. So, it’s a bit easier for these to just manage the amount of heat you put on in there, but it’s still a coil, right? And this is mounted backwards. So, this is how it would look, right? But then a little bit more thought through with a with a tray at the bottom where you can keep the concentrates. And then above the coil segment, then you got the bucket heaters, right? The bucket heaters again, you have the the terp pearl here in the bucket heaters.
This is glass, so the heater is on the bottom. So, it’s let’s say bottom heated. After that, you get into the 3D. The 3D, the way the Puffco does them in contrast to another relatively expensive device in the market, the the Ares, like this one is also 3D heater, but this one as far as I’m informed, I’m pretty sure about this, it heats on the sides and on the bottom, so there’s more output. There’s some complexities with heating the bottom as well. Puffco does a signature heating around it. And there’s reasons why that can be better when it’s well calibrated, but I’ll touch on these points as we go through the teardown.
So, first, now that we got the heating chamber, this silicone part is just for air intake and the air coming out. And first thing we’re going to do is try to disassemble this thing and you can see it’s kind of like a machined And I would say this is probably stainless steel. Yeah, probably stainless steel, most likely stainless steel.
Trying from the side is already showing me a hammer. I need something a little bit more delicate.
He’s supposed to be my wingman here for this for this let’s say teardown. And we’re going to slowly start opening this thing up and I haven’t done this before, so you’re going to learn at the same time as I do. So, if you are an engineer, you’re an enthusiast, you’re some person that likes to put a ball vape together, something like that, these enthusiast veteran style activities, you’re a cunning redditor that knows stuff inside out because you have a bunch of devices. Well, if you see something and you have some input, put it in the comments below.
I’m going to read them and try to answer them or have someone answer them. But, I’m very curious what it is that you guys interpret and also if I do a mistake or say something that, let’s say, is not true or is half true, add it and we’re going to go through it so everybody in the comments can participate and can get their, let’s say, five cents across so we can all learn something together. So, this is more so I want I want you guys to get some, let’s say, insights into the consumer electronics engineering aspect of things. As I said, this is more in line with how we want to take our content forward.
As we go these components, it’s hard to say on the first glimpse like how they come apart, but as we go through, I think this is attached to something on the other side, but it’s pulling out. We also going to get a good idea about how these, let’s say, components come together. So, let’s just see. And I’m going to try to do it in a way that it doesn’t destroy the unit right away, but more often than not, in order There you go. More often than not, that’s very hard to do in a reasonable time frame.
I’m not going to be doing some reverse engineering on these folks to know exactly how it comes apart. And a lot of times, the way it’s assembled is not the way that comes apart, so technically speaking, they also intended it to just stay in place forever. But, we’re not going to care about that because we want to get in there. And I can see the top stainless steel part is a separate component, so I’m going to just kind of pull at it see if I can take it out. It’s Yeah, it’s a one-way clasp system. So, it kind of goes in and gets stuck.
I already got to the heating chamber. We want to go to the macro lens to just show the folks. This type of heating chamber was innovated in the dry herb vaporizer style and or segment and then over time it made it into the um let’s say concentrate vaporization segment because they found a good way to make use of it. Now, in the dry herb vaporizers these ceramic buckets usually have a air um let’s say holes at the bottom that helps you just basically take the air flow through the herb. But, with the concentrate devices you do them in a bucket.
So, there’s no holes at the bottom. And that’s just because obviously concentrate gets liquid and you wouldn’t want the you wouldn’t want the concentrate to flow through the bottom. So, you see it has a another uh ceramic component. These are some ceramic parts. So, you can be rest assured there’s really no off-gassing with these. They have really high thermal resistance and they’re baked in ovens for like a day before they come out. So, they they they mold them in place and then they bake them. So, uh they’re really really resistant components. So, that’s why they’re good for the concentrate devices because they generally run higher than dry herb devices.
So, dry herb devices usually have a hard time most of them almost all of them have a hard time doing concentrates very well. Not only because the heating chamber is set up with like air flow at the bottom. So, you got to figure out a way for the uh concentrate not to melt into the device. On top of that, you have to kind of um let’s say uh deliver the heat profile. And by that enables the user to clear out the bucket to clean it between sessions. Um and that gives you better flavor. Now, there is some technology that is resistance-based that can sense the temperature by the resistance inside the the heater.
Those are much more rare. I’m not exactly sure how Puffco does it, but there’s two ways to do it. Either they have a mechanism whereby they measure the resistance because there’s only two electrodes, and with that they tell what the temperature inside the core is, which I find less likely because you would need a very specialized, let’s say, metal because obviously metals like platinum and such are most suitable for this type of, let’s say, component, but putting platinum inside these walls, I can already tell you is is probably not the way to go because you need it to be able to be a heater as well.
The 3D 350 does that. So, the technology is technically possible, but I think it is much more likely that through testing, through vast amounts of, let’s say, testing, what they do is they they kind of know how much energy to put in for a heat cycle in order to get this temperature managed at a specific heat level. Now, that’s not as accurate as, let’s say, some other devices that have a temperature sensor underneath like the Puffco Peak Pro has that where there’s a temperature sensor at the bottom, and if you really want to see inside that, I can tear down a $400 unit to show you what’s inside.
If you want to know that, put that in the comments below. But, generally speaking, this could be managed heat cycles, okay? So, for example, the bottom heated, there’s no place to put a temperature sensor, so this goes with cycles. So, it’s been simulated many, many, many times. So, put it on temperature level one, and it gives it the right amount of power in the right amount of time, and then you get that you get that right amount of heat. And from the original Proxy to the upgraded one, and we see the heating chamber wants to dangle out and run away, so I’m going to put it back in here.
You can see the the improvements. What they did is basically they expanded the LED light tunnel. So, when I turn it on, hopefully it has enough battery, you can see the LED light tunnel here. It’s glowing green. Now, it’s glowing red, right? And this one had a much smaller LED light tunnel at the top, not nearly as cool and technological looking as the new one. But when it came out, it was also pretty, let’s say, ahead of the curve or special. That’s the way they thought thought it through. Nobody had really done a functional, um, let’s say, this style of wax pen, where you have the glass attached to it.
Uh, not a water bubbler, water bubbler people had done before, but just glass. So now we go to one of the things that uh, Puffco is very good at, and that is software. And software, obviously, I don’t know everything that that’s going on in there. I have a good, fairly good understanding. If any of the engineers, or anybody but from Puffco watches this and wants to chime in give us like the actual rundown or corrections or such, very welcome. Very welcome. You can even introduce yourself. I’ll pin the comment and so on and so forth. But all right, now let’s get into that.
I’m going to get a bit rugged on this because many of these components, especially with silicone, are like one way you can see the LED went up. How how even this LED is. We’re going to see it from the other side. Usually light tunnels require special engineering. We have them in some of our other products, too. Um, this is usually when a light tunnel works very well, like this one, you know that it’s uh, that some very smart people worked on it. And let me show you my Super Advanced, too, because last time I did this for you guys, we went to town with it, uh, with a screwdriver.
Every time I’m going to come with new tools. Uh, if you see something like three or four connectors, you know there’s a temperature sensor. So that’s the one one way to go about it. Now, let’s just I think this silicone is one of the, uh, one of the ways they restrict the parts from being opened. So first I’m going to take the bottom off. Let’s do it this way. Now, I don’t know exactly what’s behind the silicone. But the good thing is going to be that as we cut it open, we’re going to see.
So, if there’s something like a battery that I shouldn’t be cut cutting into, the good thing is that I’m going to know after we cut into it. So, you can see that silicone is covering up the base and you know already see that there’s screws down there. So, that’s pretty cool. Let’s see if the cutter does a better job at getting through this. They are not going to replace your unit if you pretend this is a warranty issue. So, here we see Let me see if this is all coming out. I can see that it opens up in the middle here, but I can also see that it extends through.
So, I would assume that the top part that’s the key part. So, that’s what I would need to get into. I think maybe the carpet cutter is even more effective. Uh this is I mean he’s already I think getting stressed over me working with these cutting tools and my fingers. So, all right, here we go. So, I see this part comes out. So, it seems like this ring may be placed in a way that it locks everything in place. Now, how the ring comes off? Maybe just a little snap, which would have been hilarious because we could have avoided destr- Yeah, it’s an easy snap.
There we go. We could have avoided all of this. All right, nice. There we go. So, it’s a big bit big silicone cover and this thing kind of gets the whole thing locked locked in place. Usually, people get much more excited because we’re talking about what units we should take apart because all of them we kind of want to take apart. But people always want the more expensive stuff to be taken apart first. Somehow there’s some pleasure with destroying expensive stuff. Um but it’s just kind of like it’s really nice to sit by a campfire and just watch the fire burn all the wood.
Something about that. So, here we go. So, we got three screws. So, very elegantly kind of put together. And we got the this part seems to be Let me see if I can scratch it because if I can No, it’s This is a metal. You can see as I scratch it there’s a layer underneath that’s silver. So, I’m going to get to it in a second. All right, so here we go. Let’s take it apart. So, generally speaking, components that are in contact with clouds or air path, you want to use solid materials. Obviously, glass is the best. Zirconia is the best.
Zirconia is very expensive. And you want to kind of stay away from plastics. Definitely plastics. We also try to stay away from silicone as much as possible. Now, Puffco is one of the few brands that uses a lot of silicone and people still love it which gives us, let’s say, faith that we can use some more silicone as well. But, generally speaking, if you look at our devices, even the even the coil base one, like the mouthpieces is zirconia, right? The mouthpiece on the tool, this is zirconia. The other one The other one is all all glass, right?
When you look at the uh focus areas, this part is zirconia as far as I know, right? So, again, like Yeah, mostly inside it’s coated with zirconia. So, they also make an effort. Puffco is a bit different, but also you have to keep in mind that as smaller and more intricate you design these devices, the more you kind of get pushed into using silicone because it’s very heat resistant and it also seals because it’s soft, right? You can’t get that type of sealing with hard materials. Like zirconia doesn’t seal. So, you still need silicone somewhere to seal the air path.
So, let’s get into this and you can see the core.
The core of the core.
The core of the core. It’s a little word play for you. There’s a little bit of wiring in there that connects from one side of the wall to the other. Actually, since this device is not going to be much function anyway, I’m going to bring in the big guns and we’re going to just uh cut the wires between the two. There we go. So, as I as I said in other teardowns, you usually have these foamy parts that they put in the casing to prevent rattling because rattling sometimes you get devices that rattle a little bit um and uh that kind of doesn’t give a good quality feel.
I’m going to take this thing off. There we go. So, here you have the same parts. This is very key um if you want to do a good product, the less let’s say components the better, less chance for things to fail, less time in assembly, and also less cost. So, let’s go through here. My uh There you are. Right in the center. And most of these boards, especially if they have any type of memory, need a small battery to keep the lights on. And I think that’s what this is exactly. So, this is the battery that keeps the light on.
Bluetooth may be activated uh through that uh so it can be found and then the battery gets engaged or or things of that nature, but usually it’s just to keep some memory uh inside the device. Most electronics have it. You can see the board here. Um the chipsets, one of these basically do does the uh Bluetooth. I wouldn’t be surprised if it is this one Yeah, this one and the brains of the operation is right here. You can see a QR code on it, too. You can see these little pillars here, here, and here. Uh very elegant design and they’re not even screwed on.
Uh they’re um kind of with What do you call them in English? Yeah, they’re soldered in. Sorry. Uh they’re soldered in. Uh in German it’s a different word. They call it “sada”. No, I’m kidding. I’m kidding. I’m kidding. I can do that. I grew up in Germany. I can do a German accent. But anyway, I’m going to take this apart now. So, it’s very cool. These little I hadn’t seen solder used as a method to kind of keep the pillars and the chip in place. And actually, let me see if I can lever it out.
Stand ready for my arrival, worm.
Dragon is very keen on using the hammer. Yeah, uh uh at the end. When we want to reassemble it, I’ll do it with a with a hammer. Here we got another silicone piece. This is mostly used probably for internal sealing of the components. So, if there’s a little leak on the walls or something like that, it doesn’t pull any air. So, it kind of seals the inside. A lot of devices do that like with the Arc it was a uh pain in the butt for us to uh get that done. The whole internal plastic is like uh molded over with silicone.
Okay, so you can see here are the LEDs. And these LEDs are custom done on this um let’s say board here. Which is pretty cool. Uh and there’s 1 2 3 4 5 6 basically 12 hours worth uh well, 11. And uh the more LEDs you put, the more the light tunnel is going to look uniform and it’s going to look like a quality product. Uh the less LEDs you put and LEDs actually are, let’s say, relatively expensive uh small parts, so depends on, let’s say, relatively I’m talking. Uh depends on what kind of LEDs you choose, but you can assume each one of those uh cost some money.
If I can see here, let me see if I can just take it apart here. If you want to individually uh control them, so you need individual spaces on the board, so the LEDs can be more meticulously managed, which Puffco focuses a lot on. That’s why the products look so nice uh when you turn them on, the LEDs dance very nicely uh because uh there’s more control over the LEDs uh through the board because, well, they go through the trouble of managing them a bit more intricately. So, uh you have a product that has, let’s say, 10 LEDs, but they’re all turning on and off together, right?
So, uh that’s one way to go about it, much cheaper, uh and you got another method where you would uh individually be able to control them, individually be able to put a color into them, and so on and so forth, and that would require just more intricate connections uh on the board. And as you can see, uh the board I didn’t see how they were connected. Maybe the Maybe the pillars Yeah, the pillars are connectors. So, we got 1 2 3 and 4. So, 4 and you got something like uh 11 LEDs, so maybe that’s the way they control these LEDs, which is pretty cool actually because they got two things done at once.
One, they they mount it on uh in a basically two-story um board. It’s pretty cool. Uh and at the same time they use the pillars to communicate with the LEDs. So, pretty cool, not very common at all. This is all custom done.
So, when you think about already the cost implications of doing something like that, when you have a, let’s say, lower-end device, and again, kudos to these guys because this is a very old unit, so don’t judge them for it, but um is Look, you You see the LEDs like behind that button, it barely shows, and it’s like one. It’s probably just right away just one channel to the board, and not much that there’s no LED color management, you know, they probably didn’t refine the colors and such on the LED either. And then you got contraption like that.
That requires that uh basically um multiple different types of engineers to work together. Uh so, you got the mechanical engineers, you got the uh electronics engineers, then you got the folks that do the Bluetooth software, um and all of that together, they need to sync, they need to have meetings, they need to figure out how they want it to look. You got the industrial designers, uh you got the ones that simulated uh so the others can see what they want to accomplish. So, you you go from like Here, even even on the Gamma Tron that we did, there’s three LEDs.
Each one of them is controlled separately, as you can see, but they’re like simple colors, no color management, there’s no light diffuser on top of it, and that’s how you cut costs to be able to provide a product at a lower cost point. And you can see that even if you go on Amazon, you can find, I don’t know, a screwdriver that does something for, I don’t know, $30, and then you can find one that does it for $200. And only the people who care that use screwdrivers a lot, so that for them it’s worth it. And you should or mice, I love mice, like for computers.
You got really gaming mouse, it’s like $400 from Razer or Mad Catz when they used to not be bankrupt. Obviously, it didn’t work out for them. They invested too much on those mice, but I had one. It was so good. Now, clearly, this thing is not going to be as useful, so I’m wondering if I should just save the time. Here’s a screw. Save the time and just tear it apart, or if I should go systematic like a good engineer would. But then again, I’m not an engineer. I studied economics and business. Uh yeah, that’s what I did.
So, there we go. That was much easier. I didn’t have to destroy it. So, if you want to So, there you go. So, this is all custom, folks. Like that button is not that’s off the shelf, uh I would say, definitely. Because well, the button make a I don’t know a million of them and it is sold to all sorts of electronics manufacturers and you put it on the board. And there we go. He’s selling me helping me here.
So, So, you can see this is all custom done. It’s very intricate. It’s very fine. You see the cut here. So, this is This is again it takes time. You can’t just do one and it’s okay. This was prototype and tested at least in multiple different iterations. Obviously, the previous iteration not looking as cool. For its time it was super cool. I would even go as far as saying it’s still cool. Uh for somebody that hasn’t seen these devices which is the vast majority of people in our uh hobby Let’s call it. Interestingly, this is the same metal component and it’s pretty light and this does look like Yeah, this this looks pretty machined to me.
It could also Yeah, it looks pretty machined. It could have been that they mold let’s say a couple parts and then they they kind of welded together, but it’s very finely made. So, it’s hard for me to say. Although here I see a line. Look at that. You see that line? You see that line? That line right here. So, to me that indicates it is a mold. And you see the line going through right here. So, I’m actually pretty impressed that they did it so fine. You see the thickness of that wall? And they molded it. So, this is a special let’s say metal.
Pretty soft. Could be aluminum, but I don’t think aluminum they mold like this. But uh yeah, I would go out on a limb and say this is a mold. All right. So, again, needs the needs some expensive component that can put out a lot of these. And it requires a different type of engineer to design the mold that does this thing. And these two pins that it kind of tore off from the other side come out from this side. Here we go. So, this is a connector. And these types of connectors are very common in our segment and in most consumer electronics where that want to have these like magnetic kind of connectors and such.
I think there’s a silicone inlay in the whole bottom to kind of hide away the molded metal part. Yeah, here we go. So, here we go. So, that one you could probably tear out on your brand new core anyway without much tools. You just tear it out. And you can probably put it back into Do not do that. Void the warranty, right? But here, this is actually very intricate part and look, it goes from the top straight to the bottom and very intricate design and you couldn’t do a mold where you can pull pull the mold out of this.
So, chances are on one side they did some machining. I would say maybe this part they did some machining. And this this these parts are molded and I don’t think there is some machining that done here. Could be. Let’s go back to this. And another thing that adds a lot of cost to these devices is batteries because batteries come off the shelf with in many different formats. But chances are if you’re designing something with this very specific size that lets sits on many different glass contraptions you may buy for it from from water filters of all kinds.
And then you design all these components and it comes out to this specific size of battery. There is in many instances the exact size of battery you need and you guys saw how fit it sat in here uh, may not be available. And then what you need to do, you need to have large order quantities that, and I’m going to do something you should not do at home, and that is kind of open up the battery. Um, but, um, that’s how you would basically get into, um, you can even kind of zoom in on the descriptions here, um, with the micro lens.
So, that’s, um, then you would have a large order quantity and the batteries would be, let’s say, disproportionately more expensive compared to what’s on the shelf. Just because you want to provide the user with that form factor, with that specific sizing. It’s 1,680 mAh, so now finally we know how to get that data without, um, bugging the manufacturer 600 times. We just tear unit apart and look inside. 1,680, just to give you guys a an idea, 1,680 for 3D chamber is actually very much so on the low end. Obviously, they have this form factor to deal with. They can’t really like have a massive battery in there.
It’s still good. It’s better, let’s say, than I even expected. 1,680 is is is good, but overall it’s still still relatively low because you have this 3D heating chamber. And the the larger they get, disproportionately they pull more more energy. So, what you got, for example, with the Utillian, uh, 6 that does the vortex airflow that you can watch from the side, it’s got just the bottom heating. So, you got much less surface that you need to energize, so that the unit will last just much longer. Same thing with the coil-based ones. They actually require surprisingly less energy because, well, the coil is exposed and the material touches that.
This thing needs to heat the wall, and these heaters are actually pretty cool manufactured because these are like these are flat sheets like that, and then they print the board on it, and then they pull it, and then they they go through some heating process, some baking process. You can even see the seam on the side. So, this is flat, and then they put it together, and then they need to put this this bottom part there. You then need to attach the elements. So, there is specialized manufacturers for that. Um I was sitting in a in a meeting. There was a we met this wonderful Chinese company.
I’m going to keep their details out of this. And I was there with uh with Milad and Nori, which are uh our two heavyweight engineers. In China, we’re meeting them because of a new technology that we’re working on. After some time, I was just I I looked around the room and I saw five uh Chinese engineers talking to Milad on this white table and they’re drawing up these designs. And as I was watching them, proud to see so many people working so hard to on our, let’s say, ideas to get these bucket heaters to you in a different, let’s say, more advanced technology so you can enjoy yourself.
And then I looked up the the room and at the top I saw this picture of rockets, Chinese rockets. I asked uh one of the interpreters that was there, I’m like, “Yo, what’s up with the rockets on the wall?” And they said, “Well, the technology that you guys use, and basically a lot of people in our industry use, which is embedding a heating element inside these ceramic cores, is highly robust but still not indestructible.” The story was that I asked the interpreter, and the interpreter said, “Well, they do components for these rockets.” That’s actually the main industry where they get the most components.
I was like, “What the What would What would these heating technologies be good for a for a rocket?” For an like, “Well, if when it’s in orbit, there’s sensors that best work at a specific temperature. So, in order to get the sensors at that specific temperature, well, they use these heaters. So, when it’s going in orbit, and I would assume Elon Musk and whoever’s rockets are like that, too, some sensors need to be stay very within a very narrow band of tolerance in order to work optimally. And well, that’s the components they do for them.” That was That was very amusing.
So, I tell the story now. I think there’s a lot of So, that that goes another, let’s say, layer to communicate to guys, okay, these products, once you take them from, let’s say, bicycle level to motorcycle level, well, there’s a big jump. When you take them from uh, motorcycle level to car level, well, there’s another bunch of stuff that needs to be done, another bunch of smart people. You can see there’s a there’s a board. Uh, these things are usually used to regulate, which means they monitor the batteries very carefully.
So, if a battery starts overheating or such, these boards are there as a safety mechanism to kind of cut off cut off the complete battery or that battery. And you can see individually these batteries are connected to these electrodes. So, this one is individual. These two share a connection. Right? And uh, that’s how they manage now. Three different cells. These, most likely, off the shelf. I’m not 100% sure. So, Puffco people, if you watch this and you’re like, “You undressed our device. You’re horrible.” Well, while you’re here, just tell us, are these off the shelf?
Uh, but um, even if they’re off the shelf, these cells still If I open this, they open up like a little booklet, and everywhere they say don’t do that, so I’m not going to do that unless you guys think we should do that for YouTube. So, don’t do that, but basically there’s sheets in there. I hope you guys like this one. So, um, this is the uh, core for you. Let me just wrap this area up. So, back to the product, here you got the core disassembled, and here I have the inside part of the uh, let’s say, the complete kit of the core, which comes with the glass contraption.
So, um, you see basically what’s inside now, what makes it so, let’s say, intricate. And remember, this thing has all custom software. Whereas, when you go into the, let’s say, uh, more inexpensive uh, devices, cordless ones, the boards on these is very small. It’s it’s less advanced and very small. They’re not Bluetooth connected. Bunch of components are not there. That means they also don’t need those engineers, they don’t need those projects, they don’t need those presentations, those uh let’s it’s it’s just gets very intricate, especially because much more ways for this thing not to work. Th- this thing is pretty fail-safe until the coil obviously breaks and you get a new one.
Even even this contraption is like uh this uh airflow management at the top not really necessary, so you could just use it like this and it would be just as fine. So, um kind of like uh so, when we get into the detail, uh top-down airflow more restricted, uh this is more open airflow. You can even see it on the size of the hole versus the intake size. I find this one less restrictive. And uh here you got it. If you’re wondering between these two devices, um pretty much so the top part is different. So, if you manage if your friend had a core that is defective like my friends have now, right?
Um you could just swap this part out with this part. And bam, you got a core. So, there we go. We’re going to going to actually reswap it because its value just went up.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Dragon, give me that. Let’s disassemble the glass. So, that was a teardown and the engineering deep dive uh feature deep dive into the Puffco Peak Core. If in the future you want to see videos maybe more of the other devices with different types of technology, maybe lower and higher end compared to what I’m dissecting, let me know in the comments below. Sometimes there’s some really insightful conversations. Many of you are like engineers or professors or whatever it is that makes you very uh excited about this type of stuff. There’s some people on Reddit they came up with ball vapes.
I don’t know exactly who came up with them, but they’re really really smart folks that just are crafty to put things together. Definitely get in on this. Uh I would love to know what’s going on in your head. Every different perspective has some sort of uh very added value, so I would definitely like to know. And um people in the definitely would like you to chime in. Don’t be shy.
If you know stuff that maybe I should have covered or you want to chime in on on the board, the electrical engineering aspect of things, which is not as much my forte because I I’m more into the the basically the management aspect and product development and the mechanical engineering aspect of things, definitely chime in here. So, thank you very much for joining me on this video. And if you want to see more, definitely let me know. Don’t forget to like the video because if you do, if I get more than 100 likes, maybe in the next video I’ll touch a heating element.
Thank you very much. You have a good day.
