gunrunnerjohn posted:That's what I generally see to produce good smoke. When I'm testing, I use straight DC on the bench so it's easy to compute the power in my head. Generally I find by the time you get to around 8 watts, you're getting lots of smoke! I actually "tested to destruction" a smoke unit once, I ran it with 12 watts for an extended period. Even keeping smoke fluid supplied it managed to really coat the wick and reduce the output within about half an hour. If you don't keep it wet at 12 watts, it'll smoke the PCB.
Forgive me for asking this:
3 times in this post you use the term "watts": during these tests, how many volts are you using? Doesn't that figure into the equation as well? (Guess I really need to figure out this "Ohm's Law" thing!) 
Mark in Oregon
