I have seem a video from phil busardo.
Look at his Evic VT review.
The Evic VT jumped out of TC mode on him and he described it as the worst vaping experience it had ever had in his life.
He melts a WET wicked Ni200 coil to sludge in about 5 seconds in VW mode on cam.
So what? What I'm saying is that the same coil in kanthal would have melted as well, and probably sooner too. Or in other words, the nickel coil didn't melt because it's nickel: it melted because the mod malfunctioned and dumped way too much power into it (probably, I haven't seen the video, and I'm not about to endure endless minutes of Busardo to find out which one it is).
Look, there are two good reasons why nickel won't melt any faster than kanthal:
- Nickel melts at 2651F. kanthal melts at 2732F. It's almost the same temperature.
- The resistance of a nickel coil INCREASES as it heats up. The resistance of a kanthal coil stays the same. As a result, at best, the nickel coil acts as a sort of poor man's power limiter, and at worst - on a mod that compensates for the increase in resistance in real time - it behaves exactly like a kanthal coil.
Simple physics and common sense make it obvious that, had Busardo's mod malfunctioned in VW mode, the same coil in kanthal would have failed exactly like the nickel coil has. You're creating irrational fears of nickel and implying that it poses a specific danger of melting catastrophically, when in fact the material is not to blame.
As for the concern that nickel might be leaching into the juice, that others have voiced, yes that is troubling. But it's a totally orthogonal issue.