First Date Report
I'm disappointed and worried that I may have received one of the "cool" units. I used a coarse, "finger" grind, held the button in for 5 seconds, slow draw for another 5 or 6, released the button and continued to draw. Nary a cloud to be seen
There are people who are saying that it's STRICTLY a convection unit, so it should levitate on a fart. But the hot air comes from the TOTAL heat below the bowl. On, say, a MFLB you have multiple heat zones across the screen, with different fractions distilling all mixed together. And you can't really control that. You can try to keep it down, at best.
The Firefly is different. It heats up gradually and the hot air is of a much more uniform temperature. But you need to get that deevice warmed up. It's quite a job creating 400 deg heated air on a small battery. Depending on how your coil is positioned inside, that may take more or less time. I use 10 seconds at least with no aspiration. But that's a minimum. It works better if you just plain heat the crap out of it. I've even heated it up with no herb in the bowl, just to give it a hot running start. Works well, I don't care about the ideology. It's simple enough to add a pinch o' herb after half a minute of getting the FF in the spirit of impending events. It's still way faster than an oven type vape. Then restart and draw very slowly after maybe 3 seconds.
It's almost a fractional distillation. The first hit even then is the first, call it under 375 deg F, fraction, you get a light THC, no visible vapor, a delicate scent. I really like that fraction, it's cerebral and subtle. The next one is getting say the whole under 400 deg fraction, and the vapor is more visible. The third will be the around 400 deg fraction, and it's more like that cloud that people expect.
Now you can decide what to leave out. The 400-425 fraction is heavier on CBC and some remaining terpenes, and has a more stony effect. Above that the ABV is getting quite dark, and the vapor starts resembling smoke, even before it combusts at 451, remember Ray Bradbury's novel Farenheit 451, the temp at which paper combusts. I'd rather stop before it gets dark brown, I don't find much of interest there.
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biojuggernaut, the FF uses all TORX type screws. Get a little Chinese set of bits, say thank you Chairman Mao. The bowl can be cleaned with alcohol after you get it apart.
If someone has a relatively hotter unit, you can work it faster, no need to give it as much time, but the sequence will be similar. It still comes down to timing, but unlike a MFLB you're not holding the reins on runaway horses, you're letting them go from trot to gallop. If you're into forest fire at 10 seconds, something is atypical, like they cut the coil wire too short, I'd exchange it.
For waterpipe linkage you can apparently insert a small 14 mm male far into the bowl.
I have an 18mm male that just abuts against the bowl. Now, how to hold the stuff inside. With a "liquid pad" of some sort (brass wool-fine makes a lovely nest), concentrate vaping is simple. For herb, maybe a screen. Maybe something like a Solo head. It's an exciting area of research, share your results!
