Why the longer heat time with desktops?

There are subjects that I am breathtakingly ignorant about. Electricity is one of the many.

I imagine this is an easy question for someone here to answer. I was just sitting here thinking about it and wondering.

Fury 2, Tera, Spliniter, Tubo, FW5, and Stempod all heat up in a time frame I would consider fast. Mighty is a bit slower but not slow. G43 would be my slowest one at around a 4 minute preheat time, it's worth the wait. Being able to vape whenever I want, within minutes, is good for me.

I have two desktop vapes. They seem to like 15-30 minutes of heat up time before they work well. I've learned to either put them on a timer that is on while I'm available, or plan when they will be used and plug in advance.

Is it that the batteries provide more power than the wall socket?

Are there some plug in vapes that have heat up time similar to the portables?

The new Volcano is supposed to heat up in 40 seconds. The Herbalizer was 5-10 seconds, Flowerpot 3-4 minutes.

I would guess that the slower heatup of some vaporizers is to sustain durability of the heating element since some units will be turned on all day, every day.

Most plug-ins use a heat soaked method of convection meaning that once the glass/steel/titanium that is around the heater is warm it'll start cranking out the vapor at a much consistent temperature. Most have ceramic heating elements that are decently far away from the herb itself so once all the heat is generated around it, the heat will travel farther as you draw off them. I've got the vape attachment for the herb iron and it needs to be almost touch the herb to radiate enough heat to spark it, so when you put the vape attachment on it without jimmy-rigging something to hold the button down to get that heat soak on the glass you're just warming your terps slightly and barely getting vapor. That vape really put it into perspective for me.

The 7th floor vapes are like this, the EQ/VTOWER (especially paired with DDaves mod), most log vapes, pretty sure the Vapexhale as well. It's just the design of the heater.

HughJundys said:

Is it that the batteries provide more power than the wall socket?

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yes, this is what i have found … my battery cells can put out 70 amps, most wall socket power supplies only do a few amps. however, although the BT gets to 400°F in 10 seconds, it still needs another 100 seconds of heat soak for good vapor output.