anytime!
glad i could help.
oh and nice post above. i find that i can still load more than enough even using the UFO'd MPs. the UFO holding the load in the sweet spot gives me excellent performance.
It's a really nice setup. I load the core to the top without any compression at all, tap the bottom of the battery holder on the palm of my hand while holding a finger on top of the core, and the load compresses down about 3/4 of the depth that the UFO is about to take up. No direct tamping required (though I miss using the TV tool's bottom to tamp the load down, it didn't do a better job than what I just described). Putting the mouthpiece with UFO into the core presses the load down the remaining 2mm, and Bob's your uncle. I happen to have a second Evo core (and bunches of mouthpieces), so sometimes I'll preload a bare Evo core, put a cap on the top, and put it in my pocket. That way when the primary one is reduced to ABV, I can just put the second one on in its place, without having to clean or reload or carry additional stash at that moment. Sort of makes up for the slightly smaller load...
I agree with you about the "Sweet Spot", and it's my experience that keeping the load in the bottom half of the heat chamber is really the secret to getting the most out of an Evo. And also, if I
really stretch it, and discount that the direct mouthpiece-to-core method isn't necessary for most people, I can
guess that the load
NOT sitting in the sweet spot is why I had less than wonderful results with the standard sleeve setup. One thing I noticed while initially investigating was that the nice cylindrical load of herb was sitting partially out of the core when I took the sleeve off. It turns out that as soon as I'd take my first hit on a fresh load, the suction would "slide" the load up toward the mouthpiece, and there's a few (3?) mm gap between the top of the core and the bottom of the sleeve's UFO. When the load slides up, the bottom half (third?) of the heat chamber winds up empty, half the load is in the top part of the core, and half is in the gap between the top of the core and the bottom of the sleeve. Since the "Sweet Spot" appears to be the
bottom half of the core, this can't be a great way to get the most out of your Evo...
I seem to recall that at the beginning of the "alternate methods" discussion, someone mentioned putting a tiny screen in the top of core to hold the load down, and how that allowed them to put half a load in, and still have it work with the sleeve. But who knows why; the method we both use works just fine for me, with no additional effort, and I'm happy.
) it isn't so much that the LV or SV versions use more or less power as much as the fact that a single "large" cell will usually be more efficient (in terms of storing energy) than will two smaller cells - e.g. An "UltraMax"can hold a 1600mAh cell at 3.7 volts (i.e 5.92 VAh) or two 700mAh 3.2 volt cells (i.e. 4.48vVAh) - NOTE, I purposely didn't use the convention of 1 VA = 1 Watt. When we "downgrade" these cells as a result of high current discharging, the advantage tilts even more strongly toward the single larger cell.
