Discontinued VapeXhale Cloud EVO

Just to be sure my dial is normal, I have to be at noon to see any vapor and 1:30 to 3 is the comfortable range, top tastes harsh, just below is acceptable thick vapor - like herbalaire thick (nice). I kept my ticker at 10 to noon if that shows you my normal range.


I much prefer the larger bottom hole on the og ticker conceptually and because I have sensitive lungs, but this thing delivers a good hit and they must have chosen this for engineering improvements as opposed to saving money I assume. Maybe the restriction cools the heater less or something. No discomfort here.

My Colie cloud honeycomb recti still wins all taste and pain tests over any single piece I can test side by side to this day... But this is the nicest hydro tube I've used, glad to have it in its perfect case. A real pleasure to hit. Classy as fuck.

But again, I just hit it side by side with my Colie, more fun experience hitting the hydro tube, perfect snapping feeling, But more harsh the the Colie. I'm telling you guys, Colie hit the perfect formula with that piece... I hit all kinds of heady pieces with the cloud with friends side by side, and it's always like damn WTF when we cloud the Colie. Vapexhale should contract his ass for that piece since it's unique and non competing. My rec. flavor and no pain. I need a heady version.

Likewise you'd have to pry this hydro tube from my arms, it's the shit and not going anywhere.
Really happy with the whole purchase.

Yeah if the earliest deliveries are the one's just now seeing cracked glass, that spells doom and disaster for the rest of us in the future... unless VXH changed the bamboo from those early ones??

Here's hoping!

It sounds like it's just the units that run hot have the glass cracking issue, unless I'm mistaken.

Whew! My evo's definitely not running hot.
Mine seems to be running exactly like @SnidelyWhiplash's, above:

"I have to be at noon to see any vapor and 1:30 to 3 is the comfortable range, top tastes harsh, just below is acceptable thick vapor"

I can get the abv dark, even black at the top setting without combustion

I'm hitting it again super warmed up at noon, and its really nice big gentle clouds. The bent neck is really growing on me.

I love that I can hit it gentle, then turn up and its ready to finish in a minute tops.

I like the bigger pieces with the cloud. But, with that being said I cave it a run for it's money. On it's 3rd or 4th pull it easily clouds my 22" twin chamber Zob. Impressive? One might think so - in order to really test the perpetuheat system I ran my EVO on a recycler. A Burlie B, no chamber or any room for capacity, just a plain forced perc recycler.

You ready for this shit? I filled my bulb 14 times over before the vapor density started to show any sign of degradation. I ran it at 12 noon with some Cherry Pie on the drier side.

I would say that's impressive.

grokit said:

It sounds like it's just the units that run hot have the glass cracking issue, unless I'm mistaken.

Whew! My evo's definitely not running hot.
Mine seems to be running exactly like @SnidelyWhiplash's, above:

"I have to be at noon to see any vapor and 1:30 to 3 is the comfortable range, top tastes harsh, just below is acceptable thick vapor"

I can get the abv dark, even black at the top setting without combustion

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I didn't think mine was running hot. But from the sounds of it, maybe it was. I ran mine set around 11:00-11:30. Noon was too hot.

On it's way back for a tune up/repair.

I hope mine doesn't come with the cracked glass problem. I would have liked to receive it before christmas but now I just don't even care. I ordered at about the middle of the campaign but if it meant less problems I should have just waited until the very end.

grokit said:

It sounds like it's just the units that run hot have the glass cracking issue, unless I'm mistaken.

Whew! My evo's definitely not running hot.
Mine seems to be running exactly like @SnidelyWhiplash's, above:

"I have to be at noon to see any vapor and 1:30 to 3 is the comfortable range, top tastes harsh, just below is acceptable thick vapor"

I can get the abv dark, even black at the top setting without combustion

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Mine acts the same way, I noticed 3 o'clock made abv that looks milk chocolate brown, certainly not very black... I'll have to work up the courage to bump the temp up to max with flowers and see what happens

But your theory is sound: if VXH calibrated the units slightly colder at some point, that explains why the earliest units are more prone to combustion but also have better concentrate performance.

But is the new calibration 100% guaranteed to never crack the glass? We'll just have to wait and see...

IMO the cracking is not due to temperature, because some report having glass shards.

If it was because of thermodynamics it would have a more clean break without shards wouldn't it?

I think it is more likely that some suffered the cracks while in transit.

I have an early unit. It's #11 and mine does not run hot. I am in the same boat as many who find 11:00-3:00 on the dial to be the proper range for flowers.

Czechyourhead said:

I didn't think mine was running hot. But from the sounds of it, maybe it was. I ran mine set around 11:00-11:30. Noon was too hot.

On it's way back for a tune up/repair.

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Yes that's definitely hotter than mine.

Maybe there was a bit of inconsistency in the calibration of the early units?

edit: yeah @stonemonkey55 those two headliners should be good ones!

stonemonkey55 said:

...based on the cracked glass that we got back, these were from units that were running too hot with the heater wrapped extremely tightly around the glass. There was also an issue with the way the temperature was being measured that caused some units that were running at normal temperature to continue to get hotter and hotter. These issues have been identified and resolved...

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Awesome to hear you guys are on top of this!

My unit did seem to get hotter the longer it was on. I'd normally wait at least 10 minutes after green light. The more I think about it, I'd been hearing very slight glass cracking sounds the last couple days when the unit was cooling (turned off). Nothing too frequent . I assumed it was something inside expanding/retracting. (Or I was too medicated to realize that sound was bad).

I hear those sounds while cooling too. Almost like a ticking or something...but my bamboo is fine so far

So if a unit overheats, the glass could be trying to "over-expand" to compensate.

Yup, too much heat + too little room = cracks


I also hear ticking when warming up and cooling down, did the OG clouds tick even louder than this? lol

It's the same kind of ticking your engine does when you turn the car off after a long drive

I'm not too jazzed about these new developments. I joked about just buying a Lotus on the "other" thread, but...

I once again wonder how long my EVO will last, if I ever get it. My solo has been great but I'm now missing the bigger clouds and have to start thinking about buying another big hitter. My ticker didn't make it much past a year and now this...

I can't add anything to the bamboo issue but I have heard the ticking from time to time. Assumed that was something to do with the heater. I have yet to have any real issues as far as combusting or inconsistent heating (knock on wood). I'm not too worried either way. It's far and away the best experience for extracting THC I have ever experienced and I am capable to live without it if I were to have to send it away for repairs.

On another note, I received my case yesterday and it's exactly what I was looking for in terms of travel. However, whomever cut out the indentations for the pieces either just used an EVO effectively clouding their vision, or they didn't have the proper specs as far as the hydratube is concerned. Plus, no matter how I fold it, the cord won't fit anywhere. I dunno, maybe I'm just doing it wrong.

Unfortunately I received a unit yesterday that immediately started running hot/cracking, just saw a piece break off while heating up :-(
If anybody is hearing noise while it's heating up I'd make sure to investigate.

Dodzilla said:

Unfortunately I received a unit yesterday that immediately started running hot/cracking, just saw a piece break off while heating up :-(
If anybody is hearing noise while it's heating up I'd make sure to investigate.

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You're handling it better than I would have man, hang tough!

Welp... Good thing I waited to buy it.

stonemonkey55 said:

these were from units that were running too hot with the heater wrapped extremely tightly around the glass. There was also an issue with the way the temperature was being measured that caused some units that were running at normal temperature to continue to get hotter and hotter. These issues have been identified and resolved but this is why we did a slow roll out so that we could catch these things if they began appearing.

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Dodzilla said:

Unfortunately I received a unit yesterday that immediately started running hot/cracking, just saw a piece break off while heating up :-(

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I'd love to know exactly how this has been resolved? Have you changed to a new bamboo or just fixed the "heater" issues? What is going to happen to those who like to run our vapes at high temps? Will our bamboo crack down the road? As already stated, small sample size, but is there a 1:1 correlation between the broken heaters and broken bamboo. From users on FC, that doesnt seem to be the case? Has production stopped at this point to resolve the issue?

Are the bamboo wrapped that tightly where there is NO
play or give when heating up ?

edit ; nm I see SM55 response .

Haha, still pleasantly stoned from the last session on the Evo, at least it went out like a trooper :-)
It was briefly fantastic, if they get the issues ironed out it's a home run...

JoeKickass said:

You're handling it better than I would have man, hang tough!

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