E-Nano from Epickai

As soon as the KOA (or another dark exotic that pulls me ) is up for sale... I'm 'IN' like sin

I'm having better success getting big rips and better extraction. Using the 'nano with my Dozo, have moved the domed screen in maybe 1/8" from the bottom, ground herbs and temp of 7. Letting it heat for a few minutes, till the whole unit is warm. This is an amazing vape!

Good to hear the vote of confidence @biohacker. I am just waiting to see which exotic woods are coming up.

Day 5 with my new ENano and I'm loveing the flavor that I never had with any of my other units. I'm enjoying the massive clouds I never got either!!! I have a mini bubbler and the pnwt but havent tried those yet since im digging the stem so much...lol..I'm really in love

Reflections said:

Day 5 with my new ENano and I'm loving the flavor that I never had with any of my other units. I'm enjoying the massive clouds I never got either!!! I have a mini bubbler and the pnwt but haven't tried those yet since I'm digging the stem so much...lol..I'm really in love

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I couldn't get the PNWT to work as good as a cheap bubbler or ash collector set ups?
For me the PNWT is for their own device not others. Maybe it's just me?

The NANO is a great tasting vaporizer. (plenty of power as well)
I was going to get a more expensive unit however why?

Reflections: I highly suggest trying the enano through a water path at least once it is such a rewarding,intense,full experience that never seems to lose that wow feeling even after many many many many many uses.

I plan on it Mrmrmrmrmr!

Just got off the phone with the extremely helpful Andy. I am doing a voltage test now to see whether I've cooked my heater or my dimmer switch!

Can't wait to have this working properly! Damn that 240v travel adapter! Even though my unit doesn't seem to be able to get hot enough, if I leave it on setting 10 I do get light cloudage and light-mid brown AVB. This thing is definitely capable of generating unparalleled clouds!

hope you get it sorted out herbibvore21 I'm walking in the clouds with mine...

herbivore21 said:

Just got off the phone with the extremely helpful Andy. I am doing a voltage test now to see whether I've cooked my heater or my dimmer switch!

Can't wait to have this working properly! Damn that 240v travel adapter! Even though my unit doesn't seem to be able to get hot enough, if I leave it on setting 10 I do get light cloudage and light-mid brown AVB. This thing is definitely capable of generating unparalleled clouds!

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Isn't there guy's with pockets full of pencils and a band-aid supporting their broken glasses? Make the NANO 220?
This is an amazing vaporizer.
The whole world needs one!

Ataxian, you are spot on - I would love a 220v model. Will report back with what I've overloaded and made act funny soon. We are down to either the dimmer or the heater. I am thinking the dimmer is more likely.

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Ataxian, you are spot on - I would love a 220v model. Will report back with what I've overloaded and made act funny soon. We are down to either the dimmer or the heater. I am thinking the dimmer is more likely.

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If it's just the dimmer?
Simple!

Good luck mate!

Nope, looking like the heater. Funnily enough, installing a new heater would be a hell of a lot easier than the dimmer (heater replacement will require no soldering, it is just held in with high end RoHS certified closed end crimp terminals).

Voltage coming through my dimmer is 118.5v AC on level 1 and 122v AC on level 10. That seems to be about right, given that we are varying between quite low wattages (15w draw at level 10 is max, according to Andy). Remember, voltage times amperes equals wattage.

That suck @herbivore21 hope you get it up and going again.

I'm sure I will, just need to get Andy's opinion on my voltage findings out of the dimmer and see whether he agrees that this is pointing to the heater as the issue. We have it down to one of two components really, unless I go whole hog and replace all the cabling. The unit really only have the wires in the bottom of the main unit (the section isolated from the vapor path), the dimmer switch (which is all one unit), the main power cable itself and the ceramic heater. Those are the only parts that could be damaged. I have fix a burned out terminal in the bottom of the main unit and removed a damaged piece of wire from the 240v load. This does indicate that the 240v did travel up and cause damage past the dimmer though. I think these bits of evidence suggest that I have a cooked heater.

Here's an E-Nano Teardown pic.

Note the Dimmer/power cord (on left), ceramic heater (white piece in the middle), LED (to the right of the heater), Black bottom cover (to the right of LED), Main wood/stainless steel assembly (hole here is filled with ceramic plug on the bottom of the heater, keeping wires separate from vapor path). The little white top-hat looking thing at the bottom is one of the closed end 10A crimp terminals to join the power, LED and heater wires together. This is truly the zippo of vaporizers. Really follows the scientific principle of parsimony (that the simplest design to address the desired function is best, see Occam's Razor for all those budding herb philosophers with some time to kill) in the design. Well done Andy!

Well, today was a damn good day in my world Down Under for mail delivery.
Got my awesome Persei kit I bought from @Sleepin in CA, and much to my surprise also got
my Purple Heart E-nano quite a bit quicker than I expected for USPS First Class... w00t

Initial quick impressions: wow is this thing a beauty... the deep purple is so nice, but definitely hard to get a good photo of! I've already tried a couple and they simply do not do the thing justice. Gonna try some more later.

It's a very well made and solid unit.
Plugged straight into my trusty 100w isolated transformer and we're golden.
Set it to 10 and let it warm up for about 10min... very warm to the touch. Turned it back down to 7.5 and prepared my Adjust-a-Bowl gong with basket about halfway down. Threw in a pinch of ground flower (I never weigh, sorry), tossed it in the Mobius ION matrix and wow... very nice. I was very impressed with the flavour straight away. Two good hits, big clouds and it's cashed. ABV to a chocolate brown, not quite as dark as I am used to with the Cloud+ but it was only my first go. So much to play with, screen distance + temp etc... it'll be fun getting my sweet spot dialled in.

Couldn't wait to also try convection dabs ala our friend @Caligula
So, power up to 10 to further heat while I prepared the dab.
Using some organic cotton I wrapped up the piece of shatter and placed into
another GonG with the basket placed so the cotton wad sits right under the heater.
Using my little 6" heady Colie recycler this time... WOW welcome to my world convection dabs.
Sooooooooooooooooooo smooth! I can't see the vapor on this piece so as I was inhaling I was thinking WTF is this working but then on exhale... whoa, like whoa, it's definitely working.
Now I had done some previously with the Cloud, but never felt I like I was getting full extraction from the concentrate... it never inspired me to grab the Cloud over the torch.
I think the E-nano just might do that....

The only thing I can gripe about are the GonGs.
One of the all-glass Gongs I received is so restrictive that I can literally use it as a whistle, not that it matters how restrictive it is because it simply will not fit onto the E-Nano heater no matter how much turning I do. It's a dud.
The other all-glass Gong I received is troublesome to insert the heater into. It works but I have to twist and turn the E-nano quite a bit until it finds that 'magical' spot where it slides in. Of course removing it is the same.
The Adjust-a-Bowl gong I received has no such issues and works very well.

These were supposed to be quick impressions... lol... sorry.
I'm sure I'll have even more things to share about this awesome little vape!

I forgot to mention it's size... so wonderfully small! As a Cloud user it's so damn refreshing.
I can actually comfortably use the E-nano on my little recycler which I cannot do with the Cloud.

I am a VERY happy new E-nano owner.
My wife is another very happy user... her first E-nano convection dab was followed by 'Ooohhhhhhh wow.. Ohhhhhhh thats niccce!'. I doubt she'll ever reach for another vape again. lol

And thank you @ACE OF VAPE for the great customer service.

Are you a fellow Aussie @canj00digit? ?

I can't wait to have a new heater in my unit and start really enjoying it. I think it is best not to continue using it til Andy has read my emails and we have determined what the issue is. Back to combustion for me. Too bad! Just as well I need to order a new GonG anyway (I dropped mine when it was too hot yesterday), hopefully I can get whichever part I need sent out with the replacement.

The adjust-a-bowl gong in my one day of usage before I dropped it is fantastic. Very low herb usage (I'm sure this has something to do with the 14mm diameter), very significant clouds, even with my damaged and not as hot unit (which leaves AVB a mid brown at the darkest). I would seriously recommend it to any Nano user who is after a new GonG. I think this is going to be my main driver alongside the Nano, once my unit is fixed!

@canj00digit? Im glad you like convection dabbing! Ill never go back to using a nail...

Anyway I wanted to say you should try a lower heat level if you have your cotton wad that close to the heater. Im not concerned with combusting the cotton however I noticed it can singe just a little and in any case, I also find slightly lower temps net even tastier hits.

If youre as close to the heating element as im imagining id say you should try setting the dial to 8.5 or so and give it a whirl.

You'll also find different concentrates vape better at different temps/distances just like bud.

Oh and of you have a VXC mouthpiece you can attach that to an 18mm (or a 14mm with the proper reducer) Nano gong and use it as a dry stem. The added distance and glass smooth hits out quite a bit over a stock stem.

For Aussies or Europeans who are interested, (and only after I have fixed my E-Nano to proper working order with stock parts) I am thinking of discussing with Andy about which parts would need to be changed to convert the E-Nano to 220v.

I can see that 220v cartridge heaters of the same size (2" height by 1/4" diameter) are readily available. We would presumably need to calculate the relative wattage to get the same heat out of a 220v cartridge as we get out of the standard 120V E-Nano cartridge. However, from my brief looking at different heater cartridges, most seem to have a 220V and 120V version, so we could hopefully use the tried and true 220V version of the same heater!

My dimmer seems to be operating perfectly, and appears according to Zing Ear (manufacturer) to be rated to work with 220v (however we need to confirm that there aren't separate 120V and 220V models). I am unsure about the LED having any issues with 220v, it did seem to work just fine the limited time I had it running, but these are the only electronic components in the device. Aside from this, obviously the cable would need to be replaced.

For those interested, the number of Amps that should be drawn to power the standard unit at setting 10 should be just about 0.12295A, down to 5 decimal places (15w max/120VAC). This could help anyone who has a multimeter, but not a kill-a-watt to measure the draw of their unit.

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Are you a fellow Aussie @canj00digit? ?

I can't wait to have a new heater in my unit and start really enjoying it. I think it is best not to continue using it til Andy has read my emails and we have determined what the issue is. Back to combustion for me. Too bad! Just as well I need to order a new GonG anyway (I dropped mine when it was too hot yesterday), hopefully I can get whichever part I need sent out with the replacement.

The adjust-a-bowl gong in my one day of usage before I dropped it is fantastic. Very low herb usage (I'm sure this has something to do with the 14mm diameter), very significant clouds, even with my damaged and not as hot unit (which leaves AVB a mid brown at the darkest). I would seriously recommend it to any Nano user who is after a new GonG. I think this is going to be my main driver alongside the Nano, once my unit is fixed!

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I'm a reformed Seppo
Been in Oz many years though.

Hopefully you and Andy get it sorted quickly... you're certainly going to fall even more in love with it once you're able to use it without the current issues you're experiencing. I'm pretty damn impressed with it I must say. Even more than I was when I typed my previous post. lol.

Wow, shit, that was a good hit I just took after that previous paragraph... eheh

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@canj00digit? Im glad you like convection dabbing! Ill never go back to using a nail...

Anyway I wanted to say you should try a lower heat level if you have your cotton wad that close to the heater. Im not concerned with combusting the cotton however I noticed it can singe just a little and in any case, I also find slightly lower temps net even tastier hits.

If youre as close to the heating element as im imagining id say you should try setting the dial to 8.5 or so and give it a whirl.

You'll also find different concentrates vape better at different temps/distances just like bud.

Oh and of you have a VXC mouthpiece you can attach that to an 18mm (or a 14mm with the proper reducer) Nano gong and use it as a dry stem. The added distance and glass smooth hits out quite a bit over a stock stem.

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Thanks man. And thanks for your vids and E-nano pimpin' cause it was definitely a factor in my decision to join the family... and man am I glad I did. I just paused and stared at it just then... it's so cute and small and seksi *glares at the hulking Cloud+ on the shelf*

Yeah, you're right, I forgot to mention it in my post but I learned after my first convection dab to lower the basket a hair and drop the temp a bit to 9... on that first one at 10 I did get a bit of singing at the end of the first dab. At 9, and with the basket a bit lower, it was all good. But I think I will try even lower temp for better flavor like you suggest.
I've also got some 316L stainless steel fine wool to try as a medium.

Thanks for the tips man

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I'm a reformed Seppo
Been in Oz many years though.

Hopefully you and Andy get it sorted quickly... you're certainly going to fall even more in love with it once you're able to use it without the current issues you're experiencing. I'm pretty damn impressed with it I must say. Even more than I was when I typed my previous post. lol.

Wow, shit, that was a good hit I just took after that previous paragraph... eheh

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Man, I love the unit already, shame I have to combust at the moment, since my unit is awaiting a replacement heater (Pending Andy's judgment that this is the part that is faulty, given the measurements I have sent him), but this is my own fault. Just wish that Travel Adapter (no stepdown) wouldn't have fit the plug from the E-Nano, I would have never been able to make the mistake.

Oh well, you live and you learn, now hopefully @ACE OF VAPE and I can isolate the problem quickly, I can place an order for another amazing GonG and get the required replacement part with it (probably with express postage again, if it is not too pricey). Then you guys will have to put up with the bad typing and double-posting that follows from me having a fully functioning Nano. (Kidding mods, I would hate to give you more merging posts to do than I already have!)

I think that apart from grabbing a Lotus and selling my PNP (now that I got a custom GonG for it, I realise I can't justify owning a high end portable given my mostly at home usage!), I won't ever see the need to buy another vape again! Cheers again to everyone in this thread who pointed me towards the Nano and to Andy for making the only vape I'll ever need at home

@canj00digit? A note of caution about going too low in temp. I found you can strip all of the flavor before the vapor quits. Not very satisfying IMO. I get this at temps below 8.

I noticed that when I used my damaged cool-running (Jamaica has a bobsled team!) E-Nano at low heat settings, flavour gets sucked out before there is any real vapor production. I found this on the lowest setting with my PNP, I preferred to put it to the preferred setting or one setting below straight away to ensure the vapor and taste come in together - let them fight with each other over entry into my lungs, I say!

Sounds about right. On average, the terpines (aeromatics) volitolize at lower temps than the rest of the active compounds, and inversely large visible vapor is produced at higher temps.

If you really want to blow your mind try vaping only at low temps then wait 15 minutes or so. I bet you get an interesting head change especially with sativas.

That being said canjoo and I were talking about concentrates. Not that this doesnt also apply to those.

God im lit right now...

you are giving me the envy. I am fighting the urge to reassemble my nano and use it damaged or not. However, i am doing well to wait til i hear from Andy and fix my Nano before pushing my luck like that! Joint number 5 is on the way. Combusting just isn't the same!