Just bought a ff at lhs. I'm quite disapointed. I've previously owned pax, pax knock off, mflb, airizer solo, volcano digital, herb iron vape attach, dbv, DaVinci ascent, indica v1. A few life changes caused me to lose my vapes and go back to combustion. Staring at blunt today and coughing shit up I decided it was time to buy a vape again. I decided to go firefly for convection factor. I've been hitting it more or less like my old launch box but the vapor is lacking. I'm grinding Finley, using good indoor grown materials. I've read through the best of thread and tried using some technique tips but to no success. I'm only on my 3rd bowl. Maybe I'm expecting more then I shold because of the steep price?
well first off you dont want a fine grind, second off you dont want to hit it like your launch box... So yea you wont be getting any good vapor. When you pack it you will want a medium grind that is not packed, just put enough in there so its flush with the vape and then add a little mound on top of that so it pops out of the bowl a little bit, but do not pack it down.
A trick I learned was to hold the button so it flashes 3 times and then start inhaling fast enough where you feel resistance but not too fast where you are really forcing it. Inhale for a while and then see if you get vapor, the second time I hit it Ill watch the light flash twice and then start inhaling doing the same time, and for every hit after that you can pretty much just hold it and start inhaling right away or wait for 1 flash on the indicator.
Pack dense. Hold the button for a four count. Draw steady, up to the resistance point. Hold the button down for the full 30 seconds and keep drawing after you release.
That help at all?
Youre not supposed to pack it dense at all, its reccomended that you pack a light medium grind bowl. Packing it dense will just restrict more airflow and create more room for error with over vaping the herb.
Here is some great help I got from a reviewer named VaporizerWizard who really helped me nail the technique.
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"I prefer a coarse grind with my Firefly. I have around a half dozen grinders and my santa cruz shredder produces the most chunky coarse grind and seems to work the best. If you check out
my firefly video (it will skip to 2:33) you can see how full I like to pack my bowls.
With packing it, don't rally smash it down, gently push it into the bowl, and leave a slight mound on it
Then when you use the vape: For the first draw, when the firefly is completely cold and not warmed up. I preheat about 4-6 seconds, so turn it on, hold down the heat trigger, count to 4-6, and then start drawing without ever letting off the trigger.
Now for draw speed, The easiest way I found to explain the perfect draw speed is to have you draw harder and harder until you feel draw resistance, then back off a bit. Now all you do is just take long slow inhales until either the 30s heat timer shuts off, or your lungs are too full.
Also long slow deep inhales are best. lets say you preheat for 6 seconds for the first hit, that means you get 24 secs left to draw (30 second heat timer), I usually have a pretty solid cloud on the first hit, but draw 2 and 3 are wicked, no preheat needed, just hit the trigger and start drawing. Once you get used to that draw, you can get incredible flavor, and you can get monster clouds if you want. You don't always have to go for monster clouds too, sometimes I prefer to take a dozen of smaller draws, rather than than 5 long draws.
Some people like to preheat, let off the trigger, and re-start the heating cycle again as they start to draw. In my experience this greatly reduces the consistency, and it also seems to go through my battery noticeably faster"
...haven't used all the vapes you mentioned...but of all the vapes I have, including desktops, the FF has, by a mile, the smoothest, coolest, tastiest, most natural flavor. Taste is the FF's true wheelhouse...it blows away the Solo flavor, in my opinion anyway. YMMV and all that, but for me, the FF is the flavor king. At our house, FF stands for Fantastic Flavor.
