Salutations Dr.Dabber,
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4. Thermal mass of the heating element can be precisely controlled.
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12. Heating element are easily replaced or changed as needed by different applications
13. Heating elements can be optimized for a specific application.
14. Heating elements can be quickly removed to prevent unwanted heat soak into surrounding components.
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About the convective + radiative heating of a cannabic bowl, with some complementary conductive component, i'd strongly suggest exploring the integration of Curie alloys to items #4, #12 and #13; as for item #14 i believe there's a much more appropriate/convenient solution to "Heat Soaking" (or not) and that's to implement a "solid-state" airflow-actuated heat-valve.
For example, if i may:
That's how i personally con
ceive the "
Shortest Path of Least Transformation". When idle the cannabic bowl would be partly isolated from radiative heat temporarily stored in a core's metal disc, with no convective component until inhalation begins, at which time the Top-of-Bowl separated by a Brass Screen shield is suddenly heat-soaked, exactly. No moving parts required.
As a bonus surrounding materials can have their specifications relaxed provided the "Heat Charge" matches the workload closely enough (wasting energy is a bad habit anyway!); once a toke got extracted residual heat in the core shall deplete rapidly, or even almost instantly if "PinHoles" (
P1/
P2) allow the Top-of-Bowl area to be cooled off directly with minimal distance and delay.
That later point seems essential in the exploration of alternative consumption methods beyond the reach of conventional slow "
Hot Dry Air Ovenizers"... After all it can be tricky attempting to offer satisfying aroma/taste appreciation from a few tokes which only cost approximately 20 mg each from a ~125 mg bowl for crispy-dry flowers.
Good day, have fun!!
) Now moving on to the heat up time. The unit recognizes how hot the nail is if the first heat up time took between 3-6 seconds depending on temperature, you can expect the next persons heat up time to be 2 seconds or under!
. Just pulled the f'n trigger. I can't for some 
