Since my temp sensor mishaps, I've had to spend time recalibrating my Supreme technique and I think I've finally settled it.
NOTE TO NEW OWNERS: Make sure your sensor probe is tucked away tightly under the silicon sleeve or your temperature readout could be wildly inaccurate and misguiding. (Or maybe I'm just an idiot, it's possible and even likely)
I was wondering before why I was getting better results with what seemed like lower temperatures than I typically preferred. It seems my readings were about 15c too low because of the loose sensor.
It would also take way too long to heat up and cooled down much faster than other people's reports of heat retention should have allowed. I should have suspected much sooner that something wasn't right.
As a result, I was getting good effects, but skirting the line of combustion much closer than I like or realized. When the sensor came completely loose, I did combust because my readout was waaaaay too low and I was too medicated to notice. It's a nasty experience as we all know.
I now have the sensor firmly tucked (albeit with some scratches and marks now on my metal tube underneath) but still check it often before use when I remember to.
Now I heat up to 170-175, then insert and wait until the visible vapor starts to emanate, then put it on the WT and draw. I'm getting more draws then before with the super high temp, about 4 good sized ones total per 3/4 full chamber of unground bud pluckings that are just stuffed into the hole. ABV is less dark as well, but still appears fully spent.
Hope to hear back from Ed soon, my makeshift screen is ok, but I have to use a tool to scoop the herb out and then blow the remainder to empty and I prefer to "pull the tail out" of the stock screen. It is SO dry in the tube after a use, it really grabs everything and puts it into the vapor, it's truly enlightening, you can even tell this from the oily coating of my Claisen, it just looks very pure, almost as if enriched (minus some debris, which I will filter out when reclaiming).
