good information! i never thought of using less water. i'll give that a try this morning. it will allow for more vapor in the device so the hits should be a bit bigger.Checked out your posts. Short answer below. But check it out if you are curious.
Since you are going back to the drawing board, There may be a best of both situation if you have something that cools slightly over a stretch of a long glass pathway. Cools it just enough to avoid a cough plus reclaiming the larger particles.
Another tangent is water molecules attaching themselves to the vapor as it passes through.
You were pondering whether to have a shorter pathway and cut the PVC in half. I have done that for my whip setup and I definitely had more throat. Cheap upgrade IMO.
I'm considering getting a claisen adapter to expand on this. An all glass pathway might provide some answers of getting the right temp and gas mix that doesn't exacerbate any scratchy throat. Better then say having the Zeus turning that effort into a block of ice.I'm sure there is something clever you can do with that thing. Did you get a sense they had a design in mind or did they send you a brick? I can see why you cut bait on that and decided to fish elsewhere.
Trying to seek that balance myself. My current water setup has a lot of inside volume after it passes through water. A simple 6 slit downstem with just enough water to have a water barrier for the stem to work. Not a lot of diffusion going on. But there is a mist being thrown around inside the bottle. If I draw at a certain speed the heavier vapor stays inside the glass and becomes thicker with each draw. I only cough when I get greedy or exhale at the end. Or when I clear it and get those extra blast at the end. There is always going to be an amount of loss with water. So I use just enough length of silicone hose to shorten the pathway going to the water piece to compensate more. And sometimes I will cut off an inch here or there to get that correct air flow. And save those strips for other projects.
You can just have a water piece to test the airflow with the fan with some dry runs and calibrate your setup. The elbow screen does restrict the airflow to an extent. (Another reason to go with the @DDave's btw.) I will hold the whip end to my ear sometimes to hear the airflow and that it feels good on my ears.
I gotta to say I got a a nice surprise, a (shock actually) as to how well The Arizer EQ worked with the Hydratube, it wasn't quite the EVO in terms of volume of vapor, but it certainly delivers, I would not hesitate to put the Arizer in the big league with the EVO (and Volcano/Mighty, etc) when coupled with a Hydratube. It may not be as 'extreme' as the EVO in terms of output volume, but the Arizer EQ is extreme in quality.
For those at the back (of the class);
To make this hook-up work, you need to get a double ended 18mm male glass adapter to insert into the Arizer EQ cyclone bowl and the other end (facing up) is where the Hydratube sits, its not as compact as the EVO but its a solid fit and incidentally there is none of that irritating whistle you can get with the EVO! I find that if you are careful then it works, it certainly puts the Arizer into the big league, and I mean the big league, yeah that,s right I'm talking the Premier League.
Before I forget, you have to use the elbow bowl in the adapter (facing down into the cyclone bowl) to ensure bits ain't going into the glass! BTW, the EQ elbow bowl also gives a nice blast when packed on it's own, as opposed to using the cyclone bowl to contain your herbs!
The main difference that I found between the two, was that, the EVO is just 'up front' with the delivery of vapor, whereas the Arizer EQ is more of 'a creeper' in its effect, but both are quality.
However, to be fair (to the EVO) I have not really put it through it's real test yet, as last night I was more in the "Hello John, got a new Vapor?" Mode! In other-words giddy as f**K! Wid me new tings!!
But all said and done, if you can't spring for the full EVO experience, and you already have an Arizer EQ, then buy the Hydratube and (using it with an adapter,) you won't be far off!
Not saying, just saying - without saying.
PS I gotta more detailed post about this, going on over in Vapexhale EVO
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I am doing a more in depth summary over in Vapexhale EVO 
Good description. Kind of how I envisioned the impact of both. Agreed that there are ways to get it closer to neo-EVO performance, or neo-Log for that matter. Nice setup with the tall hydratube @Justpassedu.
You at least know that it will work well cold. And If you break a water tool, well there is always the iceborn.
Addressing the initial problem.
Need some basic questions.
Hi guys, just after your thoughts on this AVB? Would you say this is finished?
I usually do a full elbow pack at 205-220C.
I only get about 1-2 long draws out of it.
I'm starting to think my temps are low?
What do you mean here by cut-out?
You might get slightly darker results if you elbow pack a little tighter and perhaps finer. Otherwise about the right color for your stock setup. Now it gets relative. The @DDave short bowl would get you closer to a mocha brown ABV at 200c, being that the herbs are closer to the heater. My special short bowl F/F setup will make any herbs dark mocha brown at 200C. Just saying that you can get better performance with 200c with other setups and/or tweaking what you have. Depending on the type of extraction you are going for.
Knew the EQ had something else more going on than the others.
Thanks for the comparisons.Do you mean the auto-shut off?
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just saying 
without saying
If I bump or move the cord too much, it will shut off also. Hopefully a safety feature. but IDK.I mean the auto shut-off, which (contrary to the advice above, I always thought it) kicked in (i.e. turned the appliance off) after 2hrs, up to a maximum of 4hrs.
To be honest, I was unaware of the incremental feature - ya learn something new every day
However, that was the main reason why I opted for the Volcano Digit, as opposed to the Classic, as I didn't fancy the idea of it being left on 24/7, and burning out components needlessly! I think out of the Big Three: EVO, Volcano and the Arizer, I feel that the EQ has got it absolutely spot on with this aspect of temperature control, i.e. the shut off feature.
Not saying,
Have a nice day -all Vapesta's worldwide
I was ripping monster single hit extractions but have been burning up too much weed too easily (1.5-2g a night). The EQ was really my weekend warrior & still can be under the right circumstances especially north of 220c.