Right on bro I feel you --- I too was stoked on the Volcano's unique capture and inhale at will process until I was disappointed first by the fact that it had an aluminum heating core (wrong, WRONG, wrong polarity for terpene expression) given the price point, and after using it at a "Cup" type event even with running the vapor through water I ended up with a tore up throat. It is really dry! I'm hunching this has alot to do with the aluminum core that polarizes the air you're inhaling and the fact that more air than is needed is pushing the vapor through. And because their extraction chamber is straight bore the flavor is in the first couple of balloons (terpenes releasing first at lower temps) and by the time you get to the condensed goods it had greatly diminished --- I admit I'm always seeking flavor country and anything less is, well, less satisfying!
Vrip went on to develop a Valloon glass vapor balloon extraction and delivery system that isn't as easy to use as the Volcano valve-set for sure, but gives you some of the multi-user or lazy user (Ha you know who you are!!!) benefits of the Volcano with a much higher quality of vapor and water/ice conditioning compaitibility as it has a down stem option to go straight to most water pipes or bubblers.
I also have an Aromed in the collection from years ago --- I was stoked on the medical professional design and the glass heating surface (although the housing around the bulb isn't glass and the vapor path isn't glass), but in all honesty besides those drawbacks I just could never get a real good extraction and inhalation out of it...after using the original Vrip HG it was hard to get satisifed with such small and wispy (relative) inhalations and the fact that it wasn't compatible wtih any of my functional glass pieces I had acquired over the years sort of sucked too! What ever happened to them? Aromed still around? Did they ever improve their unit or develop other products? I loved the bulb heat source approach!
The Ehle you've picked out looks great --- I'm assuming the size is in the 12"-15" range from the pic --- it does look alot like the RooR IceMaster which as the guy doing the stunts for the videos I can assure you works GREAT if large nicely conditioned inhalations are the goal (downside is you need to take a fairly long primer pull to get it going because it is like 18", but no big deal for healthy lungs). Vrip has always advocated water/ice moisture conditioning and cooling for vapor because the tiny amount of actives you lose running vapor through water (compared to smoke) is more than justified by how much easier it is on the tracheobronchial tree. Warm and dry vapor will still irritate and do damage --- skeleton in the closet of many vapor afficionados, but the truth. Crushed ice or snow is even better than cubes if possible, plus it takes up air volume in the tube for more immediate vapor and minimized oxidation!
Smaller pieces and bubblers are great for ease of use and not needing to use a primer pull to get it flowing due to the small air volume, but generally don't moisture condition and cool as well as a good tube like the RooR or Ehle. That said I've used some pretty insane bubblers and smaller tubes with various perks, diffusers, and now turbines that have made up for the lack of size with some tricky tech --- downside is the tech tends to be a bit expensive because of how trick the required glass blowing. Beauty of the Vrip technique is that you can move it around and use it with different pieces to suit your preferences, mood or occasion (just please clean it good first if it had been smoked through previously). The RooR I used in the video is a model favored by many of our old school customers that have transitioned from the HG to the VHW over the years because it is simple, durable and highly effective. Something to be said about simple, durable and effective and it looks like that Ehle is just that...let us know what you think when you get dialed in on it.
Vrip went on to develop a Valloon glass vapor balloon extraction and delivery system that isn't as easy to use as the Volcano valve-set for sure, but gives you some of the multi-user or lazy user (Ha you know who you are!!!) benefits of the Volcano with a much higher quality of vapor and water/ice conditioning compaitibility as it has a down stem option to go straight to most water pipes or bubblers.
I also have an Aromed in the collection from years ago --- I was stoked on the medical professional design and the glass heating surface (although the housing around the bulb isn't glass and the vapor path isn't glass), but in all honesty besides those drawbacks I just could never get a real good extraction and inhalation out of it...after using the original Vrip HG it was hard to get satisifed with such small and wispy (relative) inhalations and the fact that it wasn't compatible wtih any of my functional glass pieces I had acquired over the years sort of sucked too! What ever happened to them? Aromed still around? Did they ever improve their unit or develop other products? I loved the bulb heat source approach!
The Ehle you've picked out looks great --- I'm assuming the size is in the 12"-15" range from the pic --- it does look alot like the RooR IceMaster which as the guy doing the stunts for the videos I can assure you works GREAT if large nicely conditioned inhalations are the goal (downside is you need to take a fairly long primer pull to get it going because it is like 18", but no big deal for healthy lungs). Vrip has always advocated water/ice moisture conditioning and cooling for vapor because the tiny amount of actives you lose running vapor through water (compared to smoke) is more than justified by how much easier it is on the tracheobronchial tree. Warm and dry vapor will still irritate and do damage --- skeleton in the closet of many vapor afficionados, but the truth. Crushed ice or snow is even better than cubes if possible, plus it takes up air volume in the tube for more immediate vapor and minimized oxidation!
Smaller pieces and bubblers are great for ease of use and not needing to use a primer pull to get it flowing due to the small air volume, but generally don't moisture condition and cool as well as a good tube like the RooR or Ehle. That said I've used some pretty insane bubblers and smaller tubes with various perks, diffusers, and now turbines that have made up for the lack of size with some tricky tech --- downside is the tech tends to be a bit expensive because of how trick the required glass blowing. Beauty of the Vrip technique is that you can move it around and use it with different pieces to suit your preferences, mood or occasion (just please clean it good first if it had been smoked through previously). The RooR I used in the video is a model favored by many of our old school customers that have transitioned from the HG to the VHW over the years because it is simple, durable and highly effective. Something to be said about simple, durable and effective and it looks like that Ehle is just that...let us know what you think when you get dialed in on it.
thanks for the prompt reply, guess I got lucky you had the site open. Thanks for bringing up the refund issue right away as money is TIGHT. My wand was getting a little erratic with the temps before it died so that makes sense (would get super hot even on the lower temps) ok so, once I receive the heating element I will package it with my vhw 3.0 minus the glass cover and then ship it to the foster city addy. The tech there will then fix it and test it and if all is well ship it right back to me, correct? if it's not the element and it's the board you'll hook it up and apply the heating element service with the bro upgrade, correct? Sounds good.. Im hoping this element gets here soon. Ugh, this sucks with no vape 
... feels like a part of me is missing :sigh:
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