Thinking about picking one up as well, it's just so cheap for what by all accounts should be a very capable performer. I'll mostly be using it for when I go walking the dog stuff like that. I read some comments about the bowl being hard to clean though?
Where did you read that? No, no the bowl isn't difficult to clean if, like others said, you empty it right after the session while still hot and a q-tip to remove the last bits. Maybe you confused with the vaporpath in the mouthpiece... not very difficult but I agree it's better to do it in a regular basis to avoid too much build-up reduces the airflow.
Got the V3 Pro late yesterday. I'll put together a full review once we work through the usual new vape steps. In the meantime....
We're currently working through the burn-offs. Max temp, 6 minute timer and constant mouth-pumping. Can definitely get the vape and the standard mouthpiece hot this way but not so hot that its unusable which is impressive considering how I deliberately set out to heat stress it. There was, as others have mentioned, the usual new electronics smell that was very minor to start off with and after 2 max temp burn-offs was no longer noticeable.
Next we set out to do another two max temp burn-offs using the WPA. Right from the start there was "a chemical" taste/smell. After the second burn-off the taste/smell was still just as strong so we set the WPA aside until we can cure the WPA. We put the original mouthpiece back on and did another set of max temp mouth pumps as a back-check and the WPA smell/taste was faintly there and looks to have transferred. By the end of the burn-off the smell/taste was gone again. Anyone else run into this with the WPA and if/so what did you do fix it? Is it the silicone?
I'll hold off using flower until I can cure the WPA because I don't want to mask the issue.
Wow, that's a lot of burn-offs! I would recommand to start with a whole cleaning of the bowl and vaporpath with q-tip and ISO, and with Q-Tip and distilled water and finally one burn-off, no need for more cause only the heating wires are heating up when the device is powered on unlike for a conduction designed vape where you have a whole ceramic/stainless steel bowl to heat-up. With the V3Pro the idea isn't to heat-up the bowl but the content of the bowl. Although I can understand everybodyelse sensitivity to be pretty different about smells/odors.
On a different nore, Xmax recently asked me to try their new dosing capsules:
They are:
● 304 Food Grade stainless steel
● Dimensions: 10.7mm*10.8mm
● Capsule capacity: 0.1-0.15g
I don't use dosing capsules and don't have a requirement for them, but I can see the attraction for some. There's been discussion here about using screens to minimize or prevent any material from dropping through onto the heater. These would certainly help with that.
Of course they are also convenient if you want to pack along a couple of quick-change loads when you're out and about. I did my best to shake loose the caps and couldn't dislodge them, although I haven't yet carried one around in my pocket. I expect they will pass that test.
When I first inserted one I had a little trouble removing it from the V3 Pro, but after the first use it dumped out easily. It could have been that individual capsule. My problem with them is probably obvious: they rob heat and so I had to increase my temperatures. That's not a huge deal unless you really need max temp all the time. I didn't notice much change in draw resistance but I didn't actually test for that. They do make cleaning much simpler, although I wasn't having issues with that.
Thank you for sharing about our dosing caps, I'm not a fan of dosing caps myself but I adopted them when I'm out of the home, in term of convenience that's definitively the best!
About size, we designed this capsules to avoid an issue related to dosing caps, if not wide enough it may happen some hot air bypass the load going beween the bowl's wall and the dosing caps wall. please, clean your bowl as well as possible before to use the dosing caps to avoid they stuck in the bowl.
These look a lot like the POTV One dosing capsules that I use in my V3Pro. I like the POTV One capsules because the fit perfectly in the oven, reduce the size of the load to a single-session amount (for me), don't affect vapor production too much, and keep everything cleaner. My ABV is definitely lighter than without the capsules, but I still get 1 big, 1 medium, and one small hit from a single capsule.
I agree they look pretty similar but they aren't exactly the same, top lid is different and, the most important, they are wider than the ones you are speaking about, this is means less (no?) air bypass the load going through the bowl's wall and the cap's wall. So you can expect to get a darker abv out of our dosing caps!
First I have to clarify I'm talking about the "Glass" WPA not the all silicone version.
I did a simple "deep clean" as described in the instruction manual followed by a soak in some hot soapy water and a final water rinse and dry. I only cleaned the glass WPA because burn-off/testing of the unit and regular mouthpiece went well. I was pleasantly surprised at how easy the WPA came apart and how easy it went back together. A 6 minute max temp burn-off while constantly mouth pumping proved the smell/taste issue was gone.
Maiden voyage....Filled it with flower and used it without water for the first two hits and then used it inverted with a D020-D bubbler and a 14mm adapter. My wife said she is very happy with it. I am too.
I owned 2 Xmax V2 pros and one is still in working order.....it sure has come a long way.
Aah that's good to know! I'm so glad you are finally happy with your V3Pro, it's very different than its big brother the V2Pro, the V2Pro is probably the older portable battery powered vaporizer still manufactured (and with pretty good sales rate too!) and one I continue to enjoy, especially since I made a custom wood mp in order to reduce its size.
I've been testing these as well and I agree with pretty much everything Pak said. I also have trouble getting the capsule out if the chamber is even a little bit dirty.
My main gripe is the delay in vapor production during a session. It takes me 5 hard pulls to get equivalent vapor that a capsule-less load puts out on my second pull. Even when bumping temps to compensate, the delay persists.
To be fair, my opinion may be due to the fact that I'm not a fan of capsules in general and that might be apparent by my lack of enthusiam for these capsules in particular. They simply rob too much heat from the herb to be practical IMHO.
About the caps remove I replied to Pak about why we made it to fit so tight, keep your bowl pretty clean before to insert the caps.
About the vapor production, yes you need to let the device/heater to heat soak a little after it reached the selected T° take looong puffs in order to heat soak the load and capsule, as well to load a little only helps to fasten the vapor production... using that technic I can get hits which are approximatively 80% of the size of the ones I have without, so yes there is a little loss in cloudage but a a few more hits to take.... and a huge convenience gain when vaping outdoors.
PLEASE, BEFORE TO USE THE DOSING CAPS TRY TO CLEAN YOUR BOWL AS WELL AS POSSIBLE TO AVOID DOSING CAPS TO BE STUCK IN THE BOWL, WHEN IT'S CLEAN THE DOSING CAP SLIDE OUT OF THE BOWL BY ITSELF!
. You missed mums day? Xmax V3 pro might be what she needs xD
) wish me luck, seems this thing requires powerful suck 
