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Not AFAIK, but then again why does that matter? It's a heater, you put current through it, it gets hot. It has resistance, so it heats. If it changes resistance a bit (1/4% per degree C is typical of common metals), that doesn't really matter either as that will simply be compensated for by...

If you go back and check, you'll find that chart was for a specific gauge (size) of wire? In such cases the power is often graphed against current (in defference to materials with 'funny' temperature/resistance changes) but that, in turn is based on the power equation from Ohm's law. That is...

True enough, but a bit awkward? Since PWM does indeed reduce the current (basically 'full blast' times the percentage of on time) and the resistance doesn't change that means the effective voltage is lower......Ohm's law is a law, always in effect. To find the actual power (in Watts) you need...

It's obviously not necessary to compensate for a degrading battery voltage if the original doesn't? All that happens is the duty cycle changes (the heater is on more seconds per minute as the battery, and therefore power, degrades). If you want to make it stable, it's easy enough to do. Just...

You might consider as a starting point Solo I which I think uses the same heater/sensor. First thing I'd do is drop the heater voltage back to what happens from a nominal 7.4 Volt battery. Running it at higher voltage also runs up the current meaning the power (product of current and voltage)...

Yer welcome, enjoy the journey. Hard to argue with getting all the THC you put in back and safely into your body. 100% efficiency would be getting it all out in usable form, WRT time? You can get a handle on extraction by following the color and weight changes. As it vapes away, the herb...

It's a conduction vape, it depends on physical contact to conduct heat into the load. So, within reason, tighter packing gets better contact and a bit more herb in. Both of which improve production. A couple of tests should help you get a handle on it? Try loading two stems, one tighter than...

Who's to say what normal is these days? It's common enough, but not the only way to address this. Different techniques could give different results. The certainly do for at least some of us? Consider how the system works. Heat is generated in the heater and is replaced by more heat (from...

Some do, folks will do most anything, but from a battery lifespan ('how long will it last' as opposed to 'how many sessions per charge') it not really a good idea from two different perspectives. First it keeps 100% charge on it full time, the worst thing you can do, really. Notice how it came...

It might, but so what? The floor is at 390F (or whatever you set it for) so there's no chance of combustion. All that happens is that part of the load vapes first. Many make a special effort to make sure no herb can touch the surface for whatever reason, but it's surely not necessary. This...

Very impressive test, kudos! Always good to test/confirm such things, you never know what you might find if you remain observant and objective. While, with enough effort, it might be possible I just can't see it being practical. Thanks very much for the information. OF

A couple worth trying. First off there's no real need to exhaust the load, you can pull the stem out and draw a false hit through it to quickly cool it below 'magic temperature' then, next time, you can put it back in and continue to work on it. The flavor will be mostly gone, of course, but...

Your unit is new? Count on it to loosen over time. Many new ones need to be heated to make the seals (3 'bumps' you feel inserting the stem) soft at first. With use, they will change. There was, I think, some discussion on how the maker is no doubt shooting for 'always fits easily' at the...

Howdy. First, welcome to the Forum. Lots of fun and good people with good advice around. And congrats on the Solo 2, excellent choice IMO. Very versatile, no 'right way' to use it. Be sure to experiment. FWIW I tend to use 390F and medium grind with very light pack. A good starting place...

Interesting idea, but hard to implement I'd think. A TCR mod could make it uniformly hot, but remember the real station senses the temperature before deciding how much heat to add back, something the user would have to do? At best I could see it as a replacement for the torch, not the station...

Yes, I think that would qualify, although such convection contribution would be minor indeed. Practical convection vapes heat air much much hotter than that since heated air has very little mass so needs to be quite a lot hotter to contribute much. Can you point to such a device now available...

Bubble hash in a VM is a treat for sure. A new dimension even? For sure there's a lot to recommend VM, even if not to everyone. Powerful tool for good. VM seems so simple, until you use it and discover how truly elegant and well though out the design is. Not to mention a lot of serious...

No, there is no such thing is 'hybrid'. Including Go. Go really is convection (as you see in the title of the thread, and in the discussion here). No practical conduction contribution (it cools in a pause, not recovers heat). All the conduction going on is heat conduction OUT of the load, not...

Sure. From a scientific POV (not a marketing one.....), there can be no such animal. That's not how Thermodynamics works. 'Follow the heat'. In a convection vape, super heated air enters the load at substantially higher than 'magic temperature' and cools as it gives up heat energy to the...

You're quite welcome. I'll see it's put on your bill...... Regards to all. OF