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Very interesting idea....... Wood is porous, meaning the herb is in a controlled humidity enclosure that's slowly going more dry (rather than the 'let all the water vapor drift away system I use.....). As I understand it such slow curing (as opposed to drying) is superior and is therefore the...

Hey, you're welcome. I know that 'I like smoking' (as opposed to vaping) attitude. I think most, if not all, of us had it at one point. However, let's be honest for a moment, intentionally breathing in all the truly nasty stuff in smoke is just pain dumb if you value your health. Remember...

By all means try it if you wish. I did and the results were IMO poor. I get much better results from putting it in an open vial/jar on top of my router, sometimes over night. That way the entire jar (contents) gets uniformly heated/dried. IMO the OP's problem is moisture as suggested...

IIRC is a more or less standard 14500 Li-ion but it's soldered into the board (and not all that easy to get to anyway) so I don't see charging options other than using the built in charger. It needs to be charged by DC at a constant current (say something like .5 Amps) until the voltage reaches...

And whatever you do, don't invite @ataxian over anytime for any reason....... OF

Interesting point. I'm not sure about taste and long stems cooling it off. I agree it's less harsh, but I'm not sure it changes the taste really? I sometimes put a hose on a vape so I can watch the vapor passage, I guess I never considered the taste at such times. One factor that might be in...

Yeah, like with inserts maybe....or a movable bottom.... Some scheme to preserve dense pack and solid contact to take full advantage of the Ascent's excellent temperature control. Fun stuff on the horizon if we luck out. All we gotta do is wait, you're the guy that has to make it happen...

Great point. Heating more herb than you will use for the session is a looser at many levels. Ideally, I guess, you'd like an adjustable (volume) bowl? That, I'd think, would give fastest heat up, longest battery life, best taste and probably save you some herb. We can't have it all in life...

Yes, there is some convection going on, but it's mostly going the wrong way (making the load cooler, not hotter like in say Cera LL). In convection vapes air is heated in one location and moved to another to carry the heat to the load. That means a source hotter than the load. Only here, in...

I know that one, but a bigger motor won't make you go faster if cruse control is limiting. Best you can do is get there faster....... Yer welcome, good luck with it. OF

You know this is an obvious candidate for mass production on the sort of CNC gear Thermo Vape used to make their original line of vapes. They could 'eat' 10 foot dowels (or square stock) from a rack and machine the piece out 'from both sides' much easier than the same machines made more complex...

Cool. Next time you're really really bored you might time them....... ABV color has noting to do with sound or cycle times. That is controlled by the bimetallic disk in the thermostat section. It seems it's maintaining temperature (cycling on and off as needed), just not the temperature you...

Thanks. I'm afraid I didn't ask a clear enough question, the issue is duty cycle. The ratio of on and off times. If one is 4 seconds on, 16 off (1:4) that's the same as the one that's 2 on and 8 off (or 10 on and 40 off) as far as the 'burner' goes. The difference in scale is simply the...

I had one like that, I decided it might be dissolved junk washed into the works. I filled it with clean fuel and left it outside running but not lit and it 'fixed itself'. You might try that? When you say 'not as well' are you talking sound? Not all mine sound the same, but all work fine...

Ah, yes, yet another of life's little ironies. Not to give up hope, not all torches are equal WRT sound. While I generally don't care, some of mine are definitely louder than others. Many are much louder 'striking' than running. I think the larger ones, throttled back, make less noise for...

Good luck, although I'm not sure why...... If we disagree, I'm happy to give my reasons for my opinion and think that (not personalities) can (and should) be the basis of the discussion. Facts should stand on their own and be verifiable and repeatable. That's how science works. Science, by...

Just to show you there's no simple answers: I only use mine to charge. I tried leaving it on full time, took less than a day for me to loose it in my travels and have to go back to find it after I noticed it had fallen off. IMO part of the power of Pipes' design. Just like the Solo itself it...

I think I explained my reason for dismissing radiation as a significant heat transfer process: Radiation depends on a significant temperature difference to dive the transfer (rate). I'm sorry if I didn't. A fire warms you because it's so much hotter than you, the shivvering camper next to you...

Sorry to see such a flurry of unhappy owners. For sure no vape will be 'right' for all people, one could even argue Ascent is more so than others. I see it as pretty intolerant WRT technique, you have to do it it's way as it were. That includes slow draws and long recovery periods between...

Yep, pretty normal. Being hand made they all vary some, many are a bit out of round as well it seems. No big deal as long as they get past the seal OK. Factory stems vary too for the same reason I bet. My advice is to get to enjoying it......you've either waited a long time for one or are...