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Being lazy, I'll just leave it - the stock FT settings and autotune are definitely different - autotuned coil ramps up fast and overshoots and even glows red for a while - might be optimising speed to steady state - doesn't do that with stock settings. No obvious differences in extraction...

Good point - tuning is done while the head is just sitting heating up the planet without any air movement - so it probably won't have much effect on the 20-30 seconds when air is drawing heat out of the heat mass. Might just reset to the original FT/Auber settings that I wrote down - much less...

While experimenting, swapping zirconium, ruby and titanium balls in a freight train over a couple of days, the thermal properties changed noticably in terms of PID overshoot and stability, meaning that the PID probably needed to be retuned every time the balls were swapped out - and I didn't...

Yep. Exhaling through the nose is a good way to get a "taste" of what you just inhaled - but only the first time - the specific nasal receptors responding to vapour soon stop signalling from overload in my experience - my wife can smell the weed I've been vaporising for some time after I can no...

GFCI outlets can trip for two very different reasons. Like ordinary breakers, they flip when there's too much current draw = overloaded circuit. Their special sauce is detecting current "leaking" to earth - a so called ground fault - the GF in GFCI - that could be your feet on bare earth while...

tl;dr Impulse buy - for ~AU$18 delivered to Sydney in less than a week, I got a very useful addition to my options. Highly recommended as value for investment. Deserves it's own thread IMHO! Anyone want to start one? Never used a butane device in > 15 years of regular vaping, so took some...

He has his own DIY ball vaporiser kit using a digital soldering iron element as the heat source. It works with his 18mm F/F and 18mm male stems if you don't like water. It was my first ball vaporiser and I quite liked it but I kept fiddling (changing out the smaller for larger balls...) and...

Not as silly as it sounds - worth a try if you've never tested for yourself. At higher temperatures, it will be hot but the DDave stem does a pretty good job for me at 335C on the PID, and I don't want a water piece anywhere on my desk when I'm vaked - they have a bad habit of leaping into the...

At 335c it works just fine for me and it's not at all a problem in terms of hot vapour - but I would not go much hotter than that. I normally use an EQ (set at about 200C) but the FT definitely extracts faster and it's rather exciting to see me when I get vaked and find myself juggling 2 glass...

Here's how I've been using mine - upside down with an 18mm female/female adapter, the standard ddave wand with weed in a little stainless steel cup works fine for me without water. I use it at a relatively low temperature of 335C and it works for me - but be careful to keep your face from being...

Cheap devices are often cheap because they have low quality batteries and capacitors that do not survive long. That said, power supplies and the conductors in cables do sometimes break, and a protected charger will shut down if overloaded by too high a charging current for example. So, if a...

It's specialised for dry herb but with a bit of effort, you can always mix dry material with concentrates. Easiest way is to layer it in some fresh material (or less potent ABV if you want to isolate the effect of the "hash"). As long as hot air can flow through the load, it will vaporise - not...

Congratulations on obtaining one of the great all time portable dry herb vaporisers - they are built like trucks and aside from dropped glass stems, they are built to last - I regularly use one of the original 2011 M1A models - 10+ years and a battery change, it's still working fine. That...

tl;dr Taste is a personal and variable thing, but go slow and low as recommended above works best for me too. Update after reading this: if there's flavour in a dab, maybe that's because the material kind of all boils off in a flash - so everything is present in that first taste. Never tried...

Fuck you bud rot.

Not sure I'm ignoring that fact, since my comments about conduction being the physical mechanism for heat to reach the insides of those solid capitate trichome heads where many of the goodies are stored, remain true. Does your hot air blow right through them somehow? That's the only physical way...

tl;dr I tried to explain why the additional conduction opportunities between solid lumps that are introduced by light packing works so much better for me in my various vaporisers here if anyone cares. Like when making espresso, the extraction profile can be controlled by varying the grind and...

The local supplier was out of coil shields...so when I realised what a potentially dangerous toy it was, especially for a well medicated fool like me, I ... improvised... https://fuckcombustion.com/threads/old-head-freight-train.52197/post-1679813 - t Looks terrible but actually works pretty...

My guess is that when you are toking, the glassware where the weed is remains cool? Is the same glass really ouchy hot after extracting at a decent temperature on other devices? Metal at 650F will cause second degree burns within seconds of full contact. That's a dangerous temperature for flesh...

Is the weed packed or loose? I've noticed that to get a decent extraction from the FT with my various glassware including the stock adapter, the load needs to be packed lightly enough to allow the entire weed mass to heat up by conducting the heat that arrives by convection from the hot air...