At the end of that video he says the balls are "heated by convection heated air"... That will just reduce calories available for the bowl for that first hit unless you leave it to equalise for a reasonable time. Ball vapes suffer when the balls aren't being directly heated, the extra balls end up acting like a heat sink taking heat away from the hottest part and reducing efficiency.
Yeah he is trying to market lol
I would not consider this a ball vape at all, the heating element is below the balls, instead the balls just act as airflow diffusion, pulling some of the heat out and redistributing it for more even extraction without hot spots... There are others that use this type of design actually, although it was never phrased as convection heated ball vape before?
Anyway this is an equilibrium log vape so it should have a bit of warm up time, and be left running, not used to power on demand, only on demand in use and removing glass stems etc...
The balls are also simple boro glass, not the rubies you see in heating elements typically, so yeah I think it is pretty negligible, the real power comes from the stainless steel mesh high surface area heater as usual, it's just flows through the glass balls yes as a heat sink, overtime they will warm up and become part of it too, but yeah... Different designs, don't get bogged down by whatever marketing terms
Yes they are supposed to remove the heat, "reduce the calories" since there is too much power building up the heating element